QSC

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QSC AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN DE0005137004
founding 1997
Seat Cologne , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Jürgen Hermann ( Chairman of the Board of Management )
Bernd Schlobohm ( Chairman of the Supervisory Board )
Number of employees 1,091
sales 238 million euros (2019)
Branch Cloud Computing
Consulting
Internet of Things
Website www.qsc.de
As of December 31, 2019

The QSC AG , based in Cologne in 1997 as a DSL network operator and provider of Internet - and telecom products founded. Since then, the company has transformed into a German IT and IoT service provider. The company is listed on the stock exchange. This change began with the acquisition of the former Info AG in 2011, accelerated with the realignment in 2016 and completed in 2019 with the sale of the entire telecommunications business including the network infrastructure to the energy service provider EnBW. Since then, QSC AG has been an IT service provider for business customers and offers services in the areas of cloud and colocation , SAP and the Internet of Things .

Companies

history

In 1997, Bernd Schlobohm and Gerd Eickers founded Quality Service Communications GmbH as a consulting company for large companies in the telecommunications sector. In 1999, the focus was on the DSL market and the company was converted into a public company . As one of the first providers in Germany, QSC offered SDSL connections in Cologne as early as 1999 . The offer for commercial customers was marketed under the name Speedway DSL. A year later, the company went public on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt and on the Nasdaq in New York ( delisting 2002). In 2001, QSC took over the Aachen-based internet service provider GINKO and thus gained access to the end customer business. A DSL flat rate for private customers was initially offered in Bremen and Bremerhaven , and later also in other cities. The special features of the offer included the use of Fastpath technology and the waiver of forced disconnection .

In the following year, QSC took over the Germany-wide telecommunications company Ventelo GmbH (Düsseldorf) from the Ventelo Europe Group and thus became a comprehensive telecommunications provider. From March 2004 to March 2016, QSC was listed in the TecDAX , the index of the 30 leading listed technology companies in Germany.

In 2004, QSC signed a resale agreement with Deutsche Telekom and introduced T-DSL- based offers that were initially aimed primarily at business customers. Nevertheless, the company's own network was also expanded. In the same year a contract was signed that allowed AOL Germany to use part of the capacities of the company's own backbone .

QSC building in Cologne-Ossendorf

In 2004 and 2005, QSC took second and third place in the Technology Fast 50 Award from the auditing company Deloitte Germany . In 2005 the company also won the German Internet Industry Prize for the best business ISP . In 2006, Q-DSL home GmbH was founded as a subsidiary of QSC and the private customer business was outsourced to this company. A positive consolidated result was reported for the first time in the fourth quarter of the year.

On April 2, 2009, the marketing of private customer products was discontinued. At that point in time, the private customer segment made up less than 10 percent of total sales. In 2005 the company had already generated a large part of its sales in the business customer segment.

Since 2010, the company has been transforming from a pure network company to a service company in the ICT industry with managed outsourcing and open access services . This includes a long-term network cooperation with Freenet announced in June 2010, in which QSC handles all of the narrowband traffic on behalf of Freenet. In August 2010 the company announced the start of a nationwide first open access platform. The company wants to win other network operators with their own fiber optic infrastructure to couple their network with that of QSC and thus open it up to other providers. The operators should benefit from a faster amortization of the investment costs due to the expected higher utilization of their own infrastructure. The first Open Access partner is the Leipzig city network operator HLkomm, which is opening up its infrastructure to the QSC wholesale partner 1 & 1.

In order to further expand its know-how in the ITC area, in December 2010 QSC announced the takeover of Nuremberg-based IP-Partner AG, a provider of hosting and IT outsourcing services.

In May 2011 the takeover of the Hamburger Info Gesellschaft für Informationssysteme (INFO AG) followed.

QSC is also pushing the development of a platform for multiple cloud services: At CeBIT 2011, the company won an award in the technology competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Security for the development of a "SensorCloud" project for networking sensors, control data and - applications.

For the third quarter of 2011, QSC also announced mobile communications products for business customers for the first time. This is made possible by a cooperation agreement with the mobile operator E-Plus.

With the development of cospace, a communication platform from the cloud, and the launch of QSC-tengo, a workplace from the cloud, QSC is expanding its cloud portfolio in 2012 and 2013.

In 2013, CFO Jürgen Hermann succeeded Bernd Schlobohm as CEO. Schlobohm becomes chairman of the supervisory board.

In addition to taking over the majority in the Munich-based encryption specialist FTAPI and integrating "cospace" into the portfolio of the Luxembourg mobile communications provider JOIN Experience, QSC is introducing the cloud-based IoT platform solucon in 2014, which will later become the platform for QSC's IoT services .

In 2015, QSC will supply FTAPI, an encryption service for Vodafone business customers, and launch QSC airqoo, a managed WiFi solution for municipalities and companies.

In 2016, QSC made a transition to becoming a cloud provider with services from the cloud, consulting, Internet of Things and telecommunications sectors.

2017 Outsourcing of the telecommunications business to the newly founded subsidiary Plusnet GmbH.

2019 Sale of Plusnet GmbH to EnBW Telekommunikation GmbH.

Group structure

QSC AG is the parent company of the group and maintains the following subsidiaries in a largely equal holding structure in the form of 100% holdings (as of June 2019).

  • Q-loud GmbH, Cologne
  • IP Colocation GmbH, Nuremberg

Shareholder structure

The shareholder structure is made up as follows (as of June 30, 2019):

  • 12.71% Gerd Eickers 1
  • 12.70% Bernd Schlobohm 2
  • 74.59% free float

1 founder and member of the supervisory board

2 founder and chairman of the supervisory board

management

  • Jürgen Hermann, Chairman of the Board of Management - CEO

Products

Cloud

With the change to an ICT provider, QSC began to market its own cloud developments. The company's first product in 2012 was the communication platform “cospace”, which is available free of charge in a slimmed-down version. Based on the same cloud platform, the QSC-Analyzer followed in summer 2013, a cloud-based tool for measuring various quality parameters in networks. For this purpose, the company developed its own hardware for the first time, the so-called QSC box, which acts as a sensor and transmits the measurement data to the cloud platform. With the introduction of the Pure Enterprise Cloud, QSC offers all essential IT functions from a single source with a modular structure and thus supports companies with the gradual transition to the cloud. Extensive hybrid, multi and public cloud scenarios are also offered. Upon request, QSC can operate all IT services in its own data centers.

Colocation

QSC has its own TÜV and ISO-certified data centers throughout Germany and offers racks, cages and managed colocation services.

SAP services

As a certified partner of SAP, QSC advises its customers on advice, implementation and operation of corresponding applications. QSC relies primarily on future-oriented technologies from SAP; mainly on consulting and operation of SAP S / 4HANA and the use of the HANA Enterprise Cloud. QSC also develops IT services that link SAP systems with IoT systems.

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) allows people, machines and production processes to communicate with one another directly, securely and in real time on the Internet. With its subsidiary Q-loud, QSC provides the preliminary technical services for networking devices and machines and for integrating hardware of all kinds. The centerpiece is the self-developed IoT hub. The latest business area is German mechanical engineering, for which Q-loud is developing an edge gateway that makes relevant machine data available to the respective company IT via the cloud.

Web links

Commons : QSC  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2019 accessed on August 25, 2020 (PDF)
  2. ↑ QSC completes sale of Plusnet ahead of schedule. July 1, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tobias Marburg: Surfing at 35x ISDN speed  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, November 22, 1999@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  4. ↑ Tobias Marburg: DSL leased line from DM 144 / up to 2,300 Kbit / s  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, May 26, 2000@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  5. ↑ Tobias Capanagil: QSC: DSL flat rate with 1 Mbit / s downstream for 59 euros  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, April 5, 2001@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  6. ↑ QSC press release of December 13, 2002 ( Memento of December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Michael Müller: After 1 & 1: QSC signs resale contract with T-Com ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, April 27, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onlinekosten.de
  8. ↑ Michael Müller: Paradox? - QSC starts T-DSL tariffs  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, May 5, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  9. ↑ Hayo gap: QSC opens up twelve further cities for Q-DSL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, May 6, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  10. ↑ Hayo gap: Partial backbone change: QSC wins AOL  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, August 19, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  11. ↑ Deloitte press release of October 27, 2005 ( Memento of November 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Internet association honors Apple's music shop . heise online, June 30, 2005
  13. ↑ Aleksandra Leon: QSC: Private customers get their own company ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, September 2, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onlinekosten.de
  14. ↑ QSC jumps into the profit zone ( memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Financial Times Deutschland, March 29, 2007
  15. ↑ Discontinuation of private customer business ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.q-dsl-home.de
  16. ↑ Volker Briegleb: QSC wants to expand its own DSL network  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . onlinekosten.de, May 23, 2005@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onlinekosten.de  
  17. ↑ Dr. Bernd Schlobohm, CEO of QSC - on good quarterly figures and the transition to a service company . QSC AG blog, November 9, 2010
  18. ↑ Freenet and QSC cooperate . heise online, June 12, 2010
  19. ↑ QSC is planning an open fiber optic project in Germany . Computer Week, August 25, 2010
  20. ↑ QSC takes over IP partner . heise online, December 21, 2010
  21. ↑ Diana Künstler: QSC takes over Info AG and strengthens ITC competence . Funkschau, May 3, 2011
  22. ↑ The "SensorCloud" project wins the "Trusted Cloud" technology competition  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . RWTH Aachen press release, March 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rwth-aachen.de  
  23. ↑ Peter Marwan: QSC announces E-Plus mobile communications offer for business customers . ZDNET, May 24, 2011
  24. ^ Peter Marwan: Free communication platform Cospace launched . ZDNet, June 13, 2012
  25. ↑ The cloud for medium-sized businesses - secure, flexible, on-site . Funkschau, August 7, 2014
  26. ↑ QSC AG: Hermann succeeds Schlobohm as CEO ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . QSC AG, January 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qsc.de
  27. ↑ Half of the QSC AG Supervisory Board consists of women . QSC AG, June 3, 2013
  28. ↑ Ulrike Garlet: QSC is buying in the security market . CRN, February 25, 2014
  29. ↑ QSC receives order from Luxembourg . IT-Times, April 23, 2014
  30. ↑ Andreas Donath: Vodafone-Mail offers end-to-end encryption for companies . Golem, March 15, 2015
  31. ↑ Energy and telecommunications: Plusnet takeover: EnBW expands its business area. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  32. ↑ Shareholder structure. QSC AG, July 30, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2019 .

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