The port and the car plant set the pace in Emden. New cars for export and components for offshore wind farms move across the quays, and entire supply and logistics chains are organised around the plant. For businesses in this environment a shop is not a shop window but an ordering channel with fixed rules: framework agreements, call-off quantities, delivery documents that fit the customer's ERP. Anyone selling digitally here almost always sells to business customers — and has to fit into their purchasing processes, not the other way round. An outage rarely goes unnoticed, because every order has a deadline behind it.
Two further features shape projects in Emden. The Netherlands lie on the other side of the Dollart, many businesses trade across the border and need websites and shops in German, Dutch and English — with their own prices, legal texts and shipping rules per country. And with the Emden campus of Hochschule Emden/Leer, shipyards and maritime service providers, there are organisations whose websites have to bring many departments, contacts and editors under one roof. Both are tasks where the system either makes the work easier or makes it harder for years.
For the ordering channels we use Shopware 6. We build B2B shops with customer-specific prices from the ERP, customer hierarchies and approval workflows, and connect the catalogue via OCI or punch-out to the procurement systems of large buyers. For trade with the Netherlands we set up separate sales channels with Dutch language, prices and shipping rules, without running a second shop. After go-live we look after the shop: patch releases are tested on a staging copy, interface logs and the message queue are monitored. A maintenance contract with an SLA sets how quickly we respond — 24, 8, 4 or 2 hours.
TYPO3 is strong wherever many people work on one site: departments, faculties and locations with their own permissions and approval steps, plus several languages in one installation. For institutions and industrial firms in Emden we build portals like these on TYPO3 v14 LTS. Existing installations on v12 or older — without free security updates since 30 April 2026 — we move forward along a planned upgrade path: extension analysis, test environment, cut-over after sign-off. Then we take over maintenance, checking every security bulletin on the day of publication, keeping the PHP version current and running backups whose restore has been tested.
We have no office in Emden; our only location is Oldenburg, around an hour away. For requirements workshops with purchasing and IT, for system demos and go-live we come to you by arrangement. Acceptance tests of an OCI connection we coordinate directly with your customer's purchasing team, usually by video. Day-to-day project work runs through a ticket system, a staging environment and named contacts. You can reach us Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 16:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0 — on-call cover for shift operations outside those hours exists only if it is explicitly agreed in the SLA.