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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DLC, now the market-leading product for SAP license management and optimization, will be acquired by external partner Flexera.
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.
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.
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.
Re-certification for SAP Add-on in SAP Netweaver. BatchMan and File & DataManager are SAP HANA capable.
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.
Development and distribution Easy Workload Scheduler: web-based workload automation and deployable in any cloud with a single point of control.
Product Release: New Development Dynamic License Control. Modern, platform-independent software asset management for SAP S/4HANA measurement.
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
The HONICO management
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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.