Strong partners for innovative solutions

Digitalisation provides many sorts of opportunities for the housing and energy sectors. But all of us, including Aareal, have to work together to realise those opportunities. We have been a banking partner for the housing and energy sectors for many years and have built up a comprehensive partner network of firms in our Banking and Digital Solutions segment. 

And so we can all supply you with our know-how in the areas of corporate banking, payment transactions and ERP and process management. We can help you to digitalise your banking and payment processes sustainably, design them more efficiently and open up competitive advantages. 

Discover our network and profit from the comprehensive sectoral know-how. 

Subsidiaries and affiliates

We supplement our many years of know-how optimising corporate bulk payment transactions in the housing and energy sectors using the solutions provided by our subsidiaries and affiliates.

  • Collect Artificial Intelligence GmbH is a pioneer for AI-supported solutions in the area of intelligent invoicing and dunning processes. collect.AI offers its customers end-to-end cash flow optimisation, for example with AI-based claims management.
  • plusForta GmbH: our subsidiary plusForta is a market-leading broker for tenancy bonds, specialised in insurance products for the property industry.
  • First Financial Software GmbH is a joint venture of Aareal Bank AG and Aareon Group GmbH. It bundles special competencies and payment software solutions for the property sector and neighbouring industries.

Partner for optimised payment transactions

Thanks to virtual account numbers, which enable the exact allocation of payments, the Aareal accounts system is among the widespread solutions for automated payments in the housing and energy sectors. Companies can realise additional efficiency potential up to the level of the ERP by combining the accounts system with the BK01 solutions portfolio of First Financial Software GmbH. ERP suppliers and long-standing BK01 partners in the housing and energy sectors support you in this.

System development partners

We fall back on a network of development partners that is strong on the innovation front, for the ongoing development of solutions to optimise processes in payment transactions between the housing and energy sectors:

  • DSC Unternehmensberatung und Software GmbH has specialised in introducing and optimising IT systems and business processes as well as implementing legal requirements in the utilities sector in an SAP environment.  
  • items GmbH & Co. KG: the full-service provider  itemsoffers among other things IT infrastructure, consulting and process services with a focus on cooperation platforms. Energy corporations profit from bundled expertise in digitalising billing and payment transactions.
  • Pixolus GmbH develops applications for general data capturing (OCR) and image recognition via cameras fitted to smartphones, tablets and data glasses. Firms can digitalise meter readings, thereby saving time and money, by implementing MeterCollect, a software solution from First Financial Software.
  • phi-Consulting GmbH: a core competence lies in the replication and automation of business processes using ERP systems. It supports firms particularly in the successful implementation of BK01products in existing systems.
  • rku.IT GmbH: As a service provider of IT solutions rku IT supplies predominantly reliable, future-oriented outsourcing and consultancy services for the utilities and transport sectors. Thanks to this cooperation, companies benefit from the consistent and efficient design of their payment processes.
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Case study

Towards a digital future.

Why the BUWOG Group GmbH is relying on automated processing of its payments received.

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Automatic payment allocation for energy providers.

How Stadtwerke Kaiserslautern have optimised their postings of credit transfers, etc.

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Automation as an efficiency driver.

How WBV-GPA in Vienna can manage its inpayments more efficiently using virtual account numbers.

Do you have any questions about our partner network?

Let's talk!

Björn Burgey

Senior Manager Sales - Banking & Digital Solutions

+49 611 348 3624

Martin Konrath

Director Sales - Banking & Digital Solutions

+49 611 348 3218

Torsten Schuster

Director Sales - Banking & Digital Solutions

+49 611 348 2987

Andreas Beckmann

Director Sales - Banking & Digital Solutions

+49 611 348 2985

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