The IT group continues on its growth path.
The IT group Materna, which specializes in consulting and digitization projects, increased its preliminary group revenue in fiscal year 2025 to €795 million – an increase of 11.8 percent over the previous year (€712 million). Organic growth was 11.4 percent. In a market environment that remains challenging, this confirms the stability and performance of the core business.
“Our customers value our expertise when projects are complex, sensitive, or business-critical. This is precisely where we take responsibility for stable and secure digital systems and stand for measurable results. Courage, focus, and speed are not just buzzwords for us, but the benchmark for our actions,” explains Michael Hagedorn, CEO of the Materna Group.
Elevate: clear priorities for the next phase
With its Elevate strategy program, Materna is focusing its further development on sustainable and profitable expansion. The program combines measures for the further development of the organization, portfolio, and market presence and strengthens the group's ability to reliably transfer demanding digitization projects into operational use, even under challenging conditions. The goal is to increase revenue to around one billion euros by 2027 and, beyond that, to achieve double-digit annual growth by 2029.
Public Sector: Responsibility for critical infrastructures
The Public Sector developed particularly dynamically in 2025. Revenue in this division rose by 18.4 percent to €269 million. Impulses came from infrastructure, platform, and modernization projects in the public sector. The subsidiary Materna Infrastructure Solutions performed particularly well, more than quadrupling its revenue to €35.7 million. The Public Sector division of Materna SE also grew by 8.2 percent. In this environment, Materna contributes significantly to the stability and availability of central digital processes and infrastructures.
cbs: Digital transformation for manufacturing companies
cbs Corporate Business Solutions continued its positive development and achieved sales of €314 million – an increase of 14.5 percent. The company benefits from its global positioning and its holistic approach to digital business transformations in the SAP environment, particularly in the manufacturing industry.
Enterprise Service Management: European presence strengthened
In the Enterprise Service Management division, the XMS division achieved revenue of €191 million – an increase of 3.7 percent over the previous year. Within this segment, agineo, which specializes in ServiceNow, performed particularly well, increasing its sales by 24,3 percent to €69 million.
The business area was expanded internationally in a targeted manner in 2025. agineo expanded its activities to the DACH region. New BMC customers were acquired through the Materna Group's subsidiaries in Sweden and Norway, further consolidating the company's European market presence. In addition to ServiceNow and BMC, OpenText also plays a central role in the enterprise service management business.
“Enterprise service management is increasingly becoming a strategic management tool for modern organizations. With our strong partners and our industry expertise, we create solutions that bring processes together in a structured way and remain sustainable in the long term,” explains Uwe Scariot, responsible board member of the Materna Group.
Artificial intelligence in sensitive environments
Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping the group's projects. AI-supported components are used in infrastructure, platform, and service projects. They automate workflows and develop processes in a targeted manner.
One example is AIDA (AI + IDE (Integrated Development Environment) + AGENT), an AI-supported development assistant that automates routine tasks in software development, generates code, and detects sources of error. This enables Materna to increase the efficiency, quality, and speed of complex digitization projects.
Another key project is an AI agent system that makes complex data worlds from different systems accessible via natural language. The solution understands information across systems, links it intelligently, and translates it directly into usable results and process steps. The aim is to measurably improve data quality, reduce sources of error, and noticeably relieve the workload of skilled workers in their day-to-day work. Together with Amprion GmbH, the transition to regular operation was agreed at an early stage.
The performance in the area of AI services has also been confirmed externally: In the current PAC RADAR study “Leaders in AI-related Services for the German Mittelstand,” Materna is named “Best in Class” in this segment.
Responsible action as a benchmark
In 2025, Materna invested around €9.5 million in innovations at Materna SE alone, particularly in AI-based solutions, modular platform components, and the expansion of service-oriented offerings.
“For us, profitability and investment capacity go hand in hand. We are specifically strengthening our future fields while ensuring the quality of our results. Our solid capital structure allows us to finance innovation and internationalization from our own resources and create long-term value,” explains Dr. René Rüdinger, CFO of the Materna Group. As a family-owned company, economically viable and responsible action remains the benchmark.
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