Freudenberg IT
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| Company type | Kommanditgesellschaft |
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| Industry | Computer services |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Weinheim, Germany |
| Revenue |  USD170 million (2009) |
Number of employees | 744 (as of 2015) |
Freudenberg IT SE & Co. KG was an IT company specializing in SAP consulting, outsourcing, manufacturing execution system & managed hosting. It was part of the Freudenberg Group. Freudenberg IT was operating out of 18 locations in Europe, North America, China and South East Asia with over 600 associates. Freudenberg IT was headquartered at Weinheim, Germany.
An association with SAP started when Freudenberg became number seven customer of SAP and SAP R1 was installed on Freudenberg systems.
History
[edit]In 1996, Freudenberg IT started as an IT spinoff, being part of Freudenberg Group of companies.[citation needed]
In Germany, Freudenberg IT was located at Weinheim, Balingen, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg. Their first office outside Germany was in Barcelona, Spain. Later they established offices at Budapest, Hungary and Kyiv, Ukraine. In North America, Freudenberg IT was present in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Raleigh – Durham, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Halifax, Canada. In China were are present in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou. In 2009, Freudenberg IT established an office in Singapore to act as a hub for customers in South East Asia.
In November 2001, Freudenberg IT purchased 75% stake in Adicom, the systems enterprise provider based in Balingen, Germany.[1] With this acquisition Freudenberg IT was able to complement its SAP service suite with a manufacturing execution system product. As a MES system, Adicom is able to operate as a standalone system or in conjunction with any ERP system.
In 2009, Freudenberg IT crossed US$100 million in annual revenue.
Syntax, a Montreal-based provider of cloud and managed IT services to businesses, officially acquired SAP cloud specialist firm Freudenberg IT (FIT) on March 1, 2019 (after 6 weeks of customary approvals).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Freudenberg IT acquires 75% stake in systems enterprise ADICOM". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
- ^ "Montreal's Syntax Systems acquires German firm Freudenberg IT". 23 January 2019.