Company Profile

Mission

  • Innovative Company Mentality
    Through the combination of experienced West-European Management, through innovation and optimistic state-of-mind, an ideal ambiance arises in Romania for an innovative and highly professional corporate policy.
  • From the Professional for the Professional
    The core business of EBS consists in software development, with a high demand on professionalism. The „finished products“ will be handed over to the client directly upon completion or they will be distributed on the Romanian market.
  • The Right Team
    The employees of EBS are building a team. The EBS-Team excelles in willingness to perform, awareness of quality and professional qualification/skills.
  • Vital Processes
    The process of Software development by EBS is continuously evolving. This is the only way to achieve the best long-lasting results concerning quality, adherence to delivery dates and economic efficiency.
  • Internationality
    The business activities and the corporate philosophy of EBS are directed towards the Romanian national market and the international markets in Western Europe and Northern America – with differentiated products and services. An international orientation is offered by the business field Offshore.

Corporate policy

Through the combination of experienced West-European Management, through innovation and optimistic state-of-mind, an ideal ambiance arises in Romania for an innovative and highly professional corporate policy.

Because of extensive international experience of the EBS Management the company has been able to focused rapidly develop .The concentration on a single business field at first and a later expansion to a total of three business fields in 2003 are the results of careful market analyses and sense-making processes. EBS also realized from the beginning the potential of the Romanian labor force, in terms of quality and quantity. In Cluj-Napoca emerged an atmosphere of innovation and motivation, supported by national and local programs promoting economic development. EBS succeeded in bringing this spirit into the company and turned it into an essential component of its organizational culture.

Business units as profit centers

Each business unit of EBS is managed as an independent profit center and contributes with a certain amount to the success of the business. Each contribution is planned in terms of business unit objectives, monetary or of other nature. The results of quarterly evaluations of business fields have significant influence on further development .

Generating financial reserves

A solid financial basis is the most essential condition to assure the further development of the company. It is a standard to achieve independence from external impacts. Financial reserves convey to the employees the feeling of a safe workplace. For this reason EBS gives high priority to the generation of financial reserves.

Professionalism

The core business of EBS is made up by highly professional software development. The core business of EBS consists of software development with a high demand on professionalism. The „finished products“ will be handed over to the client directly upon completion or they will be distributed on the Romanian market.

Software applications developed by EBS are suited for daily robust use. The customers expect from our products that they are handed over as stable, accurately tested programs. This is what software development at EBS is about.

EBS looks for partner companies which show a high degree of professionalism, which assures easy communication and handling results.

The EBS Team

EBS is a very well positioned business at an international level. To achieve and maintain such a position, employees with a higher-than-average willingness to perform, quality awareness and qualification are required.

For this reason EBS applies the highest standards in recruiting new staff. The professional skills of the employees will be carefully and continuously developed throughout their activity in EBS, by means of systematic, activity oriented qualification procedures.

EBS - an attractive employer

Employees who comply with the requirements of EBS are ensured of a long term working place. Giving priority to personal and professional perspectives, a justified over-average reward and a modern equipment EBS is able to fulfill these expectations.

Software development

The process of software development at EBS is continuously improving. This is the only way to achieve the best long-lasting results concerning quality, adherence to delivery dates and economic efficiency.

When recruiting new staff EBS privileges young graduates of corresponding study courses at Romanian universities. They are the ones who bring the latest knowledge in the field of software development into the company. At the same time EBS is one of the first companies to develop products in .Net Technology and also one of the first companies with wide experience in this field. By an early identification and use of new procedures and tools EBS occupies one of the leading positions in the IT-field.

International Orientation

EBS - An attractive employer

High requirements from the staff can be justified only if the working place is considered to be attractive. We would like to achieve this through a modern equipment, personal and professional perspectives, justified and over-average rewards. Employees who are up to the standards are assured an attractive long-term working place at EBS.

USP

EBS is optimally equipped for the development business and thus first class for allocating development orders / requests

  • A German quality international business
    The company history and the formation of actual management have enabled a corporate culture which builds an optimal bridge between customer countries and Romania.
  • Accompanying QS
    At EBS one can see its own developed quality assurance procedures accompanying the production application, which stands the test both at the level of standard software development and offshore projects.
  • Integration at place
    Thanks to intensive marketing and active engagement in public relations, EBS achieved a very good degree of integration at a regional level. EBS is considered to be one of the most attractive employers of the region and has therefore access to the finest graduates and specialists to integrate in its team.
  • Multilingualism
    In the region of Cluj-Napoca prevails a markedly speech culture. Multilingualism is seen almost as obvious, whereby in this case multilingual means definitely more than just bilingual.

Corporate culture

An international Business with German mentality in Romania:

  • Founded as subsidiary of a German software company
  • At the beginning focusing on offshore development
  • The former Initiator is today the Entrepreneur
  • Implementation of Western-European Standards at EBS
  • Strategic team development
  • Additional services through the training center

Although EBS is completely under German management it is still deeply rooted in the modern Romanian society. This way it manages to attract the finest Romanian specialists and thus to provide services at Western European quality.

Due to EBS backgrounds, we are familiar with the German mentality. Our actions and attitude follow this mentality, which is best expressed by the following terms:

  • Rootedness
  • Fairness
  • Innovation

Quality assurance procedures

  • The EBS customers require highest service quality
  • However, EBS can carry out maximum only one end control
  • This way, achieving the best possible quality becomes a strategic investment of EBS

A QS System accompanying the development process has been introduced. Its tasks are not limited to the determination of errors in the application only, but they are also regarding the technical aspects of the development tasks. They also offer the developers support throughout the development procedures.

For this an internal SW-Tool has been developed, with the purpose of directing and documenting the QS activity.

In order to comply with the requirements of the staff EBS organized intensive training courses in business management.

In the processing of a development task a QS specialist is required to work together with the developer.

QS-specialists possess a college degree in business management and are proficient in the German language. QS experts are also needed in the analysis and verification of development tasks.

Integration at regional level

  • Scholarships for students
  • Sponsor of the local Waldorf school
  • Sponsor of participants at national competitions in the field of computer science and sports
  • Supporter of orphanages, church and social organizations

Multilingualism

EBS – Multilingual Competence Center

  • German as 2nd mother language
  • English as Standard
  • French, Italian, Russian are also widespread
  • Multilingualism as a solid cultural element
  • Difference between Cluj-Napoca and the rest of Romania

Traditionally, Romania is a country with large multilingual circles of population. In Transilvania, besides English, many locals can speak German, French and Italian.

As a result of the intensive business relations with Germany the German language gained in importance at EBS. To bring forward the German language skills of the staff, EBS introduced an internal professional training system.

Most of the staff speaks fluently German. The others have basic knowledge of the German language. All of the employees know English very well.

Business fields

The Business fields of EBS Romania S.R.L.


Software development
Software services Nearshore, Offshore and National

SSW
Development and Distribution of standard software for the Romanian market

Training
IT- and Project training courses in the Cluj-Napoca Training center.

Management

Daniel Metz
General Manager

Andreas Kämmerle
Consultative Associate

Thomas P. Haeck
Internationales Sales Director

Franz Schreiber
Business Development

Employees

The average number of the staff, at the end of the third quarter of 2003, was 70 employees. The average age is 28 years. Our employees have at least one professionally corresponding college degree in one of the following fields: IT, IT applied in business and business economics. Thus they meet all the requirements for software development and consultancy in Internet, Client/Server and Unix.

Certifications

In order to make its business operations more professional and to test them independently, EBS subjected itself to several certification processes. This concerns both independent and partner-oriented programs. Until now EBS has acquired the following certificates:


  • ISO 9001/2000 System Certification ( ISO-Certificate )
  • Microsoft Certified Partner ( Microsoft Certified Partner )
  • Sun Certified Partner ( Sun Developer Connection Partner )
  • Software AG Certified Partner ( SAG Partner )

ISO-Certificate

In the summer of 2003 EBS Romania S.R.L. has successfully obtained the ISO 9001/2000 Certificate.

EBS Romania S.R.L. has successfully finalized the project for certification of the internal quality management system and obtained the ISO 9001/2000-Certificate, from SGS United Kingdom Ltd. England.

Microsoft Certified Partner

EBS Romania S.R.L. becomes Certified Partner of Microsoft (Microsoft Certified Partner)

Since 12.02.2003 EBS Romania S.R.L. has been certified partner of Microsoft (Microsoft Certified Partner). This partnership is an additional proof of the professionalism of our employees.

Sun Developer Connection Partner

Since 31.03.03 EBS is "Sun Developer Connection Partner"

The EBS application “EBS Output Designer” has been certified by Sun. “EBS Output Designer” has been developed for software companies which use Natural/Adabas in their activity. Text oriented printouts (CUI) can be graphically overworked, exported in .pdf format or printed as GUI- reports.

SAG Partner

EBS Romania enters partnership with Software AG

EBS Romania and Software AG enter partnership. By the further developing of the EBS Output Designer Sofware AG uses Tamino (XML Server) for the optical document filing.

Sofware AG , Darmstadt, has been founded in 1969. Today it is the greatest European and world wide one of the leading system software, data integration and management service providers.

Social activities

In the region of Cluj-Napoca EBS is engaged in the support of orphanages, church and humanitarian organisations. Thus EBS stands as sponsor for the local high school “Waldorf“. The company also allocates scholarships to very good students from local universities. Participants in national competitions in the field of computer science and sports receive financial support also.

Scholarships

EBS awards each year, in autumn, six to ten Scholarships to prominent students of the universities of Information Technology applied in Economics, Information Technology and Information Technology applied in Techniques, in Cluj-Napoca.

History

Company foundation

EBS Romania S.R.L. was founded in June 2000 as a subsidiary of a German software company. In 30.06.2002 the business was taken over from the present German management and since then it has been called EBS Romania S.R.L.

Here you can find out more about the milestones in the company history:

01.06.2000
Company formation

01.04.2002
Partnership with DKV-Euroservice GmbH

01.06.2002
EBS Romania and Software AG enter partnership

30.06.2002
Rearrangement of business relations

01.07.2002
Partnership with GiP Gmbh

01.07.2003
Partnership with Fly by Wire ltd.

Important moments in the development of EBS:

  • July – December 2003

01. 09. 2003
Customer agreement with Semantic System AG

25. 08. 2003
EBS Romania S. R. L. receives the ISO-Certification 9001/2000

20. 07. 2003
Customer agreement with SiteCore, Denmark

  • January – June 2003

    31. 03. 2003
    EBS becomes Sun Developer Connection Partner

    12. 02. 2003
    EBS Romania becomes Microsoft Certified Partner

    15. 01. 2003
    The human resources management - Application Xplore HRM, which has been developed in the technologies . NET and MS SQL Server, passed the demanding lab-tests of Microsoft by VERITEST in Paris.

    06. 01. 2003
    Foundation of EBS Training Center with training courses in .NET, MS SQL Server 2000 and others for developers and students.

    03. 01. 2003
    EBS Romania S.R.L. becomes member of the German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

  • July – December 2002

    28. 11. 2002
    Participation at INFODESK 2002 - Frankfurt am Main

    01. 10. 2002
    Awarding of scholarships 2002/2003

    17. 09. 2002
    Participation at the fair “Staff Future” in Köln, Germany – Meeting point of integrated system providers.

    09. 08. 2002
    Participation at "SAG User group Germany 2002“- Meeting point of SAG users in Essen.

    15. 07. 2002
    Customer agreement with the PPS-producer 3S

    01. 07. 2002
    Customer agreement with GiP mbh, Offenbach

  • January – June 2002

    30. 06. 2002
    Rearrangement of business relations
    The company is taken over by the present management on the basis of a Management Buyout.

    01. 06. 2002
    Customer agreement with Software AG

    29. 04. 2002
    Moving in - new office building

    01. 04. 2002
    Customer agreement with DKV-Euroservice GmbH
    EBS Romania and the German company DKV-Euroservice have founded DIS Romania Ltd.. EBS becomes the service providing partner of DIS.

  • January – December 2001

    01. 10. 2001
    Scholarships 2001-2002: award of 10 scholarships to students at the Faculty of Applied Economics Information technology and the Faculty of Information technology.

  • June – December 2000

    30.11.2000
    Start of productive development projects from Cluj through user-to-to user connection.

    22.08.2000
    Start of a 3-month training in the German mother-company.

    01.06.2000
    Foundation of the company
    The company EBS Romania S.R.L. was founded as a subsidiary of a German company with headquarters in Neu-Ulm/Germany and with a first staff of 18 people.

Contact – EBS Romania S.R.L.

Your contacts:

In Romania / Mr. Daniel METZ

    +40 (264) 406 460 (Fon)
    +40 (264) 406 461 (Fax)

In Germany / Mr. Thomas P. HAECK

    +49 (211) 29 26 189 (Fon)
    +49 (211) 29 26 149 (Fax)

By E-mail:

    Email: sales@ebsromania.com

By Post:

    RO - 400118 Cluj-Napoca
    Str. Pavel Rosca nr. 9
    ROMANIA