Our Story

Back in 2015, four great big utilities decided that they wanted to expand this little tiny program called Gold Shovel Standard throughout North America. But...the whole thing depended on having a reporting system to support the program. So, they looked all around the forest and couldn’t find one. (we just put the forest in there to see if you were still reading this) Since they couldn’t find a software system to support their program, they decided that one should be created just for it.

And that’s where baby software companies come from.

So Oropala was created, and tasked with creating the technology to support the objectives of the Gold Shovel Standard program. That solution became known as ShovelSafe and was Oropala’s flagship software solution.    

Today, Oropala is a premier provider of software solutions that save lives and money. Gold Shovel Standard is growing up too and has gone on to become a nationally recognized certification and performance-tracking program, and the entire initiative runs on Oropala software.  The End.