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Freudenberg IT GmbH Co. KG is a global IT Solutions Company specializing in SAP and Microsoft consulting, outsourcing, manufacturing execution system & managed hosting. It is part of the Freudenberg Group of companies which is a family owned enterprise. The group has a history starting in the year 1849. Freudenberg IT started as an IT spinoff in year 1995. An association with SAP started when Freudenberg became number seven customer of SAP and SAP R1 was installed on Freudenberg systems. Since then they have been able to establish a global presence. Today Freudenberg IT is operating out of 18 locations in Europe, North America, China and South East Asia with over 700 associates. They also collaborate with partners in other regions on a project-by-project basis. Freudenberg IT is headquartered at Weinheim, Germany. In 2009, Freudenberg IT crossed USD 100 million in annual revenue. Freudenberg Group registered a turnover of about USD 7 Billion in 2008.〔Freudenberg Group registered a turnover of about USD 7 Billion in 2008 http://www.freudenberg.com/ANNUALREPORT2006/content/content/lagebericht/01.html〕 ==History== Freudenberg IT is part of Freudenberg Group of companies. Around 1995, Freudenberg Group was faced with a question many companies encounter: that of whether to transfer its in-house IT services to a third party. Following comprehensive external benchmarking, the group made a decision to take an entirely different path by achieving legal independence and entering into business transactions with third parties i.e. becoming an IT Spinoff. An independent entity Freudenberg Informatik KG was created which was later renamed as Freudenberg IT. Today Freudenberg IT or FIT is Germany’s most successful IT spinoff, realizing more than three fourth of its revenue from external customers. The first external customer for Freudenberg IT was Fuchs Petrolub who is today a strategic partner. Since then Freudenberg IT has established itself as a midsized IT company. In Germany Freudenberg IT is located at Weinheim, Balingen, Düsseldorf, Munich & Hamburg. Their first office outside Germany was in Barcelona, Spain. Later they established offices at Budapest, Hungary and Kiev, Ukraine. In North America, Freudenberg IT is present in Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Raleigh – Durham, Los Angeles, Halifax CAN & Mexico City MEX. In China they are present in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou & 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.〔Freudenberg IT acquires adicom http://www.freudenberg.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=FCO_en_press_archive_detail&udtx_id=1663〕 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. Freudenberg IT as a subsidiary company follows similar ideology as the group i.e. having a diversified portfolio. With their understanding of SAP processes Freudenberg IT invested in SAP Hosting as a service offering. Understanding the value of business critical SAP information & requirement for 24/7 availability, Freudenberg IT has set up dual data centers as a standard service offering.〔Dual data centers as a standard service offering http://www.freudenberg-it.de/en_Hosting___Infrastructure_Service.FIT〕 In 2009 to address growing demand in IT outsourcing & application hosting services the company invested 38 million dollars to build up two new data centers in Germany & USA.〔Freudenberg IT Invests $38 Million for Growth http://www.euroinvestor.fr/news/story.aspx?id=10814271&bw=20100105005127〕 Today Freudenberg IT has 11 data centers worldwide. In June 2010 Freudenberg IT expanded their service offering by becoming a certified cloud computing operator for SAP systems 〔Freudenberg IT running CRM services in the cloud http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/crm-solutions/articles/85555-fit-deploys-crm-solutions-cloud-powers-cryo-cells.htm〕 Recently Freudenberg IT engaged a customer in Asia with subscription based hosting services becoming the first partner to do so.〔Freudenberg IT is first SAP SBH Partner in Asia http://www.freudenberg-it.cn/en/news-more.asp?id=79&flag=1〕 On September 2010, Freudenberg IT became a Special Expertise Partner in the SAP BusinessObjects Intelligence Platform category. The special expertise program by SAP is used to showcase partners who are especially reliable and trustworthy service providers in their particular area of expertise. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freudenberg IT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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