Realdolmen & Gfi

Forward together to offer more for the customer

23 November 2018

CIO

The Gfi Group completed the friendly takeover of Realdolmen in August 2018. What does this mean for us as an organization and you as a customer?

Gfi was looking for a strong brand to fulfil its ambitions for growth in the Benelux area, and eventually further north too. Realdolmen had similar strategic growth in mind, and so the two parties found each other. Realdolmen has added an international dimension to its activities by joining the Gfi Group. We can now follow and support our customers in other parts of the world, from Europe to North Africa and South America.

Achieve international ambitions

The Gfi Group currently operates in over 20 countries. This means we can respond better to the growing trend of Belgian SMEs performing well and also having international ambitions. But crossing national borders brings lots of challenges and can often hamper good ambitions. Now that we have people to support our customers in more places worldwide, however, we can take lots of these IT challenges off their hands. The extensive series of Service Centres makes nearshoring a reality too, allowing us to collaborate on increasingly innovative cost models. The collaboration with the Gfi Group means we can offer a more complete portfolio, and operate as our customers’ sole partner. In contrast to before, now we can really put our weight behind technologies such as SAP under our own management. We can provide end-to-end support, making everything much simpler.

Realdolmen and Gfi Belgium join forces

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Use innovative technology

Gfi has a number of innovation and technology labs in Europe, researching how technology can create added value on a daily basis. We already had a lab in Ghent, and now we have them in Paris and Lisbon too. They are places for testing current technologies such as AI or IoT, and finding out which developments can be converted into concrete applications with added value. In these times, with hypes and trends emerging faster all the time, it’s a challenge to remain technologically relevant and make the right choices at the right times. Many of our customers find themselves stuck with this problem, but the knowledge and experience being gained in these labs means we can offer them reliable advice and support.

Tim Claes

We can follow and support our customers in other parts of the world.

Tim Claes | Sales & Marketing Director @ Realdolmen

Give yourself time and space to think about the future

Time is scarce and can only be spent once. Operational tasks often require so much attention that the development of an innovation strategy is pushed forward every time in agendas. Together with Realdolmen as a partner, you can look at what you can do more and better if you do not have to worry about anything else. 

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