SOLIDEX key facts

SOLIDEX Group

The first company in the SOLIDEX Group was the commercial law company established in 1990, SOLIDEX Ltd., with its registered office in Kraków. The program of SOLIDEX Ltd. provided for the development of technologically highly advanced and heterogeneous IT systems to a large scale. Soon afterwards, in addition to the company's headquarters in Kraków, its branches were opened - the first in Warsaw, in the LIM Marriott Center and then in Gdańsk and Poznań.

Pursuing its policy of extending its specialisation which at the same was time was increasingly deepened, SOLIDEX established:

• in 1994, SOLIDEX NetCom - specializing in the development and integration of LAN networks,
• in 1995, SOLIDEX Systems - offering solutions to the financial sector, and specializing among others in ATM devices and information terminals.

Even though SOLIDEX focuses on Poland in its activities, new needs made it expand abroad as well. In 1995, SOLIDEX GmbH was established and registered in Hamburg to operate in Germany. In Belarus a joint venture under the name of SOLIDEX PI j.v. was set up with its registered office in Minsk.

At the beginning of 1997, the joint stock company of SOLIDEX S.A. was established which took over the market functions of SOLIDEX Ltd., acting as the Network System Integrator on the end-user market. SOLIDEX Ltd. concentrated on the function of strategic background for the new and already existing companies of the SOLIDEX Group. The shares of SOLIDEX S.A. were taken inter alia by the most experienced managers and specialists of SOLIDEX.

The administrative and organisational matters of the Group are handled by SOLIDEX sp. z o.o.

The Group now comprises the following entities:

SOLIDEX S.A.
SOLIDEX Sp. z o.o.
SOLIDEX GmbH
SOLIDEX PI j.v.
SOLIDEX Systems Sp. z o.o.
WebService Sp. z o.o. 

The SOLIDEX Group uses Polish capital and is owned by its founders.

Scope of Operations

SOLIDEX has been operating since 1990 as a network system integrator specializing in comprehensive development of IT systems to any scale and intended use. The company's activity comprises comprehensive project implementation from the idea and design through authorized supplies and installations, implementation and training, to system operation. SOLIDEX provides comprehensive service and technical support to its systems throughout the country. The service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days in the year and guarantees that the functionality of system will be restored within several hours.

SOLIDEX has organized its services and has distinguished the following categories of SOLID Systems:

• IT infrastructure management and maintenance systems
• voice, video and data integration systems
• data storage
• e-learning and content distribution systems
• e-commerce systems
• security systems
• classical data transfer systems

A natural supplementation and support to the above systems is the program of SOLID Services. Here SOLIDEX offers its clients:

• analyses
• technical/implementation designs
• consultation
• training
• system implementation
• project management
• technical support
• technical service and operational hot-line
• network and system management

Locations

Headquartered in Kraków, the company has its branches in Warsaw, Gdańsk and Poznań and has recently opened its service units in Olsztyn, Lublin, Wrocław, Szczecin and Toruń.

Partners

The key partners include:

• Sun Microsystems
• Cisco Systems
• Check Point
• Nokia Internet Communications
• RSA Security
• Hewlett-Packard Company
• Citrix Systems
• Network Appliance
• IBM
• NetCentrex
• Hitachi Data Systems

Market Position

SOLIDEX is among the biggest integrator companies on the Polish market. In the report published in July 2002, "TELEINFO 500 - Polish IT Market 2001", SOLIDEX S.A. was classified in leading positions in many rankings. SOLIDEX S.A. strengthened its leading position in the market of integrators going up to 4th place among 100 Biggest Integrator Companies in Poland in 2001 (on the list that comprised companies engaging in both system and application integration). For the second time we were among the top three BIGGEST SYSTEM INTEGRATORS. SOLIDEX also ranked very high on 29th place among 200 biggest IT companies present on the Polish market.

A mode detailed list of SOLIDEX's places in rankings can be found at SOLIDEX >> RANKINGS