What Perbit Software does

Perbit Software GmbH is a German HR software company headquartered in Münster, Germany, operating since 1983. The company employs approximately 400 staff across roughly 10 German locations and reports annual revenue of about €50 million, serving a base of approximately 5,000 customers. The legal entity is a privately held GmbH controlled by managing directors Axel Friedrich, Markus Schindler, and Patrick Schumacher, with no disclosed external investors.

The company's core product is myHR by perbit, a modular HR management platform that digitizes the entire employee lifecycle from recruiting through offboarding. The platform comprises six functional modules — Recruiting, Personalmanagement (personnel management), Digitale Personalakte (digital personnel file), Zeiterfassung (time tracking), Business Intelligence (HR analytics), and Mein Unternehmen (organizational management) — supplemented by the perbit.mobile smartphone app for employee self-service and the perbit.portal customer support hub. The platform is differentiated by deep configurability that allows HR teams to adapt workflows without IT support, DSGVO (GDPR)-compliant document handling, and update capability that preserves existing customizations.

Perbit operates a sales-led go-to-market targeting primarily the German Mittelstand and large enterprises, with enterprise field sales, inside sales, and a growing digital demand-generation motion spanning content marketing, LinkedIn Lead Gen, Google Ads, webinars, and gated whitepapers. Revenue is generated through subscription-based SaaS licensing of the myHR modules alongside professional services for implementation, support, and on-premises deployment options. The company is DACH-region focused, with no global expansion claim, and in September 2025 announced a merger aimed at forming a new leading provider of HR software solutions in Germany.

Name

Perbit Software

Legal name

perbit Software GmbH

Website

https://perbit.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Perbit Software is a German HR software company that provides the modular myHR platform for personnel management, recruiting, time tracking, and digital personnel files to approximately 5,000 Mittelstand and enterprise customers across the DACH region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Resources Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Human Capital Management (HCM) & Payroll Platforms (HDAEAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Expense Management & Reimbursements Administration (BPACAIAH), Workflow & Case Management (Human-Centric BPM) (HDAEAHAA)

Keywords

• HR management software
• Personnel administration
• Digital personnel files
• Time tracking software
• Recruiting software

Headquarters

HQ city

Altenberge

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. HR Software Subscription: SaaS-based HR management software with subscription model, offering modular functionality across recruiting, personnel management, digital personnel files, time tracking, and business intelligence. Customers can add modules as needed.
2. Software Services/Support: Additional services including implementation support, customer portal, and technical support for software deployment and ongoing usage.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Perbit Software develops and sells "myHR by perbit," a modular, cloud-based (with optional on-premises) HR management software platform that digitizes the entire employee lifecycle — from applicant tracking and recruiting, through personnel administration, digital personnel files, time and absence tracking, organizational management, and HR business intelligence. Customers subscribe to the platform and add functional modules as needed, with implementation and support services available alongside.

Product overview

Perbit Software's product offering is organized around the myHR platform, a unified HR management software that digitizes the entire employee lifecycle. myHR is built as a modular platform to which functional modules are added as needed: the core modules include Recruiting (for applicant management and candidate experience), Personalmanagement (for personnel administration, contracts, and salary tracking), Digitale Personalakte (for DSGVO-compliant document storage), Zeiterfassung (for time and absence tracking), Business Intelligence (for HR analytics and dashboards), and Mein Unternehmen (for organizational charts and company asset management). The platform is complemented by the perbit.mobile app for employee self-service via smartphone and the perbit.portal for customer system maintenance. The company offers both on-premises and subscription deployment models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• myHR: HR software product brand offering comprehensive human resources management including recruiting, personnel management, digital personnel files, time tracking, and business intelligence.

Products and services

• myHR by perbit (HR Management Platform) The company's flagship HR management software platform, myHR, digitizes the entire employee lifecycle from recruiting through offboarding. It provides a modular, customizable, and update-resistant solution for personnel administration, targeting HR leaders at medium-sized and large German organizations.
• myHR Recruiting A module within myHR that manages the full recruitment process, including structured job profiles, competency prioritization, and efficient candidate evaluation to accelerate hiring for HR and talent acquisition teams.
• myHR Personalmanagement (Personnel Management) A module for managing positions, working hours, and contract conditions efficiently, with salary development and employee data changes remaining traceable at all times for HR administrators.
• myHR Digitale Personalakte (Digital Personnel File) A module that stores employment contracts, pay slips, and certificates securely in a revision-proof, DSGVO-compliant repository that is always accessible and organized for HR teams and employees.
• myHR Zeiterfassung (Time Tracking) A module for digital, precise, and flexible recording of presence and absence, with automatic calculation and adjustment of working hours, breaks, and overtime for HR and employees.
• myHR Business Intelligence A module providing dashboards and analytics for HR key metrics, enabling data-driven decision-making and reporting on workforce data for HR leadership.
• myHR Mein Unternehmen (My Company) A module for structuring companies flexibly and transparently, featuring organizational charts for team and department overview, and management of company assets like fleet vehicles for HR and operations teams.
• perbit.portal (Customer Portal) A customer portal for the new creation and management of maintenance and care notifications for customer systems, supporting ongoing customer success and system support.

Quantifiable outcome

• Customer Garmin deploys perbit.mobile app for 320 employees to streamline and accelerate HR processes
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 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

Feature7 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Personio: Personio is a Munich-based HR software platform for SMB and mid-market companies in Europe, offering recruiting, personnel management, and payroll. It directly competes with myHR for the same Mittelstand customer base and German-speaking market.
• HRworks: HRworks is a German HR SaaS provider focused on time tracking, personnel management, and digital employee files for mid-sized companies. It overlaps directly with Perbit's core modular HR product offering in the same DACH segment.
• rexx systems: rexx systems is a German HR software provider offering recruiting, talent management, and personnel administration for mid-sized and enterprise customers in DACH. It is a comparable German HR software specialist competing in Perbit's primary market.

Broad incumbents

• SAP SuccessFactors: SAP SuccessFactors is the global enterprise HCM suite covering recruiting, learning, performance, and payroll. It is the established incumbent competing for larger enterprise accounts in Perbit's enterprise segment while integrating deeply with SAP ERP.
• Workday: Workday is a leading global cloud HCM and financial management platform used by large enterprises. It competes for the upper end of Perbit's enterprise customer base and is setting the AI-forward benchmark against which mid-market HCM is evaluated.
• Datev: Datev is a major German provider of payroll, tax, and HR-related software primarily serving tax advisors and Mittelstand. It is adjacent/comparable because payroll and HR data integration is core to Perbit's personnel management module and many Datev customers are also HR software buyers in the same segment.
• SD Worx: SD Worx is a European HR and payroll services provider operating across Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, UK, and others. It competes for German mid-market HR outsourcing and payroll-adjacent SaaS contracts overlapping with Perbit's personnel management suite.
• ADP Workforce Now / ADP iHCM: ADP offers global HCM, payroll, and workforce management solutions used widely by multinational mid-market and enterprise customers. It is a comparable incumbent offering end-to-end HR/payroll stacks that compete for the same buyers that Perbit targets via myHR.

Regional players

• Haufe-Lexware (Haufe HR Services): Haufe is a leading German provider of professional information, compliance, and business software including HR solutions for German Mittelstand. It competes with Perbit especially in content-driven HR advisory plus software bundles within DACH.

Emerging players

• Softgarden: Softgarden is a German recruiting and applicant tracking/e-HR software provider that overlaps with Perbit's myHR Recruiting module and broader talent acquisition workflows in DACH mid-market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/perbitsoftware
• Instagraminstagram.com/perbit_software
• Xtwitter.com/perbit_software
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/perbit-software-gmbh
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCpBz6cG5xX5z5x5z5x5z5x5

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

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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