Company Profile
SINGULAR S.A. is the leading company in Greece in the areas of designing, developing, implementing, and supporting integrated business software packages, and the main Greek provider of total solutions in the IT market. SINGULAR was established in 1984 and in 1994, it was the first Greek IT company listed in the Athens Stock Exchange.
SINGULAR maintains branches in multiple locations in Greece, as well Bulgaria and Romania with more than 600 employees generating an annual turnover in excess of 15 million EURO. The company clientele is currently composed of a solid base of 30,000 clients, serviced by the widest and most efficient network of qualified representatives throughout Greece and the Balkans. The Singular distribution network constitutes one of the most important factors of the company success in the software market; it is made up of:
- 800 resellers and VARs software companies that locally support both products and services,
- a support network of 75 partners that is rapidly growing to 100 Singular Support Centers and
- a network of successful IT companies in the area of professional services (Singular Business Partners - SBPs) that constitutes a highly specialized infrastructure aiming at supporting the company in providing Integrated Business Solutions to SMEs and large-sized companies.
Singular and Baan Company N.V. have entered in a strategic collaboration concerning Eastern Europe, where Singular acquired the direct operations of Baan Company in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, and Greece.
SINGULAR has accumulated significant expertise in Information Technology through three main activities:
- Implementation of innovative solutions in real-life projects for the Greek Public and Private sector - from transactional and data mining applications to E-commerce and Web-based applications.
- Internal R&D projects, exploring the edge of software development practices (distributed OO technologies, CASE and meta-CASE environments, modeling methodologies and software reuse)
- Co-funded, by the European Commission and the Greek Government, R&D and consulting projects.
SINGULAR's Business Motivation for LEVER
In an increasingly competitive software marketplace it is essential that a software firm delivers value in more efficient ways, and it is for this reason that knowledge sharing has become a key process within the Singular Group. Singular operates in more than eight countries around Europe - covering all aspects across the software chain - from development to provision of integrated IT solutions. Knowledge acquired at any part of the chain, in any location, has the potential to add value to units in other countries.
As well as being transferred in traditional ways (e-mail, face-to-face meetings) knowledge at a corporate lever has to be shared via a corporate-wide intranet installation. Singular has decided that in order to cope with shifting market demands, it needs to exploit technology in order to leverage organizational knowledge. With a corporate-wide intranet, Singular Group will have the capability to connect everyone, anywhere, at any time. The origin of that corporate-wide implementation will be the collection of knowledge initiatives that will be undertaken by different operational units and supported by the LEVER project.
CV's of SINGULAR's key persons to be involved in LEVER
Andreas Ikonomopoulos. Mr Ikonomopoulos works for the Advanced Technologies and Business Development Department of SINGULAR S.A. He has received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (1992) with a specialization in artificial intelligence. Since then, he has held appointments at the University of Tennessee as an Assistant Professor, the National Research Center "Demokritos," and the Delft University of Technology. He has been appointed as an R&D Program Manager at the Science and Technology Agency in Japan where he worked for a period of two years. He has authored and co-authored 38 articles published in books, international scientific journals, and conference proceedings.
Stelios Pantelopoulos. Mr Pantelopoulos is project co-ordinator in the Advanced Technologies and Business Development Department of SINGULAR S.A. His duties include management of running European projects. Previously he was Senior Software Engineer, for INTRASOFT S.A where he was was involved in the analysis and design of database management systems. As Software Engineer for Athens Technology Center S.A. (1994-1997) he was involved in the software implementation and database development of client server applications (e.g. multimedia database applications, electronic catalogues, software tools for archaeologists, etc).
