Axios Systems

Axios Systems
Privately held
Industry Enterprise software
IT services and management
IT consulting
Founded 1988
Headquarters Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Area served
 Global
Key people
 Tasos Symeonides (CEO)
Andros Symeonides (EVP)
Markos Symeonides (EVP)
Scott Leckie (CTO)
Products assyst
assystITAM
Services Service desk
IT service management
IT asset management
Number of employees
 179[1]
Website www.axiossystems.com
Axios Systems' global headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland

Axios Systems is a provider of Service Desk, IT Service Management and IT Asset Management software.[2] The assyst enterprise application suite was one of the first to support IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices.[3]

The company has a customer base from the Fortune 50, Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 lists.[4] Worldwide, Axios Systems has more than 1,000 customers and typically targets organisations with at least 1,000 IT users.[5]

Locations

Axios Systems is a multinational firm with offices and operations in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Central America and the Middle East.[6] The corporate headquarters are in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, with North American headquarters located outside of Washington DC in Herndon, Virginia.[7]

In 2003, following a contract with SCC (Specialist Computer Centres), Axios Systems opened an office in Amsterdam.[8] And in 2008, additional offices were opened in Russia and the United Arab Emirates.[9]

History

Tasos Symeonides and Ailsa Symeonides founded the company in 1988,[10] and it continues to be privately owned by the Symeonides family.[11]

Tasos, who was born in Greece and migrated to Glasgow as a child, reportedly got the idea of launching Axios Systems while walking in a park and considering how he would pay the mortgage on his newly purchased home in the Eskbank area of Edinburgh. In the company's beginning, 16 employees worked from the Symeonides residence. The Scottish retail group John Menzies, which had previously employed Tasos as their computer systems manager, became Axios Systems' first customer.[12] The business continued to be operated from within the family's attic and bedrooms until 1995, when the company moved to Walker Street, near Haymarket, Edinburgh, and later to nearby Melville Street.[13]

Industry consultant Targeting Innovation, in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, named Axios Systems the 'Scottish software company of the year' in 2004.[14]

Customers

Customers include Federal Express, Mohawk, The Scottish Government, Magellan Health Services, Synergy Health, Gulf News, Home Properties, Dubai Petroleum, Qatar Petroleum and Corrs Chambers Westgarth, among others.[15]

Other key customers include toy manufacturer Lego, Associated British Foods and global law firm Linklaters. Lego implemented Axios Systems' service management solution, assyst, in 2002.[16] Associated British Foods announced plans to work with Axios Systems for shared services across 14 divisions of its business in 2009.[17] Linklaters became a customer in 2013, announcing plans to use assyst across its IT, HR and Facilities divisions.[18]

Certifications, Governance & Compliancy

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Software group Axios Systems bounces back into profit". heraldscotland. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  2. ↑ "PinkVERIFY 2011 Toolsets". Pink Elephant. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  3. ↑ "Axios Systems Assyst10 Brings Social Media to ITIL". MSPMentor. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  4. ↑ "Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 1)". 1M/1M. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  5. ↑ "Review: Axios assyst". The ITSM Review. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  6. ↑ "Global Offices". Axios Systems. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  7. ↑ "Contact us". Axios Systems. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  8. ↑ "Axios expands into Amsterdam". heraldscotland. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  9. ↑ "Axios with global offices heads for £20m turnover". Compute Scotland. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  10. ↑ "After attic start, Axios making all right moves for success". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  11. ↑ "Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 1)". 1M/1M. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  12. ↑ "Profile: Symeonides grew family company from scratch". Daily Record. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  13. ↑ "After attic start, Axios making all right moves for success". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  14. ↑ "Profile: Scottish Software Awards 2004". Young Company Finance Scotland. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  15. ↑ "Spanning all verticals across 22 countries". Axios Systems. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  16. ↑ "ITIL assists LEGO in creating global system for IT support". TSO (The Stationery Office. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  17. ↑ "Primark opt for ITSM service improvements". CIO Plus. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  18. ↑ "Linklaters adopts new ITSM platform for global practice". Computerworld UK. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  19. ↑ "Axios celebrates global first for BS15000 certification". Computerworld. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  20. ↑ "Axios Systems achieves ISM certification with assyst". TMCnet. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  21. ↑ "PinkVERIFY™ 2011 Toolsets". Pink Elephant. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  22. ↑ "Microsoft Pinpoint". Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-08-19.


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