DATEV's history

Left to right: Prof. Dr. Peter Krug (CMO), Julia Bangerth (COO), Dr. Robert Mayr (CEO), Diana Windmeißer (CFO), Prof. Dr. Christian Bär (CTO).

This restructuring project focuses on a new form of collaboration. Products will be developed in workstreams. The idea is to involve DATEV's customers more closely and benefit from the implementation speed.

The executive board was restructured with this project: Chief Executive Officer Dr. Robert Mayr (CEO) focuses on management control and DATEV's global strategy. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Diana Windmeißer is responsible for DATEV's overall economic efficiency. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Prof. Dr. Peter Krug is in charge of all areas of development and operations as well as printing and shipping (replaced by Prof. Dr. Christian Bär in 2021). Chief Markets Officer (CMO) Eckhard Schwarzer is responsible of DATEV's service and sales strategy (retired 2021, replaced by Peter Krug). Julia Bangerth as Chief Operating Officer (COO) is in charge of DATEV's product and solution portfolio.

The cooperative DATEV Ecosystem is part of the business world's digital transformation. It connects DATEV software solutions, technological platforms such as eGovernment, and business software. The focus is on the digital consultancy office as a central partner, key player, and service provider for a better exchange of information and data.

• DATEV's IT Campus 111 was officially opened in Nuremberg on 17 April 2015. The building is in a historic neighbourhood opposite the Law Courts where the Nuremberg Trials took place in 1945 and 1946.
• Until recently, the development departments were in various buildings scattered throughout Nuremberg. IT Campus 111 unites development under one roof and provides office space for about 1,800 employees.

With the expansion of its data centre, DATEV is meeting the growing demand for data centre-based services such as cloud computing and application service provider (ASP), IT security and data storage solutions, and IT sourcing.

2000: New market soutside Germany
 

• In September 2000, DATEV and the Czech Chamber of Tax Consultants establish the cooperative "KDP-DATEV, družstvo".
• In December, DATEV founds the marketing company DATEV.cz s.r.o.together with entrepreneurs in Brno.
• This is DATEV's first move into the European market. The aim is to provide programmes and services to support the tax profession in the Czech Republic and German tax consultants with local clients.
• DATEV will establish further European subsidiaries in Poland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Spain and Slovakia in the following years.
   

2001: Market expansions into Austria and Italy
 

• 2001 sees the establishment of new subsidiaries in Europe:
• The marketing company in Vienna, Austria operating under the name of DATEV.at GmbH.
• The company D&K s.r.l. is established in Italy.
   

2003: Market expansion in Poland
 

• Foundation of DATEV Symfonia Sp. z o.o. in Poland as a joint venture with the Polish software manufacturer Matrix.pl S.A.
• DATEV.pl Sp. z o.o. offers software solutions for Polish tax consultants and auditors, and is based in Warsaw with branch offices in Katowice and Poznan and a nationwide network of dealers.
   

2005: Expanding the involvement in Italy
 

• DATEV expands its involvement in Italy by founding the development company DATEV.it S.p.A.
   

2007: Joint venture with SINFOPAC S.L.
 

• DATEV extends its European activities to the Spanish market with this joint venture.
   

2010: Expansion of DATEV's involvement in Poland
 

• DATEV becomes the sole proprietor of the Polish subsidiary, which is renamed DATEV.pl.
   

2022/2023: DATEV.pl and DATEV.cz becomes part of DATEV eG
 

• Both companies were turned into branch offices of DATEV eG.

• Between 1997 and 1999, DATEV gradually migrated its programs and member's offices from the DOS system to the 32-bit Windows operating system.
• At the end of 1999, the migration is almost complete. It is the biggest challenge since the programs were developed anew in 1973, which went down in DATEV's history as "Redesign".
• The conversion to Windows cost 324 million DM.

• DATEV's founder and CEO, Dr. Heinz Sebiger, retires at 73 after 30 years of successfully managing the cooperative.
• By 1996, DATEV had developed into a company with an annual turnover of almost 1 billion DM, 35,000 members, and 4,700 employees.
• His successor as of July 1996 is Prof. Dieter Kempf.

• On 8 September 1982, the Japanese company TKC (Tochigiken-Keisan-Centre) and DATEV sign a cooperation agreement documenting the alliance between the two companies that had begun in 1972. Both data processing service organisations aim to support tax consultants with electronic data processing.
• To this day, TKC and DATEV are linked by a cultural and business exchange program.

• Ten years after its foundation, DATEV develops and sets up its own network for electronic data transmission between tax consultants' offices and the DATEV data centre.
• A network of nationwide distributed nodes (so-called head-ends), which make data transfer faster and more cost-effective for DATEV's members, is connected to Nuremberg via fixed landlines.
• At its peak, DATEV's network has 41 head-ends.
• Due to technological progress and development, the carrier network is dismantled in 2002 since it is no longer economically viable for DATEV and its members.

• Member accounting data - previously recorded on punched tape - has been processed at an external data centre for the past three years.
• The sharp increase in members made setting up its own data centre economically feasible. It was inaugurated on 31 January 1969 by the Federal Minister of Finance, Mr. Franz Josef Strauß.

• 65 tax consultants from the Nuremberg Chamber of Tax Consultants setup a cooperative self-help organisation.
• The aim is to make accounting easier with the help of IT.
• DATEV's founding members are (from left to right): Edmund Rudolph, Horst Preißner, Joachim Mattheus, Heinz Sebiger, and Klaus Hartmann.