SOITRON, a company with purely Slovak capital took significant measures last year for extending its services to foreign markets; it accomplished several acquisitions, broadened its partnership portfolio and achieved fourth position in the IT firms chart; it belongs to four largest Slovak IT solutions integrators. Its 2008 turnover amounted to almost EUR 47 million.
Bratislava, 21 May 2009 – a successful year in 2008, business results, visions and trends and, naturally the IT sector problems themselves resonated on the agenda of the 19th professional IT conference annually organized by Soitron for information technologies professionals and managers. In all the papers, the increasing immunity against the negative impacts of the economic crisis presented in IT solutions was the main theme, and experts offered methods for decreasing expenses and increasing flexibility, effectiveness and process optimization.
The new vision, mission and well-developed growth strategy were first time publicly presented by Soitron exactly one year ago. Since May of last year, this vision has been gradually fulfilled. Steps that were important and, for the company, new were the acquisitions, first of all. Through acquisitions, Soitron substantially extended its qualifications in the area of security (takeover of the TWO commercial activities in this field), as well as in the Unified Communications sphere (the acquisition of the company Caiacom with Avaya technology in Bohemia). Finally, the recently announced acquisition of ClarioNet, an expert in the field of Identity Management, contributed to further development of competencies and strengthening of its market position.
Compared to the previous year, the 2008 SOITRON turnover on the Slovak market increased by 12.5% and reached a level of EUR 46.6 million (SKK 1.405 billion). From this amount, the share of integration projects was EUR 21.8 million (SKK 658 million), representing an increase of 28.2%. Outsourcing projects reached a level of EUR 20.7 million (SKK 623 million). The largest proportion of company revenues comes from the services sector, amounting to 45.4%, followed by the financial sector with 14.1% and the portfolio is finally concluded by healthcare sector with a 1.8% proportion of the overall revenues in 2008. By the above mentioned acquisition of ClarioNet in 2009 the company strengthened its position in the Czech Republic and considering its turnover of approximately CZK 250 million (EUR 9.2 million) the company now ranks among the medium-sized IT companies on the Czech market.
