Micros Systems
Micros Systems, Inc.
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1977 |
Seat |
Columbia , Maryland , United States![]() |
management | Peter A. Altabef ( CEO ) |
Number of employees | approx. 6400 |
sales | $ 1,268 million |
Branch | Software , hardware |
Website | www.micros.com |
As of June 30, 2013 |
MICROS Systems, Inc. is an American software manufacturer specializing in complete solutions for billing and administration in companies in the hotel and restaurant industry, tour operators and cruise operators as well as in companies in the leisure and entertainment industry. The company is the world market leader in the area of point-of-sale solutions for hotels and restaurants and has thus created a de facto standard for companies and employees in this sector. In addition, the required hardware is offered. The systems are designed as individual workstations, network solutions or as software as a service . The company has been part of the Oracle group since 2014 .
history
The POS system manufacturer Micros Systems was founded in 1977 under the name Picos Manufacturing, Inc. and changed its name to Micros Systems, Inc. in 1978.
The hotel software Micros Fidelio was developed in 1988 by Dietmar Müller-Elmaus company Fidelio. After the American Marriott group showed interest in the hotel software and Müller-Elmau gained a foothold in the USA, Micros feared that Müller-Elmau could also become active in the area of cash register systems. In 1993 Micros bought a ten percent stake in Fidelio with the option to take over all company shares. Five years later, Micros exercised the option and Müller-Elmau was unwilling to continue without complete freedom of choice. Müller-Elmau received the largest share of the 55 million D-Mark purchase price. The company employs around 700 people at its headquarters in Columbia , Maryland . Micros Systems sells its products with the help of a network of 45 subsidiaries and 90 sales partners in 50 countries and achieved total sales of around 1.2 billion US dollars in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013.
In mid-2014, Oracle acquired Micros Systems for $ 5.3 billion.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Simon: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders . Campus-Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38380-4 , pp. 26, 180 .
- ↑ Micros Systems, Inc. Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011. United States Securities and Exchange Commission, accessed July 16, 2012 .
- ^ A b Nicole Amrein: Dietmar Müller-Elmau: It all began with Fidelio . In: Hotelier . No. 11/2001 , p. 58-63 ( online ). online ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Sibylle Zehle: Elmau Castle: Magic Mountain for Everyone. 3rd part: The castle as fate. In: Manager magazine . June 26, 2009. Retrieved June 29, 2015 .
- ^ Adams Media (Ed.): National JobBank 2010: The Complete Employment Guide to Over 20,000 American Companies . F + W Media, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59869-851-0 , pp. 400 .
- ^ Company Profile. Micros Systems, accessed June 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Billion acquisition: SAP arch-rival Oracle buys Micros Systems. Report to Spiegel Online from June 23, 2014.
- ↑ Golem.de: Oracle buys Micros Systems for $ 5.3 billion from June 24, 2014