Press release – February 20, 2025
SENEC drives the private energy transition with CIM Database Cloud
SENEC’s battery storage systems, photovoltaic panels, and wallboxes enable private households to generate and use their own electricity. The company now leverages CIM Database Cloud from CONTACT Software to enhance efficiency in product development.
Intelligent energy and storage solutions turn private households into electricity producers that contribute to the transition towards sustainable energy. Photovoltaic panels generate power that is either used in the home, charged into an electric car via a wallbox, or temporarily stored in a battery. The energy solution specialist SENEC from Leipzig, Germany, supports its customers with a seamless ecosystem of hardware and software. Now, the company aims to optimize its product development with CIM Database Cloud Enterprise from CONTACT Software. In the long run, the “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) solution is set to become the central data hub for the entire company.
To prepare for the company’s expected growth, SENEC is putting its product development on a new footing. In a benchmark, CIM Database Cloud emerged as the ideal solution: The PLM system can be flexibly scaled and optimally adapted to future requirements. Its user-friendly design and CONTACT’s open interface technology were additional decisive factors.
CIM Database Cloud integrates information from various systems into a central Single Source of Truth, including MCAD, ECAD, ALM, ERP, and CRM data. This simplifies collaboration across the entire company as well as with partners and suppliers. In addition to comprehensive data management, SENEC benefits from powerful functions for project and requirements management. In the future, CONTACT Elements will be expanded to become the central data platform for the whole company, providing all employees with access to corporate knowledge.
“The Elements platform – in tandem with CONTACT’s project team – offers plenty of flexibility for integrating our systems, ideas, and future extensions,” says Robert Lüddecke, Capability Owner Product Development & Lifecycle Management at SENEC. The PaaS operating model combines high data security and global data access with reduced efforts for administration and infrastructure. At the same time, extensive DevOps services ensure high customizability.
SENEC GmbH has been developing intelligent energy storage systems and storage-based energy solutions since 2009. With SENEC.360, the company offers a harmonized ecosystem for sustainable self-sufficiency, including energy storage (SENEC.Home), solar panels (SENEC.Solar), a virtual electricity account (SENEC.Cloud), and a charging station for electric cars (SENEC.Wallbox). The SENEC brand has become one of Europe’s leading providers of innovative energy and storage solutions for single-family homes, with over 150,000 systems sold and a strong consulting network. SENEC GmbH has been a wholly owned subsidiary of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG since 2018 and employs over 540 people at its locations in Germany and Italy.
