February 28, 2012
Olympus Europa Holding GmbH and INFO AG – a subsidiary of QSC AG – sign IT Outsourcing Contract
Olympus Europa Holding GmbH, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of optical and digital products such as cameras and audio devices as well as microscopes and endoscopes for medical and industrial applications, signed an IT outsourcing contract with INFO AG, a subsidiary of QSC AG, regarding their entire European infrastructure.
August 18, 2011
QSC augments Management Board
Thomas Stoek has been appointed to the Management board of QSC AG effective September 1, 2011. homas Stoek, chief executive officer of INFO AG, will in addition to this function be assuming responsibility for the QSC Group’s direct sales activities. This will include the Managed Services business unit at QSC AG, as well as the portfolio of INFO AG and IP Partner AG. The aim is to offer small and mid-size enterprises a complete portfolio of services for all of their ICT needs – from voice-data communication to Housing right through to IT Outsourcing and IT Consulting.
May 3rd, 2011
INFO AG on course for growth: QSC acquires majority share of INFO AG
INFO AG is setting forth its course for growth through a strong partner in the ITC field. Subject to approval by the German federal cartel authority, a full-scale provider of ITC services will arise with the takeover of a majority share of INFO AG by QSC AG.
April 26, 2011
IT company INFO AG helps to keep natural gas supply security guaranteed
Storengy Deutschland GmbH, an operator of natural gas storage facilities, has commissioned IT service provider INFO AG with supplying an efficient IT infrastructure for its core applications. Following conclusion of this project, INFO AG has also been contracted to take over applications operations as the central service partner to contact.
February 21, 2011
New Business Unit created - INFO AG creates new jobs in Hamburg with a “Microsoft Solution Center”
As one of the leading providers of IT outsourcing and IT consulting in Germany, INFO AG is decisively expanding its performance revolving around technologies and products from Microsoft: Starting now, Desktop Optimization, Collaboration and Cloud Services supplement the portfolio at this long-standing Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
December 02, 2010
IT outsourcing specialist based in Hamburg provides GASPOOL with comprehensive IT service portfolio
INFO AG set new standards in the field of comprehensive IT service at the inauguration of the GASPOOL offices in Berlin.
November 25, 2010
INFO AG and SWN Stadtwerke Neumünster Beteiligungen GmbH sign IT services contract for the next 5 years
The firm SWN Stadtwerke Neumünster Beteiligungen GmbH (SWN), a 100% subsidiary of the City of Neumünster, has commissioned INFO AG, an IT enterprise in Hamburg, with operating its IT infrastructure for the SWN corporate group involving nearly 400 PC workstations.
October 20, 2010
Achieve cost-efficient competitive advantages with ‘best-of-breed’ ERP solutions and by standardizing the IT infrastructure
"“A large, full-scale ERP system can prove to be expensive for a mid-sized company when the follow-up costs in the form of licensing fees etc. exceed the system‟s original advantages,” is how Dr. Carsten Witt, business unit head at INFO AG, an IT service provider in Hamburg, Germany, explains the situation."
September 08, 2010
Green IT pays off: INFO AG lowers energy consumption by 20% and saves costs
Security, availability and economy – those were the demands placed on IT until now. Yet increasing volumes of data on the one hand and escalating costs of energy on the other, together with a conscious awareness of the global climate catastrophe, have assured that a new concept has advanced into IT strategy: the concept of sustainability. And in the process it is emerging that efforts towards reducing energy consumption at data centers signify both ecological and economic sustainability. INFO AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, has demonstrated this in an exemplary manner. Its activities towards optimizing energy efficiency resulted in an energy savings of around 20 percent.
August 08, 2010
Data protection experts compete with both hackers and politics
In Q1 2010, data mishaps or breaches of privacy policy increased by 40 percent compared to the prior-year period, according to Projekt-Datenschutz.de. Increasingly, companies can find themselves caught in a legal gray area, either by failing to adjust processes and systems to recent legislative changes or by being too slow to take precautions against the latest hacker tools. As a service provider offering a highly integrated IT security management system, INFO AG helps its enterprise customers stay both legally and technologically up-to-date.
Companies that source and operate their IT from an external service provider are primarily concerned with keeping costs low and focusing on their core business. Accordingly, such companies also expect their outsourcing partner to handle their data protection workload. "Since we offer shared services for many different companies, this enables our customers to work more efficiently than they would if they operated their own server farm,” explains Ralf Singer, IT Security Specialist at INFO AG. "This approach also applies to data protection: we can consolidate know-how and have a set of standardized processes available. This means we can implement practical solutions for IT-related legislative changes and countermeasures to current threats at short notice. As one example, we can rapidly implement countermeasures to new viruses for all our customers," Singer adds. Companies can thus reduce the risk of lagging behind legally or technologically, while markedly reducing the workload for their own data protection staff.
July 20, 2010
Tobacco company ITG continues partnership with Hamburg-based INFO AG
As a result of an early extension of the existing contract, INFO AG – one of the leading providers of IT consulting and IT outsourcing services – will now continue to operate the global IT systems for the Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) tobacco company over the next three years. The seven-figure order will fuel further expansion at INFO AG.
June 10, 2010
German companies backtrack away from offshore projects
German companies are distinctly more satisfied with their native IT service providers than with exotic offshore providers. According to a survey conducted by Harvard Business Manager, domestic (onshore) providers are receiving better marks, especially in terms of communication and coordination. Evaluating the same way marks are given in school, IT experts have awarded local service providers with a respectable “good”. In contrast, farshore providers, for instance from China or India, are being evaluated as “sufficient”. For a large majority of German decision-makers in IT, an initial phase of euphoria regarding supposed cost savings overseas has meanwhile been followed by disillusionment. Native providers like INFO AG are profiting from this.
May 5, 2010
INFO AG supports DATEV in hosting SAP systemen
Hamburg, May 18, 2010: In the future DATEV eG, based in Nuremberg, is also going to be hosting SAP systems for its customers within the framework of its IT sourcing offer. To accomplish this the IT servicep rovider is cooperating with INFO AG, an SAP Gold Partner based in Hamburg that has displayed an outstanding competence working in this field. DATEV is taking over SAP hosting at its data center in Nuremberg while making use of the extensive know-how at INFO AG in advisory consulting for SAP systems and their operation. In turn, INFO AG will be taking advantage of “IaaS” services (Infrastructurea s a Service) at the data center in Nuremberg for its customers along with printing and shipping services at DATEV.
April 28, 2010
IT service provider INFO AG sends growth signals for 2010
The Hamburg company INFO AG is on a solid growth course. For the concluded fiscal year 2009 the IT service provider reported an earnings plus of 35 percent (EBIT) in comparison to the preceding year. The EBIT margin rose 6.6 percent above the average for the industry, while turnover amounted to 82.3 million euros. With over 500 employees on staff, INFO AG forecasts continuing major dynamics in business, above all in IT outsourcing and IT consulting for mid-sized enterprises.
This above-average growth has also precipitated a necessary upscaling of personnel. The company is going to create 100 additional new jobs by the end of the year, bringing the number of gainfully employed to over 600 within the corporate group. The stated goal at INFO AG is to advance into the top 10 largest independent IT service providers for mid-sized companies in the next 3 years.
In the process INFO AG is banking on its more than 25 years of expertise in the stewardship of medium-sized firms, as well as on the matured customer relationships in the metropolitan Hamburg region. “As an independent full-scale service provider, we offer our customers not only consulting for IT, we assume operational responsibility for their IT systems, too,” explains Thomas Stoek, a member of the board at INFO AG. “By doing so we cover the international requirements for service that our national customers demand.” Accompanying these customer projects abroad supplies an impulse towards growth as well. As a result INFO AG continuously adapts its spectrum of services offered to its customers’ rapidly changing needs.
April 9, 2010
INFO AG achieves increased earnings for the fiscal year 2009
The Annual Financial Statements for the fiscal year 2009 at INFO Gesellschaft für Informationssysteme AG in Hamburg, Germany were officially established at the meeting held by the Supervisory Board on April 9th, 2010.
In accordance with the statements INFO AG is reporting an increase in earnings for the fiscal year 2009. Turnover (pursuant to IFRS) during the fiscal year 2009 amounted to EUR 82.3m, and thus 3 % below the previous year in a year-on-year comparison. Compared with 2008 the figures for earnings were able to be improved. EBIT for the business year 2009 (pursuant to IFRS) was EUR 5.4m, 35 % above the comparative figure for the preceding year (EUR 3.9m). The EBIT margin was able to be increased from 4.7 % in 2008 to 6.6 % for the fiscal year 2009. The annual surplus as net profit (pursuant to IFRS) rose from EUR 1.6m in 2008 by 83 % to EUR 2.9m for the fiscal year 2009.
All figures refer to those business units to be continued pursuant to international financial reporting standards (IFRS).
Jan. 27, 2010
INFO AG creates new subsidiary for desktop and end-user services and at least 60 new jobs for Hamburg as a business venue
INFO AG, one of the leading providers of IT outsourcing and IT consulting in Germany, is creating another group subsidiary: INFO Customer Service GmbH based in Hamburg. Associated with the founding of the new company is the creation of at least 60 new jobs by mid-2010.
Jan. 27, 2010
INFO AG clusters activities for customers from the public sector and strengthens its team by adding a new division head
INFO AG, one of the leading providers of IT outsourcing and IT consulting in Germany, has started off 2010 by clustering its consulting activities for customers from federal, state and community administrations, at institutions of higher education and large-scale research facilities, as well as from non-profit organizations in the newly created business division “Public Sector”. INFO AG was able to win over Dr. Carsten Witt to head the division.
Dec. 7, 2009
Changes on the Board of Directors and Supervisory Board at INFO AG
In the best of reciprocally cordial agreement, the Supervisory Board and Holger Sievers have come to an understanding not to prolong Mr. Sievers’ contract as a member of the Board of Directors beyond December 31, 2010 and to release him from his duties as of January 1, 2010. Thomas Stoek has been appointed to the Board of Directors as his successor, effective January 1, 2010. Above and beyond this, Frank Winkler has resigned from his capacity as Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Harald Schröder was unanimously elected to be his successor. In addition, INFO AG has successfully won over Dr. Christopher Brennan to sit on the Supervisory Board.
