Schilling A/S

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Schilling A/S is a privately held Danish software company that provides Schilling Waves, a specialized publishing workflow platform with royalty, rights, author portal, and lifecycle management modules for educational, trade, and journal publishers in the Nordic region.

Company typePrivate
Founded1972
HeadquartersAlbertslund, Denmark
Headcount11–50
GTM typeB2B
OfferingSoftware

What Schilling A/S does

Schilling A/S (legally Schilling ApS) is a privately held Danish software company founded in 1972 and headquartered in Albertslund, Denmark. The company develops and sells Schilling Waves, a publishing workflow management platform purpose-built for the book publishing industry, alongside an integrated module suite covering royalty management, rights management, author portal, asset management, subscription management, publishing lifecycle management, and editorial desk functionality. Its flagship differentiator is the "intelligent Job Cards" approach to automated royalty settlement preparation, designed to replace spreadsheet-based processes that become unsustainable as publishers scale in authors and titles.

The company targets educational, trade, and journal publishers in the Nordic region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland), with a stated customer base that includes "some of the biggest publishers" in the region. Revenue is generated through quote-based annual software subscriptions sold via a direct enterprise field-sales motion, supplemented by content marketing and demo-driven demand generation through the schillingpublishing.com website and LinkedIn presence. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is negotiated per customer.

Schilling operates as an independent, standalone entity with no disclosed parent company, institutional investors, or funding rounds in the available data. With 11-50 employees, the company is a small, specialized vendor with deep domain expertise but limited public information on revenue, growth rates, leadership team, or M&A activity. The recent (2025) launch of a Nordic industry study on digital author relationships and a Publishing Operations Assessment tool indicates ongoing investment in thought leadership and demand generation rather than in disclosed product or geographic expansion.

Schilling A/S firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Schilling A/S
Legal name: Schilling ApS
Website: https://schilling.dk
Company type: Private
Founded year: 1972
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 11–50 employees
Short description: Schilling A/S is a privately held Danish software company that provides Schilling Waves, a specialized publishing workflow platform with royalty, rights, author portal, and lifecycle management modules for educational, trade, and journal publishers in the Nordic region.
Ownership category
akta.pro rank

Schilling A/S industry classification

Industry

Product category: Publishing Software
NAICS: Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (51321)
akta.pro primary industry: Author Business Tools & Analytics (Royalty Tracking, Pricing, Keyword/Market Research) (MPAJAJAO)

Keywords

Publishing software
Royalty management
Rights management
Author portal
Publishing lifecycle

Where Schilling A/S is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Albertslund
HQ country: Denmark
HQ region: Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

Schilling A/S business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

Software Subscriptions: Schilling generates revenue through software subscriptions for their publishing management platform. The platform includes modules for royalty management, rights management, author portal, asset management, subscription management, and publishing lifecycle management. Being enterprise software for book publishers, pricing is likely quote-based and negotiated per customer.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Subscription	Annual	Enterprise subscription model - custom pricing based on publisher size and requirements

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Schilling A/S product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Schilling A/S develops and provides the Schilling Waves publishing software platform for book publishers. The platform offers integrated modules for royalty management, rights management, author portal, asset management, subscription management, and end-to-end publishing lifecycle management. It targets educational, trade, and journal publishers primarily in the Nordic region, automating complex workflows such as royalty calculations, multi-author tracking by ISBN, and editorial processes.

Product overview

Schilling A/S offers a unified publishing software platform called Schilling Waves with integrated modules for professional book publishing. The core platform provides the foundation, while specialized modules cover Royalty Management (automated calculations and settlements), Rights Management, Author Portal (relationship management), Asset Management, Subscription Management, and Publishing Lifecycle Management (including the Editorial Desk tool). The solution targets educational, trade, and journal publishers with a focus on Nordic and Scandinavian markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

Schilling Waves: Publishing software platform with simplified design, functionality and workflows for publishers
Royalty Management
Rights Management
Author Portal
Asset Management
Subscription Management
Publishing Lifecycle Management
Editorial Desk

Products and services

Schilling Waves

Quantifiable outcome

Replaced spreadsheet-based royalty management that became unsustainable as publishers grew in authors and publications

Companies that use Schilling A/S

Customer profile

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Schilling A/S technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Schilling A/S partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Schilling A/S competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

Klopotek: Berlin-based vendor of publishing workflow and royalty management software (Klopotek Publishing Platform). Directly competes with Schilling Waves in the book-publisher segment, particularly across German-speaking and broader European markets.
Firebrand Technologies: US-based publishing technology provider offering Title Management, Royalty Tracker and Eloquence metadata services to trade and educational publishers — overlapping with Schilling's royalty, rights and asset management modules.
Virtusales PublishingX: UK-based publishing software vendor whose PublishingX platform covers rights, royalties, metadata and editorial workflows for book publishers — a directly comparable product suite to Schilling Waves.
Atex: Provider of publishing and media software (Atex Publisher, AdDep, Polopoly) for newspaper, magazine and book publishers. Closely comparable to Schilling in its editorial and publishing lifecycle modules, though broader in media scope.

Emerging players

HighWire Press: Scholarly publishing technology platform (now part of MPS) used by journal publishers for hosting, workflow and analytics. Comparable to Schilling's journal-publisher offering, but specialized to scholarly rather than trade/educational publishing.

Peers

Silverchair:

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Schilling A/S financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Schilling A/S leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Schilling A/S funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

Schilling A/S M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

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

Frequently asked questions about Schilling A/S

What does Schilling A/S do?

Is Schilling A/S a public or private company?

Schilling A/S is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was Schilling A/S founded?

Schilling A/S was founded in 1972. It employs 11 to 50 people.

Where is Schilling A/S based?

Schilling A/S is headquartered in Albertslund, Denmark, in the Europe region.

How does Schilling A/S make money?

One revenue line is on record: software Subscriptions.

Who are Schilling A/S's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Klopotek, Firebrand Technologies, Virtusales PublishingX and Atex. HighWire Press is listed as an emerging player. Silverchair is listed as a peer.

Does Schilling A/S have an API?

No public API is recorded for Schilling A/S.

What industry is Schilling A/S in?

Schilling A/S's product category is Publishing Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPAJAJAO, Author Business Tools & Analytics (Royalty Tracking, Pricing, Keyword/Market Research). Its NAICS code is 5132.