Engel

What Engel does

Engel Dataconcept GmbH is a German software company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Bischofsheim, Germany. The company develops and sells industry-specific business software under the brand engelHaustechnik for trade contractors in sanitary, heating, climate control, ventilation, and electrical work (collectively SHK trades), as well as for planning offices, property management firms, and technical building management operators. Since January 2018, Engel Dataconcept has operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of TAIFUN Software AG; Heiko Mundt serves concurrently as Managing Director of Engel Dataconcept and as a board member (Vorstandsmitglied) of TAIFUN Software AG.

The underlying product is a modular desktop and mobile ERP platform covering customer and address management, service order processing, project costing with pre/post-cost calculation, job-site monitoring, maintenance scheduling, technician dispatch and ecological tour planning, document management, tool and equipment inventory, and financial controlling via an executive cockpit dashboard. The platform is commercialized through two tiered bundles (Exklusiv-Paket and Premium-Paket) and approximately 40 optional modules, including engelMobil for field service, Werkzeugverwaltung for tool inventory with barcode check-in/out, Benutzerverwaltung for user and access rights, Lager/Inventur for stock management, and Bauvorhaben/Checklisten for site workflows. No public API, SDK, or developer-facing documentation is offered; pricing is not publicly disclosed and is presumed to be quote-based enterprise sales.

Engel integrates with a broad ecosystem of German trade and construction back-office systems: DATEV accounting, Datanorm material masters, ZUGFeRD and EDIFACT electronic invoicing, GAEB tendering, TomTom vehicle tracking and dispatch, TAPI telephony, E-POST, Mareon real estate data, IMMO OFFICE, wholesale supplier portals (Bürgerle, UGL/UGS, SHK-/IDS-Connect, ZVEH Elektro), and measurement instruments (Brigon, Dräger, Testo, MRU). An unrelated Austrian family-owned company also trades as "Engel" (Schwertberg, Austria) and manufactures injection molding machines; certain data fields in the input bundle reference that distinct entity, producing apparent inconsistencies. This analysis treats Engel Dataconcept as the subject company per the firmographic identifiers.

Name

Engel

Legal name

Engel Dataconcept GmbH

Website

https://engeldataconcept.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Engel Dataconcept GmbH, a German software firm founded in 1985 and subsidiary of TAIFUN Software AG, develops the engelHaustechnik business software suite for sanitary, heating, climate, ventilation, and electrical (SHK) trade contractors, planning offices, and property managers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trade Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Aftermarket Parts, Service & Remanufacturing (Pumps/Compressors) (IMAHANAJ)

Keywords

• Trade management software
• SHK electrician software
• Plumbing HVAC software
• Building services software
• Trade ERP software

Headquarters

HQ city

Bischofsheim

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Injection Molding Machines: Engel manufactures and sells injection molding machines globally. The global injection molding machines market was valued at USD 16.74 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 25.78 billion by 2033, with an annual growth rate of 4.9%.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Engel Dataconcept develops the engelHaustechnik industry-specific software platform for trades businesses covering Sanitär (plumbing), Heizung (heating), Klima (air conditioning), Lüftung (ventilation), and Elektro (electrical) trades, as well as planning offices, property management companies, and technical building management. The modular software handles customer information, service and order processing, project management with costing, construction site monitoring, scheduling and dispatch, maintenance, controlling, and accounting, with deep integration to German trade-specific systems such as DATEV, ZUGFeRD, Datanorm, GAEB, EDIFACT, and TomTom.

Product overview

Engel Dataconcept offers a modular industry-specific software suite for trades businesses, primarily targeting Sanitär, Heizung, Klima, Lüftung, und Elektro (SHK — plumbing, heating, air conditioning, ventilation, and electrical) contractors, as well as planning offices, property management companies, and technical building management. The core platform is engelHaustechnik, which serves as the unified foundation for managing customer information, service orders, project costing, site monitoring, and financial controlling. The product is sold in layered packages (Exklusiv-Paket and Premium-Paket) that progressively unlock additional modules, including the mobile field solution engelMobil, project management (Projektabwicklung), maintenance management (Wartungsabwicklung), scheduling and technician dispatch (Terminplanung und Terminabgleich), ecological tour planning (Ökologische Tourenplanung), document management, tool management (Werkzeugverwaltung), inventory management (Lager/Inventur), controlling dashboards (Chef-Cockpit), and approximately 40 optional modules covering interfaces, invoicing, and integrations with third-party systems such as DATEV, TomTom, ZUGFeRD, and Datanorm.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• engelHaustechnik Core industry-specific software platform for trades businesses in plumbing, heating, air conditioning, ventilation, and electrical (SHK and Elektro) as well as planning offices, property management, and technical building management. Manages the full workflow from customer information and address management through service and order processing, project management with costing, construction site monitoring, and financial controlling and statistics.
• engelMobil

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration24 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 August 2024Kautex collaborated with Siebenwurst GmbH & Co., AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, Envalior, and ENGEL to bring together thermal, plastic, and composite engineering. ENGEL contributed to the Pentatonic Battery Enclosures project, which won the SPE Grand Innovation Award for thermoplastic composite battery enclosure with integrated cooling.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• ServiceNow Field Service Management: Enterprise-grade field service and workflow platform from ServiceNow. Comparable to Engel as a broad incumbent offering scheduling, dispatch, and work-order execution at a much larger scale, representing the upper-end competitive alternative for trade contractors seeking enterprise platforms.
• Sage (Sage for Handwerk / Sage 50): Global SMB accounting and ERP vendor with a dedicated Handwerk (crafts) edition. Comparable to Engel as a broader incumbent offering finance + light operational functionality to SHK trades, competing for the same customer's back-office software budget.
• SAP Business One: SMB-tier ERP from SAP widely deployed at German Mittelstand including trade contractors. Comparable to Engel because larger SHK firms evaluate SAP Business One as a full-ERP alternative to specialized craft software, representing a credible upgrade threat.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Microsoft's mid-market ERP with growing vertical extensions for project-based and field-service businesses. Comparable to Engel as a broad incumbent increasingly encroaching on the trades/SMB software stack that Engel occupies.

Direct peers

• Craftboxx: A German SaaS solution for trade and craft businesses covering project management, scheduling, and field service workflows. Directly comparable to Engel because it serves the same German SHK trades customer base with overlapping CRM, scheduling, and project-execution functionality.
• Plancraft: A modern cloud-based SaaS platform purpose-built for German and European trade/craft contractors (offer/project, scheduling, invoicing). Directly comparable to Engel because it targets the same SHK trades with a workflow-centric product, representing a more modern, web-native competitive alternative.
• Hottgenroth Software (Simba): Long-established German vendor of trade-specific software including the Simba suite for SHK and electrical contractors. Directly comparable to Engel because it targets the same craft verticals with comparable CRM, project costing, and accounting-integration functionality in the DACH market.
• TAIFUN Software AG: Engel's parent company since January 2018 and a German provider of trade/craft business software. Directly comparable because TAIFUN operates in the same vertical-SaaS-for-trades segment and shares customer overlap with Engel in the DACH SHK/electrical crafts market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/engeldataconcept
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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