Synergon Information Systems Design and Implementation Co. Ltd.
1191 Budapest. Vak Bottyán Street 75. AC, 2nd floor.
8000 Székesfehérvár, Seregélyesi Street 96.
1041 Budapest István Street 16.
The company has been a key player in the domestic IT market for the past 20 years. Its main areas of activity are system integration, distribution of IT and network components, software and system design. It carries out its activities in divisions. The most significant domestic divisions are:
Synergon Retail Systems (SRS) – carries on the legacy of Rolitron and deals with the implementation and operation of retail systems
Synergon Integrator Ltd. (SRI, formerly Synergon Rendszerintegrátor Ltd., before that SAO-Synergon Ltd.) – design, sales, construction and support of IT systems, hardware infrastructures, licenses, network and security systems
Fibex Ltd. – trading in the most modern optical and structured cables and additional fittings used for network construction.
- Zsolt Szalóczy, director
- Ferenc Czakó, director
- Tibor Gyurós, president, director
- Loránt Szaray, 2004
- Zoltán Radnóty, 2005
- Mark Lazarovits, 2006 - 2010
- Robert Litauszki, 2010 - 2011
- Zoltán Jutasi, 2012 - 2013
- Gyula Gansperger, 2013 - 2014
- Attila Dobos, 2014 -
Year |
Number of people |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 595 |
| 1999 | 670 |
| 2000 | 521 |
| 2001 | 537 |
| 2002 | 440 |
| 2003 | 544 |
| 2004 | 567 |
| 2005 | 556 |
| 2006 | 488 |
| 2007 | 474 |
| 2008 | 421 |
| 2009 | 355 |
| 2010 | 348 |
| 2011 | 324 |
| 2012 | 371 |
2013 – MVM Paks Nuclear Power Plant Ltd. – Construction of data center
2013 – COURIER Project
1990 – Optotrans is founded. Rolitron switches to distributing PC systems
1992 – Infinity (Czech Republic) founded
1993 – establishment of Fibex Kft. and Span doo
1994 – Origin-IT Kft. begins its activities with the appearance of Philips in Hungary
1997 – Synergon is formed through the merger of Optotrans and Rolitron
1999 – the company's securities are listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange
2000 – Synergon begins its foreign expansion and acquires majority stakes in the Czech Infinity as and the Croatian Span doo
2003 – the Infinity Slovakia representative office is established, the Synergon group is already active in the markets of four countries
2003 – within the framework of a cooperation agreement, the company acquires its Hungarian subsidiary from the Atos Origin group. The new company is named Synergon Atos Origin Information Technology Kft, and from 2005 onwards SAO-Synergon Kft.
2007 – the company sells its stake in the Croatian Span doo
2008 – SAO-Synergon Kft., 100% owned by the parent company, is renamed Synergon Rendszerintegrátor Kft.
2011 – Infinity merges with the Czech company IT Systems, becoming the most significant player in the local system integration market
2012 – the company establishes its subsidiary in Sofia, thus entering the Bulgarian IT market
2012 – Synergon sells its stake in Infinity
The company's legal predecessors, Optotrans Bt. (founded: 1990), which mainly deals with the construction of communication systems, and Rolitron Kft. (founded: 1972), which initially manufactured medical electronic devices and developed office software, and later specialized in the supply of computer systems, merged in September 1997 with the involvement of $5 million in venture capital under the name Synergon.
Not only the company, but the entire Hungarian IT market was shaken by the accident in which four of the company's managers lost their lives in 2001. Tibor Gyurós, the President and CEO of Synergon Informatikai Rt., Levente Lakatos, Deputy CEO, and András Felkai and Iván Völgyes, members of the board of directors, who were returning home from Croatia, were on the plane that crashed near Tapsony in Tolna County.
The Association of Information Technology Enterprises (IVSZ) named its "IT Manager of the Year" and "Young IT Entrepreneur of the Year" awards in memory of the president of IVSZ, Tibor Gyurós, after his unexpected death in 1997.

Synergon Days 2000: see Computer world Computer Science October 4, 1990, page 28
Created: 2016.07.27. 15:57
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