Always a quality step ahead

Moehrendorf 30 January 2017 – The IT sector is developing at a phenomenal pace – and it will continue to do so as shown by the trend study “The Future of Testing”. imbus, a leading solution partner for software quality assurance and testing, has been keeping pace with this evolution for the last 25 years and, what is even more, continues to advance further innovations. All this is reason enough to take a brief look in the company’s past and future.

„Information processing, methods, consulting (German: Beratung) and (German: und) training (German: Schulung): The German terms behind the acronym ‘imbus’ have been defining our portfolio ever since the business creation”, explains board member Tilo Linz. Together with his fellow students Thomas Roßner, Bernd Nossem, Jörg Schulten, Hendrik Rässler and Peter Studtrucker, he launched the software service provider 25 years ago. The entry in the commercial register was made on January 30th 1992.
imbus is an owner-managed and independent solution partner which has completely devoted itself to software QA and testing. In contrast to many other providers, computer scientists make decisions at the top management level of imbus. “That is why, innovations, methods and technology play a crucial role in most of our decisions”, underlines board member Thomas Roßner.
The chosen office premises in 1992 were quite unconventional: The computers were established and connected via LAN in a more than 300 years old and listed half-timbered house in the Franconian village Moehrendorf. “Back then, the IT sector was convinced, that
people were already living in a state of complete digitalization. But it had already just begun”, smiles Tilo Linz.
The number of imbus customers continuously grew and so did the number of industry fields which were served by the QA experts. In the beginning of the 1990s, testing backbone systems for the upcoming GSM mobile network was one of imbus’ main task areas. The high standards from fixed-network telephony were transferred to mobile telephony testing. Later on, imbus also supported the further development to UMTS and then LTE.
Further important customers came from medical technology, railway technology and automotive. As the digitalization progressed, orders from banks and insurance companies, trade, logistics and public administration followed.
Today, more than 260 employees belong to the imbus team. Sites in Munich, Hofheim near Frankfurt, Cologne, Norderstedt near Hamburg and Lehre near Braunschweig were established. Dependencies in China, Tunisia, Kosovo and Canada make the imbus expertise world-wide available today.
There were also two economically turbulent years which proved that imbus can cope with crises successfully, too. One was a crisis in the mobile sector at the end of 2001, the other one the global finance crisis in 2009. Both incidents affected the customers’ testing budget with a certain delay. imbus’ corporate management and employees pulled together: cost-reducing measures were implemented and many employees temporarily reduced their working hours by their own choice, some of them even went on unpaid leave. “In that way, we could cope with a 25% decline in sales in 2002 together with the entire team laying the foundation for our product imbus TestBench”, says board member Bernd Nossem.
“Looking back, the last 25 years were exciting journey in the IT sector. The next 25 years will surely be at least as exciting”, says Tilo Linz. “In a few years, we will live in a completely software-based and connected world. The criticality will rise, too. Software QA experts will be even more demanded. imbus is ready for every test.”

imbus is a leading solution partner for professional software testing and intelligent software quality assurance.
Our portfolio includes consulting for process improvement, software testing services, test outsourcing, test tools, and training.
With our comprehensive know-how, the latest tools, and our proven methodology, we increase the reliability and performance of software products, software-intensive systems, and complete IT structures, and as a manufacturer-independent partner, we assure their correct functionality.

Since 1992, the experienced and highly-qualified imbus team has been synonymous with across-the-board software quality assurance from a single source that covers the entire lifecycle.
The expertise acquired from around 6,000 successful projects over a period of 25 years provides a solid foundation for the daily work of our experts, all of whom are ISTQB® Certified Testers. Here you can find the corresponding reference projects.
imbus is currently represented by more than 260 employees at locations in Moehrendorf near Erlangen, Munich, Cologne, Hofheim near Frankfurt, Lehre near Braunschweig, Norderstedt near Hamburg, Toronto (Canada), Shanghai (China), Peja (Kosovo) and Sousse (Tunisia).

imbus AG
Press Office
Fiona Proell
Kleinseebacher Str. 9
91096 Moehrendorf
Phone +49 9131 7518-0
Fax +49 9131 7518-50
Mail presse@imbus.de

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