BPS Education Portal Saxony

What BPS Education Portal Saxony does

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH is a privately held German EdTech provider headquartered in Chemnitz, Saxony, founded in 2003 and operating for more than 20 years. The company develops and continuously maintains an integrated platform suite targeting the digitalization of vocational and continuing education in Germany: ONYX Prüfungsplattform, a secure online examination system with 18 question types, Safe Exam Browser integration for supervised PC-pool exams, and a built-in failover and audit-trail concept for legally compliant administration; OPAL Lernplattform, a learning management system with 33 course building blocks, SCORM 1.2/2004 support, and a centralized assessment tool (Bewertungswerkzeug); and BLok Berichtsheft, a digital training record for dual vocational education that holds a recommendation from the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB). ONYX additionally supports automated code evaluation via the Virtual Programming Lab (VPL) across seven programming languages.

The business operates primarily on a B2B, recurring subscription licensing model, with cloud-hosted (in Germany) and on-premise deployment options. Revenue is generated from institutional licenses sold to universities, vocational schools (Berufsschulen), trade associations (Kammern und Verbände), and corporate training buyers, supplemented by a partial product-led growth motion (self-service demos, free trial environments, handbooks, and YouTube tutorials). Named customers span all major Saxon universities (TU Dresden, Universität Leipzig, TU Chemnitz, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Hochschule Mittweida, HTWK Leipzig, Duale Hochschule Sachsen) plus Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, alongside enterprise logos including TÜV Rheinland, DRK Bildungswerk Sachsen, Heinrich Schmid, and the Landesverband Kfz-Gewerbe NRW, whose 2025 nationwide centralized journeyman examinations across nine federal states examined over 5,000 trainees on ONYX.

The go-to-market combines direct consultative enterprise sales with a needs-assessment tool (Bedarfscheck) for medium-to-large deployments and a dedicated chamber/trade-association partner program that has produced high-volume contracts such as the KFZ-NRW examination event. The company is privately held with no disclosed external funding or M&A activity, led by Managing Director Sven Morgner and Supervisory Board Chairman Dieter Lehmann, and operates as a specialist, GDPR-compliant, German-hosted alternative to international EdTech providers in the regulated German education and vocational training market.

Name

BPS Education Portal Saxony

Legal name

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH

Website

https://bps-system.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH is a German EdTech company, headquartered in Chemnitz, that develops and licenses three integrated platforms — ONYX (secure online examinations), OPAL (learning management), and BLok (digital vocational training records) — primarily serving German universities, vocational schools, trade associations, and corporate training departments via subscription licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Technology / Learning Management & Examination Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Certification & Licensing Exam Management Platforms (EDAFADAG)

Keywords

• Online examination software
• Learning management systems
• Digital training records
• E-learning platforms
• Vocational education software

Headquarters

HQ city

Chemnitz

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. ONYX Prüfungsplattform — Software Licenses: ONYX is offered as a licensed examination software platform with options for cloud-based (Software-as-a-Service) or on-premise deployment. Institutions purchase licenses to use the platform for conducting secure online examinations, digital final exams, and certification tests. Revenue is derived from recurring licensing fees, with implementation and support services bundled.
2. BLok Berichtsheft — Platform Licensing: BLok operates as a digital training record platform for dual vocational training, recommended by BIBB. Revenue is generated through subscription licenses for companies, vocational schools, and training providers, with differentiated registration for companies vs. individual users.
3. OPAL Lernplattform — LMS Licensing: OPAL is offered as a learning management system (Lernplattform) to educational institutions, corporations, and public sector organizations, generating revenue through recurring platform licenses. The platform supports 33 course building blocks and is available via cloud or on-premise deployment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH develops and licenses three core software products — ONYX Prüfungsplattform (an online examination and e-assessment platform with 18 question types and Safe Exam Browser integration), OPAL Lernplattform (a learning management system with 33 course building blocks and SCORM support), and BLok Berichtsheft (a BIBB-recommended digital training record for dual vocational education) — sold primarily as annual recurring cloud or on-premise software licenses to universities, vocational schools, trade associations, and corporate training buyers in Germany.

Product overview

BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH offers a platform-plus-modules portfolio centered on three core products: the ONYX Prüfungsplattform (an examination and e-assessment platform), the OPAL Lernplattform (a learning management system with 33 course building blocks), and the BLok Berichtsheft (a digital training record for dual vocational education). These are complemented by the OLEA Campus App (mobile access) and multiple sub-product modules including the Bewertungswerkzeug assessment tool within OPAL, and specialized question/task types within ONYX such as the Programmieraufgabe (programming exercise), Kprim-Fragetyp, Sammelbewertung, and SCORM-Kursbaustein. ONYX and OPAL are designed to work together as an integrated teaching, learning, and assessment suite, with ONYX handling test creation, delivery, and evaluation, and OPAL serving as the broader LMS environment for course delivery, content management, and centralized grading. BLok operates as a standalone digital training record system recommended by the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ONYX Prüfungsplattform: Multi-award-winning examination platform for secure online tests, e-examinations, and digital assessments. Used by universities, companies, and associations for final examinations, aptitude tests, mandatory training, and preparatory self-tests.
• BLok Berichtsheft
• OPAL Lernplattform
• OLEA Campus App

Products and services

• ONYX Prüfungsplattform (ONYX Examination Platform) Multi-award-winning online examination and e-assessment platform for universities, vocational schools, trade associations, and corporate certification buyers. Supports 18 question types including Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Kprim, Programming Tasks (with automated VPL-based code evaluation), Hotspot, Matrix, Ordering, Drawing, and mathematical formula editors. Integrates Safe Exam Browser for locked-down, proctored exam sessions, provides randomized per-participant variants from a centralized question pool, supports cloud-hosted (Germany) or on-premise deployment, and includes an integrated failover safety concept with full audit logging for legally defensible German examination compliance.
• BLok Berichtsheft (BLok Digital Training Record) Digital Ausbildungsnachweis (training record) platform for dual vocational education and training, formally recommended by the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) and recognized as Best Practice by the Initiative Intelligente Vernetzung of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Enables apprentices, company trainers, and vocational school teachers to collaboratively document training activities online, with planning and checklist modules, transparent progress overviews, and differentiated self-service registration for companies (blok.mobi) and individual users (online-ausbildungsnachweis.de).
• OPAL Lernplattform (OPAL Learning Platform) Versatile learning management system (LMS) for educational institutions, corporations, and public sector organizations, offering 33 course building blocks organized across organizing, communicating, informing, integrating, testing, and assessment categories. Supports SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 content packages with status, score, and time reporting back to the LMS, includes a centralized Bewertungswerkzeug (Assessment Tool) for automatic and manual grading, automated inactive-account deletion reminders for GDPR compliance, and is available via cloud-hosted (Germany) or on-premise deployment.
• OLEA Campus App Mobile campus application offered by BPS for educational institutions using OPAL, enabling learners to access OPAL courses, content, and educational tools on iOS and Android mobile devices.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5,000+ trainees examined digitally in a single nationwide exam event (Landesverband KFZ-NRW, 2025)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Landesverband Kfz-Gewerbe NRW e.V.coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Landesverband Kfz-Gewerbe NRW (Automotive Trade Association of North Rhine-Westphalia) serves as a channel partner, facilitating adoption of the ONYX examination platform across its member company network. In 2025, the association conducted nationwide centralized journeyman examinations (Gesellenprüfungen) using ONYX across nine German federal states, examining over 5,000 trainees in eight vocational training occupations. This represents a flagship, high-volume deployment case study for BPS.
• Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training) has issued a recommendation for BLok as a digital training record (Berichtsheft) for dual vocational training. This endorsement provides significant credibility and institutional endorsement for BLok within the German vocational education ecosystem.
• Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2025minorOthersBPS is listed as a supporter of Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025 (Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2025), indicating a cultural sponsorship or community engagement partnership.
• Fairplay SachsenminorOthersBPS is listed as a supporter of Fairplay Sachsen, a fair play initiative in Saxony, indicating corporate social responsibility and community engagement.
• Wirtschaftsinitiative für Demokratie und Vielfalt (WIDV)minorOthersBPS is listed as a supporter of WIDV (Economic Initiative for Democracy and Diversity), a Saxony-based economic initiative promoting democratic values and diversity in business.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• itslearning: European (Nordic-origin) LMS with established footprint in German and Northern European K-12 and higher education. Overlaps with OPAL on LMS functionality and with ONYX on assessment, serving similar institutional customers across the DACH and Nordic regions.
• Hogrefe Verlag: German academic publisher with a digital testing and assessment division offering psychometric testing platforms used in vocational and continuing education in DACH. Comparable to BPS in the German regulated assessment market and in vocational training content/administration.

Broad incumbents

• Moodle: The world's most widely deployed open-source LMS, with significant adoption in German universities. Competes broadly with OPAL on LMS functionality and increasingly with ONYX through Moodle's quiz and quiz-based assessment modules, though it lacks BPS's specialized regulatory positioning.
• Canvas (Instructure): Major commercial LMS provider with growing presence in European higher education, offering integrated assessment, course delivery, and analytics. Competes with BPS's combined OPAL+ONYX offering at the institutional LMS level, though primarily in English-language markets.

Direct peers

• ILIAS: German open-source LMS widely used in German-speaking universities and institutions, with built-in assessment and test capabilities that compete directly with OPAL and ONYX. Both serve the DACH higher education and corporate training market with similar feature sets around course delivery, testing, and SCORM support.
• OpenOLAT: Swiss-developed open-source LMS used across European universities, offering course management, testing, and assessment tools. Comparable to OPAL in target market (European higher education) and feature scope, including integrated exam capabilities that overlap with ONYX.
• Questionmark: Enterprise assessment platform specializing in secure online exams, certification testing, and authoring — directly comparable to ONYX's e-assessment capabilities. Serves similar enterprise and certification-body customers globally with comparable question-type and proctoring features.

Emerging players

• Respondus: Specialized assessment and proctoring tools (including LockDown Browser, a direct analog to Safe Exam Browser) that compete with ONYX in the secure online examination niche. Targets universities and certification bodies with focused exam-security capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCwRXbLqB2u5H2a1zL9jJ8gA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bps-bildungsportal-sachsen-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 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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