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Service area: Gelsenkirchen

Software development and IT support for Gelsenkirchen businesses

Gelsenkirchen invested early in fiber and digital government. We help local businesses get real value out of that with custom software development, solid websites and dependable IT, from our office in Mülheim an der Ruhr, about 25 minutes away.

Double-arch bridge in Gelsenkirchen’s Nordsternpark Photo: Michielverbeek · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
22 km from Mülheim
about 25 min by car
On site
We come to you in person

Gelsenkirchen

The fiber is in the ground. According to the city, every commercial district in Gelsenkirchen has high-speed internet, and in 2018 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia picked Gelsenkirchen as one of five digital model municipalities. For software development in Gelsenkirchen, that means the infrastructure is ready. What matters now is the applications that run on it.

If orders still come in by phone and sticky note, routes get planned in spreadsheets or inspection reports get retyped by hand, that’s where we come in. We build tools that fit how your business already runs instead of forcing it into an off-the-shelf product.

Our office is just over 20 kilometers from downtown Gelsenkirchen. It’s a drive we’re glad to make, whether for a workshop at your site, setting up new equipment or simply a conversation at your meeting table, and you always deal with the same three co-founders who build your project.

Gelsenkirchen’s economy: energy, logistics, healthcare

Gelsenkirchen’s economic development agency lists eight focus industries: chemicals, retail, healthcare, innovative services, creative industries, logistics, metalworking and future energy. The agency is based in the Wissenschaftspark in Ückendorf, a science park built on former industrial land that stands for the city’s structural change.

Westfälische Hochschule, a university of applied sciences, is headquartered in Gelsenkirchen and has a computer science and communications department. Under the banner “Vernetzte Stadt” (the connected city), Gelsenkirchen is digitizing its administration, mobility and economy, which is a good prompt for small and mid-sized businesses to digitize their own processes too.

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Chemicals and energy

Scholven and Horst are home to one of Germany’s largest refinery and petrochemical sites, and future energy is one of the city’s declared focus industries. Service providers and suppliers working around these plants need digital job scheduling, auditable documentation and records they can find quickly.

02

Logistics and the port

Four highways with ten interchanges and the leading public port on the Rhine-Herne Canal make Gelsenkirchen a logistics location. What counts here is integration between warehouse, dispatch and customer portal, plus reporting that’s current every day.

03

Healthcare

According to the city, around 22 percent of all employees in Gelsenkirchen work in healthcare. Hospitals, practices, care and rehab facilities benefit from digital scheduling, secure document processing and IT that simply works day to day.

04

Metalworking, retail and services

Metalworking, retail and innovative services round out the focus industries. For these businesses it’s about websites that help customers and job seekers find them, digital order intake, and IT that runs reliably without an in-house IT department.

Software development and IT for Gelsenkirchen businesses

From your first website to the security system on your premises, you have one point of contact for everything software and IT.

A short drive to Gelsenkirchen

Our office in Mülheim is some 22 km (14 miles) from downtown Gelsenkirchen, about 25 minutes by car. So we’re glad to come by in person for everything, whether you’re in Buer, the Altstadt or down by the city port: a first meeting, workshops and training, new hardware or work on your security system. We share regular progress builds for you to test, and phone, video or email support is there too if that’s more convenient.

  • 22 km from Mülheim · about 25 min by car
  • We come to you in person
  • English and German
Map: Gelsenkirchen and the KSK IT office in Mülheim an der Ruhr
From our office: 22 km · about 25 min Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

From Buer to Ückendorf

  • Altstadt
  • Buer
  • Horst
  • Beckhausen
  • Hassel
  • Scholven
  • Erle
  • Resse
  • Bismarck
  • Bulmke-Hüllen
  • Schalke
  • Heßler
  • Ückendorf
  • Rotthausen

A reference from the region

B³ Quarzsandwerke: from security cameras to a motion-rich website

Ongoing IT support for a quartz sand works: security cameras, truck scale weighing software, laptops, hosting and, most recently, a motion-rich website.

View case study
Home page of quarzsandwerke.de showing a dump truck in the sand pit at sunset

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How often can you be on site in Gelsenkirchen?

As often as your project calls for. From Mülheim we can reach you in about 25 minutes, and we’re happy to come in person for every appointment: an introduction, a workshop, a progress review or setting up new equipment. If you prefer video, phone or email, that works as well.

Do you support small businesses without an IT department?

Yes. That’s exactly when a steady point of contact pays off. We handle hosting, domains, email and backups, set up laptops and workstations, and take care of ongoing administration.

Do you have experience with industrial companies?

Our reference project is B³ Quarzsandwerke GmbH, a quartz sand works in Haltern am See. We installed and administer their security cameras, set up the weighing software for the truck scale and sourced their laptops. We also handle hosting and the domain, and most recently we built their new website with products, test certificates, soil recycling and truck-driver information.

Can you build on the software we already have?

Often that’s the more economical route. We look at your systems, find out which interfaces exist, and then recommend whether an integration, an extension or a replacement makes more sense.

Can you digitize our order and route planning?

It often starts with a shared job overview that the office and your drivers or technicians see at the same time, plus an app for updates from the road. Complex route optimization is a job for specialized software; we don’t rebuild it, but if you already use one, we connect to it.

Start with one concrete step

Tell us where things get stuck in your business, in English or German. You’ll hear back in under 24 hours, and then we’ll take a look together and suggest a manageable first step.

  • < 24 h response to inquiries
  • Fixed price for the agreed scope
  • We come to you in person