Software – numbers and facts

The turnover of sma.software is made up of the three pillars of maintenance, projects and licence sales. In 2023, we sold nine licences of Viriato.Standard and one licence of Viriato Enterprise. In addition, we sold licences for the add-on modules MicroscopyOnDemand (5 licences), Vehicle Rostering (1) and Trip Time Analysis (1).

We also rent individual licences or additional modules for shorter periods. Geographically, the majority of sales were made in Germany. Other individual sales were made to North America and France. The ratio between existing customers who purchased additional licences or modules and new customers was about 1:1.

In addition, new long-term contracts for maintenance and further development were concluded with important customers.

As in previous years our customer projects were strongly dominated by the operators in the German-speaking market, supplemented by other projects for Western European operators and infrastructure managers. Together with internal projects, over 900 stories were implemented in 2023 as part of our agile development process. 

A total of 58 customer and product releases were delivered for 14 different versions of Viriato, which corresponds to an average of slightly more than one delivery per week.

To prepare our customers in the best possible way for working with Viriato, various training courses were held, which were individually aligned to the requirements and working processes of the individual customers. In contrast to previous years, the majority of training courses were again held on site at the customer's premises.