Where We Are From

Even before NP4 was founded, NP4's two owners—Achim Polinski and Felix Schroth—had worked together on various IT projects. Back in the mid 1990s, Achim Polinski had developed a prototype for the company START Amadeus, a leading IT solutions provider for the Travel Industry, to allow travel agents to send travel itineraries directly from their desks. He found support in Felix Schroth, who worked at that time as a freelancer in the administration of company networks. Discovering a good working relationship and many synergies, these two professionals founded NP4 GmbH in November 1997 (at that time called Net Per4mance GmbH). Their target was to develop and operate high-performance, centrally-organized systems that, in relation to productivity, needed little human power.

Strictly for customer Amadeus Germany, the new company's itinerary solution quickly became the standard product for sending itineraries within all of Amadeus' German-speaking markets. Over a decade later, this product's circulation is approximately 1.4 million documents per month. Building on the founders' experiences working in GDS-booking environments, NP4’s product portfolio has expanded and more projects have been launched.

Milestones

1998 | Development of itinerary solution Amadeus Fax and Email Plus for Amadeus

1998 | Development of booking platform AmexGo! for American Express

1998 | Travel cost estimation solution for TQ3 at Airbus Germany

2000 | Workflow scripts for various Amadeus markets worldwide

2002 | Enhancement of itinerary solution into a worldwide system for Deutsche Lufthansa

2004 | Development of NP4’s own product MIS system TC-Gate

2005 | Development of NP4’s own product AgencyGuide for travel carrier marketing in travel agencies

2006 | Launch of NP4’s own product Priced Travel Plan for EADS and Airbus, across
the groups

2009 | Reporting system distribution partnership with American Express Services Europe Limited

2009 | Development of NP4’s own product family based on the experiences over the past 12 years

2010 | Official market launch of the first product family “Travel Data Suite”