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 ailsa symeonides global sales director products assyst assystitam suite services service desk it service management it asset management number of employees 250 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 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 contents 1 locations 2 customers 3 certifications governance & compliancy 4 see also 5 references locations edit 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 from 2003 axios systems expanded across europe opening additional offices in amsterdam 8 munich moscow the united arab emirates and malaysia . 9 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 cyprus 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 since then axios has also become the first organization to achieve bs15000 now iso 20000 certification . in 2013 axios became the first service management vendor to introduce gamification . in 2014 the assyst platform became the first service management solution to achieve accreditation for all 15 pinkverify itil processes . 15 customers edit customers include fedex express mohawk the scottish government magellan health services synergy health gulf news home properties dubai petroleum qatar petroleum and corrs chambers westgarth among others . 16 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 . 17 associated british foods announced plans to work with axios systems for shared services across 14 divisions of its business in 2009 . 18 linklaters became a customer in 2013 announcing plans to use assyst across its it hr and facilities divisions . 19 certifications governance & compliancy edit iso iec 20000 formerly bs 15000 20 ism certification 21 itil 2011 15 processes 22 microsoft software asset management competency 23 see also edit it service management it asset management help desk information technology infrastructure library references edit software group axios systems bounces back into profit . heraldscotland . retrieved 2015 08 19 . pinkverify 2011 toolsets . pink elephant . retrieved 2015 08 19 . axios systems assyst10 brings social media to itil . mspmentor . retrieved 2015 08 21 . thought leaders in mobile 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systems . retrieved 2015 08 19 . itil assists lego in creating global system for it support . tso the stationery office . retrieved 2015 08 21 . primark opt for itsm service improvements . cio plus . retrieved 2015 08 19 . linklaters adopts new itsm platform for global practice . computerworld uk . retrieved 2015 08 19 . axios celebrates global first for bs15000 certification . computerworld . retrieved 2015 08 19 . axios systems achieves ism certification with assyst . tmcnet . retrieved 2015 08 19 . pinkverify 2011 toolsets . pink elephant . retrieved 2015 08 19 . microsoft pinpoint . microsoft . retrieved 2015 08 19 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title axios systems & oldid 713879143 categories software companies of the united kingdomitilcompanies established in 1988 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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