Customers:
More than 700 system installations in 2008 worldwide.

Turnover:
Established in 1969, since 1986 INFORM enjoyed a sustained average revenue growth rate of around 25 % p.a. over an uninterrupted period of now 22 years, with profits being consistently re-channeled into research & development.
Turnover in 2008: approx. € 38 million.

Responsible Ownership
INFORM is owned by its working directors and some 50 long-time employees.

Employees:
Today, the company employs more than 350 software engineers and business consultants. When compared to other IT firms, INFORM’s annual staff fluctuation of around 4 % is very low. Although average staff age is around 35, the average employee will eventually stay onboard for 25 years.

Resulting benefits include:

• Extremely high software productivity because all engineers have meanwhile developed a quite intimate knowledge of the program’s entire source code
• Long-term client partnerships facilitated by personnel that rarely changes, consequently acquiring invaluable know-how on clients’ operations over time”

Business Divisions:
Diversification according to products and markets encourages a resistance to the cyclic fluctuations that are unavoidable in business. This is why INFORM focuses on very different fields of use for decision-intelligent software with its five business divisions:

• Materials Management
• Logistics
• Airport
• Production
• Risk&Fraud

History: