industry space marine utilities environment defence government communication media & broadcast business services transport founded 1980 headquarters chippenham uk area served europe key people mike love executive chairman david jones deputy chairman chris cheetham fd klaus heidrich ceo services systems integration software development application support & maintenance specialist engineering consultancy revenue 42.6 m 2013 number of employees 420 2013 website www.scisys.co.uk scisys plc is a pan european computer software and services company based in the united kingdom and germany . contents 1 overview 2 history 3 references 4 external links overview edit scisys is a medium sized bespoke software and services company working in a wide range of markets and technologies . history edit scisys was formed in 1980 as science systems and its shares were listed on london s alternative investment market in 1997 . scisys acquired coda an accounting software company in 2000 which was demerged as a separate listed company in 2006 . 1 2 in 2002 the group holding company was renamed codascisys plc becoming scisys plc on the 2006 split . in 2007 scisys purchased a private bochum based german company vcs ag . 3 vcs produces software computer systems and telecommunications systems for broadcasting and services for public and private sector satellites . in january 2012 vcs renamed to scisys deutschland gmbh as part of a wider integration exercise . in may 2012 scisys rebranded bringing the business divisions operating under the same name uk operations changing from scisys to scisys and branding . in october 2012 scisys purchased the space market elements of the german company makalumedia . in december 2014 scisys announced the acquisition of xibis limited 4 a mobile and web development firm . locations uk chippenham headquarters bristol reading germany bochum darmstadt references edit science systems press release march 30 2000 science systems confirms coda acquisition . retrieved on august 4 2009 . hall james . codascisys . sunday telegraph london england sept 24 2006 newspapers online . gale . retrieved on march 11 2008 . new owner of vcs ag . 2007 09 14 . retrieved 2008 04 15 . 1 external links edit scisys website english scisys deutschland gmbh website german retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scisys & oldid 720961662 categories companies established in 1980companies listed on the alternative investment marketsoftware companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in wiltshiremanagement consulting firms of the united kingdomtechnology companies of the united kingdominformation technology consulting firmsinformation technology companies of the united kingdommedia technologydefence companies of the united kingdomgovernment softwarehidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 italiano edit links this page was last modified on 18 may 2016 at 23 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view