About Derdack®

Passion for Innovation

Derdack is an innovation leader in digitization, automation and mobilization of alert notification and incident response workflows. Our mission is to enable the right people to take smart decisions and effective actions in critical situations – anywhere and any time. Matthes Derdack, Ronald Czachara and Doreen Jacobi founded Derdack in 1999. Derdack has its headquarters in Glen Allen, Virginia, and Potsdam, Germany.

Our products are entirely designed and developed in Germany and the United States.

Derdack’s product, Enterprise Alert®, enables a superfast, reliable and anywhere response to critical incidents. It helps enterprises and global services organizations in over 50 countries and in all verticals to automate and centralize alert notification processes. It provides customers with the ability to reliably distribute critical information to the right people and to respond to critical incidents and emergency situations before they can impact business continuity and customer service levels.Enterprise Alert® is specifically designed for mission-critical applications and is complementing a variety of business systems.

Matthes Derdack - Group CEO Derdack, Chairman Derdack Corp.

“Ideas, constant innovation and thorough execution are the foundation of sustainable success. And this is how we build our company.”

Matthes Derdack, CEO Derdack & Chairman Derdack Corp.

Our Philosophy

Derdack has held a long-term vision for organic growth of the company based on the core values of persistence, passion and sustainability. Our customer, partner and employee relationship is determined by integrity, authenticity and reliability and is always provided with a personal touch.

 

We are driven by the idea of solving complex matters and sophisticated tasks through inspiring, intuitive yet powerful software products. Building on a German engineering heritage our objective is to combine innovation and premium quality. Derdack develops its Enterprise Alert software at its headquarter in Germany.

Important Milestones

2022

New HQ in Potsdam, Germany

2021

The 9th generation of Enterprise Alert is released

2017

SIGNL4, Derdack's SaaS, is launched.

2016

Derdack is named 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner

2014

Derdack sets up US subsidiary in Glen Allen, Virginia, USA

2013

German SME Initiative Award “Best of 2013”

2012

HP Alliance ONE Partner of the Year finalist

2012

IBM Business Partner Innovation Award finalist

2010

Global Messaging Award

2010

Network Computing Award

2010

European IT Excellence Award

2009

Derdack becomes Microsoft System Center Alliance Partner

2007

First software release of Enterprise Alert

2004

German Innovation Award 2004 finalist

2003

Microsoft Mobile Solution Challenge Award

1999

Matthes Derdack, Doreen Jacobi and Ronald Czachara founded a limited corporation

Around the office

Where we work

We have created a unique working environment. A place where people can grow, have fun and enjoy a great team play. We work with cutting edge technology and design next-generation software solutions. Our customers are all over the world and we take pride in delivering outstanding solutions and services, always with a personal touch.

Derdack Sailing Adventure 2014

Leadership

Matthes Derdack - Group CEO Derdack, Chairman Derdack Corp.

Matthes Derdack

Group CEO Derdack, Chairman Derdack Corp.

Matthes’ core responsibility is the vision and strategy behind Derdack and its products. At the age of 24 he gained second prize of the German innovation award “Mobile Data Communication”. He studied physics and computer science at the Humboldt-University Berlin and graduated from the Federal State University of Brandenburg, Germany, with an MBA degree specializing in Information Technology. Matthes is a member of several committees of the local chamber of commerce in Potsdam, a member of the foreign comittee of the German chamber of commerce and a member of the European Parliament of Enterprises(2010, 2014 & 2016). Matthes is also member of the board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Software&IT Association (SIBB). And as a Design Thinker he is a frequent speaker at the school of the Hasso-Plattner-Institut.

Doreen Jacobi - President and CEO Derdack Corp.

Doreen Jacobi

President and CEO Derdack Corp.

Doreen is heading Derdack’s US operations as CEO & President of Derdack Corp. Doreen graduated from the Federal State University of Brandenburg, Germany, with an MBA degree specialising in Information Technology. Before leading the US subsidiary of Derdack, Doreen has held the position of Chief Sales Officer of the German company, responsible for international sales, customer relationship management and the successful channel partner program.

Ronald Czachara - Technical Consulting and Support Lead

Ronald Czachara

Technical Consulting and Support Lead

Ronald belongs to the most knowledgeable people in the ICT industry. He has a track record of more than 100 successful deployments of communication solutions in numerous countries and industries. Within Derdack Ronald has filled various positions and has been leading the technical consulting and support team since 2011. Ronald studied physics and computer science at the Humboldt-University Berlin.