What Breens Network does

QSBN (formerly Breens Network, rebranded May 15, 2025) is a Netherlands-based B2B IT services collective headquartered in Amersfoort, operating as The QSBN Collective. The company delivers consulting, implementation, and managed services across six solution categories — Cloud, Security, Data & AI, Licensing, Business Apps, and Workplace — to educational institutions as its primary vertical, with additional exposure to Dutch government agencies, healthcare organizations, and other sectors. Formed through the March 2023 merger of Breens Network (founded 2004) and QS Solutions, QSBN retains six specialized sub-brands: SLBdiensten, IT-Workz, Educator, Progress Onderwijs, Breens IT Solutions, and QS solutions, each addressing particular niche markets within the broader client base.

The underlying technology stack is not publicly disclosed and there is no proprietary platform product; rather, the offering is professional services delivery built on third-party vendor ecosystems (Cloud, Security, Data/AI tooling) wrapped around the multi-label collective architecture. The Knowledge Hub on qsbn.nl serves as the primary thought-leadership channel alongside individual sub-brand websites. There are no disclosed APIs, SDKs, patents, or proprietary AI models.

The business model is professional-services based: revenue is generated through project-based consulting and implementation engagements plus recurring managed services contracts, supplemented by software licensing pass-through. QSBN pursues a sales-led go-to-market via direct engagement with Dutch institutional clients across its target verticals, with no disclosed channel partners, resellers, or geographic expansion beyond the Netherlands. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company is privately held with no parent company, no disclosed institutional investors, and no public funding events.

Name

Breens Network

Legal name

QSBN Beheer

Website

https://breensnetwork.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

QSBN (formerly Breens Network) is a Netherlands-based B2B IT services collective delivering consulting, implementation, and managed services across Cloud, Security, Data & AI, Licensing, Business Apps, and Workplace to Dutch education, government, healthcare, and other sector clients through a multi-brand platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT Services and Solutions: QSBN generates revenue through providing IT consulting, implementation, and managed services across multiple sectors including education, government, and healthcare. Revenue is derived from project-based professional services and ongoing technology support engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Breens Network (rebranded to QSBN) is a collective of specialized IT service companies that delivers consulting, implementation, and managed services spanning Cloud, Security, Data & AI, Licensing, Business Apps, and Workplace solutions. It primarily serves Dutch organizations in the education sector, with additional reach into government, healthcare, and other industries through subsidiary labels including SLBdiensten, IT-Workz, Educator, Progress Onderwijs, and Breens IT Solutions.

Product overview

QSBN (formerly Breens Network) is a collective of IT service companies that merged with QS solutions in March 2023. The collective operates multiple sub-brands including SLBdiensten, IT-Workz, Educator, Progress Onderwijs, and Breens IT Solutions, offering a broad portfolio of solutions: Consulting, Workplace, Security, Cloud, Data/AI, Licensing, and Business Apps. The platform targets education, government, healthcare, and other sectors, bundling expertise to optimally serve customers through its unified QSBN Collective brand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SLBdiensten: Education services brand under QSBN collective
• IT-Workz
• Educator
• Progress Onderwijs
• Breens IT Solutions

Products and services

• Consulting IT consulting services across Cloud, Security, Data & AI, Workplace, Licensing, and Business Apps domains for Dutch organizations in education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Cloud Solutions Cloud consulting, implementation, and managed services for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Security Services Cybersecurity services for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors, including security consulting and managed security support.
• Data & AI Solutions Data and AI consulting and implementation services for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Business Apps Solutions Business applications consulting, implementation, and support for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Workplace Solutions End-user computing and workplace services for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Licensing Services Software licensing advisory and management services for Dutch organizations across education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• QS SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2023In March 2023, Breens Network merged with QS Solutions to form The QSBN Collective. The merger combined Breens Network's portfolio of education-focused IT companies (SLBdiensten, IT-Workz, Educator, Progress Onderwijs, Breens IT Solutions) with QS Solutions' capabilities to create a broader collective serving education, government, healthcare, and other sectors.
• SLBdienstenminorOthersOne of the subsidiary labels operating under The QSBN Collective, serving the education sector with IT services.
• IT-WorkzminorOthersOne of the subsidiary labels operating under The QSBN Collective, providing IT services.
• EducatorminorOthersOne of the subsidiary labels operating under The QSBN Collective, focused on educational technology services.
• Progress OnderwijsminorOthersOne of the subsidiary labels operating under The QSBN Collective, serving the education sector.
• Breens IT SolutionsminorOthersOne of the original subsidiary labels operating under The QSBN Collective, providing IT solutions.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Topicus: Topicus is a Dutch-headquartered IT services and software collective serving education, healthcare and government — overlapping directly with QSBN's verticals and offering comparable managed services and vertical platform products. Operates a similar multi-label structure.
• Wortell: Wortell is a leading Microsoft-focused managed services and cloud consultancy in the Netherlands serving enterprise and public-sector clients. It is directly comparable to QSBN on Cloud, Security and Workplace delivery, with a similar Dutch-centric GTM.
• Iddink Group: Iddink is a Dutch group providing digital and administrative services to schools and educational institutions — competing directly with QSBN's education labels (SLBdiensten, Educator, Progress Onderwijs) for the same primary vertical in the Netherlands.
• Magister (Schoolmaster): Magister provides school information systems and education-IT software used across Dutch secondary and primary education. Overlaps with QSBN's education-label offerings and competes for the same school IT budgets.

Broad incumbents

• Computacenter: Computacenter is a large UK/European enterprise IT services provider with a substantial Netherlands presence, covering Cloud, Security, Workplace and Data similar to QSBN but at materially larger scale and broader geographic scope.
• Capgemini: Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm with deep operations in the Netherlands across public sector and regulated industries, offering overlapping Cloud, Security, Data/AI and Business Apps capabilities at far greater scale.
• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria is a major European IT services group with strong Dutch public-sector and education references. Competes with QSBN for the same Dutch government and education IT modernization deals but at much larger enterprise scale.
• Axians: Axians is the ICT arm of VINCI Energies operating across Europe including the Netherlands, providing Cloud, Data and Workplace services to public-sector and enterprise clients — overlapping capability set with QSBN at broader geographic and industrial scope.

Regional players

• Incentro: Incentro is a Dutch digital consultancy focused on data, AI and modern application delivery for enterprise and public-sector clients. It is a regional peer competing for the same Dutch Data/AI and Cloud engagements QSBN targets.
• Ventum (formerly SLTN): Ventum (the Dutch IT services group formed around SLTN) is a Netherlands-rooted provider of Cloud, Workplace, Security and managed services to enterprises and public-sector organizations, comparable in scale and Dutch-market focus to QSBN.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/breensnetwork

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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