Your specialists for Automation & Software Asset Management

Who we are:

HONICO Systems, your expert for Business Workload Automation and License Management (SAM = Software Asset Management) for SAP and other ERP landscapes for over 20 years. Our automation solutions enable central, cross-system control and management of your processes, on-prem or in the cloud. Manual interventions are therefore unnecessary and your employees can focus on the essentials.

In License Management, we support you with relevant experience in measuring and analyzing your SAP authorizations and usage – hybrid and in the cloud. Minimize uncertainty on your journey to digitalization, especially when it comes to measuring SAP S/4HANA Cloud. We can help you effectively manage your licenses, reduce software costs, and minimize compliance risks.

Since our foundation in 1999, our products have been successfully used by more than 200 customers – and the development continues. Today, we continue to adapt these products to the ever-changing technical and specific requirements of our customers. As our customer, you are the focus of our work.

HONICO company history: 25 years of software expertise in Automation and License management

1997
BatchMan development

BatchMan 1.0 is developed by APCON as a project for Schwarzkopf (Henkel) for cross-system job scheduling in SAP. Product management and sales start at Bauer Software.

1999
Foundation of HONICO Systemberatung

HONICO Systemberatung is founded as a sales partner of APCON AG and takes over the distribution of BatchMan 2.0. Customers already include large companies such as Beiersdorf Shared Services, Adolf Würth, Bauer AG and Deutsche See.

2000
Name change: HONICO Systems GmbH

HONICO becomes an independent sales company of itelligence AG, now NTT DATA Business Solutions. HONICO Systems takes over the BatchMan product from itelligence and APCON AG.

2001
Development AccountMan and HelpMan

HONICO Systems expands: AccountMan, a solution for consumption billing of SAP IT landscapes, and HelpMan, a helpdesk tool, widen the HONICO product portfolio. First customers are MAHLE and Metro.

2004
BatchMan Release 3.0

HONICO leaves the itelligence Group and becomes independent. BatchMan achieves certification of BatchMan 3.0 as an SAP Basis Add-on and HONICO becomes a registered SAP Service Partner.

2006
Development License Management SAP

AccountMan becomes AccountMan Dynamic License Control, a software for measuring user licenses. Foundation of the HONICO Group and its affiliated companies as well as HONICO Systems GmbH in Switzerland.  

2007
Ernst & Young Certification

AccountMan DLC is certified by Ernst & Young. Development of BatchMan add-on module for ticket accounting for STAR ALLIANCE airlines. BatchMan and AccountMan Release 4.0.

2009
Dynamic License Control (DLC) becomes part of Flexera

DLC, now the market-leading product for SAP license management and optimization, will be acquired by external partner Flexera.

2008-2011
IntegrationMan - HONICO eBusiness

IntegrationMan is added to the HONICO product portfolio. HONICO signs a worldwide contract with ePages and SAP for eCommerce integration in the cloud for SAP Business-all-in One. Later HONICO eBusiness becomes part of PROCLANE Integration GmbH.

2014
New ways in License Measurement

Termination of the cooperation with Flexera. New cooperation between HONICO and Intelligent Licensing as a venture capital company in the US. Extension and new development of the AccountMan DLC: to Standalone Dynamic License Control.

2015
Development File & DataManager

In the course of a large customer project of a leading Swiss logistics company, File & DataManager is developed: Distribution of the new product, as an addon for BatchMan as a managed file transfer solution.

2017
BatchMan Release 5.0

Re-certification for SAP Add-on in SAP Netweaver. BatchMan and File & DataManager are SAP HANA capable.

2018
Integration with SAP S/4HANA

HONICO BatchMan 5.0 achieves Certification: Integration with SAP S/4 HANA as SAP Application Build Partner. BatchMan 5.0 enables centralized, cross-system control for on-premise, hybrid and cloud: installation and interface seamlessly integrated with SAP.

2020
Development Easy Workload Scheduler

Development and distribution Easy Workload Scheduler: web-based workload automation and deployable in any cloud with a single point of control.

2023
Next Gen Dynamic License Control

Product Release: New Development Dynamic License Control. Modern, platform-independent software asset management for SAP S/4HANA measurement.

In the digital age, the staff capacity is one of the biggest challenges in the transition from on-premise to hybrid system landscapes. Process automation relieves your IT staff by centralized control and minimization of manual intervention.
Claus Uwe Hodum, Managing Director HONICO

These are the values of HONICO:

  • Individuality & a high degree of expertise in the individual subsections
  • Development of advanced products & solutions
  • Building enduring business partnerships
  • Reliability, trust & service-oriented action
Using our products can be helpful to you in each phase of your company, regardless of the size of your company. We can help you to reduce the manual work within your work flow and thus ease the burden for your employees. If you would like to know more, then just make an appointment or register for one of our free webinars!

The HONICO management

Portraitbild von Claus Uwe Hodum

Claus Uwe Hodum, CEO, HONICO Systems GmbH

Claus Uwe Hodum has been working in the SAP environment for more than 30 years and has been a specialist in SAP-Workload Automation and SAP-Licensing for more than 20 years. First, he was R / 2, later R / 3 developer for SAP in Walldorf. As an authorized officer of the Bauer Group, he set up a branch in the USA. In 1999, Claus Uwe Hodum founded HONICO Systems GmbH and since then has been the owner and CEO of most affiliated companies. From 2014 to 2019 he also took over the management of SNOW Development GmbH in Hamburg and became chairman of the advisory board of SNOW Software Property AG in Switzerland.