KINAMU Business Solutions AG founded

On June 5, 2007 the KINAMU Business Solutions AG with its headquarters in Perchtoldsdorf was founded. The chief business objective of KINAMU is the sales and operation of innovative software solutions in the areas of ERP and CRM for SMEs. KINAMU combines innovative approaches in the software-as-a-service area with classical elements of a project based delivery approach.

Solutions for ERP and CRM which are to be operated on-premise (that is hardware at the customer's site) are being offered. Apart from the innovative model of appliance based delivery KINAMU wants to combine commercial software and open source products to pursue and promote a "best of both worlds" approach. Finally, we want to find and provide the best possible solution for our customers no matter whether with commercial or open source products.

The KINAMU Business Solutions AG was founded by Christian Knoll, Alexander Simon, Michael Hubl and Marcus Riedler. Before starting KINAMU Christian, Alexander and Marcus had been longstanding managers at SAP and may draw on great experience with business solutions on the European and global software market. Michael, the fourth co-founder of KINAMU, had been managing partner of ITMCS GmbH, an IT consulting company with focus on the implementation and technical realization of innovative SAP based solutions.

The chairman of the supervisory board of KINAMU Business Solutions AG is Heinz Hartinger. Heinz has been working at SAP for over 20 years. He was the driving force behind the development and expansion of SAP Austria as well as the establishment of SAP's business activities in Eastern Europe. Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board is Prof. Dr. Alfred Taudes. He is professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and visiting professor in Japan and other countries and has a large global background. The third member of the supervisory board is Dkfm. Richard Seibt. He had worked in top management positions in the sales department of IBM before becoming a board member of 1&1 Internet AG. Then, he became chairman of the board of SUSE Linux AG where he promoted and established the open source idea globally. After the sale of SUSE to Novell he was responsible for the business in EMEA. After leaving Novell he founded the Open Source Campus in Nurnberg to support innovative companies on the open source sector thus promoting the open source idea.