CEO Thomas Honoré about Columbus
Q: Who is Columbus?
A: Columbus is a global solution provider present in 19 countries with over 1.200 staff focused on increasing the competitive edge of our customers.
We help our customers reaching their full business potential through industry specific solutions built on the Microsoft technology stack, best practices, industry templates, and consultancy services within the Food, Retail and Manufacturing industries.
Q: What do you sell?
A: We offer proven, Microsoft-based Industry Standard Solution for mainly the Food, Retail and Manufacturing industries. Through this strong focus our industry solutions add value and improve overall business performance of our customers.
Our staff is top industry experts who through proven performance have documented and gathered know-how and best practices at our industry competency centers and in the countries. We are continuously distilling all this amassed experience into predefined business processes, predefined data structure and documentation for each key industry, and integrating this into the Columbus implementation methodology.
Q: What is so special about your solutions compared to your competitors?
A: Our customers benefit from our repeatable solutions. We always present our customers with a solution that can be implemented easily and fast. With the Industry Standard Solutions our solutions often meet the majority of the industry standard requirements right out of the box, and with individual adaption, our customers will experience the full impact on their business performance at a lower total cost of ownership. This differentiates us from our competitors.
Q: Why have you changed your name and branding?
Columbus has undergone a natural evolution in recent years. We have reached a milestone today where we by changing our name from Columbus IT to Columbus as well as changing our branding want to underline to the world that we are moving from being IT solution providers to becoming value providers within the food, retail and manufacturing industries.
Today, we employ top industry experts dedicated to finding efficiencies and productivity gains through state of the art technology. And not only do we have the expertise, we also know how to help improve businesses and, as we say, with a Columbus solution you will know how. Basically, what we are saying today in big bold letters is that our solutions are not mere IT solutions but maximises efficiency and overall business performance of our customers.
