What CISS TDI does

CISS TDI GmbH, headquartered in Sinzig, Germany, and founded in 1982, is a privately held German geo-information firm that operates as a single point of contact for the entire geodata lifecycle in Germany — procurement from official sources, processing/conversion, quality assurance, and publication via portals and APIs. The company sources cadastral, topographic, and environmental data from all 16 German federal state surveying authorities, the federal agencies BfG and BfN, and partners such as terrestris and Hexagon, and integrates it with proprietary tooling. Its product portfolio centers on the GeoShop CISS e-commerce storefront for standard geo data, the CISS.Geo2go portal system for automated digital administration (OZG-compliant), and CITRA — a registered, proprietary ETL/data integration engine that ingests heterogeneous data from Smallworld GIS, ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo, and GeoMedia into Oracle or PostgreSQL-based Geodata Warehouses. Supporting modules include CISS.Map2go (WMS/WFS services), CISS.Konverter2go (format conversion, including cloud-hosted CITRA as a Service via REST), QuAC (automated quality assurance), and the open-source WFK-Tool for wind/PV site analysis.

Name

CISS TDI

Legal name

CISS TDI Gesellschaft für Technische DV Informationssysteme mbH

Website

https://ciss.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CISS TDI GmbH is a German geo-information firm, headquartered in Sinzig and founded in 1982, that procures, processes, quality-assures, and publishes official geodata for German public administration, utilities, telecom, transport, and GIS software customers via its GeoShop storefront, CISS.Geo2go portal, and CITRA ETL platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial Data Management Software

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (54137), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

GIS & Spatial Data Management Platforms (BPAMANAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Geospatial Data Management & Enterprise GIS (Geodatabases, Web GIS, Spatial Analytics) (EUAHAKAC), Mapping & Basemap Platforms (Tiles/SDKs) (BPAMANAB)

Keywords

• Geodata procurement services
• Cadastral data conversion
• GIS data integration
• Geodata portal software
• Spatial data management

Headquarters

HQ city

Sinzig

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Geo Data Product Sales: One-time sale of curated geo data products (ALKIS parcels, orthophotos, building data, protection areas, etc.) sourced from German state surveying authorities and resold via the online shop. Customers pay per order or per data volume, with delivery via automated download portal.
2. Data Conversion & Processing Services: Fee-based conversion of geo data formats (e.g., NAS to DXF, SHP) and processing services. Pricing is tiered by file size (e.g., 5MB = 29.90 EUR, 100MB = 119.15 EUR) for the online converter, and area-based for complex processing. Also offered as CITRA as a Service (CaaS) REST API.
3. Software Licensing & Subscriptions: CISS licenses its proprietary software tools (CITRA, CISS.Geo2go, Konverter) as on-premise installations or cloud-hosted services. Initial license is sold with a mandatory first-year maintenance contract; renewals are optional. OSM WMS Premium service sold as subscription at 1,800.00 EUR per year.
4. Professional Services & Consulting: Custom data migration, integration, and consulting projects billed per engagement or project progress. Includes data quality analysis, system migration planning, and GIS integration services delivered by the company's team.
5. GEM Building Energy & Renovation Data: Germany-wide building energy characteristics for municipal heat planning sold in three tiers (Essential, Advanced, Professional) as one-time delivery or subscription, with pricing scaling by municipality population (from ~310 EUR to ~31,500 EUR).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

CISS TDI provides end-to-end geodata solutions covering the full lifecycle of acquisition, processing and publication. The company acts as a single point of contact for procuring official German cadastral and geobase data (ALKIS) from all 16 federal states, converting it via proprietary tools (CITRA, CISS.Konverter2go) into standard GIS formats (DXF, SHP, GeoJSON, GPKG), and delivering it through automated OZG-compliant portals (CISS.Geo2go, GeoShop) to public administrations, utilities, telecom operators and GIS software providers. Offerings include the GeoShop e-commerce platform, the CITRA data integration hub, CISS.Map2go WMS/WFS services, QuAC quality assurance and re-sold data products such as Hexagon GEM building energy characteristics and terrestris OSM WMS Premium.

Product overview

CISS TDI GmbH is a German geodata solutions provider offering a comprehensive portfolio spanning the entire geodata lifecycle: acquisition, processing, and publication. The core offering consists of the GeoShop e-commerce platform for ordering official German cadastral data (ALKIS) and other geodata products; the CISS.Geo2go portal system for automated geodata delivery; and CITRA as the central data integration hub for ETL, conversion, and quality assurance. Supporting products include CISS.Map2go (WMS/WFS services), CISS.Konverter2go (format conversion), QuAC (quality assurance), and WFK-Tool (wind/solar site analysis). Data products include ALKIS data for all German federal states, orthophotos, digital topographic maps, OSM WMS services, conservation and water protection areas, telecommunications data, and building energy characteristics. Services encompass data migration, geodata infrastructure setup, and geodata consulting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CITRA: Data hub tool for converting, harmonizing and analyzing heterogeneous geodata. CITRA as a Service (CaaS) offers REST interfaces for database or file-based conversion.
• CISS.Geo2go
• CISS.Map2go
• CISS.Konverter2go
• CISS.Flurkarte2go
• Geo2go
• QuAC
• WFK-Tool

Products and services

• GeoShop CISS (shop.ciss.de) Self-serve e-commerce platform for ordering official German cadastral ALKIS data from all federal states as well as digital orthophotos, topographic maps, building data, protection area data, online geodata conversion services, the resold terrestris OSM WMS Premium and the resold Hexagon GEM building energy characteristics. Provides pixel-accurate area selection, automated processing and 24/7 download delivery for businesses and government entities.
• CISS.Geo2go Automated portal system that supports the complete workflow from product search, selection, configuration, ordering, approval, payment, invoicing, production and delivery of geodata products and services. OZG-compliant, used by utilities, telecom operators, transport operators, GIS software houses and public administration to deliver cadastral maps, valuation maps and utility network data through digital administration portals.
• CITRA Proprietary Extract-Transform-Load platform and central data hub for converting, harmonising and analysing heterogeneous geodata from sources such as Smallworld GIS. Performs automated validation, transformation and quality assurance and delivers standardised data to Oracle or PostgreSQL-based Geodata Warehouse target systems. Used by utilities and public administrations for GIS system migrations and continuous data integration.
• CITRA as a Service (CaaS) Cloud-based deployment of CITRA providing REST interfaces for database- or file-based geodata conversion (e.g., NAS/XML to DXF, SHP, GeoJSON, GPKG) with EPSG coordinate transformation. Dockerized for on-premise or hosted in ISO 27001 certified cloud infrastructure for integration into customer systems.
• CISS.Map2go WMS/WFS geodata service providing nationwide standardised access to building footprints, parcels, settlement areas, infrastructure data and environmental data via standard OGC interfaces. Supports EPSG:4326, EPSG:3857, EPSG:25832, EPSG:25833 and other coordinate reference systems, with OSM WMS Premium tier delivered via API key or BasicAuth.
• CISS.Konverter2go Standalone converter tool for nationwide official GeoInfoDok 7 compliant ALKIS data conversion into formats including DXF and SHP and storage in the Geodata Warehouse (GDW). Operates as part of CITRA as a Service (CaaS) and is also available as on-premise installation.
• CISS.Flurkarte2go Entry-level add-on for automated official cadastral map (Flurkarte) delivery. Supports the digitalisation of administrative services under the Onlinezugangsgesetz (OZG) and is primarily deployed for state authorities and municipalities.
• QuAC (Quality Assurance Center) Automated data quality verification and adjustment tool for geodata that performs quality checks across multiple datasets and produces customizable reports. Reduces costs and effort during data migration projects and is used in combination with CITRA workflows.
• WFK-Tool (Wind/PV Site Analysis Tool) Open-source GIS-based analysis tool for wind power and photovoltaic free-area facility site assessment. Enables flexible scenario parameter adjustment considering economic, social and nature conservation aspects as well as country-specific requirements for Germany and other markets.
• Geodata Warehouse Storage solution for standardised geodata held in Oracle or PostgreSQL databases. Vendor-independent and exportable, enabling linking and combining geodata with other specialised and application data for downstream analytics and service delivery.
• ALKIS Data (Liegenschaftskataster) Official German cadastral land register data covering parcels, buildings, land use and property owner information (where justified interest is demonstrated) for all 16 federal states, delivered in NAS, DXF and SHP formats. Area-based pricing with state-specific minimum fees; some federal states provide the underlying data as free Open Data, with CISS TDI charging only for clipping, conversion and processing.
• Digital Orthophotos (DOP) Georeferenced orthophotos for the entire DACH region with up to 20 cm ground resolution, delivered in GeoTIFF and JPEG formats. Pricing scales by resolution (DOP20 = 9.00 EUR/km², DOP40 = 6.00 EUR/km²) and selected area, with pixel-precise selection to optimise costs.
• Digital Topographic Maps (DTK) Official German Digital Topographic Maps (DTK25 1:25,000, DTK50 1:50,000, DTK100 1:100,000) delivered tile-free and georeferenced in TIFF and JPEG2000 formats with DACH region coverage. Area-based pricing (1.00 EUR/km² for DTK25 down to 0.10 EUR/km² for DTK100) with volume discounts above 500 km² and a 50 EUR minimum order.
• OSM WMS Premium Service (resold from terrestris) High-performance OpenStreetMap WMS service resold from partner terrestris with worldwide coverage, bi-weekly data update cycles, color and grayscale variants and 100% green electricity EU data centers. Supports OGC WMS and WMTS (KVP encoding), unlimited map requests and 99% SLA for GIS integration across enterprise applications.
• Nature and Landscape Conservation Areas Comprehensive vector data on environmentally protected natural areas, including biocoenoses, biosphere reserves, FFH areas, landscape protection areas, nature parks and bird protection areas (SPA). Available for Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, with annual data refresh from the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN).
• Water Protection Areas Water protection area data covering drinking water protection zones and mineral springs, updated annually by the Bundesamt für Gewässerkunde (BfG) and made available for 13 of 16 German federal states in SHP format.
• Telecommunications Data for Broadband Expansion Geodata enabling informed broadband expansion planning with supply status (download/upload), subsidy areas (Gigabit-Richtlinie), infrastructure corridor data and address points. Data sourced from NEXIGA and delivered in SHP, CSV and GeoJSON formats for telecom operators, broadband coordinators and funding-program planners.
• Building Energy and Renovation Characteristics (GEM) Germany-wide building energy and renovation characteristics resold from Hexagon for municipal heat planning and energy-efficient building renovation. Based on official data and DIN V 18599 standards, including AI-supported building evaluation, georeferenced data, and API and Excel connectivity. Offered in three tiers (Essential, Advanced, Professional) priced from approximately 310 EUR for small municipalities up to approximately 31,500 EUR for cities of 200,000+ residents, as one-time delivery or subscription.
• Data Migration Services End-to-end migration services for transitioning between geographic information systems during ongoing operations, delivered with CITRA. Includes automated analysis, error detection, correction, data enrichment and quality assurance to minimise downtime during GIS migrations.
• Geodata Infrastructure (GDI) Setup and operation of WFS and WMS services with caching and vector tile support. Services can be operated dockerized on-premise or within ISO 27001 certified cloud infrastructure, including the deployment of CISS.Map2go and customer-specific geodata service landscapes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fully automated OZG-compliant portal for digital geo data services, reducing manual processing effort for municipalities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• German State Surveying Authorities (Landesämter)coreOthersCISS TDI integrates official geo base data from all German state surveying and cadastre authorities (Landesämter) into its shop and database. This includes data from Bayern (LDBV), Berlin (SenSBW), Brandenburg (LGB), Bremen (Geo.Bremen), Hamburg (LGV), Hessen (HVBG), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LAiV-MV), Niedersachsen (LGLN), Nordrhein-Westfalen (Bezirksregierung Köln), Rheinland-Pfalz (LVermGeo RP), Saarland (LVGL), Sachsen (GeoSN), Schleswig-Holstein (LVermGeo SH), and Thüringen (TLBG). These are official government data providers, not commercial partnerships, but they constitute the essential data supply chain for CISS TDI's business.
• terrestriscoreOthersCISS TDI resells the terrestris OSM WMS Premium service through its online shop. terrestris provides a high-performance OpenStreetMap-based WMS/WMTS service with worldwide coverage, 2-week data update cycles, 99% SLA, and 100% green electricity data centers in Germany and Finland. CISS TDI integrates this as a white-label offering accessible via shop.ciss.de.
• NEXIGAminorOthersNEXIGA is a data provider for telecommunications and broadband coverage information used by CISS TDI in its broadband expansion planning data products. NEXIGA provides supply status (download/upload), funding areas, and infrastructure corridor data.
• Hexagon (HxGN Safety & Infrastructure GmbH)coreOthersCISS TDI resells Hexagon's GEM (Gebäudeenergiemerkmale) building energy and renovation characteristics data product, which is integrated into the CISS shop for municipal heat planning applications. GEM data includes building characteristics, energy demand, renovation potential, and ESG data based on DIN V 18599 calculations. CISS TDI offers this under Essential, Advanced, and Professional tiers.
• Bundesamt für Gewässerkunde (BfG)minorOthersThe German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) is the annual data source for water protection areas (Wasserschutzgebiete) distributed by CISS TDI. Data is sourced annually from BfG, processed by CISS TDI, and made available for all 13 participating German states.
• Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN)minorOthersThe German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) provides annual updates of nature and landscape protection area data (Natur- und Landschaftsschutzgebiete), which CISS TDI processes and resells for environmental analyses, permitting procedures, and project impact assessments.
• SIT (Südwestfalen IT)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSIT (Südwestfalen IT) operates the GeoShop Südwestfalen, a CISS.Geo2go-based portal serving municipalities in the Olpe and Siegen-Wittgenstein districts. SIT distributes CISS TDI's platform and geo data products under a partner portal arrangement to end-user municipalities in South Westphalia.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• infas 360: German market and geo-data analytics firm focused on regional planning, mobility, and retail/site analytics. Comparable as a DACH-focused data analytics provider selling geo-derived insights to public and private clients.

Direct peers

• WhereGroup: German provider of geospatial open-source software, services, and consulting; closely comparable in DACH-focused GIS services and open-source tooling positioning, including FOSSGIS community involvement.
• SAFE Software (FME): Vendor of FME, the dominant spatial ETL and data integration platform. Directly comparable to CITRA in the geospatial ETL/format conversion space, competing for the same customer ETL workloads.
• con terra: German geoinformatics company specializing in spatial data infrastructure, OGC services, and Esri/Safe Software integration. Directly comparable as a German SME focused on GDI, INSPIRE compliance, and enterprise geo data services.
• terrestris: German open-source GIS services company; provides the OSM WMS Premium service that CISS resells. Comparable as a German-focused geospatial services firm with overlapping customer base and similar open-source ethos.
• Geofabrik: German OpenStreetMap data services provider offering extracts, maps, and consulting. Comparable as a German-focused geodata services SME with overlapping OSM and open data commercial offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Esri: Global GIS platform leader (ArcGIS). Comparable as an enterprise GIS vendor whose platform CISS integrates with, and a competitor for broader customer GIS budgets in utilities and public administration.
• HERE Technologies: Global location data and mapping platform serving automotive, logistics, and enterprise; comparable as a large-scale geodata and basemap provider competing for similar enterprise mapping workloads.
• Hexagon (HxGN Safety & Infrastructure): Large GIS and infrastructure software vendor; partner via the GEM building energy data product CISS resells. Overlaps with CISS's utility and infrastructure customers as a broader GIS incumbent.

Emerging players

• NEXIGA: German provider of telecommunications, broadband, and market data; CISS sources NEXIGA data for broadband expansion planning products. Comparable as a German geo/data SME addressing similar utility and telecom buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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