Society for business consulting and IT
| Society for business consulting and IT | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | March 10, 1990 |
| resolution | November 2004 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Agfa-Gevaert AG |
| Seat | Bonn Cologne (until 2000) Trier (until 1995) |
| management | Jörg Haas, Rüdiger Wilbert, Klaus Esser (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Number of employees | 1000 |
| sales | € 100 million (2004) |
| Branch | Information systems, software |
| Status: 2005 | |
The Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsberatung und Informatik Aktiengesellschaft (GWI AG) developed and marketed information technologies in stationary healthcare. GWI's software applications have been continued under the Agfa-Gevaert AG umbrella since 2005 . The aim is to further expand the Group's position in the healthcare sector. The core product of GWI is the hospital information system (HIS) ORBIS (software) .
history
The company was founded on March 10, 1990 by the then students Jörg Haas and Rüdiger Wilbert as haas & wilbert OHG, Society for Business Consulting and Computer Science (GWI) in Trier. Initially the company had its headquarters in Trier , from 1995 in Cologne and from 2000 in Bonn . Development locations were Trier from 1990 onwards, followed by Budapest in 1996–1999 , Vienna and Graz in 1998 and Bordeaux in 2002 . From 1995 onwards, market locations were Cologne (from 2000 Bonn), Osnabrück, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Jena, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, Bordeaux, Vienna and Zurich.
Between 1990 and 1995, the GWI developed administrative and business applications for German hospitals and benefited from the changing inpatient health system in Germany. GWI AG initially developed automated and rule-based billing systems for inpatient health care as a result of the changes to the Health Structure Act 1993 and the Federal Care Rate Ordinance 1996 .
The ORBIS hospital information system
The HIS ORBIS was launched on January 1, 1996 in 12 hospitals and the first 60 hospitals had been won by the end of the year. From the mid-1990s, additional medical and nursing application systems were developed, which last made up around 80% of sales in 2005. As a result, GWI has increasingly become a full-service provider of application systems in hospitals.
In the years 1996 to 2004, GWI focused on expansion in the growing market for HIS systems and became the market leader by expanding the ORBIS hospital information system through targeted company and technology acquisitions and, in parallel to the strong organic growth, expanding its market position by taking over competitors whose customers migrated to ORBIS. As a result of this strategy, the GWI grew rapidly. When the company entered the market in 1996, sales were just DM 1 million, in 1997 already DM> 13 million, in 1998 DM> 31 million, in 2000 then DM> 100 million and in 2003 just under EUR 100 million. The highly profitable GWI AG employed most recently (2005) over 1,000 employees in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and France and achieved a turnover in 2004 of around 118 million euros. In Germany, GWI AG was able to achieve a market share of 41 percent for hospital information systems, making it the market leader in this area. The GWI was thus one of the TOP 10 standard software companies in Germany.
Sale to Agfa-Gevaert AG
GWI AG was transferred to Agfa-Gevaert AG in 2005 for EUR 352.5 million in order to accelerate internationalization through a strategic investor. At this point in time, the shares were completely owned by the company founders Haas and Wilbert each with 30% and the private equity investor GAP with 40% ( General Atlantic Partners), whose German boss was Klaus Esser (ex-Mannesmann boss) at the time.
The board of directors and executive board consisted of the two founders Jörg Haas (CEO) and Rüdiger Wilbert (CEO), as well as long-term employees Michael Rosbach (CSO), Stephan Müller (COO) and Markus Cramer (CFO). Until the takeover of GWI AG in 2005, Klaus Esser was chairman of the supervisory board.
Web links
- Former website of GWI AG. Archived from the original on February 5, 2005 ; accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- New GWI headquarters inaugurated on rundschau-online.de (August 28, 2004)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julian Stech: Agfa reaches for GWI AG in Bonn In: General Anzeiger . dated November 24, 2004, accessed February 24, 2015.
- ↑ a b Agfa swallows health IT service provider GWI on heise.de, accessed on February 24, 2015.
- ↑ ORBIS - holistic control of clinical processes on agfahealthcare.com
- ↑ GWI AG 2001: Further expansion of the market share through disproportionate growth on medinfoweb.de, accessed on February 24, 2015.
- ↑ Wolfgang clock: IT applications in health care. (PDF) Technische Universität Dresden, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Pressrelations: Asklepios and GWI put treatment pathways into practice from November 16, 2003.
- ↑ Pressrelations: TIANI Medgraph AG becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of GWI AG on May 15, 2004, GWI AG takes over French EuropMedica on August 13, 2004 and GWI AG will be involved in the community supply sector on September 18, 2003.
- ^ Hospital IT Online: press conference on the occasion of the takeover of Boss AG by GWI AG on September 1, 2004.
- ↑ GWI AG swallows competitors - Bonn company takes over Bremer Boss AG. In: General Anzeiger. Bonn, September 1, 2004.
- ↑ Hospital IT-Journal: Interview with Jörg Haas, board member and co-founder of GWI AG (PDF)
- ↑ GWI AG is to belong to the Agfa group from 2005. In: Kölnische Rundschau . From November 25, 2004.
- ↑ Agfa in HIS garb. In: RIS / PACS-Journal. January 2005. (PDF)
- ↑ Hospital IT-Journal Extra: "Bump" for MEDICA: Agfa buys GWI on November 29, 2004.