What Pradtke does

Pradtke GmbH is a German software vendor founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bochum that builds workforce management software for essential services organizations (Daseinsfürsorge), with a primary focus on hospitals and a secondary focus on fire, rescue, and civil protection agencies. Its flagship platform, TIMEOFFICE, supports the full personnel deployment lifecycle — from strategic demand planning and shift scheduling through time recording, absence/bottleneck management, regulatory compliance (including the PPP-RL staffing directive for psychiatric and psychosomatic facilities), and payroll interface generation — and is used to plan and document the work of approximately 350,000 employees in German hospitals. The platform runs on Microsoft SQL Server or SAP SQL Anywhere, exposes a server-side Pradtke.API for module integration and KIS (hospital information system) data ingestion, and is delivered either as licensed on-premise software or, as of April 2026, as TIMEOFFICE Air, a cloud-native SaaS product hosted on Azure in Germany with continuous deployment. A secondary product, Pradtke Depot, provides inventory and equipment management for fire and rescue organizations. The company reports 23% market share in the German hospital workforce management segment, processes roughly 100 million time stampings and €2.5 billion in annual wage calculations, and indirectly influences the work routines of approximately 300,000 people. Revenue derives from software licenses, module subscriptions, and service contracts sold through a consultative direct enterprise sales motion anchored by website demo booking, with no publicly disclosed pricing. The firm operates with approximately 60 employees organized into ten autonomous self-managing 'Zellen' (cells) under a Beta-Organization structure introduced in 2024, and is founder-owned and founder-managed by André Pradtke with no external investment or parent entity.

Name

Pradtke

Legal name

Pradtke GmbH

Website

https://pradtke.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pradtke GmbH is a Bochum-based German software vendor, founded in 1993, that provides workforce management software (TIMEOFFICE) for German hospitals, fire services, and emergency response organizations, holding approximately 23% market share in the hospital segment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Workforce Management Software

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Payroll, Time & Attendance (BPACAPAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Payroll Software & Payroll-as-a-Service (SaaS) (BPACAIAB), Human Capital Management (HCM) & Payroll Platforms (HDAEAEAJ)

Keywords

• Workforce management software
• Staff scheduling software
• Hospital personnel planning
• Fire service scheduling
• PPP-RL compliance software

Headquarters

HQ city

Bochum

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses and Subscriptions: TIMEOFFICE is sold as licensed software with ongoing updates and support. TIMEOFFICE Air is positioned as a cloud-native SaaS with all updates, modules and services included without hidden additional costs. Revenue derives from license fees, module subscriptions, and service contracts for the TIMEOFFICE Kosmos platform.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Pradtke develops and sells TIMEOFFICE, a workforce management and strategic personnel-deployment software platform for German hospitals, psychiatric and psychosomatic facilities, fire services, rescue services, civil protection, and aid organizations. The platform covers the full personnel-deployment process from initial scheduling need through absence/bottleneck management, regulatory compliance (e.g., PPP-RL), time recording, and payroll billing, delivered as licensed software and the TIMEOFFICE Air cloud-native SaaS. A separate product, Pradtke Depot, provides browser-based inventory and equipment management for emergency-services organizations.

Product overview

Pradtke GmbH offers TIMEOFFICE as its primary product—a unified platform for strategic and operational personnel deployment planning in healthcare and public safety sectors. The platform consists of the core TIMEOFFICE system (with cloud version TIMEOFFICE Air), supplemented by modules including TIMEOFFICE Mobile (mobile access app), plan b (bottleneck/absence management), PPP-RL Center (psychiatry staffing directive compliance), Dienstplanung (scheduling), Compliance, and Schnittstellen (interfaces). Pradtke.API provides the technical backend for system connectivity. A secondary product, Pradtke Depot, serves fire departments and rescue organizations with inventory management. Market leadership in Germany with 23% market share and planning/documentation for 350,000 employees across hospitals and fire departments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TIMEOFFICE: Cloud software for strategic personnel deployment in public services, including workforce planning, scheduling, and documentation.
• TIMEOFFICE AIR
• TIMEOFFICE Mobile
• TIMEOFFICE Depot
• plan b
• PPP-RL Center

Products and services

• TIMEOFFICE Air Cloud-native SaaS web application for strategic and operational personnel deployment in healthcare (hospitals) and public safety (fire departments), delivering browser-based access without client installation, German data hosting, and continuous deployment.
• TIMEOFFICE Strategic personnel deployment planning software for hospitals, fire departments, and welfare organizations; plans, documents, and calculates schedules for a substantial share of German hospital employees.
• TIMEOFFICE Mobile Mobile application allowing hospital and emergency-services staff to view schedules, time accounts, vacation days, and submit absence notifications via smartphone, with QR-code time recording.
• PPP-RL Center Web application implementing the PPP-RL Psychiatry and Psychosomatics Staffing Directive within TIMEOFFICE, providing staffing-level monitoring, minimum-value recording, and Excel data export for regulatory reporting.
• plan b — Engpassmanagement Bottleneck and absence management tool identifying under/over-capacity situations, displaying key metrics including staffing, occupancy, and PpUG (nurse-to-patient ratio) metrics for nursing-sensitive hospital areas.
• Pradtke.API Server-side API installed on IIS application servers that connects TIMEOFFICE modules, manages job scheduling, and supports the Service Connect telemetry channel for remote support.
• Pradtke Depot Browser-based inventory and equipment management software for fire departments, rescue services, disaster relief, and aid organizations, used to manage stock, gear, and distributed depot resources.
• TIMEOFFICE Dienstplanung (Staff Scheduling) Staff scheduling module for creating and managing employee work schedules, shift planning, and service allocation across hospital wards and fire-service shifts.
• TIMEOFFICE Compliance Compliance module ensuring personnel deployment meets regulatory requirements for healthcare facilities, complementing PPP-RL Center with broader workforce-compliance controls.
• TIMEOFFICE Schnittstellen (Interfaces) Interface module providing connections to payroll systems and other external systems via a configurable payroll interface, supporting integrations such as KIS (hospital information system) data import.

Quantifiable outcome

• Staff schedule updates visible to all employees within three seconds of saving the monthly plan (Kreiskrankenhaus Saarburg case)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ATOSS Software AG: German workforce management and time-and-attendance software vendor with strong presence in hospitals, industry, and retail. Most direct competitor to TIMEOFFICE in German healthcare workforce scheduling and the natural benchmark for Pradtke's market position.
• rexx systems GmbH: German HR software suite for SMB and mid-market employers covering personnel administration, time management, and recruiting. Adjacent HCM peer that overlaps with Pradtke on time management and personnel deployment in the German market.
• GFOS mbH: German workforce management software vendor covering time recording, scheduling, and HR-related modules. Overlaps directly with TIMEOFFICE's core scheduling and payroll-billing capabilities across German enterprises and public-sector buyers.
• ZEP GmbH: German vendor of time tracking, project time, and workforce management software for SMBs and larger organizations. Directly comparable to Pradtke on time recording and shift planning functionality within the German market.
• ISGUS GmbH: German provider of time and attendance, workforce scheduling, and access control software. Competes with Pradtke in German hospital and public-sector workforce management with comparable on-prem and cloud offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Workday, Inc. Global cloud HCM and finance platform used by large enterprises and increasingly healthcare systems. Comparable as a broad incumbent competitor whose workforce planning capabilities overlap conceptually with Pradtke's scheduling modules.
• Personio SE & Co. KG: Leading German HCM SaaS platform for SMB and mid-market customers covering recruiting, HR, payroll, and time tracking. Broader and horizontally positioned versus Pradtke's vertical depth in essential services, but increasingly moving into time-and-attendance territory.
• SAP SuccessFactors: Enterprise HCM platform from SAP covering core HR, talent, learning, and workforce management. Relevant incumbent peer for large German hospital groups evaluating integrated HCM stacks against Pradtke's specialized workforce deployment solution.

Regional players

• SD Worx: European HR and payroll services provider headquartered in Belgium with strong Benelux and DACH footprint. Comparable as a regional HR-tech player offering workforce and payroll capabilities overlapping with Pradtke's German customer base.

Emerging players

• Shiftbase: Cloud-native workforce management and employee scheduling platform headquartered in the Netherlands with growing DACH presence. Emerging cloud competitor relevant to TIMEOFFICE Air's go-to-market in mid-sized essential-services organizations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/csg-pradtke

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 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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