An eye on northern Germany: itemis AG opens a branch in Hamburg
Even better customer support with an office on site
Abstract
itemis, a leading IT consulting firm and service provider specialising in model-driven software development, is expanding operations in northern Germany with a new branch office in Hamburg.
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With the new office in Hamburg the company aims to respond to the strong demand in the area, in particular in the embedded systems sector, and provide customers with assistance directly on site.
The new location will offer the complete range of services from the entire network of offices. This includes itemis focal points such as Eclipse, model-driven software development (MDSD) and model-driven development of embedded systems, but also consulting on other customer-specific open source solutions. itemis has for some time been collaborating with a large number of customers and partners located in Hamburg, which until now have been served by other branches.
For the Hamburg branch itemis was able to win a new regional sales manager. Asaf Ikram, former Head of Sales at Gentleware AG, will be the on-site contact person and head of business operations at itemis Hamburg branch. Previously Ikram worked at companies including SinnerSchrader, Intershop and Oracle Deutschland, where he made a name for himself in the field of IT solution sales. He studied informatics and brings with him a wealth of technical insight. In the MDSD sector as well, he is superbly knowledgeable and is thus the ideal candidate to fill this position.
Contact
Asaf Ikram, Branch Manager itemis Hamburg
Asaf Ikram has been employed by itemis AG North as Sales Manager since January 2009. At the Hamburg site, he is close at hand to new business customers and is also responsible for supporting customers and projects in the areas of MDSD, SOA, oAW and Embedded Systems in the northern region of Germany.
Asaf Ikram began his professional career as an Account Manager for the medium sized IT-company Datenrevision, better known today as T-Systems. Following that he spent time as Senior Sales Consultant and as Manager of Strategic Key Projects with Oracle Germany as well as a Senior Sales Consultant with Intershop. After his time in Sales with SinnerSchrader, he was employed in project sales as Head of Solution Sales with Gentleware AG until the end of 2008.
Asaf Ikram studied Informatics at the University of Hamburg.