CONTACT Software

The best software for fast digital transformation 

CONTACT is the leading provider of open standard software and a digitalization partner to industry. From the use of artificial intelligence to sustainable manufacturing processes and energy-efficient factories, we combine technological excellence and comprehensive consulting expertise from thousands of projects with a clear focus on our customers' business goals. All our products are designed to accelerate and streamline the digital transformation of industries. Whether global corporations or small and medium-sized companies – the modular platform enables companies from different sectors, such as automotive, machinery, medical, consumer, infrastructure, retail, or high-tech, to flexibly compile specialist applications for their specific needs. Our customers determine the focus and pace of their transformation themselves.

Our mission: Understanding customers and unleashing potential

Our customers are successful worldwide with their innovative products. They achieve this by consistently standardizing, digitalizing, and staying ahead of the competition in key areas. All our products and consulting services are designed to optimally develop industrial expertise, accelerate digital transformation, and balance economic efficiency with environmental responsibility. This enables companies to accelerate their processes and projects, reduce routine effort and errors, improve their results, and fulfill regulatory obligations with less effort. 

Our software and its building block principle: modular instead of monolithic

The core of our solutions is the modular CONTACT Elements platform. With its flexibly combinable application modules, open standards, and open-source technology, companies can connect their IT systems to the Internet of Things to create end-to-end business processes – on premises and in the cloud. This accelerates their digital transformation, allows them to develop and operate innovative products, organize projects more quickly, make processes reliable, and unlock the full potential of their data throughout the entire product lifecycle – from development to the shop floor and service to recycling. 

Our services: Achieve goals faster, with agility and reliability

In times of massive change, we help companies sustainably position themselves at the top in global competition. To do this, they expect advice on equal terms from partners who listen, understand a company's situation, and assess it competently. With over 30 years of industry experience, a large team of experts, our CONTACT Global Ecosystem, and the expertise gained from over a thousand international industry projects, we identify potential and derive a digitalization roadmap with realistic sub-projects that we implement together. Our goal: to use standard software and best practices tailored to the industry in such a way that our customers can achieve their goals faster and grow step by step. 

Open standard solutions

CONTACT Elements is based on a composable architecture (Gartner) with open standards and interfaces to leading enterprise solutions such as SAP S/4 Hana and tools like MS Office. This allows individual modules to be quickly combined into comprehensive, end-to-end solutions. We place particular emphasis on the ability of specialist departments to act independently. The platform enables the control, documentation, and automation of business processes according to the no-code/low-code principle. Even extensive adjustments to the business logic are possible without programming effort. In this way, companies continuously increase their digital maturity without unnecessarily burdening processes and organizations.

Our open standard products are CIM Database PLM, Project Office, Collaboration Hub, and Elements for IoT.