System house
A system vendor is a company of information technology - industry , not just software products (software company) or hardware offering, but software systems along with the necessary hardware, ie turnkey IT solutions.
As IT service providers, system houses play an important bridging role between the various users and manufacturers of IT products (hardware and software, etc.).
The range of services of a system house that appears on the market as a full-service provider mostly includes all levels of the value chain
- the provision of process-neutral infrastructures,
- the development, implementation and operation of application software ,
- the adaptation of existing, purchased applications such as ERP and CRM to the individual needs of the customer and his industry and
- the management of complete processes.
According to the magazine Computerwoche in 2016, the ten system houses with the highest turnover in Germany were T-Systems , Bechtle AG , Computacenter , Atos SE , Cancom , Comparex , NTT Data , Dimension Data , Arvato and Fritz & Macziol Group .