History

Our company history

The PTA GmbH has experienced and helped shape the development of IT.
In 1969 the Programmier-Technische Arbeiten GmbH (PTA GmbH) was founded in Mannheim. A goal of the enterprise was the development of programs for technical computations, in particular for heat requirement calculations in the building industry.

In the following years, the focus of the development work shifted to commercial applications, especially in financial accounting and payroll accounting. Here, not only programs for IBM mainframe computer systems were developed and operated using punched cards, but also the accounting work was performed as a service for industrial companies.

The increasing dialogization of the application systems required an ever closer cooperation with the customer in order to jointly solve organizational and conceptual tasks. Therefore, the execution of customer projects was consistently placed at the center of business activities.

Due to customer requirements, the range of services could be successively expanded, so that not only intensive experience in the most important development environments could be gained, but also a variety of specialized knowledge in different industries could be built up.
Today, PTA advises customers not only through the conception and programming of individual systems. The increasing use of standardized applications in companies has led to the comprehensive technical know-how of PTA consultants also being used for the selection, introduction and expansion of the most important standard software products represented on the market.

In 2005, further steps were taken to expand the range of services and the sphere of activity of the PTA Group. In mid-2005, with the acquisition of DATIS Software GmbH (since January 1, 2011 DATIS IT-Services GmbH), the data center operation (outsourcing, hosting, cloud computing) and development of standard software for the logistics industry were taken over from a service provider with many years of experience in this field.
At the beginning of 2006, PTA’s business activities were expanded to Switzerland in order to provide local support for the locations of long-standing international customers there and to gain new markets.

Chronology

The history of the PTA: facts and figures

2018 - 2019

July 2019
Admission of Dr. Tim Walleyo to the circle of managing directors of PTA GmbH
Dr. Harald W. Busch retires

May 2019
50th anniversary of the PTA GmbH

2015 - 2017

December 2017
Dr. Tim Walleyo joins the management team

September 2017
Relaunch of the PTA GmbH website

Jan. 2017
Establishment of the Dresden office

March 2016
20th anniversary of the Munich office

Jan. 2016
20th anniversary of the Stuttgart office

Jan. 2016
10-year anniversary of PTA Schweiz GmbH

2010 - 2014

Aug. 2014
Admission of Dipl.-Kfm. Matthias Wossidlo to the circle of managing directors of PTA GmbH

March 2014
PTA homepage in a new look: modern and clear design, versatile and interesting information

June 2012
Dr. Andreas Schneider joins the management board

January 2012
Structure of the Kassel office

July 2011
Merger of sks-info GmbH with PTA Germany. In the future the services will be provided via the Berlin location.

July 2010
DATIS IT-Services GmbH commissions a new data center location with 200% capacity expansion and high availability concept

Jan. 2010
Expansion of the management by Dr. Frank Gredel and Dr. Thomas Steinmann

2010
Establish TORF as a “Team-Oriented Regional Management Concept

2000 - 2009

June 2009
PTA GmbH celebrates its 40th company anniversary

Febr. 2009
The listed remise at the PTA site in Mannheim at Seckenheimer Strasse 65-67 is being restored and converted into a large training room.

Jan. 2009
Decision on the establishment of a new regional PTA site in Düsseldorf

Nov. 2008
Relocation of the Munich office to larger premises
Decision on the establishment of a new regional PTA site in Kassel

Jan. 2008
Relocation of the Hamburg office to larger premises

Jan. 2006
Foundation of the company PTA Switzerland GmbH
Managing directors: Armin Wortmann, Dr. Thomas Steinmann

Dec. 2005
Relocation of the PTA headquarters in Mannheim to separate rooms in the “Alte Post” – a listed building

July 2005
Takeover of today’s DATIS IT-Services GmbH into the PTA Group, which since 1969 has been serving customers in the areas of computer center operation and hosting as well as standard software for logistics companies (freight forwarding companies).
Managing Director: Volker Herbel

May 2004
Expansion of the company management to a management board, in which the long-time employees Peter Meier, Dennis Haßlöcher and Matthias Wossidlo are accepted

May 2003
Admission of Dipl.-Kfm. Knut Fischer to the circle of managing directors of PTA GmbH

Dec. 2002
Merger of the sales company 3 S GmbH into PTA GmbH
sks-info GmbH becomes subsidiary of PTA

Nov. 2001
Establishment of the Berlin office
Branch manager: André Opierzynski

Febr. 2001
Establishment of the Hamburg office
Management today by a team of employees

1990 - 1999

Oct. 1999
Establishment of the Cologne office
Office manager: Dr. Andreas Schneider

Nov. 1997
Establishment of the Karlsruhe office
Office manager: Wolfgang Ruh

Aug. 1997
Relocation of the Stuttgart office to Murr
Office manager: Dr. Alfred Sommer

March 1996
Establishment of the Munich office
Branch manager: Willi Frank. Management today by a team of employees.

Jan. 1996
Takeover of IIS GmbH in Obersulm and management of the Heilbronn-Stuttgart office by Werner Winkler

Nov. 1994
PTA GmbH celebrates its 25th company anniversary

April 1991
Admission of sks-info GmbH to the PTA Group

Jan. 1991
Dr. Harald W. Busch becomes second managing director of PTA GmbH

March 1990
Establishment of the first PTA office for Frankfurt a.M. in Neu-Isenburg
Branch manager: Klaus Basters

Vor 1990

March 1989
Foundation of sks-info GmbH in Stendal by Boris Krause and Ulrich Schulz

March 1975
Takeover of the PTA management by Peter Fischer

May 1969
Foundation of the Programmier-Technische Arbeiten GmbH (PTA) in Mannheim with the participation of Dipl.-Ing. Peter Fischer