Vendor lineage
Grupo IHC - a consultancy, a school and an integrator
Brazilian group whose three companies were founded in sequence, each out of the one before.
2003 - status not verified
Grupo IHC is the Brazilian group formed by HighCast, founded in 2003 as a network consultancy; inLearn Educacao, created by HighCast's partners in 2008 as an official training centre for Juniper, F5 Networks and others; and a third company in 2010, the integrator now trading as CYLK.
The sequence is the point, and it is unusual enough to record. Most groups are assembled by acquisition; this one grew by each company creating the next out of a demand the previous one had generated - consulting produced a demand for training, and consulting plus training produced a demand for someone to implement and run what was designed and taught.
A note on the name, because it is a trap. Grupo IHC also matches a construction-systems company in Chihuahua and a Brazilian home-care and ambulance group, neither related to this one. The group's own material adds a further warning: the domain ihcinformatica.com.br has no connection to IHC Solucoes em Informatica, whose official domain is cylk.com.br.