GFT to Co-Sponsor ITC Entrepreneur Awards
Innovative IT Partner Supports Entrepreneurial Businesses
London, 18 June 2012, International, strategic IT partner The GFT Group, has today announced its co-sponsorship of the ITC Entrepreneurs Enterprise Awards. Chief Operations Officer, Marika Lulay, will join the panel to highlight the importance of innovation and entrepreneurialism in financial sector technology. The second annual awards of the Information Technologists' Company will be announced on 21st June at Stationers’ Hall, City of London. GFT has spent 25 years offering technology expertise, innovative strength and outstanding quality to companies around the world.
Marika Lulay explains, “GFT has been designing and optimising the business processes of its clients since 1987. We therefore understand the challenges businesses face in retaining their entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging innovation and responding to new technologies. GFT keeps itself and its clients at the cutting-edge by supporting innovative businesses across Europe and now specifically in London, whilst offering new businesses the benefit of our experience”. She continued, “We believe that innovation doesn’t happen by chance, so we created a clearly structured process to make innovation an integral part of our corporate culture, this lead to the creation of our Applied Technologies Team”.
GFT’s Applied Technologies Group was founded with the goal of promoting open innovation and bringing ideas to market. This focus has produced a-touch, an intelligent touch-banking solution for wealth management and more recently, GFT Appstore, a multi-platform, enterprise application storefront which will allow financial services organisations to develop, test and share their own apps.
The ITC Entrepreneurs’ Forum is part of the Information Technologists' Company, the 100th Livery Company of the City of London. Its annual Enterprise Awards recognize some of the most outstanding achievements of the entrepreneurs being mentored by the ITC.
GFT is a co-founder of CODE_n, an international innovation initiative, which aims to discover and promote inventive businesses. Through CODE_n, GFT can address the challenge of remaining innovative and provide a platform for pioneering companies.
The first CODE_n winner, on the theme of Shaping Mobile Life, was announced at CeBIT in March 2012.
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About The GFT Group
As a strategic IT partner based in Stuttgart, Germany, the GFT Group helps companies optimise their business processes by providing intelligent IT systems and highly skilled specialists. Under the motto Inspiring IT, GFT converts cutting-edge technological developments into sustainable business models.
GFT is one of the world’s leading IT service suppliers for the finance sector. It enables financial institutes to quickly and securely utilise modern technologies in order to enhance their long-term competitive standing. GFT combines established technological experience with comprehensive industry expertise, in order to develop, implement and maintain customised IT solutions. With its international network of experts, GFT offers companies in all sectors the opportunity to flexibly manage the staffing of their technology projects.
For 25 years, GFT has stood for technological expertise, innovative strength and outstanding quality. Founded in 1987 by its current CEO, Ulrich Dietz, GFT achieved revenues of €272 million in 2011. The GFT Group is represented in seven countries by its 22 local facilities. A global team of over 1,300 employees and 1,300 external consultants implement complex IT projects across various countries. GFT is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard: WKN 580 060, GEX).
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