ASTRUM has applied a quality management system in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001 since 1995 and is certified in the areas of IT consulting services, sales, development and support of software solutions.

In 1999, ASTRUM became a preferred supplier of software for Siemens Healthcare – the world’s leading manufacturer of medical technology.

ASTRUM IT was named a recognised training company by the Nuremberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce in 2000 and has now been training new apprentices for 22 years. We are proud that Julian Seidel received the prestigious award for the best Bavarian apprentice in 2017 in the field of: “Apprenticeship as an IT specialist, specialising in application development”.

In 2004, ASTRUM IT GmbH with 80 employees is spun off from ASTRUM, which now already has 180 employees; Gerhard Pölz buys ASTRUM HR as Managing Director of interflex.
Just two years later, ASTRUM IT celebrates its 100th employee.

Visit.net, the visitor management system developed by ASTRUM IT, is established as a brand. 2019 saw another strategic and sustainable step towards a successful future – the renaming to VISIT. Specialists continue to develop VISIT on a daily basis and adapt new features to the individual requirements of customers.

In addition to the headquarters at Wolfsmantel 2, two further locations are established. The chamber administration software team finds a new company headquarters in Munich, while the associated project office is positioned in Augsburg.

In 2010, ASTRUM IT becomes a member of the “Medical Valley” cluster of excellence – an interdisciplinary network of 230 members from business, science, healthcare, networks and politics, with the aim of finding solutions for the healthcare of tomorrow.

With certification to DIN EN ISO 13485, ASTRUM IT complements the existing ISO 9001 standard with the core requirement of product safety and effectiveness for the design and manufacture of medical devices.

In 2015, ASTRUM IT is awarded the Bavarian Health Telematics Innovation Prize by Ilse Aigner, Deputy Bavarian Minister President, for eGaIT.

ASTRUM IT celebrates its anniversary on 1 October 2017. 25 years of concentrated IT power with numerous new customer projects and partnerships that have developed over the past decades. With Gerhard Pölz as managing partner, a successful company succession is secured. A new era – accompanied by BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH – begins.

The VISIT brand becomes a separate business unit with project sales and professional product development

The time has come in mid-2020. ASTRUM IT has successfully completed its repositioning and is delighted to have a strong presence and a new website with a modern design.

Two research projects are launched in the same year:
“ERIK”, a robot platform to support new interaction strategies for children with limited socio-emotional abilities and “CMLB”, a new type of condition monitoring system for damage monitoring of swivelling slewing bearings”, which ASTRUM IT is developing in cooperation with the Georg Simon Ohm Technical University of Nuremberg and the engineering company Eolotec. This is a condition monitoring system based on optical sensors for the rolling bearings of wind turbines.

Gerhard Pölz is appointed to the Federal Economic Senate / Excellence Committee of the BVMW.

The agility and flexibility of the company and all employees is demonstrated once again at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Within two weeks, up to 95% of all employees are working remotely from home.

ASTRUM IT focuses on new digital communication channels: social media activities, trade fair appearances, partner strategies, intranet and the ASTRUM IT Academy are successfully expanded.

Well-known customers use VISIT as SaaS (Software as a Service) for the first time and ASTRUM IT is once again recognised as a TOP supplier by Healthineers.

ASTRUM IT is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Employee benefits such as a business bike are provided. ASTRUM IT also introduces a company health insurance scheme.

Certification according to DIN ISO 27001 for information security.

ASTRUM IT is moving to a new location in December 2023. In future, the software expert for digital vitality will have its headquarters at Nordostpark 33 in Nuremberg, just 10 minutes away from its current location in the north of Nuremberg.

At its new headquarters, ASTRUM IT will offer a contemporary workplace that is technologically and energetically up to date and will enable the values of ASTRUM IT to be continued on the premises.

The Innovation Hub is founded in January. It represents ASTRUM IT’s vision of actively shaping the future of everyday working life in conjunction with modern technology. The focus is primarily on the integration of AI and technological innovation as well as our research projects and individual training programmes.

The Innovation Hub is home to research projects, among other things. We are currently working on four research projects:

DeltaPro: Increasing product and process quality by analysing signal parameters in broadband networks in real time.

SPARC-Monitor: Monitoring the autoregulation of the brain and intracranial compliance in patients in intensive care units.

FORSocialRobots: Development of social robots to be used in various areas such as care and industry to improve interaction with humans.

LLM-SE: Efficient model-based systems engineering (MBSE) through the use of
Large Language Models (LLM).

The VISIT brand continues its successful vertical alignment. New focus on the banking and insurance sector. With the increasing focus on KRITIS, VISIT is becoming more and more important for our customers. The digital visitor platform VISIT is the first SaaS and hybrid solution on the market. International product expansion to Scandinavia, Denmark, the Middle East and the USA.

ASTRUM IT receives the Top Company seal from kununu for the fourth year in a row, making it one of the 5 per cent of the best employers on the platform.

In November, ASTRUM IT moves within Munich to the office of AKDB, one of the partner companies.

Another milestone in our company history: In January 2025, ASTRUM IT CEO Gerhard Pölz, Daniel Tripp, Business Development & Operations Executive ASTRUM IT as well as CCO Steve Bewick and Juan Andres Arias, SVP GIPM ACS of dormakaba International Switzerland sign the framework agreement between ASTRUM IT and dormakarba.

With immediate effect, we are now a strategic & certified partner of dormakaba Deutschland GmbH and support the dormakarba security portfolio with our visitor and yard management platform.