22. January 2003

novomind takes a share in management consultancy providers BTIM

BTIM: a strong provider of conceptual and implementation services for SAP software
novomind AG is now the major shareholder in management consultancy providers BTIM Unternehmensberatung GmbH. The company focuses primarily on developing concepts for and implementing SAP software. This alliance boosts novomind’s capacity to link up agent technology with SAP systems. A growing number of customers want to see this capacity utilized more often and more effectively, e.g. in online situations where an agent provides information about stock availability and needs to access an SAP product system.

BTIM supports novomind’s capacity to link up agents with SAP systems
"BTIM’s expertise will enable us to integrate novomind Self Service solutions into SAP backend systems", says Peter Samuelsen, novomind AG’s CEO. This, for example, enables information from the SAP system to be extracted and used during a natural language dialog in order to improve the dialog quality.

novomind is now BTIM’s major shareholder
BTIM was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2002 and currently employs four SAP specialists. The company promarily provides support for medium-sized businesses in the packaging, waste disposal and real estate industries. Partnerships and an extensive network of contacts additionally enable BTIM to handle projects in other market sectors.

novomind: a leading provider of intelligent software
novomind AG is based in Hamburg, Germany and is one of the leading providers of intelligent software for the Self Service sector. novomind software solutions enable companies to automate business processes and reduce costs. The company was founded in December, 1999 by Peter Samuelsen, Marco Busacker and Peter Wiedekamm, and today employs some 40 staff members. In the course of the last financial year, the software house, which has not yet gone public, gained significant new clients, including T-Systems, the Otto mail order house’s Shopping24 subsidiary and insurance providers Hannoversche Leben. The company’s clients also include front runners such as Bertelsmann, the BKK Zollern-Alb health insurance providers and Gruner+Jahr.