d.velop at a glance
About d.velop
International SaaS document management specialist
As an international company with strong local roots, d.velop is driving the digitalisation of document and business processes throughout Europe. Specifically, we help our customers get further and faster with digital, AI-supported services designed to connect people and organisations with each other. The d.velop platform connects, integrates, automates, simplifies, and redesigns business processes of every kind. All with state-of-the-art security and maximum compliance.
- 14.500 customers of the d.velop Group
- 1.100 employees working at d.velop
- 400 partners in the d.velop network
The d.velop Group
d.velop has set itself the goal of cementing and expanding its position as a leading provider of business software for efficient document management and the end-to-end digitalisation of document-related business processes, achieving long-lasting and sustainable growth.
A global network of experts from hundreds of partner companies works together to contribute their first-hand expertise and services to make this happen.
D.VELOP BOARD
Members of the d.velop management board
d.velop AG’s journey began in Gescher in northwest Germany with its founding in 1992. From modest beginnings, d.velop has grown to become an international success story over more than 30 years. Rainer Hehmann has been with the company for many years and assisted with d.velop’s successful transformation into a SaaS provider. Dr. Stephan Held joined the management board as CFO in 2023. Since July 2024 Martin Greiwe has been responsible for Sales and Marketing. Since June 2025, he has been the spokesperson of the board. As a long-time employee, Nico Bäumer has been responsible for the development department as board member since January 2025.
Rainer Hehmann
Dr. Stephan Held
Martin Greiwe
Nico Bäumer
Business Division
Corporate People & Organizational Development
“Our mission is to recognise and develop the full potential of each individual by establishing an inspiring and supportive work environment. We enable continuous learning and growth, while empowering teams to reap maximum benefit from innovative approaches to collaboration.”
Britta Liesbrock
Corporate People & Organizational Development Director
d.velop AG
TARGET MARKETS AND INDUSTRY FOCUS
d.velop’s business divisions
d.velop has established an array of specialist business divisions to better focus on individual sectors and target markets. The aim is to work more closely with the respective market and zero in on the specific requirements of these customers and organisations.
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Health & Care
We use digital solutions to make social and healthcare systems more efficient – connecting people, organisations, and institutions.
- Leadership: Leonard Pliete, COO Health & Care
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Public Sector
We help public sector entities to realise their full potential through digital services that wholly simplify and remodel essential processes and workflows.
- Leadership: Philipp Perplies, COO Public Sector
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Financial & Professional Services
Our powerful, secure, and future-proof solutions allow us to support customers in the financial and insurance sectors in the digitalisation of their business processes.
- Leadership: Hendrik Fundermann, COO Financial & Professional Services
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Private Economy
Our sustainable solutions digitalise and automate business processes in manufacturing and private enterprise to maximise their efficiency.
- Leadership: Dirk Isferding, COO Private Economy
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Partner Management & Platform Economy
We are focussing more closely on platform transactions, cloud transformation, and providing access to a diverse product portfolio via app builders to boost the impact of the d.velop competence network.
- Leadership: Michele Schönherr, COO Partner Management & Platform Economy
Regulatory & Public Affairs
With innovative technological strength and an understanding of European data protection, security standards and regulations, d.velop is the partner for sovereign, digital transformation.
“For me, d.velop combines innovative technological strength with a deep understanding of European data protection and security standards as well as the traditional values and long-term orientation of a family-run company.”
Christian Gericke
Chief Executive Officer, d.velop mobile services GmbH
Chief of Public Affairs, d.velop AG
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d.velop is a leading provider of software and services for the continuous digitalisation of general business processes and their industry-specific specialist variants, serving the content services platform market.
Aside from the established portfolio of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) products for integrative information management, document management, archiving, and workflow management, d.velop also offers products for digital document delivery, digital signing, AI-based automation of document-related processes e.g., incoming supplier invoices, and digital contract management, as well as tools to integrate employees into business processes through flexible, mobile, and remote-access capabilities.
These products are distributed through an international network of more than 400 specialist partners and directly by d.velop AG for strategic key accounts. D.velop products are increasingly provided and delivered on a software-as-a-service basis via cloud services or as managed services, i.e., where d.velop either partially or completely assumes responsibility for the operation of existing infrastructure on the customer’s premises.
At the same time, we guarantee compliance with all relevant legal requirements through a sophisticated compliance management system that covers every method of delivery.
Providing easy access to products via the d.velop platform is a core part of our business strategy. d.velop AG focuses on the ongoing development and expansion of its platform for document management and office automation. The simultaneous establishment of an app builder programme in May 2019 has created a virtuous circle. The more than 4.5 million individual users among d.velop’s customer base have direct access to a large number of extremely useful applications. This growing reach also makes the platform increasingly interesting to app builders. Developments found on the platform can originate from d.velop partners, d.velop itself, as well as customers and external developers.
That’s how d.velop helps businesses and organisations to realise their full potential – providing digital services that connect people, and comprehensively simplify and redesign processes and operations. Seeing itself as a true partner to its customers, aiding them on the journey through digital transformation, d.velop also offers consulting services around all aspects of digitalisation through its own expert team. The d.velop portfolio addresses many key digital transformation objectives.
d.velop products – in on-premise, cloud, or hybrid setups – are used by more than 14,500 customers with over 4.5 million users across all industries.
Christoph Pliete and Thilo Gukelberger laid the foundation for today’s d.velop AG in 1992 with the founding of engineering firm Pliete und Gukelberger I.P.G. GbR. One year later, they converted the GbR into a GmbH – a limited liability company. Their product was d.3ecm – a digital archive and document/workflow management solution. The name d.velop was officially used for the first time on 23 October 1996. This was the day Pliete and Gukelberger founded d.velop EDV-Systemlösungen-Verwaltungs-GmbH and d.velop EDV-Systemlösungen GmbH & Co. KG, which took over the marketing of their established successful product.
d.velop became a public limited company on 1 January 2000. d.velop AG, which is not listed on the stock exchange, was created through a merger of d.velop EDV-Systemlösungen GmbH & Ko. KG, Verwaltungs-GmbH, and I.P.G. GmbH.
Aside from the established portfolio of ECM (Enterprise Content Management) products for integrative information management, document management, archiving, and workflow management, d.velop also offers products for digital document delivery, digital signing, AI-based automation of document-related processes e.g., incoming supplier invoices, and digital contract management, as well as tools to integrate employees into business processes through flexible, mobile, and remote-access capabilities.
▶ An overview of our products
d.velop products are used by more than 14,500 customers with over 4.5 million users across all industries.
d.velop employs around 1,100 people across all locations.
Gescher (the d.velop campus)
Meppen
Kiel
Bocholt
Münster
Osnabrück
Salem
Vienna
d.velop AG is a subsidiary group owned by d.velop holding GmbH. Various subsidiaries, joint ventures, and associated companies are affiliated with the d.velop AG subgroup, which is responsible for day-to-day operations.
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