PSG Projekt Service GmbH

What PSG Projekt Service GmbH does

PSG Projekt Service GmbH is a Hamburg-based German limited liability company (GmbH) founded in 1994 that has specialized for over 30 years in Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform. The firm's legal name is PSG Projekt Service Gesellschaft für Systemberatung und Softwareentwicklung mbH, registered in Hamburg (Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB 56 618). It is led by three Geschäftsführer (managing directors): Olaf-Christian Lepthien, Sascha Lorenz, and Jan Streblow. PSG markets itself as 'The SQL Server Company' and the 'SQL Server Knowledge Hub and Think Tank.'

The company's offerings are organized into three service streams, with no proprietary software product, API, or channel partners. First, managed services: PSG DBA Pool provides co-managed remote database administration, and PSG MX delivers a premium tier for critical applications with enhanced SLA guarantees. Second, consulting and coaching, anchored by two proprietary methodologies — Performance Driven Development (PSG-PDD) for sustainable SQL Server performance optimization and Repository Driven Design (PSG-RDD) for complexity reduction and long-term maintainability. Third, structured workshops covering availability, performance, data warehouse audit, health checks, migration/consolidation, and potential evaluation, plus white-board trainings and Analytics/Business Intelligence services (data warehousing, ETL, OLAP). The firm also extends into Azure Data Platform migration services.

Commercially, PSG operates as a sales-led boutique with quote-based pricing, multi-year retainer contracts for managed services, and direct engagement via phone and email. Its go-to-market combines direct outreach with content marketing through an extensive website knowledge base. The business serves enterprise IT organizations and BI users in the DACH region, with documented customers in German public sector, healthcare, and federal government (ZDL Zentrale Datenstelle der Landesfinanzminister, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Umweltbundesamt). PSG is privately held with no external investment, parent company, subsidiaries, M&A activity, or public financial disclosures.

Name

PSG Projekt Service GmbH

Legal name

PSG Projekt Service Gesellschaft für Systemberatung und Softwareentwicklung mbH

Website

https://psg.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hamburg-based German professional services firm specializing in Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform since 1994, offering managed DBA services, proprietary optimization methodologies, workshops, and BI consulting to enterprise IT and public-sector clients across the DACH region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Database Consulting Services

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Backup & DR Software Implementation & Managed Platforms (BPAEALAI)

Keywords

• SQL Server consulting
• Database administration services
• Performance optimization
• Managed DBA services
• Business intelligence consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services / Consulting: Consulting engagements for SQL Server analysis, troubleshooting, architecture, and project support. Charged per engagement or retainer.
2. Managed Services (DBA Pool, PSG MX): Ongoing database administration services delivered as managed services, typically on retainer contracts for critical applications.
3. Workshops and Training: Fee-based workshops including SQL Server Availability, Performance, Data Warehouse Audit, Potenzial Workshop, Health Check, and Migration & Konsolidierung workshops.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

PSG Projekt Service GmbH delivers consulting, managed services, workshops, and training exclusively focused on Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform. Its offerings include co-managed DBA services (PSG DBA Pool, PSG MX), SQL Server performance troubleshooting, migration and consolidation support, analytics/business intelligence consulting, and proprietary methodologies (PSG-PDD, PSG-RDD) for sustainable performance and complexity reduction, sold on a quote-based, project or retainer basis to enterprise IT organizations.

Product overview

PSG Projekt Service GmbH is a consulting and services company that has specialized in Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform for over 30 years. Rather than offering a single unified software product, PSG provides a portfolio of professional services organized around SQL Server expertise. The service portfolio includes managed DBA services (PSG DBA Pool, PSG MX), proprietary consulting methodologies (Performance Driven Development, Repository Driven Design), structured workshops (Performance, Health Check, Migration, Data Warehouse Audit, Availability), Business Intelligence/Analytics consulting, and direct consulting and coaching engagements. All services leverage Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Data Platform technologies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PSG DBA Pool: Co-managed database administration services
• PSG MX
• PSG PDD
• PSG RDD

Products and services

• PSG DBA Pool - Co-Managed Services Ongoing remote database administration services including administration, replication, OS server administration, cluster architecture, migrations, patch management, backup/restore, security, monitoring, and documentation, provided as a co-managed service for enterprise IT organizations running Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• PSG MX - Für kritische Anwendungen Managed services offering enhanced SLAs, redundancy, and certified team expertise specifically designed for mission-critical SQL Server business applications.
• SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Performance analysis and optimization services that identify and resolve SQL Server performance bottlenecks using a systematic troubleshooting methodology, sold to enterprise IT teams.
• Analytics & Business Intelligence Business Intelligence consulting including architecture consulting, data warehousing with ETL processes, pilot projects, and OLAP cube implementation using Microsoft BI technology, for organizations seeking to improve analytics capabilities.
• Beratung & Coaching für Ihr Projekt Expert consulting and coaching for SQL Server and Azure projects, providing a neutral assessment of customer environments using PSG's proprietary PDD and RDD methodologies.
• Performance Driven Development (PSG-PDD) Training Training program based on PSG's proprietary Performance Driven Development methodology, delivering sustainable performance optimization and complexity reduction skills for SQL Server teams.
• Repository Driven Design (PSG-RDD) Training Training program built on PSG's proprietary Repository Driven Design methodology, focused on clean orchestration and sustainable database system design for long-term maintainability.
• White Board Trainings Customized training workshops using a whiteboard approach that enables methodologically sound knowledge transfer for individual client questions and scenarios.
• SQL Server Verfügbarkeit Workshop Workshop focused on SQL Server availability solutions, covering high availability configurations and disaster recovery planning for enterprise database environments.
• SQL Server Performance Workshop In-depth workshop covering SQL Server performance optimization techniques and best practices for database administrators.
• SQL Server Data Warehouse Audit Workshop providing comprehensive audit of existing data warehouse implementations on SQL Server, identifying optimization opportunities.
• SQL Server Health Check Workshop Detailed examination of SQL Server installation and configuration, including structural analysis, integrity checks, index optimization, statistics updates, and security assessment.
• SQL Server Migration und Konsolidierung Workshop Comprehensive 360-degree workshop for migrating and consolidating SQL Server environments, addressing version upgrades, technology adoption, and improved administration.
• SQL Server Potenzial Workshop Workshop to evaluate a SQL Server environment and identify the potential for utilizing all available capabilities and optimization opportunities.

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Consulting Services: Microsoft's own Premier/Unified support and MCS teams deliver SQL Server and Azure Data Platform advisory and migration services — the broad incumbent against which PSG positions itself as a neutral, methodology-driven specialist.
• Capgemini Engineering: Capgemini delivers enterprise data platform consulting, including Microsoft data and SQL Server migration/modernization work, as part of a global systems integration portfolio — broad incumbent whose lower-end SQL Server engagements overlap PSG's market.

Direct peers

• Idera: Idera sells database management, performance, and administration tools for SQL Server (and other DB engines) — same customer persona (DBAs and data platform teams) as PSG, but in the tooling/vendor layer of the same ecosystem PSG serves through services.
• Quest Software: Quest provides database management, performance monitoring, and data protection tools across SQL Server, Oracle, and cloud — a direct peer in the SQL Server tooling category that competes for the same IT budget line items as PSG's managed services.
• dbWatch: dbWatch provides database monitoring and management software for SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle — directly competes with PSG DBA Pool and PSG MX on the monitoring/managed services layer of the SQL Server stack.
• SentryOne (now SentryOne / SQL Sentry): SentryOne specializes in SQL Server performance monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling — closely aligned to PSG's SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting and Performance Workshop offerings, addressing the same DBA pain points.
• Redgate Software: Redgate is a leading vendor of SQL Server development, monitoring, and deployment tools used by the same DBAs and data engineers that PSG serves — directly comparable SQL Server ecosystem vendor with overlapping buyer base.

Others

• PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server): PASS is the global professional community for SQL Server professionals — not a competitor but the primary ecosystem/conduit through which PSG's thought leadership and workshops reach its target DBA audience.

Regional players

• msg systems AG: msg is a large German IT consulting firm with data platform, BI, and Microsoft practices serving DACH enterprises and public sector — operates in the same regional consulting market as PSG but at much larger scale across multiple verticals.
• Arvato Systems: Arvato Systems (Bertelsmann subsidiary) is a German IT services provider with data management, BI, and Microsoft platform capabilities — comparable DACH-based competitor for enterprise and public-sector database consulting work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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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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