Customers:
INFORM products are being used in more than 1,000 installations worldwide.
Financial Information:
Founded in 1969, INFORM has enjoyed a sustained average annual revenue growth rate of 22% since 1985. We consistently reinvest profits into R&D.
Revenue in 2011: € 44 Million
Ownership
INFORM is privately owned.
Employees:
More than 400 with over 30 nationalities. INFORM makes employee satisfaction a priority, which results in clear business advantages such as:
- Highly efficient software due to our experts’ in-depth knowledge of the source code.
- Long-term partnerships with our customers made possible by our low employee turnover.
Resulting benefits include:
- Extremely high software productivity as our employees have 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:
INFORM focuses on diverse industries with our optimization systems. This market diversification gives us resistance to unavoidable business-cycle fluctuations.
History
| 2010 | - INFORM software optimizes operations at Atlanta, the world’s busiest airport
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| 2009 | - Completion of third office building at Pascalstrasse 35 to expand building capacity up to 500 total employees on the INFORM campus.3rd Office building completion, Pascalstr, Number 35
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| 2008 | First finished vehicle logistics system (Mexico) |
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| 2005 | First enterprise-wide and worldwide solution for inventory optimization at Bosch |
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| 2002 | - First system for maritime container terminals
(CTA, Hamburg, Germany) |
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| 2001 | - Completion of second office building: the INFORM campus begins to take shape.
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| 1999 | - For the first time, international project proceeds exceed 50% of total company revenue
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| 1998 | - Extension of the office building
(for up to 125 employees) - First installation of RiskShield for intelligent insurance claim evaluation
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| 1997 | - Airport-Logistics becomes INFORM’s fifth Division: Airport Systems
- First installation of RiskShield for fraud prevention at the GZS / First Data
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| 1992 | - Fourth Division: Fuzzy Technologies /
Risk & Fraud |
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| 1991 | - Third Division: Production Systems
- First system for airport logistics (Frankfurt/Main)
- First system in USA (Steelworks in Canton, OH)
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| 1990 | - Office building Pascalstrasse 23 in Aachen, Germany (move-in with 25 employees)
- Founding of sister company in Chicago
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| 1986 | - Two company divisions: Materials Management Systems, Logistics Systems
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| 1985 | - INFORM focuses on the development of standardized software solutions to complex problems. Initially these were systems for materials management and logistics area.
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| 1969 | - Established
As a spin-off 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 individualized optimization software based on Operations Research and Fuzzy Logic. |
