The Futureware Company

When digital success isn’t optional, we take ownership — and cut the risk dramatically.

Backed by a success guarantee we’ve delivered on for more than 20 years.

As a trusted transformer that changes companies through software.

Because we attract exceptional talent — and give them the room, within our ecosystem, to do their best work.

Because we operate exclusively out of Germany, close to our clients.

Because we pair market-leading productivity with uncompromising quality.

250Employees

€42MAnnual revenue

NPS 100Outstanding client satisfaction

5+ yearsTypical length of a client relationship

99%of staff call QAware a great place to work (Great Place to Work, ranked #1)

4.7kununu Top Company rating

2025 / 2026Named a top IT service provider by Handelsblatt & brandeins

7.5%of revenue reinvested in R&D for agentic software engineering

85%of revenue comes from fixed-price projects at companies with >€1bn in revenue

<5%Staff turnover

ISO 27001 / 22301Certified security and resilience

TISAX / NIS2Fully compliant participant

1.0Credit rating (top score, independently audited)

What we do

Three levers, one mission: taking ownership

Futureware Engineering — made to matter

Wherever digitalization turns business-critical, off-the-shelf solutions stop being enough, and technology decisions become a genuine competitive factor — that’s where we step in. We build the systems that let companies thrive in an AI-driven world: bespoke software and platforms that make the difference exactly where it counts. Futureware is our answer to a world changing faster than ever — software built by people who take ownership of outcomes, not just code.

Business-critical software

We deliver where downtime simply isn’t an option — backed by a contractually fixed success guarantee.

Differentiating solutions

We create real competitive advantage. Not commodity outsourcing — software that reinvigorates organizations and markets.

Transformative technology

We combine AI, cloud, and engineering excellence with deep business acumen to turn our clients into digital front-runners.

Legacy Engineering — built for momentum

We turn high-stakes bets into transformations you can actually plan for. Legacy systems are holding entire companies back, and modernization efforts too often stall on complexity, uncertainty, and the wrong calls. QAware takes ownership of the step-by-step replacement, modernization, or extended longevity of business-critical legacy systems — backed by a success guarantee. Especially where others have already given up, we bring initiatives back on track: incrementally, under control, at dramatically reduced risk.

Legacy system due diligence

A fact-based analysis with a clear path forward — replace, modernize, or extend — grounded in evidence, not gut feel.

AI-accelerated, step-by-step replacement

With our Helix method and toolchain, plus a dedicated re-engineering team: fast onboarding into black-box systems, accelerated incremental replacement, and well-founded architecture decisions.

Software longevity

Preserving institutional knowledge, fast onboarding for new developers, and integrating legacy systems into an AI- and API-centric world.

AI Empowerment — built for transformation

Transformation rarely fails because of technology — it fails when strategy, organization, and execution don’t come together. We pair technological excellence with strategic ownership, putting AI to work exactly where it hurts most in the core business — and where it delivers the most impact. Measurable results, not innovation theatre.

AI portfolio management

Prioritizing use cases by business value and aligning them with data readiness, compliance requirements, and target architecture — the foundation for sound investment decisions.

Agentic Automation Team-as-a-Service

One shared team · six months · one business KPI · one kickoff hackathon. Measurable traction, not endless proofs of concept.

Sovereign agentic automation platform

An open-source agentic layer running in your cloud, on your workflow orchestration — full control, strong compliance, zero vendor lock-in.

Why QAware?

Not an IT vendor. A trusted transformer.

We take end-to-end ownership of business-critical and differentiating digitalization projects. We advise, manage, and build — all from one hand. Our client relationships are deep, long-term partnerships; the typical lifecycle runs well beyond five years.

A contractually fixed success guarantee

Structured as an agile fixed price with an OKR-based bonus-malus model. Planning certainty and quality of outcome aren’t a promise here — they’re written into the contract.

Ownership of the transformation

We guide you the whole way — from strategy through delivery — at both an operational and strategic level, backed by deep industry expertise. Principal Engineering Teams, close to the client, made in Germany.

Quality and productivity leadership

With agentic software engineering, we’re 2 to 10 times more productive than conventional teams — without compromising on quality. We reinvest more than 7.5% of our revenue every year to keep raising the bar.

Real teams, not CV lists

We don’t hand you a stack of resumes — we field a team. Our Principal Engineering Teams are proven, battle-tested, and take shared ownership of the outcome: a team that already works, not a set of individuals you have to coordinate yourself.

No lock-in — proven, not promised

We take ownership without creating dependency. Our projects are designed from day one to hand over cleanly to internal teams or other partners — and we have the track record to prove it.

Our manifesto

Our principles

What sets our way of working apart from conventional IT vendors.

01 Owners, not hired hands

02 Productivity over headcount

03 Pragmatic doers, not complexity merchants

04 Empowerment over dependency

05 Total cost over day rates

06 Impact over innovation theatre

07 Lasting quality over throwaway software

08 People-first, not “human resources”

09 Speed of learning over claiming to know it all

What our clients say

Voices from projects where trust and reliability matter

“QAware plans even large-scale software engineering projects reliably and keeps its commitments.”

Stefan Pütz, CISO — Deutsche Telekom AG

“QAware’s teams impress me with how quickly they get up to speed on our complex systems and pinpoint the core issues.”

Jörg Jonuleit, Head of Software Development — SHD Einzelhandelssoftware GmbH

“Time to market was outstanding — just nine months from kickoff to go-live.”

Gabriel Klement, Managing Director — Raiffeisen Information Services Südtirol

“Thanks to their expertise and a well-structured single source of truth, we were able to untangle the complexity of our legacy host system and turn it into a solid migration roadmap.”

Michael Dopp, Head of IT — Hellmann Worldwide Logistics

“QAware’s tightly coordinated team grasped our domain in no time and saved us real time in the process.”

Andreas Rieckhoff, CTO/CIO — Caeli Wind GmbH

Selected clients