The Proalpha Group, one of the leading providers of business appli­ca­tions for small and medium-sized enter­prises, is acquiring Insiders Tech­no­lo­gies GmbH and signi­fi­cantly expanding its Indus­trial AI Platform with leading AI appli­ca­tions and services for digital document pro­ces­sing. In addition to the group companies Nemo and Empolis, Proalpha is thus expanding its AI expertise to 500 experts. At the same time, Proalpha is reaf­fir­ming its com­mit­ment to its home region and streng­thening its coope­ra­tion with leading AI insti­tutes such as the German Research Center for Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (DFKI), the Fraun­hofer Insti­tutes IESE and ITWM, and the RPTU Uni­ver­sity Kai­sers­lau­tern-Landau, with which Insiders has been working closely for many years.

Our customers will benefit from bundled AI expertise and ready-to-use, pre-inte­grated AI appli­ca­tions from a single source. The Insiders portfolio will be seam­lessly inte­grated into Pro­al­pha’s ERP and business appli­ca­tions while remaining available as a stan­da­lone solution—optimized for third-party systems and in line with our best-of-breed strategy. The tran­sac­tion is still subject to the usual regu­la­tory approvals.

Estab­lished part­ner­ship and AI as a central strategy

“Insiders has achieved a strong market position with its inno­va­tive solutions for cognitive process auto­ma­tion and the use of AI as a key tech­no­logy,” empha­sizes Christoph Kull, President of Business Appli­ca­tions at the Proalpha Group. „The company also addresses AI-based auto­ma­tion trends in our customers‘ target markets and has estab­lished itself as the market leader in the areas of purchase-to-pay auto­ma­tion and mailroom auto­ma­tion for many years. Insiders provides our customers with other business-critical appli­ca­tions that are closely inte­grated with ERP, such as e‑invoicing, some of which are already required by law. We can already look back on a long-standing part­ner­ship and have been able to build a trusting rela­ti­onship between the two companies. We are proud that numerous hidden champions from the manu­fac­tu­ring industry, such as SFB Schwä­bi­sche Form­dreh­teile, GEDA, and MULAG Fahr­zeug­werk, are among our joint customers.“ “The solutions from Proalpha and Insiders are a perfect fit and, as inte­grated AI offerings, will deliver real added value to both existing and new customers,” empha­sizes Werner Weiss, CEO of Insiders Tech­no­lo­gies GmbH. „Com­ple­men­tary target indus­tries also create a promising basis for suc­cessful cross-selling. Above all, however, it is the long-standing part­ner­ship that has convinced us to now jointly realize the full potential of the col­la­bo­ra­tion.“

Agentic AI as the next step in deve­lo­p­ment

“Companies need to approach the use of AI stra­te­gi­cally and purposefully—process by process and business area by business area,” says Eric Verniaut, CEO of Proalpha Group. „Our Proalpha Indus­trial AI Platform offers a tailor-made set of ready-to-use AI apps that indus­trial SMEs can imme­dia­tely and prac­ti­cally implement in their business processes along their value chain. With the acqui­si­tion of Insiders, we are now expanding this AI platform for our customers to include cognitive process auto­ma­tion in document-based workflows, which will fun­da­men­tally change decision-making processes and ope­ra­tional effi­ci­ency. Agentic AI will play a central role in the further deve­lo­p­ment of a new gene­ra­tion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence.“