Transactions, portfolio developments and our own publications. The German edition additionally lists the trade-press coverage, which is in German.
In the programme curated by the iX editorial team, Jörn Petereit presents the method behind the independent, freely accessible Compass. A live demo shows how the tool can be configured to your own use case, how minimum requirements are set as dealbreakers, and how an EU sovereignty rating comes about. 24 and 25 November, Nemetschek Haus, Munich.
See the programme ↗Between the GmbH backdrop and the EU flag. Sovereignty is not a label but a measurable spectrum. The talk shows where providers actually deliver and why sovereignty washing works in both directions, with an outlook on EU-CSF and CADA. 8 October, Cologne.
See the programme ↗How do you spot sovereignty washing, and how much sovereignty does a use case really need? Using the Compass, the talk shows how cloud offerings can be placed objectively against publicly verifiable criteria. 7 October, Cologne.
See the programme ↗The tecRacer CEO is on the finalist list for the CRN Channel Awards 2026.
See the finalists ↗The five levers buyers price in IT services companies, and a 40-point scorecard for exit preparation. 32 pages, in English.
Request the whitepaper ↗After more than forty tracked transactions, an interim review of IT services M&A, plus the seven questions founders ask most often and two public takeovers that repriced the European market.
Read the issue ↗The third competency within a year. It marks the step from pure technology capability to measurable business outcomes.
Read the item ↗Why most roll-ups fail, the integration engine, four operational value levers, and a way to decide between platform and add-on. 20 pages, in English.
Request the whitepaper ↗Operator-led buy and build, why acquisitions alone create no value, and Frank Strecker on building and selling Skaylink to Vodafone.
Read the issue ↗The platform’s own market study on the sovereignty of cloud offerings.
See the report ↗How to test a sovereignty pitch, with the European Cloud Sovereignty Report covering 17 providers and 31 criteria, plus Stefan Biehler from a critical-infrastructure view.
Read the issue ↗A portrait of the tecRacer CEO in the series on influential women in leadership.
Read the item ↗How channel partners and managed service providers use the evidence-based, vendor-neutral method of the Compass to advise customers properly instead of relying on marketing. 15 April, Munich.
See the programme ↗The second competency within a month, and further evidence for the platform’s sovereignty strategy.
Read the item ↗Seven dimensions of AI-native transformation, the AI-Native Maturity Ladder, and a readiness self-assessment. 36 pages, in English.
Request the whitepaper ↗Buying licences is not a transformation. If AI makes your team 30% more productive, a time-and-materials model loses you 30% of revenue. With Michael Müller on the path from cloud native to AI native.
Read the issue ↗tecRacer acquires the Austrian AWS Advanced Consulting Partner KaWa commerce. Both founders stay on board and run Austria as a fully operational country organisation with its own delivery and its own sales. The teams in Carinthia and Vienna stay intact.
Read the item ↗The first of the year’s three competencies and a central piece of evidence for the platform’s AI positioning.
Read the item ↗How autonomous agents are rewriting the business models of IT services providers. With Rachel Linnemann, CEO of tecRacer, and the transactions of the first quarter of 2026.
Read the issue ↗Expanding the platform’s sovereignty portfolio.
Read the item ↗The sovereign European AWS region enters regular operation. tecRacer is on board as a launch partner from the start.
Read the item ↗The former Vice President Global Hyperscaler at T-Systems takes over on 1 January 2026. There she was responsible for the AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure business as well as the strategy for managed services and sovereign cloud. Founder Sven Ramuschkat moves into the role of Principal Technology Advisor.
Read the item ↗tecRacer is a finalist as Training Partner of the Year EMEA in the Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards.
Read the item ↗In the ISG Provider Lens AWS Ecosystem Partners Germany 2025, tecRacer is rated a leader alongside Cognizant, T-Systems and Wipro. An unusual result for a company of this size.
See the announcement ↗The platform’s own survey on the state of the sovereignty debate in the German market.
See the study ↗Eike C. Frerichs on Finance Data People by Radial, on investing in IT services providers and the practice behind the theory. In German.
Listen to the episode ↗How mid-sized IT services providers scale: market trends, a buy-and-build playbook, a PMI framework and a 7-point check. 30 pages, in German.
Request the whitepaper ↗tecRacer is among the launch partners of the sovereign European AWS region.
Read the item ↗The platform repositions itself visibly, with the ambition of becoming a European AWS thought leader.
Read the item ↗Expanding the positioning in managed security.
Read the item ↗Eike C. Frerichs on DAWICON CFO INSIGHTS, on private equity for IT services, fundraising, investment strategy and buy and build. 53 minutes, in German.
Listen to the episode ↗Jörn Petereit and Sven Ramuschkat on CLOSE THE DEAL, on the transaction from both the buyer’s and the seller’s side. In German.
Listen to the episode ↗A majority stake in the European AWS pure play tecRacer, founded in 2006 by Sven Ramuschkat. Around 120 employees across nine locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Portugal. The ambition from the start: European expansion through acquisitions.
Read the item ↗Jörn Petereit on CLOSE THE DEAL, on the founding thesis of IT Capital Partners. In German.
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