What BBF does

BBF GmbH is a self-financed German IT consulting firm founded in 1998, headquartered in Munich with a secondary office in Dresden, that specializes in what it terms "3D Information Management" — a consulting framework covering data strategy (Datenstrategie), data management (Datenmanagement), and data evaluation (datenevaluierung). The firm primarily serves large corporations (Konzernen), large enterprises (Großunternehmen), and the German Mittelstand across the automotive, banking, financial services, and insurance sectors, with named clients including BMW, MAN, Airbus Bank, DKAM Capital, Zurich Versicherung, Cortalconsors, Sächsische Aufbau- und Förderbank, Berge & Meer, and msg GillardonBSM AG. The company is led by managing shareholders Benjamin Böhm and Erwin Grießer, holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification, and claims more than 500 completed projects across 25+ years of operation.

The firm's core proprietary product is LUQUAS, an air quality prediction system launched in 2017 that aggregates IoT sensor data (including BBF's own deployed sensors in Dresden and Munich), Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) satellite data, weather forecasts, and public measurement station inputs to forecast particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) for thousands of locations across Germany. The technical stack spans Python-based ETL pipelines, a Java microservice backend, a CouchDB database, and an HTML5/Ember.js web app frontend, with MQTT-over-SSL sensor communication. BBF reports processing millions of data points daily and approximately 80% forecast accuracy for particulate matter on dusty days, with over 3 million evaluated data points accumulated across Dresden and Munich.

Revenue is generated through professional services — long-term consulting engagements, project-based mandates, and general contractor (Generalunternehmer) arrangements that include full 1st- to 3rd-level support for client BI landscapes. The go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales, augmented by thought leadership at TDWI conferences, academic engagement with Hochschule München, and sustainability/environmental community positioning. Geographic focus is the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland); the company is privately held with no external investors and no public revenue disclosure.

Name

BBF

Legal name

BBF GmbH

Website

https://bbf-soft.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BBF GmbH is a self-financed German IT consulting firm founded in 1998 that delivers 3D Information Management services to large enterprises and the Mittelstand in automotive, banking, and insurance. Its proprietary product LUQUAS provides air quality forecasting across Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting & Data Management Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (541690), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

akta.pro primary industry

Business Intelligence, Reporting & Visualization Services (BPAEAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Services (BPAHALAC), Enterprise Application Reporting, BI & Analytics Enablement (BPAEAGAK)

Keywords

• Data management consulting
• Business intelligence services
• Data warehouse development
• IoT sensor analytics
• Air quality prediction software

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT-Beratung und Projektdienstleistungen: BBF generates revenue through professional consulting services and project-based engagements in the areas of Information Management and Analytics. The company serves large corporations (Konzernen), large enterprises (Großunternehmen), and the Mittelstand with objective advisory and comprehensive end-to-end services. Revenue is generated through long-term project engagements, general contractor (Generalunternehmer) arrangements, and consulting mandates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

BBF GmbH delivers advisory and end-to-end Information Management and Analytics consulting services built around its 3D Information Management methodology (data strategy, data management, data evaluation), spanning Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse development, Data Science, IoT applications, database development and migration, performance optimization, data quality, and data visualization for enterprise clients. The company's principal proprietary product is LUQUAS, an air quality measurement and prediction system that combines proprietary IoT sensors, open data from Luftdaten.Info, CAMS satellite observations, and weather forecasts to forecast particulate matter levels.

Product overview

BBF GmbH is an IT consulting firm specializing in 3D Information Management — a framework covering data strategy, data management, and data evaluation. Its primary proprietary product is LUQUAS, an air quality measurement and prediction system. BBF's service portfolio encompasses data management consulting, Business Intelligence (including Data Warehouse development, Data Marts, and Reporting), Data Science (including machine learning and predictive analytics), and IoT application development. The company delivers projects for large enterprises in the automotive, financial services, and telecommunications sectors, using methodologies such as agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LUQUAS: A proprietary system developed by BBF for air quality measurement and prediction based on local measurement points and open data. LUQUAS processes multiple million data records per day and provides local air quality forecasts for thousands of locations across Germany.

Products and services

• 3D Information Management Consulting End-to-end advisory and implementation framework spanning three pillars: data strategy (Datenstrategie), data management (Datenmanagement), and data evaluation (Datenevaluierung). Used by large corporations (Konzernen), large enterprises (Großunternehmen), and the German Mittelstand to standardize, automate, and optimize enterprise data landscapes.
• LUQUAS Air Quality Prediction System Proprietary air quality measurement and prediction system combining BBF's own IoT sensors (in Dresden and Munich), Luftdaten.Info open data, CAMS satellite observations, and weather forecasts via Python ETL, CouchDB, Java microservices, and an HTML5/Ember.js frontend. Forecasts PM2.5 and PM10 levels for thousands of German locations at approximately 80% accuracy on dusty days and delivers outputs through live dashboards and data feeds.
• Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Development Design, build, and operate enterprise BI solutions and Data Warehouses including Data Marts and Reporting, with optional 1st–3rd Level Support. Demonstrated by mandates including Airbus Bank's BI/Data Warehouse operations since 2016 and a Central Data Hub integrating 200+ data sources in a hub-and-spoke architecture for an automotive bank.
• Data Science and Predictive Analytics Applied data science engagements including online anomaly detection on KPIs from a telecommunications data warehouse (model-based and heuristic methods with manual annotation tooling) and customer segmentation/booking-behavior prediction algorithms for a tourism company. Designed for clients with large transactional data sets needing real-time anomaly identification and predictive modeling.
• IoT Sensor Hardware and Application Development BBF-developed IoT sensor hardware deployed in Dresden and Munich for online air quality measurement, plus broader IoT application development services. Communicates via MQTT over SSL and integrates with the LUQUAS analytics platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to fivefold increase in data processing speed
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Luftdaten.InfocoreTechnology or Integration · 12 September 2018BBF and Luftdaten.Info entered a partnership in September 2018. Luftdaten.Info provides open data from its citizen science measurement network, which BBF integrates into the LUQUAS system. This enables a largely area-wide prediction and visualization of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and other air quality metrics. Both organizations are jointly developing projects in Open Government, Smart City, Sustainable Mobility, and emission measurement areas.
• Brainnovative Consulting (Hochschule München Co-Innovation Lab)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 January 2018BBF partnered with Brainnovative Consulting, the Co-Innovation Lab of Hochschule München. The collaboration focused on developing incentive systems for the LUQUAS air quality prediction platform. Three Munich University master's students contributed to the project, delivering concepts for online and offline incentive systems for public area applications.
• msg GillardonBSM AGminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBBF works with msg GillardonBSM AG as a consulting partner in joint customer projects. BBF's team members are fully integrated into msg GillardonBSM project teams and work autonomously, goal-oriented, and at eye level. BBF provides expertise in databases and data management, delivering technical conception, development, rollout support, and 3rd-level support.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• QUNIS GmbH: German boutique consulting firm specializing in data analytics, AI, and Business Intelligence for enterprise clients. Direct peer because it competes head-to-head with BBF on data strategy, BI, and data management mandates for German Mittelstand and large enterprises.
• Datavard AG: German data management and analytics specialist focused on SAP data warehousing, ETL, and data quality. Direct peer because it serves the same SAP-centric enterprise BI/DW transformation projects that BBF delivers, with overlapping automotive and financial services customers.
• msg systems AG: German IT consulting and software firm with deep banking/insurance and BI/data management practices. Direct peer because BBF's subsidiary msg GillardonBSM is a stated partner and BBF's data management and BI/DW capabilities mirror msg's core delivery model in the same DACH enterprise market.
• Camelot ITLab GmbH: German consulting firm focused on data management, master data, and supply chain data governance. Direct peer because it addresses the same enterprise data management pain points BBF's 3D Information Management addresses, with a similar DACH-centric go-to-market.

Broad incumbents

• T-Systems International: Deutsche Telekom's enterprise IT arm, offering data, cloud, and SAP services to large German enterprises. Broad incumbent because it competes for large enterprise data/BI contracts (including automotive and financial services) but with significantly broader scope and scale.
• DATAGROUP SE: German mid-market IT services and data center operator with a strong footprint in BI, data management, and managed services for enterprises. Broad incumbent because it offers similar data/BI capabilities but as part of a larger, multi-service portfolio with broader geographic reach.
• Arvato Systems: German IT services provider (Bertelsmann subsidiary) with strong data management, BI, and cloud services practices. Broad incumbent because it competes for the same German enterprise data modernization and BI/DW contracts but at significantly larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Capgemini Invent (Germany): Global consulting firm's German arm, with large data and analytics practices serving automotive, banking, and industrial clients. Broad incumbent because it competes for the same enterprise data transformation mandates but with substantially larger teams and global delivery capability.
• SALT Solutions (Accenture): German IT consultancy (now part of Accenture) specializing in SAP, IoT, and data-driven manufacturing solutions. Broad incumbent because it offers overlapping data/BI/IoT capabilities but as part of a much wider SAP-and-Industry-X portfolio, competing for the same DACH enterprise and Mittelstand budget as BBF.

Emerging players

• Breeze Technologies UG: German startup providing air quality sensor networks and data analytics for cities and enterprises. Emerging player because it overlaps with BBF's LUQUAS air quality monitoring and prediction focus, though Breeze is a hardware/sensor-led startup rather than a full-stack forecasting platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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