In its nearly 40-year history, SYSTEMS successfully established itself as a professional business-to-business exhibition for the ICT market. Given its consistent focus on marketable and efficient ICT solutions, SYSTEMS always showcases the latest hot topics for optimizing business processes – in keeping with its slogan "Ideas for better business“.
 
High visitor quality (98% industry professionals), customer orientation and a flexible exhibition concept including the opportunity for an intense exchange of ideas and information took into account the needs of the small and medium-sized enterprises as well as major corporations exhibiting at the fair. Even the visitors who attend the fair – predominantly business and technical decision-makers from the private and public sectors – received important momentum for their investments and future plans based on the fair's solution- and theme-oriented exhibition profile.
 
However, SYSTEMS also noticed a fundamental change in the market and its needs during the past few years. The fair's classic exhibition sectors were increasingly supplemented by a first-rate program of conferences and related events. Domestic and international CEOs, managing directors and board members presented all there is to know about the latest trends and developments in the ICT and media industry. Accompanying panel discussion shed light on technological concepts, evaluated application solutions in actual practice and analyzed sector-specific applications. This development reached its highpoint at this year's SYSTEMS – for the first time ever, the International Congress Centre Munich (ICM) and the rooms that are available alongside the halls were completely booked to capacity. There were a total of 13 events that had record-breaking attendance of some 4,000 participants.
 
Although the trade fair "where the industry goes to work" is one of the most successful ICT exhibitions in Germany, Munich International Trade Fairs has decided to launch a completely new event for the ICT industry in the autumn of 2009 that would entirely correspond to latest market developments. That is why SYSTEMS will be replaced by a new event beginning in October 2009. It says goodbye in a strong position – with 1,061 exhibitors, 39,000 visitors and the largest related-events program in its history.
 
Additional information about this new event is available here.