Leading rail software provider Sqills is welcomed into the Siemens Mobility family as the acquisition completes

Sqills is based in Enschede, Netherlands and was established in 2002 and employs 160 people. The company is a leading Software as a Service (Saas) provider overseeing cloud-based inventory management, reservation and ticketing software for public transport operators throughout the world.

Working with 33 operators over nine countries, the rail software specialist has quickly become the provider of choice to leading transport operators, like SNCF, Irish Rail, Rail Delivery Group, SJ, Via Rail, and Eurostar.

Sqills are a major addition to Siemens Mobility’s dedication to building a software portfolio for digital intermodal and connected mobility solutions.

The “S3 Passenger” is Sqills state of the art online booking system and will be a huge positive for the Mobility giant along with Hacon, eos.uptrade, Bytemark and Padam Mobility. Sqills will now become part of an interconnected software portfolio which can offer a huge variety of services for public transport and giving passengers a way to easily identify and directly book the trip option that best suits their needs.

The software specialist will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Mobility but will be managed as a separate legal entity allowing Sqills to further strengthen its principal position in offering innovative, smart, and all-encompassing mobility solutions.

Karl Blaim, Managing Director and CFO of Siemens Mobility, said: “We are delighted to have finalized this acquisition and I am happy to officially welcome Sqills to the Siemens family. With Sqills, we can provide operators with a comprehensive SaaS offering that optimizes their key travel processes, including trip searching, inventory, reservation, and ticketing management. The SaaS solution helps to increase capacity utilization of trains through clever pricing, achieve greater utilization transparency for planning capacities, and the use of a configurable cloud-based solution significantly reduces costs,”

Bart van Munster, Managing director and CEO of Sqills, said: “Sqills is excited to explore new ways within the Siemens family to accelerate our go to market into Asia and the Americas, while continue to expand our customer base in Europe,”