DATEV

The DATEV is a software house and IT service provider for tax consultants, accountants and lawyers, but also for their clients, such as medium-sized companies, municipalities, associations and institutions. The focus is on tax adviser market.

Terms of Use

The company is a registered cooperative. Member can only be members of the tax advisory, economic and tested legal profession.

History

DATEV was founded on 14 February 1966 by 65 tax agents chamber district of Nuremberg, to do the bookkeeping of their clients with the assistance of computers. Her original name was DATEV data processing organization tax agent for the members of the tax consulting profession in the Federal Republic of Germany, registered cooperative society with limited liability initiators were Heinz Sebiger, the 1997 honorary citizen of Nuremberg, and Joachim Mattheus.

Background for the creation were the then new applications of IT, the labor shortage and the impending introduction of the all-phase for 1968 net sales tax with deduction ( vulgo: VAT). First, the services of DATEV were complete data center based, they ( since 1969 own data center initially by IBM, then ) and returning the evaluations by post included entering data into data acquisition devices on site, shipping the paper tape by mail to the data center to the Registry. Since 1974 there is the possibility to transfer the data via remote data in the data center. The return of the evaluations ( accounting reports, payroll records, tax returns or financial statements ) remained first post, because even most of the paper was still required. From 1985, the program was started on the so-called " In - house processing " in the office with the gradual change, but the first applications to complete in - house processing without use of the data center until 1989 were available.

In 1998, the DATEV the software from MS- DOS to Microsoft Windows to. An originally operated in the direction of OS / 2 provided by IBM porting was not pursued due to the anticipated decline of this operating system.

Since 1998, the DATEV expanded its business software and IT services as well as consulting and training. The " In - house " processing of data by the members took. In response to the current return tendencies to use centralized reproached resources ( "cloud computing" ) was taken in 2011, an additional data center location in operating spring. DATEV now supports network-based solutions, on-site software and hybrid models.

Business

Software for financial accounting: The financial accountancy of about 2.5 million of mostly medium-sized German companies are created by the accountant or the company itself with DATEV software. Accordingly DATEV stands as a synonym for a German standard computerized accounting.

Wage and salary: around eleven million wage and salary slips are created every month with DATEV software. Of these, approximately eight million monthly billings come from the DATEV calculation, printing and logistics center, an estimated two million are generated via PC programs DATEV locally in companies and law firms.

Data distribution and information delivery: Largely automated exchanged over the DATEV data center information between small businesses and their tax advisors as well as over 200 institutions in Germany - including tax authorities, social security institutions, health insurance companies, banks, professional associations or statistical offices. This DATEV support medium-sized companies to be in the context of different e -government projects increasingly electronically actionable reporting requirements. In databases DATEV members are more than 530,000 documents on the topics of tax, civil, commercial and corporate law in full text is available.

Security Services: A key element of DATEV corporate culture makes has always been the area of ​​data protection and security from. Origin of this focus is the professional duty of confidentiality, which are subject to the Member professions DATEV. On the basis of the relevant know -how, the cooperative also developed a series of security services, ranging from protection of Internet access as well as of computers and networks using the data backup and opportunities for safe use of mobile work equipment to differentiated consulting services and the physical protection of premises. So user can for example use a managed security service, where on the firm or the company's own communication equipment (DSL ) an exclusive dial-in via VPN tunnel is carried into DATEV data center. DATEVnet users are routed through a central security zone DATEV the Internet. In it are staggered and redundant protection systems, such as antivirus or firewall systems that are continuously monitored and updated by security specialists. The multi-stage nature of the security system is the fastest possible protection even in emerging pests. Also offers DATEV secure e -mail traffic with cascaded, central virus scanning and encrypted mails. A unique feature is the so -called reverse scan, are constantly checked with the constantly updated protection mechanisms for copies of all e -mails that were sent to the DATEVnet users, over a period of twelve hours in a central memory buffer. So also viruses, trojans or keyloggers can be discovered quickly that should have managed to sneak in a short time into the system before their emergence was known. To complete the protective belt DATEVnet was introduced with the web Radar incl reverse scan. The Web Radar is a multi-level security concept with static and dynamic protection filters. It will be tested as a special security service all page views in the past 24 hours web addresses that point to a pest infestation.

Consulting: The consulting DATEV advises law firms and in cooperation with their tax advisors and companies in strategic and organizational issues as well as the use of information technology as well as security and privacy.

Software for auditing: Auditor supports DATEV especially with solutions for the final exam. In addition to the traditional products for the audit working papers with, checklists and templates for audit reports, there are offers for particularly demanding in that profession, quality control and quality assurance as well as for digital data analysis.

Solutions for Lawyers: Since 1998 DATEV involved with the legal market. Meanwhile occupied the IT service provider in fourth place among the appropriate providers in Germany. Particularly strong DATEV software is traditionally represented in the market segment of interdisciplinary firms. Core of the specific bid is the firm system attorney classic pro.

Software for municipalities and municipal enterprises: The administrations are increasingly focusing on operational management concepts. Together with the tax advisors DATEV provides specially tailored to the needs of local advice and an integrated software system around the financial system. Deeply committed is the IT service provider in double-entry conversion projects.

Strategic Direction

Since early 2000, there were internal conflicts among the members of the cooperative 's strategic direction, which is also for people who are not professionals, concerns the offering of the DATEV software (keyword " client direct business "). With the establishment of the " IDA " (Association of DATEV user eV) was formed a cooperative oriented counterpoint within the members. There was the tension between " cooperative obligation " (ie, the cooperative should only do what uses the comrades direct) and " economic success " ( any meaningful increase in sales is good in principle ) to light. The discussion seems to have ended since the extraordinary meeting of representatives of 18 February 2005. With the explicit approval and support of the IDA Articles of Association were amended by a majority of 86.5 % in order to allow the now so-called " member -bound clients business." Required but is always the prior consent of the consultant, which can also be withdrawn.

Since 2000 DATEV is also active abroad. The international involvement currently includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Italy, Poland, Spain and Hungary.

Products

The power spectrum of DATEV mainly covers the areas of accounting, personnel management, business consulting, taxation, enterprise resource planning ( ERP), as well as organization and planning. It ranges from more than 200 PC programs via cloud services like online applications, data processing and archiving in the data center as well as outsourcing services and security services. The offer is rounded off by consulting services and offers for knowledge transfer in Germany and some other European countries.

Platforms

DATEV software is generally based on the Microsoft operating systems, so the current versions of Microsoft Windows. For Apple users exist in the market but also emulators that make the programs on Mac computers capable of running. Data is stored on the Microsoft SQL Server. Most programs are provided in addition to supporting the Microsoft Office formats also with interfaces to Open Office. DATEV programs for payroll and payroll also have detached interfaces to ERP systems, SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Sponsor for

DATEV is a sponsor of the Challenge Roth triathlon. The contract runs from 2013 until 2016.

Associated companies

  • DATEV IT Services and Service GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
  • TeleTax GmbH, Berlin, Germany
  • DATEV.at GmbH / Vienna, Austria
  • DATEV.cz s.r.o. / Brno, Czech Republic
  • DATEV.pl sp. z o.o. / Warsaw, Poland
  • DATEV KOINOS s.r.l. / Milan, Italy
  • DATEV.it SpA, Assago, Italy
  • DATEV SGS srl, Salerno, Italy ( Beteiligungunsunternehmen the DATEV.it SpA)
  • DATEV SINFOPAC S.L.U. / Barcelona, Spain

Indicators

(As of 2013, source DATEV )

  • Turnover 2012: 760 million
  • Members: 40 085 (30 June 2013)
  • Employees: 6,487 (30 June 2013)
  • Wage and salary administration: around 11 million per month
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