Software Provider as Growth Driver

Stuttgart, July 31, 2007.Interflex Datensysteme GmbH & Co. KG, operating as part of Ingersoll-Rand Security Technologies sector again ranks among the Top 25 Standard Software Companies in Germany listed on the 2006 Lünendonk List, a well-established annual market survey. Since the acquisition of Astrum-HR, Erlangen in 2005, it was the first time that the current Lünendonk List considered the total revenue i.e. domestic and world-wide sales of the Interflex brand. The ranking is based on domestic revenues. Interflex has been developing, producing and marketing combined software solutions for workforce management, time and attendance recording, personnel scheduling, security, i.e. access control systems with integrated biometric authentication, cctv monitoring and offline access control. Workforce Productivity, the third field of business focuses on comprehensive consulting services. Interflex is in a leading position in this inhomogeneous market. The leader of this year’s ranking of the Top 25 Standard Software Companies still is SAP AG, Walldorf, followed by Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Unterschleißheim and Oracle GmbH, München.

In 2006, the standard software market has continued the growth trend that began 2005. Not only the revenue achieved in 2006 with system software, tools, middleware and database software (+4,8%) but also the demand for standard application software (+6,4%) have shown a considerable increase over the previous year. According to Bitkom (the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media), the sales revenue in the German standard software sector has grown by about 2.5 percent to 17 billion euros in 2006.

Once a year, the Bad Wörishofen-based Lünendonk GmbH publishes market surveys and ranking lists on the leading standard software companies, IT consulting companies as well as on system integration management consulting and IT service companies. Meanwhile, the ‘Lünendonk-Lists’ have proven to be a reliable source of information and a market indicator used not only by journalists but also by managers who want to get an idea of the trends, capabilities and the economic situation in the IT sector. The Lünendonk GmbH generates information from live surveys conducted at the concerned IT companies. For more information, please contact www.luenendonk.de.

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