K-Businesscom on course for growth in the DACH region
Austria's leading digitization partner is now also represented with a branch in Switzerland following the acquisition of eCrome Systems AG. In addition, K-Businesscom is intensifying its strategic sales partnership with UPC Switzerland. In Germany, K-Businesscom Carrier Solutions GmbH was finally integrated into K-Businesscom. With the new additions, K-Businesscom is massively expanding its market presence in the DACH region.
Vienna, November 6, 2018 - The Austrian ICT market leader is strengthening both its presence and its service offering beyond the country's borders. "We are positioning ourselves as an ICT and digitalization partner in the DACH region," says Jochen Borenich, CEO of K-Businesscom. The new branches will bring K-Businesscom even closer to its customers in Germany and Switzerland. "The additional expertise will also provide a strategically valuable addition to our own services," adds Borenich. Among other things, the additions will strengthen the carrier, energy provider and healthcare business areas.
eCrome Systems AG becomes K-Businesscom
Founded in 1995 and based in St. Gallen, eCrome Systems AG is an IT system integrator specializing in managed services in the areas of data center, network and collaboration solutions. Over 50 reference customers form the ideal foundation for further market development with the entire K-Businesscom portfolio. The acquisition of eCrome Systems AG also includes the wholly owned subsidiary eCrome Medical AG, which specializes in eHealth solutions. "In recent years, eCrome has successfully built up long-term IT service contracts and is therefore a perfect fit for us as a leading IT managed services partner in Austria," explains Jochen Borenich. The current Managing Director Emil Friedauer will remain in charge in Switzerland. The next steps will be the gradual integration into K-Businesscom and the expansion of the portfolio.
ICT and digitization partner for UPC Switzerland
K-Businesscom and its sales partner UPC (the second largest carrier company in Switzerland) have been addressing security and network solutions as well as network services on the Swiss market for over a year now and have been able to win their first major projects, such as the network outsourcing of Thurgauer Kantonalbank. The bank, which has total assets of over 21 billion Swiss francs, is relying on the expertise of K-Businesscom BusinessCom for the renewal and operational management of its entire network infrastructure over the next six years.
Established in Germany
At the beginning of April 2018, the German K-Businesscom Carrier Solutions GmbH was finally integrated into K-Businesscom. "By integrating the German branches, we are leveraging synergies in the areas of portfolio, expertise and target groups, expanding our industry focus on carriers and energy providers and being able to address the German market with our digitalization approach, which has already been very successful in Austria," says Jochen Borenich. For example, K-Businesscom developed an intelligent office solution for smart working environments based on a K-Businesscom IoT solution with the German office furniture manufacturer Sedus.
K-Businesscom in Germany currently offers a comprehensive range of transmission technology and security solutions, radio and information technology, voice and data over IP, radio relay, DSL and fibre optic access solutions and will position itself as a digitalization partner for a wide range of industries on the German market in the future. Ralf Arweiler and Wolfgang Matschke are responsible for the management of the company. K-Businesscom has already implemented projects for QSC, ONTRAS, Helvetia and M-Net, among others, at its headquarters in Neuss near Düsseldorf and at its Frankfurt location.
As a leading digitization partner,K-Businesscom supports companies in increasing their business performance and developing new business models. K-Businesscom acts as a consultant, system supplier and service provider. With its comprehensive expertise in dealing with large amounts of data and security as well as a large number of successful use cases in numerous industries, K-Businesscom is the ideal companion for digital transformation. The extensive portfolio in Austria, Romania and the DACH region includes technology solutions for intelligent and, above all, secure ICT infrastructure, smart building, media and security technology as well as outsourcing services. K-Businesscom relies on vendor independence and partnerships with leading global providers such as HPE, Cisco and Microsoft as well as a broad network of partners from research and industry-specific solution providers - from start-ups to large corporations.
K-Businesscom has over 17,000 customers - e.g. Allianz, Erste Bank, ÖBB, OMV, ORF or Vodafone - and supports them locally and globally. Around 1,200 K-Businesscom employees generated revenue of around EUR 318 million in the 2017/18 financial year.