The Resour­ce Plan­ning fil­led a gap in the mar­ket, as many other com­pa­nies faced simi­lar chal­len­ges, and so the three gra­dua­te engi­neers deci­ded to dare the leap into self-employ­ment and com­bi­ne the deca­des of expe­ri­ence Wal­ter Sie­pe had gai­ned as a mana­ger at various machi­ne and plant manu­fac­tu­rers with the com­pu­ter deve­lo­p­ment talent of the two young col­leagues Goos and Ebbrecht. On the basis of this know-how, the con­cep­ti­on for a spe­cia­li­zed soft­ware was crea­ted, which sim­ply did not exist in this form yet. At that time, pro­jects were main­ly con­trol­led by hand­writ­ten notes, a plan­ning board on the wall and spreads­heet sys­tems such as Excel. 

After a tho­rough plan­ning and deve­lo­p­ment pha­se, Inno­soft GmbH was foun­ded in the spring of 1996. The Minis­try of Eco­no­mics, which was con­vin­ced of its con­cept, gran­ted a three-year sub­s­idy. The small team, which initi­al­ly con­sis­ted of four peop­le, recrui­ted more staff through the Uni­ver­si­ty of Dort­mund. In the first few years, the top floor of a pri­va­te house ser­ved as busi­ness and office space. It didn’t take long befo­re the next modu­les of today’s Ser­vice Manage­ment Sys­tem, the core ele­ment of which is still Resour­ce Plan­ning, were deve­lo­ped to mar­ket matu­ri­ty in the form of Cus­to­mer Manage­ment and Pro­ject Management. 

As the num­ber of cus­to­mers incre­a­sed, so did the num­ber of employees, so that in autumn 2000 it beca­me necessa­ry to move to a lar­ge office buil­ding in Dort­mund. Inno­soft soon occu­p­ied all ele­ven rooms on the top floor, but here, too, the space was soon insuf­fi­ci­ent due to the gre­at suc­cess and the asso­cia­ted incre­a­se in staff, which led to the next move in 2009. This time, the decisi­on was taken to move to a spa­cious office buil­ding in Dortmund’s Tech­no­lo­gy Park, not least becau­se of its direct pro­xi­mi­ty to the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Dort­mund. Today Innosoft’s employees occu­py the majo­ri­ty of the offices on the two upper floo­rs. Inno­soft GmbH has a total of 59 per­ma­nent employees at its Dort­mund loca­ti­on, as well as addi­tio­nal employees in sou­thern Ger­ma­ny, the Nether­lands and France.