knk was founded in 1988 by Knut Nicholas Krause. His objective was to combine organizational consulting, software-development, technical IT-consulting, training, support and Information-Broking to a full service for small businesses and medium sized companies. Only by this combinition, he found it possible to create solutions for small and medium companies with a high return of investment, getting rid of bad productivity by double entries, high manual work and bad information flow within the company.
In the end of 1993 Mister Krause decided to realize the projects on the platform of Navision (today Microsoft Dynamics) and knk became one of the first Navision partners in Germany.
In the mean time, knk has grown to be a small group of companies, serving customers in whole Europe: knk has different sites in Hamburg, Dortmund, Munich, Frankfurt, Paris and Nice.
In the beginning, knk worked without any focus in a specific customer's industry, but publishing houses, insurances and logistic companies have been served ever since the foundation of the company.
In 1999 knk decided to focus in one industry: in the publishing house business. Only the exiting customers out of knk's history who work in very | | different industries (logistics, trade, manufacturing, service providers), are still supported in the local area of knk's different company sites. Sometimes, this leads to interesting spin-offs.
In 2000 the first version of knkPublishing was certified by Navision.
In 2002, Navision was bought by Microsoft and formed the core of Microsoft's ERP business. Since then, the product name changed from "Navision" to "Microsoft Navision" and in the meantime to "Microsoft Dynamics".
Since March 2005, knk is "Microsoft Gold Certified Partner". Out of more than 20.000 german Microsoft partners, there are only about 250, who fulfill these high level quality- and turnover-criteria.
Today knk is one of the leading software providers for publishing houses in Europe.
knk's customers are small businesses (beginning with 2-5 employees, served locally around knk's different company sites), medium sized companies and some big accounts (big publishing groups, who have different sites in the whole world) with about 250 concurrent users in a single site.
In France, knk Ingenerie supports the classical Microsoft Dynamics market and localizes foreign vertical solutions for the french market. Additionaly they do IT consulting and support big accounts in the area of project management and business intelligence. knk technologies is knk's mobile computing specialist. |
