2001
- ITGAIN Consulting Hannover is founded as an independent
IT service provider by experienced IT consultants:
- Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. Thomas Kalb
(graduate in computer applications in economics),
- Dipl.-Inform. Mr. Joachim Roll
(graduate in Computer Sciences),
- Dipl. Oec. Peter von Riegen
(graduate economist),
- Dipl.-Math. Per Stricker
(graduate mathematician) and
- Dipl.-BW VWA Norbert Wilkening
(graduate in business management)
- the focus of the company is on the design and implementation of DB2 solutions
- ITGAIN Consulting Hamburg is founded
by Thomas Kalb and Joachim Roll
2002
- IBM certifies all of the company’s employees as DB2 specialists
- ITGAIN becomes an IBM Advanced Partner for DB2
- ITGAIN Integration Solution GmbH is founded
- starting development of Speedgain for DB2, the monitoring tool for DB2 databases
- ITGAIN Consulting achieves 140 percent turnover growth
2003
- Speedgain for DB2 is launched at the Cebit trade fair
and is well received
- first commercial application of Speedgain: Hermes and BWI (Bürgel).
- Speedgain for DB2 is launched with overwhelming success
at the DB2 Technical Conference
- ITGAIN successfully holds its own against the general stagnation trend in the IT industry with 15-20 percent turnover growth
- meanwhile, the company employs 30 highly qualified and committed IT experts
2004
- foundation of ITGAIN inc. in Atlanta
- first Speedgain customers in the USA
- financial services as consulting emphasis
2005
- ITGAIN inc. is profitable in first year after its foundation
- launch of Speedgain Gateway Monitor and first sales in Europe and the USA
- developing J2U the JCL-interpreter for unix operating systems
- Java certification for 50% of our employees
- successful replacement of whole z/OS mainframe processing at Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen with Linux cluster
2006
- 5 years ITGAIN
- 35 employees
- approx. 6 million Euro turnover
- strategic partner of a large IT service provider
for savings banks and state banks
- USA is the biggest market for Speedgain products
- installation of J2U at WMF
- ITGAIN Hamburg becomes german distributor for Ahlsort the DFSORT-compatible sort utility for Unix operating systems of Ahlbrand Inc.
- Java certification for 90% of our employees
- employees are being certified as project managers
2007
- ITGAIN Hamburg becomes european distributor for Ahlsort
- further installations of J2U in germany
2008
- foundation location ITGAIN Frankfurt
- 53 employees
2009
- 82 employees
- foundation Data Integrationsservice as independet business unit
- foundation location ITGAIN Munich
2010
- 86 employees
- 10 years ITGAIN
- 10 million euro revenue
