Quasus is back on track!

May 11, 2012 - News articles

In 2011 Quasus realised a growth in turnover of 6.2%, up to 11 mio€ 

Quasus, an international consulting company from Zaventem, realised a growth in turnover of 6.2%, up to 11 mio€ and a positive operating result of 436K euros, which is an increase 1,4 mio€ vs. the loss of 2010. We realised this growth through reorganization, active attraction of new customers, activity in new markets and an increase in value based selling.

These excellent results were achieved in strong contradiction to the market tendency and in a challenging business environment. This means Quasus is on the right track for many years to come.

This also proven by the excellent results we achieved end of the first quarter of 2012. We managed to obtain a turnover of 3.586K euros with an EBITDA of 15%.

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Numbers FY 2010-2011[1]:

Operating Result 2011+435.715,74 Euro
Financial Year Result (for tax purposes)365.098,89 Euro

The main goal for 2012 is to grow further into becoming a best in class, efficient, market driven consultancy company.  Through the constant recruiting of top-class consultants and enlarging our current customer portfolio we are moving into this direction. Financially, we would like to reach an EBITDA of 10,5%.

We are focusing our consultancy services on guiding companies to increase their Business Value and becoming a Business- IT Aligned Organisation.

[1] These are final and official numbers for Quasus BE and are not subject to any changes except changes by demand of the auditor. (April 2012)

 

 

 

Dirk Broodcooren reinforces the Quasus team

April 26, 2012 - News articles

As from this month, Quasus welcomes Dirk as Director to help accomplishing the growth strategy. Thanks to his extended experience, Dirk will help to develop our client base and assist in our successful Value Based selling-strategy. We are convinced this will be a fruitful relationship!

Understanding customer needs and providing value solutions, runs through the veins of Dirk Broodcooren. Graduated in Commercial Sciences, he started his career as an accountant for Colruyt before becoming the Financial Director of Dolmen Computer Applications. “I got tired of the job and switched to sales, a decision I didn’t regret so far”.

His first big contract was closed with Belgian Shell. “I am still quite proud of that one. Dolmen ended up on the black list after a failed gas station installation. However, I succeeded in closing some beautiful deals, amongst them a private PC-project. “

Dirk Broodcooren past working experiences were as the CEO of Saga Consulting, Sales & Marketing Director at Ordina and country manager at SAP.

He is 48, married and proud father of 2 adult children. His hobbies include biking, motorcycling and horseback riding.

Banking Group – Set-up Project, Portfolio Management Office & Proof of Concept PMO tool

April 10, 2012 - Success Stories, TMT Success Stories

Context
For project- and portfolio management a wide variety of tools with no coherent view were in place. For the reporting, excel sheets are built by multiple instances based on non-consolidated data and multiple methods (or none) are used.

Need
* Ensure the bank implements the right strategic projects (local + x-border):
* Permanently look for group opportunities and better allocation of project resources: synergies, reuse, avoid double investments.
* More efficient collaboration in and between entities by exchanging best practices.                

Solution
Set-up of a Project Portfolio Management methodology and process, using one common tool to ensure this bank focuses its resources (IT man days, business man days, overall investments, …) on relevant strategic projects (local and x-border) by driving the process in association with different entities (i.e. CFO, CIO, DTS). Steps supported by a Quasus consultant are: designing PPM process in detail and proof of concept for PMO tool

Benefits
* A standardised way for project-inflow, project- and portfolio management.
* One tool for everyone with centralised information which allows, amongst other benefits, overall investment, benefit & risk optimization…
* The cost savings resulting from this project were estimated at about 200.000 euro per annum.

Energy company – Managed Staffing Contract

April 2, 2012 - Success Stories, TS Success Stories

Context
This company in the utilities market works on a huge number of very important IT & business projects for different types of applications (WEB, SAP…).  This complexity requires a high flexibility and continuity of the testing team.

Need
This client has chosen Quasus as a single service provider in the area of testing. Based on Quasus’ experience, this energy provider requested us to provide tool support, develop automated tests (functional & non-functional) for all projects within the IT & business department.

Solution
Quasus delivers  flexible test tool support in Test Management tool, Test automation and performance testing for all project demands within the IT-department and Business department.

Benefits
* Performance  testing: the client is often more aware of slow performance before going into production so performance can be improved before hand.

* Test Management: the client can use a user friendly tool that delivers easy reports and graphs, while before a lot of time and effort was spent in doing this manually.

* Test Automation: the development of automated testing immediately resulted in the discovery of defects during initial acceptance testing. In the future the customer will be able to rely on automated regression testing.

Telenet for business wins the first ‘Cable Europe Innovation Award’

March 23, 2012 - News articles

The Cable Europe Innovation Award recognizes the very best in innovation, creativity and leadership in the European cable industry.

The Innovation Award was won by Telenet for Business in the category Cable operator at Cable Congress 2012. Their successful implementation of the business overlay network and dedicated focus on customer experience for the B2B market didn’t only impress the B2B-market in Belgium and Luxemburg but also the public at Cable Congress. Telenet for Business positioned fiber-coax as the primary access technology in the business segment with speeds up to 100Mbps and was able to significantly grow its revenues in the B2B market segment with double digit growth rates in 2011.

Three companies from three different categories – Cable operator, Technology vendor and Content provider – were nominated for one award. The two other companies nominated by the Cable Europe Programme Committee were HBO with HBO GO in the category Content provider and Intel with Video gateway, a platform for services in the category Technology vendor.

The key criteria for the jury to nominate these three companies were “a distinctive new service, product or project that allows cable to generate new revenue, or differentiate itself strongly from competition”. During Cable Congress the three nominees presented their
innovative products and services.

The public has voted for Telenet for Business during the Cable Europe Innovation Award Ceremony. Martine Tempels, Sr. Vice President of Telenet for Business, reaction
after winning the Award by commenting: “Thank you very much for this great recognition for our work. Everybody in the audience who works with the B2B-segment knows how hard it must have been to switch from a B2C to a B2B-environment and excel in service quality and reliability for these B2B-customers.”

Next year Cable Congress will continue to celebrate and highlight excellence and good practices in innovation. The cable industry will receive an invitation to put forward their innovative products, services or projects that make a real difference in terms of revenue generation and differentiation on the market. To further increase the participation for next year’s award, the crowd will be selecting the nominees for the Cable Europe Innovation Award before the congress, where the winner
will be chosen by public voting.

Also thanks to the Quasus team at Telenet for this award!

Luc Van der Elstraeten, Telenet, Project Manager