IDS Scheer and Plaut join forces in bid to gain top spot

The new entity is the result of taking over all American and East European branches of German IDS by multinational concern IDS Scheer. After the transaction IDS employs 2,000 people in Europe, from which about 540 work in Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The main goal of the firm is to increase its revenues up to zł. 50 million in Poland by 2005 and gaining second position on the domestic market after SAP. Up to the moment, both companies have similar revenues of zł. 11.5 million annually. Their offers and customer base were not complementary in Poland and thanks to the transaction Plaut gained among others, tools for modeling business processes. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) M.M.