Background

IrisBG was developed by Digital Forvaltning AS in close collaboration with Oslo University Botanical Garden and introduced to the Norwegian market in 1996. In autumn 2007 Botanical Software Ltd introduced IrisBG to the UK and Worldwide market.

IrisBG shares the same data model and program code with the software package Corema (Collection and Research Management).
Visit www.coremadb.com for more details.

Our primary goal is to provide a worry free and efficient software solution to manage your botanical collection.

UK Office

Botanical Software Ltd
9 Priston
Bath
BA2 9EB
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1761 479350

Norwegian office

Digital Forvaltning AS (Ltd)
Hamang terrasse 91
N-1336 Sandvika
Norway
Telephone: +47 67410883
Website: www.difo.no

Contact us

• Sales enquires - Click here to contact our sales department or call us directly.
• Free Trial Version - Click here to order a free 60 day trial version or call us directly.
• Technical Support - Click here to contact our technical support staff.
• General enquires - Click here if you have any other enquiry.

We do not sell or share your information with anyone. For more details, read our privacy policy.

The People behind IrisBG

The IrisBG team consists of people with an extensive knowledge of botany, as well as professional software engineering. We believe this is one of the key ingredients to creating a tool that is easy to use and can satisfy the most demanding requirements of the professional botanist.

Havard Ostgaard

Havard is the Manager of Botanical Software Ltd in the UK. He has a degree in Computer Science from University of Oslo and University of York. Havard has more than 20 years experience working with software design and development.

Øyvind Rustan

Øyvind is the Manager of Digital Forvaltning AS in Norway. He is the Head Software Architect and Product Manager of IrisBG. He has a degree in Systematic Botany from University of Oslo and has published numerous botanical papers and scientific articles. After finishing his education in 1984 his keen interest in IT resulted in a long career working with software design and development in the public and private sector.

Phil Callan

Phil is our Sales Manager. Phil has more than twenty five years of experience in business to business sales, marketing and general management.

Louise Callan

Louise is in charge of our training programme. In addition, she is also involved in marketing work and documentation.

Myrna Ostgaard

Myrna helps out with all our written text in addition to administrative work in the UK. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Utrecht. In addition to being fluent in English, Dutch and Norwegian, she communicates well in French, German.

Alf Veland

Alf is a Senior Partner and IT consultant specializing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). After completing his education in 1995, he has worked on a wide range of GIS projects for the private and the public sector.

Ketil Øyri

Ketil is a Senior Partner and IT consultant specializing in IT Security and infrastructure. Ketil has more than 25 years of experience working as project manager and IT consultant in the private and the public sector.

Kjell Bitnes, 1949-2011

After a long period of illness, our close friend and senior partner Kjell passed away on Monday the 28th of November. He will be sorely missed by us all, but his enthusiasm, friendliness and generosity will remain with us in our memories of him. Our thoughts and heartfelt sympathies go out to his family.