In the summer, Daniel Schwarz and Jens Volkmer establish small business IT Solution GmbH in Frankfurt. From their office on Kennedy Allee, the IT experts pursue their goal of providing small and medium-sized enterprises with comprehensive IT support – in a reliable, honest and custom-tailored way, so that SBIT’s customers can focus on their core competencies. The best evidence that our conceptual vision was a success? Our first two customers, who are still working with us! And by the way, for anyone who might remember: that was the same year Nokia put the 9210 Communicator on the market. This is what “smartphones” looked like in 2000.

This is what a Blackberry looked like back then. Groundbreaking, and a huge market success. But then came a product that would change the entire course of mobile-phone development for good: the first iPhone.

The team now consists of six people; a new facility is needed, and one is found on Hanauer Landstraße. “Expansion” and “further development” are now the most important concepts.

When Peter Dumitsch joins the company, small business solution GmbH is renamed SBIT AG – our customers had coined the term SBIT years earlier. The Executive Board now consists of three shareholders.

The national customer base is growing. In order to support our customers on site, we expand our locations and open an SBIT office in Berlin.

A new technology takes off: virtual desktops. As the new VMware Enterprise partner, we establish ourselves solidly in the German server and desktop virtualization market.

An SBIT office is opened in the trendy Düsseldorf neighborhood of Medienhafen, right on the Rhine River. A total of 24 SBIT employees, along with locations all over Germany, provide a healthy basis for our growth trajectory.

It’s our 16th birthday! If we were in the United States, we would be allowed to drive a car, and we would officially be considered young adults. But at 16, we already feel like part of the old guard, although we still maintain our youthful curiosity, passion and ambition, and we never lose sight of our goals. With 55 colleagues, we are now a proven, experienced team that enjoys shaping the future for its customers.

Desktop virtualization, which was once practically revolutionary, is now a standard offering at SBIT. But standard is not good enough for us. We are looking for new technologies and customizable responses. With our partner VMware, Inc. and the WorkspaceOne product, we are working to develop a platform that uses integrated identity and application management to create a modern, highly available digital workspace for our customers’ employees. This IT solution is specifically intended for the medium-sized companies that have been entrusting their infrastructure and data to SBIT AG for years already, but no longer want to run their own servers. We are pleased to be working with our customers and writing the next chapter of SBIT’s history!