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More than Software

Since 1989, EBMS was built to walk beside owner-led businesses.  We believe systems should work for people; not the other way around. 

It started because the software didn’t exist yet.

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Jake Esh wasn’t trying to start a software company. He was doing sales at a Lancaster County fruit farm when it bought its first computer, ended up automating the payroll, and found the financial system bolted on top of it didn’t work. So he built a better one.

ESH Computer Center opened in February 1989, out of his basement. His brother Glenn joined in 1992 and together they wrote the first EBMS — text-based, running on DOS.

DOS to Windows to what runs today: a robust ERP that connects all the parts of your business. What hasn’t changed is who we build it for. Businesses that started with us on DOS are still running EBMS, because every version answered what our clients needed next — and because Jake, Mike and the people here genuinely like these businesses. Scrappy, long-term, rooted in their communities. We’re still independent, still serving US & Canada from Lancaster, PA, and we are more than software.

1989

ESH Computer Center opens February 1989.

Hardware, networking and contract programming, run out of the basement of a half-built house in Lancaster County.
1992

The first EBMS

Glenn Esh leaves his job to join his brother. Together they write the first version of EBMS — a text-based ERP running on DOS.
Mid-1990s

Expansion

A storefront in Gap, the first salesman and service technicians, a second location in Ohio, and a four-person management team that made the decisions together.
~2000

Continuous Improvement

The Gap building is rebuilt, and EBMS is rewritten from the ground up for Windows
~2018

A planned handoff

Jake had told his advisors for years that he intended to be out by fifty. Mike Stoltzfus joined as CFO, then took over as CEO to continue the mission focused on clients, team, and community.
Today

Koble Systems

With locations in Lancaster, PA & Moscow, ID and 500+ US & Canadian businesses running their businesses on EBMS, we continue with the same values and focus on small to medium growing teams.

Built by hand. Backed by Values.

Our mission is making business growth easier by putting ERP software to work. We believe we were created to work, to the glory of the triune God. Our faith inspires us to serve others with excellence.

Blessing our Customers

We win when our customers win, so the system has to fit the way you already run. Our consultants help you map your warehouse, your shop floor, your service calls. before they configure anything.

It's why so much of what you need is already standard in EBMS, why implementations succeed, and why you can do business your way instead of the software's way.

Our Customer's Stories

Honor Each Other

Collaboration and teamwork is core to our customer's and Koble's success. Decisions are made together and by people who've been here long enough to know why your system was built the way it was.

"There is room to grow and room to fail without fear.  My input if valued."

Joel Cornett, EBMS Product Team

Join our Team

Building Our Communities

Wherever we are, we bring people together and make things better than they were yesterday.  We join organizations in their missions that strive to do the same. 

Blessings of Hope moves roughly two million meals a month out of Leola to churches, food banks and disaster relief. Read more about them and other organizations we've partnered with: Kingdom Focused Summit, Live2Lead, Faithful Give, and more. 

Meet our Leadership Team

We build for businesses that build America.

  • Small to medium sized businesses are the backbone of America since its the beginning and we believe are still core to it's future.  We are similar in size and understand the unique challenges as well as the value you bring to your teams, customers, and communities every day.  We're here to support you in those efforts as we're stronger together. 

  • Manufacturing, distribution, field service, building supply, agriculture. EBMS fits the way you already work instead of asking you to work the way the software does. Watch the video to learn why we're focused on small to medium sized businesses.

Watch to learn why we focus on small to medium businesses.

You’re not buying software from strangers.

A dedicated team in Lancaster, PA, Moscow, ID, and regionally located throughout the US.  Our team members have walked the shops like yours, developers who’ve maintained EBMS for decades, and USA-based support that answers to a name instead of a ticket number.
1989 35+ Years Serving
60+ Team members
500+ Businesses

Dedicated to Know Your Business

Kimberely D

Kimberly Douglass

Territory Manager

Sales and strategic account management

Evan P

Evan Posey

Territory Manager

Builds and maintains new and existing customer relationships.

Philip T

Philip Tate

Territory Manager

Sales and strategic account management.

Gregg

Gregg Horst

Account Manager

Listens to the need our clients and to assist them using EBMS.

Mark O

Mark Olson

Account Manager

Serving as a trusted advisor and advocate, for customer’s long-term success.

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Janelle Lieberher

Strategic Account Manager

Trusted advisor and advocate, partnering with customers to achieve their goals and long-term success.

Brian Esh

Brian Esh

Director of Professional Services

Leads implementation and consulting, working alongside your team from kickoff through go-live and beyond.

Tom L

Tom Lieberher

Support Team Manager

Leads our support team, the people ready to help whenever you need a hand.

What does "Operational ERP Partner" mean?

Operational

EBMS enables the clarity and confidence from Operational & Financial tools you need for sustainable growth. 

EBMS starts with strong financials from job costing, product costing, and a full suite of financial report capabilities.  They are all connected straight from the places the work happens: the order desk, the counter, the production floor, the service truck. Your numbers come from what your people already did, not from re-keying it a week later.


See it at Cedar Crest Equipment

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning.  One system, one set of numbers for all of sales, inventory, manufacturing, service and financials in the same place. It eliminates the need for other subscriptions reconciled by a person who's good at spreadsheets.

It runs on your servers, with your data, the pricing is clear up front. You own the thing your business runs on. And our ERP called EBMS, is designed with the features you need today and can scale with you for the long-haul.  

 

What is an ERP?

Partner

This is the word most software companies use loosest, and the one we take most seriously.

At Koble, partnership starts with people. The software you run your business on was built by real people, who know your name, understand your work, and care whether it's going well for you. 

And as you grow, add locations, or face the next hard season, we'll be right there with you, not just at go-live but for the whole journey. 

How we partner with SH Truck Bodies

If you want to work with an ERP partner that is more than software, let's start a conversation.

15-minutes will determine if we can help.

If we're not a fit, you'll hear that too.

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