please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2015 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources foundation systems news newspapers books scholar jstor free images september 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message foundation systems limited type var and isv founded 1982 headquarters uk norwich and london united kingdom key people ray townsend rob johnson len palmer peter dryer david singh hugh scantlebury products financial and business solutions number of employees 50 120 parent systems union website foundation systems home page foundation systems limited is a british software company that provides accounting and business solutions to corporate clients . it was founded in 1982 in norwich and is part of american company infor global solutions . foundation systems provides a software portfolio based around their core offering of sunsystems to mid market organisations predominantly in the united kingdom . history edit the business was created in 1982 as office automation norwich ltd by a team of experienced ex olivetti employees based in norwich norfolk england led by terry davies ray townsend and rob johnson . the business grew successfully during the 1980s providing turnkey pc network solutions initially based around the multisoft range of accounting and business products . they were pioneers with the development of oracle based bespoke software solutions and in xenix and subsequently unix platforms . terry davies sold his interest in 1988 and peter dryer later joined the management . subsequent acquisitions of businesses including spartex added tetra and sunsystems to the portfolio of products carried ; introduced a london base of operations located in borehamwood hertfordshire and a number of other key personnel including len palmer and david singh . during the 1990s the business focused more and more on sunsystems whose success eventually led to the disposal of the multisoft and tetra chameleon divisions . at the same time foundation systems increased its investment in the development of its own in house products which culminated in the release of sharpowl a highly sophisticated project accounting and resource management solution in 1999 . following a management buyout in 1989 backed by 3i the business demerged in 2001 into three core businesses foundation systems limited the core systems integration business sunsystems sharpowl software international limited the isv developing the product of the same name . this business was acquired by aim group in 2003 who subsequently became part of computer software group in 2005 . foundation software solutions limited a specialist provider of solutions of the uk educational sector . this business was acquired by tribal group in 2003 . in december 2003 foundation systems was acquired by systems union group plc following which it ran as a free standing system systems integrator until the whole group was subsequently acquired by infor global solutions in july 2006 . over this period foundation systems specialised in providing solutions to the following key market sectors professional services social housing not for profit charities & education financial services leisure retail technology media external links edit foundation systems web site this article about a company of the uk is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title foundation systems & oldid 689644056 categories information technology companies of the united kingdomunited kingdom company stubshidden categories attempted de orphan from september 2015all orphaned articlesarticles needing additional references from march 2010all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from september 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 november 2015 at 14 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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