History of our IT Consultancy
1990 | company foundation by Bernhard Opitz, Peter Dix und Rolf Scheuch | |
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1993 | partnership with Oracle Deutschland GmbH | |
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1994 | partnership with Business Objects GmbH | |
acquisition of first buidlings in Gummersbach-Nochen near Cologne | ||
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1995 | partnership with IDS Scheer AG | |
company relocation to Gummersbach-Nochen, into a historical half-timbered house | ||
company renaming to "OPITZ & PARTNER" | ||
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1996 | expansion of property and move into new buildings as well as acquisition of a neighbouring farm building | |
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1997 | OPITZ CONSULTING becomes one of the first "Oracle Certified Solution Partners" in Germany | |
foundation of OPITZ CONSULTING Service GmbH as well as conversion of the acquired farm from conventional to organic farming | ||
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1998 | acquisition, conversion and relocation into surrounding buildings | |
foundation of "Personalberatung OPITZ" (HR consulting) | ||
partnership with Microsoft | ||
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1999 | foundation of OPITZ CONSULTING Hamburg GmbH and OPITZ CONSULTING München GmbH | |
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2000 | celebration of 10 years existence | |
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2001 | foundation of Holding (OPITZ CONSULTING GmbH) and OPITZ CONSULTING Gummersbach GmbH as well as OPITZ CONSULTING Bad Homburg GmbH | |
presentation of "Mittelstandspreis 2001" (award for most successful medium sized business 2001) by MiT-CDU | ||
presentation of Oracle-Award for "beste Technologieeinführung" (best technology implementation) | ||
OPITZ CONSULTING has more than 100 employees | ||
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2002 | OPITZ CONSULTING becomes "Certified Advantage Partner" of Oracle | |
presentation of Oracle-Award for "höchste Kundenzufriedenheit" (customer satisfaction) | ||
after a construction period of two years, relocation into the new buildings, situated on the premises of the former farm house | ||
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2003 | partnership with Fujitsu Siemens (now: Fujitsu Technology Solutions) | |
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2004 | partnership with DELL GmbH and SIGS DATACOM | |
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2005 | presentation of Oracle-Award for "beste Lizenzumsatzsteigerung" (outstanding increase of license revenue) | |
partnership with TIM AG | ||
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2006 | foundation of SOA Competence Center | |
the number of employees increases above 200 | ||
partnership with Libelle | ||
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2007 | foundation of OPITZ CONSULTING training center in Gummersbach near Cologne | |
our training center becomes "Oracle Approved Education Center" | ||
cooperation with Red Database Security | ||
partnership with Quest Software | ||
award "Oracle ACE Director" for Torsten Winterberg | ||
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2008 | foundation of OPITZ CONSULTING Berlin GmbH, OPITZ CONSULTING Kraków Sp. z.o.o, OPITZ CONSULTING location in Essen and OPITZ CONSULTING Schweiz GmbH in Zurich | |
our firm comes of age: 18 years OPITZ CONSULTING! | ||
award "Oracle ACE Director" for Torsten Schlautmann | ||
partnership with Atlassian | ||
foundation of OPITZ CONSULTING training center in Zurich (Switzerland) | ||
EMEA SOA Partner Community Award "Outstanding Contribution" for Torsten Winterberg | ||
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2009 | celebration of ten years existence of OPITZ CONSULTING München GmbH and OPITZ CONSULTING Hamburg GmbH | |
OPITZ CONSULTING becomes "Oracle Premium Business Intelligence Partner" | ||
partnership with Sentrigo | ||
location Essen becomes an independent branch office | ||
Michael Paege is appointed to the management committee of the DOAG (Deutsche Oracle Anwendergruppe) | ||
"OPITZ CONSULTING Innovation Award Information Technology": alumni of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, campus Gummersbach, are awarded first time | ||
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2010 | celebration of twenty years existence | |
OPITZ CONSULTING becomes "Oracle Platinum Partner" | ||
Educational Services Award 2010 for the best IT trainings catalog | ||
partnership with dynaTrace | ||
OpenSAGA-Initiative and OPITZ CONSULTING plan a strategic SOA-partnership | ||
partnership with IBM | ||
first "SOA Specialized Oracle Partner" in the EMEA region | ||
first Oracle Partner with the certificate "Specialized Business Intelligence Foundation" in Germany | ||
"Oracle EMEA SOA Community Award" (third time in a row) | ||
certificate "Specialized Oracle Database" | ||
OPITZ CONSULTING becomes "Middleware Partner 2010" | ||
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2011 | celebration of ten years existence of OPITZ CONSULTING Bad Homburg GmbH | |
certificates for specializations: "Oracle Enterprise Linux" and "Oracle Real Application Cluster" | ||
foundation of an OPITZ CONSULTING location in Nuremberg | ||
insolvency of OPITZ CONSULTING Schweiz GmbH because of missed goals of the business plan | ||
partnership with talend in the field of serviceoriented architectures | ||
dynaTrace, technology leader in application performance management, awards the "Best Partner Germany Award" to OPITZ CONSULTING | ||
partnership with twinsec in the field of IT-security | ||
partnership with VMware | ||
