From 8 MHz to 4.5 million tickets a year

Andrej Kores and Zoran Bistrički gathered their first professional experience at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Ljubljana. Microprocessor programming, industrial process automation, and the first user-facing software solutions.

They built their own system development platform and a relational database management system called AZ TreeBase (AZ3base), notable for its excellent support for tree data structures. The programming language was Borland Turbo Pascal. The hardware was an Intel 286 processor running at 8 MHz with 4 MB of RAM under PC DOS.

This foundation proved its worth. Solutions built on it remained robust and in production for over 20 years, surviving technological shifts and even the millennium bug without issues. The Rapid Application Development platform they created became the keystone for decades of innovative software.

Kores and Bistrički launched their independent entrepreneurial venture. The core team formed quickly: Matjaž Škrlj joined in late 1990, Robert Snoj in early 1991. They registered as an independent research group in software engineering under the name "Programska delavnica A&Z" (Programming Workshop A&Z).

The name was deliberately chosen. While every software company of the era called themselves "soft" or "lab," they picked "delavnica" (workshop) to demystify computing. The unconventional name quickly became recognizable on the Slovenian market and associated with quality, robust, and user-friendly solutions.

Their first major projects were in healthcare: SPC XXI for centralized vaccine procurement, storage, and distribution, and Survival XXI for tracking communicable diseases and epidemics, both developed in collaboration with epidemiology experts from the Institute for Health Protection of Slovenia. The formal company, Programski atelje A&Z d.o.o., was established in April 1996.

The second decade brought a decisive strategic shift: complete specialization in the ticketing sector. The team recognized early that the future belonged to multi-purpose, integrated platforms where internet sales would become the dominant channel.

They formulated a long-term development vision with a clearly defined goal: to build a modern, user-friendly, technologically advanced, multi-purpose, and fully integrated digital platform for marketing and selling tickets and related products.

By consistently staying steps ahead of actual user needs and offering more capabilities than any competing solution, they set new standards in ticket sales on the domestic and broader regional markets. The foundation for what would become mojekarte was laid.

The third decade was defined by complete specialization and business internationalization. The team accumulated technological, organizational, business, marketing, and international experience that brought the company to the highest expert level of operation.

This was the era of the flagship 4th-generation DRAGON Ticketing platform and the mojekarte brand. Market share grew significantly across Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Serbia, with a dedicated Moje karte d.o.o. entity established in Banja Luka to serve the BiH market. The platform now powered everything from theaters and stadiums to caves and festivals.

International references established the team among the most experienced in the region. From the 15-year partnership with Postojna Cave to powering all national theaters in Slovenia and Croatia, the third decade proved that deep specialization and patience build something no startup can replicate.

Entering the fourth decade of operations, a 16-person core team across Programski atelje A&Z d.o.o. in Ljubljana and the daughter company Moje karte d.o.o. in Rijeka, Croatia, carries forward the creativity and development potential that defines the company.

The visionary and innovative DNA that was built into the company's genetic code from the very first lines of code on an 8 MHz processor continues to drive development. The team remains confident in its ability to stay competitive and continue setting trends in the ticketing sector for years to come.

Over 4.5 million tickets per year. 14,000 events. 800+ points of sale. National theaters in Slovenia and Croatia. From Postojna Cave to FK Crvena Zvezda. The technology changed. The mission stayed the same: build solutions that work when it matters most.