PROMOS

On the Path to Success Together

A Strategic Partnership for Greater Competitive Strength

PROMOS: A Modern IT Service Provider for Real Estate Companies

Since its founding in 1998, PROMOS consult has expanded significantly and continuously refined its products and services. Its primary goal is to deliver economic benefits to clients in the housing industry. After all, to provide tenants with high-quality services, they rely on the latest IT technology and integrated, streamlined workflows.

Today, the company is one of the leading consulting and systems providers in the German real estate industry. Its full-service offering includes real estate management solutions such as utility billing, facility and construction management, and business analytics, as well as the “easysquare” platform and mobile app for connecting all stakeholders—including tenants, property managers, and contractors. Headquartered in Berlin, the company has branches in Münster/Westphalia, Dortmund, Kassel, and Leipzig and currently employs approximately 250 people.

On the path to success over the years …

PROMOS and PROFI look back on a long-standing, successful partnership. Throughout this time, PROFI has primarily supported the customer with services in the areas of IT infrastructure and software. Of particular note here are SAP systems and storage solutions.

A market analysis conducted by PROFI for a client in the infrastructure sector highlighted the technological and economic benefits of using Fujitsu servers. Following a trial period on systems provided by PROFI, the client decided to make the purchase. In the area of open-source software, PROMOS planned and expanded solutions from SUSE and Red Hat and modernized its VMware virtualization platform. In recent years, PROMOS has also streamlined its private cloud architecture and currently uses significantly fewer—but all the more powerful—virtualized host systems. In addition, the company migrated to the latest ERP software solution, SAP S/4HANA, which—combined with the most powerful IBM Power systems—is an integral part of a state-of-the-art IT landscape.

Over the years, the business partners have grown together and have increasingly expanded their collaboration beyond the traditional areas of infrastructure and software. Now, they are moving toward strategic collaboration and future-oriented topics such as agile software development.

… toward the future

Because software development will play a greater role in both companies’ strategies going forward. The two companies will collaborate closely on the development of a new solution, leveraging synergies from their parallel strategic focus. PROFI will contribute its expertise in agile software development to this effort. In addition, PROMOS relies on PROFI’s expertise in the field of networking.

The partner is highly valued for its high availability and fast, flexible service. With the technology transition to SAP HANA, licenses for DB2 database usage expired; however, these licenses remained valid and had to be relicensed. PROFI provided excellent consulting, planning, and design support for the IBM DB2 databases. In addition, PROFI has increasingly taken on additional services for PROMOS, such as license management and lease agreement management.

Going forward, PROFI will conduct a comprehensive license check for PROMOS once a quarter. The goal of this value-added service is to lighten PROMOS’s workload so that, together, they can guarantee a high-quality, 24/7 service level for end customers in the housing industry.

Conclusion

Today, PROMOS and PROFI can look back on more than 15 years of successful collaboration. Starting with the planning and consulting of IT infrastructure and software projects, PROMOS has increasingly utilized PROFI’s support in areas such as networking, virtualization, and license management, as well as additional services like large parts of contract administration.

Strategically, both companies aim to continue their joint growth with a stronger focus on software development. PROFI will contribute its expertise in agile software development to initial projects. The primary goal of the business partnership will remain providing PROMOS end customers in the housing industry with the best possible service.