1984

In the dawn of the Software Independent Vendors industry, we have been scouting in USA & UK for the diamonds of Software Technology. We established ArAmIS Inc. (Arabian American Information Systems), and started as pioneers in the Arabian Gulf, successfully promoting and implementing innovative software solutions in leading and demanding enterprises in the Oil, Finance, Telecoms, Energy, Airline and Government sectors.

At the same time, we established a company in Greece.

We brought to the region new, innovative Information Technologies that within a few years proved to be the leading standards:

From such legends as Pansophic’s Easytrieve Plus, Panvalet and Telon, SKK’s ACF2, Candle’s Omegamon, Micro Focus MF Express, Rational’s Rose and UML, IONA’s Orbix, Utimaco’s Safe Guard Easy, NetIQ’s Security Manager, KVS’s and later Veritas Enterprise Vault, Oblicore’s Guarantee SLAM, BMC’s Control-M, TrueSight and Patch Management, to ‘modern’ technologies such as Sweagle’s Metadata Configuration Management, Microstrategy’s Business Analytics and…….

These software technologies have enabled major enterprises, throughout the EMEA region and beyond, to address their needs and retain leadership in the market by applying innovative IT solutions for Information Retrieval, Computer Aided Software Engineering, Object Oriented Technology, Information Security, Governance Risk & Compliance, IT Networks Systems Management, Applications Optimization Management, Email & File Archiving, IT Operations Automation, Service & SLA Management, Data Management & BI Analytics.

SYNTAX has been a pioneer and leading consultant in compliance for the historic moments in IT, such as the Millennium Bug, the EMU/Euro transition and the GDPR regulation. Also, SYNTAX has been a leading provider for Anti-money Laundering & Counter Terrorism Financing services.

From the National Bank of Greece to Saudi Aramco and Holland’s ABN Amro to Qatar’s Ooredoo, Australia’s Vodafone and South Africa’s T-Systems, SYNTAX management and IT consultants have helped more than 400 enterprises and organizations – including the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, to implement and deploy technologies and best practices that have secured and optimized their performance and competence. SYNTAX has also participated as a team leader in EU and national R&D programs. The company has organized and sponsored more than 30 international conferences and more than 200 public seminars and has participated as a prime sponsor in numerous industry conventions and trade shows in the region. More than 4000 IT professionals have attended SYNTAX public seminars & events. Since 1984, the highlights of the parallel routes of Software Technology history and SYNTAX IT Group’s own evolution are summarized below. This exciting journey will be continued in the years ahead…

1994

On February 1st the founders expand their business activities to Greece by establishing SYNTAX IT Inc. The business scope of SYNTAX is to provide expert services to large companies in Greece and enable them to use IT as a value-added asset and a driver for their business development. IT Innovation, Quality of Services, Business Value & Reliability are the fundamental elements of SYNTAX business approach. The founder’s mandate is simple and meaningful:

“We shall add value to our customers every time we talk to them”

1994

1995

1995

SYNTAX transforms the way software houses develop Cobol applications by using Micro Focus Cobol application modernization solutions to develop new or transform existing Cobol applications in modern GUI, Client/Server, Web Enabled, and Component environments systems

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SYNTAX organizes the first international conference for Object Cobol with keynote speaker Jerome Garfunkel the so called Mr. Cobol. SYNTAX launches a new way of promoting high technology in Greece. The brother of Art Garfunkel attracts the media lights, and the conference becomes front page news on all papers and TV. The IT professionals rush to listen to Mr. Cobol. The charismatic Garfunkel representing the World Cobol Forum, excites the audience with the announcement of Object COBOL.

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SYNTAX’s associate, Arabian American Information Systems Inc. (ArAmIS), is chosen by the world’s largest company SAUDI ARAMCO, as their IT consultant and technology provider for the Y2K project.

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SYNTAX brings to Greece Candle’s Omegamon leading technology for IBM Mainframe Systems Availability Management and performs the first large implementation in the National Bank of Greece. No more downtime and customers waiting in front of the tellers occurs.

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1996

1996

The company signs exclusive distribution agreements with Rational and IONA and shakes the market with products and methodologies such as Rose, RUD, UML and CORBA Orbix.

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The company organizes the first international conference in the region for OO Technology.

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1997

1997

In March 1997, SYNTAX organizes in Athens the first international conference for the Y2K problem known as ‘The Millennium Bug’. The keynote speaker Mr. Abbas Y2K project manager of ARAMCO presents the success story of the cooperation of ARAMCO with ArAmIS/SYNTAX in implementing the Technology of American Financial Group, to conform the Applications of ARAMCO. The event becomes a highlight for the local and international media.

1998

SYNTAX undertakes the crucial role as the official Year 2000 Bug advisor for Task-Force of the Greek Government.

1998

1999

1999

SYNTAX becomes SAP partner and forms a SAP consulting team that specializes in the assessment, configuration and implementation of SAP R/3, the world leading ERP system.

2000

2000

While the EU is in the process of finalizing the list of countries that will join the European Monetary Union, SYNTAX creates a new unit to provide business and IT consulting services to enterprises and help them comply with and take advantage of the new economic environment and the Euro. SYNTAX receives the relevant EMU consultant accreditation from the European Central Bank and becomes the leading EMU & Euro consulting group in the Greek market.

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SYNTAX has become a founding member and shareholder of the, the technology park project of Athens.

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SYNTAX consolidates its technologies and knowledge to provide solutions and consulting services to industries in the rising “New Economy” environment.

SYNTAX organizes an international conference with the title “Look into the Future” that addresses the needs of Apps Development and IT Infrastructure in the era of the “New Economy”.

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2001

2001

SYNTAX signs a distributor and consulting services provider agreement with NetIQ the world leader in Windows Network Systems, Applications and Security Management.

SYNTAX gets from the International Olympic Committee and Schlumberger/Atos Origin the technology approval to use NetIQ technologies in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, the first summer Olympic Games organized in IT distributed systems.

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SYNTAX develops a methodology for Planning & Optimizing Business Processes under the trade name S.M.A.R.T. and signs an agreement with Casewise to distribute Corporate Modeler, their innovative tool that simulates operational models and business processes.

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2002

2002

SYNTAX is leading as a project manager and main developer two important R&D projects. Mirror, an EU project in the concept of Communities of Practice for Virtual Exhibitions of the Natural History Museums and Glafkopis a national project for centralized management of biometric security systems.

2003

SYNTAX partners with KVS, a UK emerging software vendor that has developed Enterprise Vault (EV), and offers for the first time in the region an innovative solution for centralized Email/Messaging Archiving and Management that soon becomes the world’s leading solution.

2003

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The same year SYNTAX brings in the region for the first time Fortigate, a Unified Threat Management System (UTM), which soon becomes the best market-seller.

2004

SYNTAX contributes to the successful and secure organization and operations of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. With NetIQ’s software manages the availability and security of the Olympic applications, spread in 450 Windows Servers and almost 10,000 computers and deployed across all game venues.

In addition, with Rational’s configuration management solutions SYNTAX enables the development of vital applications such as the Internet Broadcasting and Press Agency systems of the Olympic Games.

2004

2005

2005

SYNTAX is showing again the route, and a new era begins in SLA Management. SLAM in service provision is rising as an inevitable demand. SYNTAX invests in SLAM and signs an exclusive value-added distributor and consulting services agreement for the east EMEA region with Oblicore the leading SLAM vendor.

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SYNTAX organizes a unique international conference, called “The Adventures of an Email”. The company consolidates all its technologies to facilitate the industry with end-to-end solutions for the secure deployment of corporate e-mails and enable organizations to benefit from e-communications.

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2006

2006

SYNTAX implements Oblicore Guarantee SLAM in Qtel (Doha, Qatar). The Oblicore solution helps Qtel to assure the level of services provided to the Asian Games organized in Doha in 2007.

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SYNTAX becomes a permanent member of the TMForum and participates as a sponsor in in Nice, France and in the first TMF in the Arabian Gulf held in Dubai.

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KVS/Veritas is acquired by Symantec and from then onwards EV with SYNTAX are the undisputed leaders in the market.

 

2007

SYNTAX signs a marketing agreement with Ten Force and becomes the sole value-added distributor and consulting services provider for the east EMEA region, adding in its portfolio an innovative solution for Project Execution Management.

2007

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SYNTAX implements Enterprise Vault – Symantec’s email archiving solution in the National Bank of Greece for 16.000 users, the largest EV implementation outside the USA.

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SYNTAX helps EFG Eurobank (Greece) and Samba (Saudi Arabia) to modernize their Legacy Applications by implementing Micro Focus Mainframe Express Suite.

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2008

SYNTAX expands its activities across Europe. In cooperation with Oblicore gets three new SLAM implementation contracts in Europe – in Italy for Enel & Wind and in Holland for ABN Amro.

2008

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After a competitive POC the Greek Telecom decides to implement Oblicore Guarantee SLAM and leads the market in Greece.

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2009

BMC, a leading software vendor, selects SYNTAX as its distributor in Greece and the Gulf for its mainframe performance systems and its Job-scheduling system Control-M and implements Control-M in the Olayan Group.

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SYNTAX implements Oblicore in Globul (Bulgaria), IT Systems (South Africa), KPN (Netherlands), Trenitalia and FastWeb (Italy).

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2010

2010

SYNTAX establishes a new business unit to provide consulting and training services in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF).

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SYNTAX implements several important projects, SLAM in Vodafone Greece and in Mobistar in Belgium Enterprise Vault in Hellenic Petroleum, Symantec Security Information Manager for the Public Power Company (DEI), Symantec DLP in Regency Entertainment, Symantec End-Point Protection in EFG Eurobank, Control-M in the Bank of Piraeus and mainframe solutions in Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabian Airlines and Saudi Social Services.

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2011

2011

SYNTAX releases its proprietary “SYNTAX AML/CTF e-TS™ e-learning system and establishes a partnership with Dow Jones, in Anti-money Laundering.

2012

In April SYNTAX IT Inc. signs, a strategic association agreement with The Royal Diamond Group of UAE, and facilitates the expansion of business in UAE and GCC. The two organizations combine skills in IT with influence in the local market, in one mutual business strategy. The same year a partnership with Informatica the world leading Data Management vendor begins and the kick-off of the first large project with Daman in UAE is a fact.

2012

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…that become immediately the best-selling insurance products in the market launching a new era in the insurance business.

 

2012

SYNTAX implementation of Micro Focus Visual Cobol enabled in time and in cost the modernization of the Inland Revenue Department of Cyprus Legacy Application, increasing 50% performance improvement of the tax systems responsible for the enforcement of direct tax legislation and the Double Tax Agreement, thus providing for consistency with government policy and ensuring sound public finances, combat tax evasion and provide quality service to taxpayers. The success story is published by Micro Focus internationally.

2013

2014

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New partnerships with WhiteHat and Skybox expand SYNTAX Solution portfolio in WEB, Cyber & Network Security as well as the customer base in Greece and in the GCC.

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2015

2015

SYNTAX performs a successful POC and wins among other competitors a major Applications Performance Management project in National Bank of Greece.

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SYNTAX participates as a Gold sponsor in the 7th ITSM Forum. In a joint presentation with OTE, the Greek Telecom, they present the success story of implementing and deploying SLAM, that enabled OTE to provide excellence in ITC services and dominate the corporate and government markets.

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2016

2016

SYNTAX introduces TmaxSoft™ the leading South Korean software vendor and its leading in East Asia alternative RDBMS Tibero™ that provides for cost reduction, security improvement and high availability and which is used, among others, by the Korean manufacturing global giants, Samsung, Hyundai and LG.

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SYNTAX undertakes the migration and modernization of the Tandem mainframe systems of Kuwait Finance House to modern .net environment.

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2017

2017

SYNTAX leads the market awareness campaign for the new European regulation of GDPR presenting its service portfolio, as the platinum sponsor of the first GDPR conference in Greece.

 

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SYNTAX signs an agreement with SWEAGLE, a Belgian software vendor and undertakes the development of an innovative Metadata Configuration Automation Management System that enables for Applications Continuous Delivery.

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SYNTAX undertakes the merge and modernization of the applications of two merged leading insurance companies in Greece.

2018

SYNTAX expands its international presence in Qatar with the establishment of the local company SYNTAX Doha IT & Services WLL and implements an advanced Applications Performance Management system in Ooredoo, the telco of Qatar.

SYNTAX after a successful POC undertakes the implementation of the critical enterprise IT Operations Management system in DEWA in Dubai. In Greece SYNTAX continues its success with new important software implementations in the Banking and Insurance sectors and GDPR services.

2018

2019

2019

SYNTAX expands its international activities with the establishment of SYNTAX IT Consulting WWL, a local company in Kuwait, with immediate success adding to its existing important customer base in Kuwait two banks, KIB and Boubyan Bank.

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MicroStrategy in Business Analytics and Rocket in modernization and optimization of z/OS systems.

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2020

2020

SYNTAX supports the merger of Sweagle MCM software with ServiceNow software.

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In the ITGRC sector,with Microsoft, Bitsight, Bitdefender, Netwrix, Docusign,Thycotic, Reposify, Cymulate, Broadcom, Buguroo and Process Unity. In the ITOM sector with, Nextthink and Logicmonitor, and in ALCM with Fresh Solutions.

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BMC Patching & Control-M Scheduler in National Bank of Greece, BMC Orchestrator in Kuwait National Petroleum, CA APM & UIM in Ooredoo, Qatar, VB6 Migration to .Net in Kuwait Finance House, BMC Discovery in Qatar Gas, BMC Remedy ITSM in Hamad International Airport, Qatar, BMC Control-M in National Bank of Bahrain, BMC Remedy ITSM in Boubyan Bank, Kuwait, Dow Jones in Kuwait Clearing Co., CA Performance Management in Ooredoo, Qatar.

2021

SYNTAX IT Group is delivering a Business Intelligence initiative for ΕΒΕΑ, while progressing targeted IT Operations projects, including Workload Automation for the Banking sector. A key focus area is the ITSM migration Project to a SaaS platform for Qatar Gas and underscoring its capabilities in large scale service management transformation. In parallel, SYNTAX is strengthening its security offerings with a PAM solution for Tiresias, the Greek Association of Consumer Credit Information Suppliers and continues to enhance its ecosystem through its strategic partnership with Delinea (Thycotic) for advanced privileged access management solutions.

2021

2022

2022

The company enhanced automation capabilities with a Servers Patching Automation project for NBG, while expanding its security portfolio through multiple high impact initiatives, including PAM implementations for NBG and Piraeus Bank, a TPRM solution for COSMOTE, and a Vulnerability Assessment project for AIA. The year also marked the enhancement of SYNTAX’s technology ecosystem through strategic partnerships with Denodo for Data Virtualization, Sealpath for Information Rights Management, and Keepit for Cloud Data Backup.

2023

The company is delivering major modernization initiatives for Groupama and Astrobank, supporting their ongoing digital transformation efforts. In the Gulf, SYNTAX is strengthening its ITOM presence through a Disaster Recovery Automation project for Gulf International Bank, highlighting its capabilities in resilient infrastructure and operational continuity. During the year, SYNTAX has also enriched its technological ecosystem with a strategic partnership with ManageEngine, enhancing its offerings in IT Operations Management and Cyber Security.

2023

2024

2024

SYNTAX IT Group is expanding its modernization, data, and operations footprint across Greece and the Gulf region. The company expands the Modernization Project for Tiresias, the Greek Association of Consumer Credit Information Suppliers and is supporting data driven transformation through a Data Virtualization initiative for Ooredoo Kuwait. In IT Operations, SYNTAX enhances visibility and automation with Discovery & Asset Management for Greek Oil Company, and RPA initiatives for Interamerican. In Cyber Security, the company is strengthening resilience with a Vulnerability Assessment project for Athens International Airport. During the year, SYNTAX is enriching its technology ecosystem with strategic partnerships including Sophos for MDR, eShare for secure collaboration, and Jitterbit for iPaaS integration.

2025

SYNTAX IT Group undertakes the enhancement of business key systems of very important organizations, including Service Level & SLA Management for Cosmote, Applications Modernization for the Ministry of Finance of Cyprus, and a merging project for CNP Insurance. The group expands its data management expertise with a Data Virtualization initiative for Zain in Kuwait and delivers multiple Workload Automation projects, in Optima Bank, Astrobank, and ATTICA Bank, while progressing the migration of NBG’s ITSM platform to SaaS. In Cybersecurity, SYNTAX provides organizational strengthening and resilience with PAM for ACS and a with TPRM for NBG. Consulting engagements continue across companies such as Moore Stephens, PCT Group, SIOUFAS Group, and more, reflecting ongoing trust in SYNTAX’s advisory capabilities. In 2025, SYNTAX enriched its technology ecosystem through additional strategic partnerships with leading vendors such as DataDog for monitoring, DataDome for Bot protection, Kroll for incident response and recovery, and Formalize for GRC enablement.

2025