INFORM - More than 700 customers in over 25 countries world-wide

Customers:
More than 1000 system installations worldwide.

Turnover:
Established in 1969, since 1986 INFORM enjoyed a sustained average revenue growth rate of around 22 % p.a. over an uninterrupted period of now 22 years, with profits being consistently re-channeled into research & development.
Turnover in 2009: approx. € 40 million.

Responsible Ownership
NFORM is privately owned.

Employees:
> 350 from more than 30 countries

Resulting benefits include:

Extremely high software productivity due to our employees having a thorough 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 six business divisions:

Materials Management
Logistics
Manufacturing Logistics & Healthcare
Airport
Production
Risk&Fraud

History:

2008	Begin of construction for third office building (for max. 500 employees on INFORM campus)
2005	1st global system for inventory optimisation
2002	1st System for see-port logistics (Container Terminal Hamburg, Germany)
2001	Second office building: the INFORM campus is developed (for max. 225 employees)
1999	First time international project proceeds exceed 50% of total turnover
1998	Extension of the office building (for max. 125 employees) 1st installation of RiskShield for intelligent claim evaluation
1997	Airport-Logistics becomes the 5th Division: Airport Systems 1st system in Asia (Dubai Airport) 1st installation of RiskShield for fraud prevention at the GZS / First Data
1992	4th Division: Fuzzy Technologies / Risk & Fraud
1991	3rd Division: Production Systems 1st system for airport logistics (Frankfurt/Main) 1st system in USA (Steelworks in Canton, OH)
1990	Office building Pascalstrasse 23 in Aachen, Germany (move-in with 25 employees) founding of sister company in Chicago, U.S.A
1986	Two company divisions: Materials Management Systems, Logistics Systems
1985	INFORM focuses on the development of computer based solutions to complex problems. At the beginning these were systems for materials management and logistics.
1969	Established As an off-spring of the chair for Operations Research at the Institut of Technology, Aachen, INFORM offers training and consulting in Operations Research and engages in the development of large computer based optimisation software for industry.