Provanum AB was started in 1993 by Thomas Malmberg, who is today the company's CEO. Thomas then came from the technology consulting company GEKAB and also had a lot of experience with him from the CAD industry. In the first years, Provanum was run as a consulting company, which helped companies and municipalities with investigations and procurements related to document management. During this period, Provanum did not develop its own products but acted as a reseller for other document management systems.  Four years earlier, in 1989, the company Trix Systems AB was founded by Per Hillerström and Jörgen Frilander. With a background from, among others, CadPoint AB in Borås (the Point products), Trix Systems wanted to develop standardized, engineering-oriented software that could be sold via retailers and distributors. The first products were TracTrix, which converted raster objects to vector objects, and Trix DrawingCenter, a document viewer for viewing drawings and documents.