CPA Systems GmbH located in Sankt Augustin is one of germany's hundred most innovative medium sized companies. It proved it's thought through and successive management of innovation at the 18th renowned business competition Top 100. Lothar Späth who was prime minister of Baden Württemberg from 1978 to 1991 and afterwards chief executive of Jenoptik AG until 2003, hands over the Top 100 certificate of quality to CEOs Dr. Christoph Averdung, Dr. Rene Thiele and Dr. Matthias Ellsiepen at a ceremony in Warnemünde in July 2010.
Späth as mentor of this benchmarking-project acknowledged the performance of CPA Systems GmbH in five main categories of competition: boosting of innovation by the top-management, climate of innovation, innovative processes and oganisation, marketing of innovation und success of innovation. This certificate proves CPA Systems GmbH beeing one of the leading companies in geoinformation business.
The company CPA Systems GmbH that was founded in 2007 designs and implements software and database technologie for the handling of geospatial data for private and public customers. The companies raised attention especially because of innovative database supported 3D-visualisation of large data sets in the past.
 | CEOs Dr. Christoph Averdung (left hand side),
Dr. Rene Thiele (inside left hand side) and
Dr. Matthias Ellsiepen (right hand side) at the handing over of the certificate with Lothar Späth |
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