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HONICO by Stonebranch

HONICO Systems has been your expert in business workload automation for SAP and other ERP landscapes for over 20 years. Our automation solutions enable centralized, cross-system control and management of your processes, either on-premises or in the cloud. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and allows your employees to focus on what matters most.

HONICO Systems has been part of Stonebranch since 2025. The combined offerings empower organizations to orchestrate and automate workloads across hybrid IT environments, including SAP systems, cloud platforms, and on-premises infrastructure. 

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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 License GmbH

HONICO License GmbH, which continues to operate independently, supports you with relevant experience in measuring and analyzing your SAP authorizations and usage—hybrid and in the cloud—with its Software Asset Management solution Dynamic License Control. Minimize uncertainties on your path to digitalization, especially when measuring SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

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

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.

HONICO jetzt Teil von Stonebranch – Darstellung beider Firmenlogos mit grafischem Hintergrund
HONICO is now
part of Stonebranch

Learn how Stonebranch’s acquisition of HONICO is shaping the future of automation.

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