Petatec at a glance
Petatec cuts IT cost and makes infrastructure, suppliers and AI reliable, across Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Pragmatic, not academic
An IT strategy is only worth as much as its execution. We recommend what can actually be delivered in your environment: with your budget, your team and the suppliers you already have. We will give you an honest assessment even when the answer is to stop a running project or switch a vendor.
Our view: a recommendation is only valuable if it works in practice.
Reliable, not hectic
Stable IT comes from consistent work, not heroic interventions. Clean processes, clear documentation and routines that carry day-to-day operations are our standard. We avoid hero mode because hero mode always ends in burnout and knowledge loss in the medium term, both risks to your availability.
Our view: stability comes from quality and consistency, not from heroics.
Service culture that listens
Technology only pays off when people can actually work with it. Our multicultural teams combine technical depth with communication and empathy. Every solution is tested with the people who will use it before rollout, so projects match your goals and your culture.
Our view: IT only works as a shared effort between technology and people.
Innovation with measurable benefit
We build AI and automation solutions for real workflows. Recruiting, internal processes, system integration: every solution is sized for measurable results, not for demos.
Our view: innovation only counts when it improves real business results.
Our story
Petatec started in 2002 in Switzerland as a specialist for engineering and Citrix projects. In the early years we supported industrial clients including ABB, Bombardier and Hirslanden through critical infrastructure migrations across sites and borders.
As DACH activity grew, mandates in aviation (Etihad Airways), professional services (Ernst & Young) and energy followed. In parallel, today's signature emerged: technical depth combined with a commercial perspective. We do not just advise on what is technically possible, but on what stays economically viable.
In 2023 the group expanded into the UK market with Petatec Ltd in Watford. Together this covers the three regions where our clients actually operate: Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom. AI automation joined as a dedicated practice, with the same standard: benefit before hype.
Where we work
Our three locations are not marketing addresses. Altendorf (Schwyz) hosts our DACH team, which has served the Swiss market for over twenty years and supports mandates in Germany and Austria. Watford (UK) hosts our British team for the UK market and cross-border supplier coordination for clients with operations in multiple countries.
For cross-border projects, both teams act as a single distributed team, with clear ownership and one toolchain. Our working languages are German, English, French and Turkish, used in production every day. That simplifies supplier conversations and stakeholder management across DACH and the UK.
Industries we deliver in
Our mandates concentrate in five areas where IT decisions have a direct impact on business outcomes: aviation and transport, industry and engineering, healthcare and life sciences, automotive, and professional services and consulting.
In each of these industries we know the typical bottlenecks: a grown supplier landscape with no clear ownership, runaway licence cost, missing or outdated backup strategy, AI projects without governance. The references page lists concrete case studies, both named and anonymised, with the result figures.
How we work
Every mandate starts with a structured initial assessment. We review your IT landscape, supplier contracts, licence estate, security posture and current cost structure. The output is a written situation assessment with clear recommendations, prioritised by effort and expected benefit.
During delivery we pair our consultants with your internal IT team. We take ownership but do not replace your team: knowledge transfer and clean documentation are fixed components of every project. After project close-out, your team can carry on independently.
For long-term mandates we offer a tiered model of 2nd and 3rd level support, regular reviews and predictable change management. That keeps operations stable without paying consulting days year-round.
Our commitment
Tailored IT services for your business success. We want to be the partner you work with over years, because the consulting is honest and the solutions actually work.
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