Eplan is a 40-year-old design-software vendor for electrical, automation, and mechatronic engineering, now scaling through subscription and data-driven customer engagement. The hiring pattern—sales-heavy with growing data and analytics roles—alongside active projects in analytics dashboards, SAP data integration, and platform implementations reveals a shift from perpetual-license software toward subscription models backed by operational intelligence. The tech stack (SAP Analytics Cloud, BW/4HANA, Power Platform, HubSpot) and stated pain points (optimizing subscription revenue, platform expertise gaps) confirm the company is automating internal processes and building analytics capability to support account expansion and renewal.
Notable leadership hires: Analytics Team Lead
Eplan develops design and configuration software for machine and panel builders in electrical and automation engineering. The product suite integrates with ERP and PLM/PDM systems to maintain data consistency across engineering workflows. The company operates across electrical design, automation engineering, and mechatronic configuration, serving customers globally through a network of integrations and partnerships. Eplan is part of the Friedhelm Loh Group, a privately held industrial conglomerate with production and subsidiary presence worldwide. The company employs 501–1,000 staff and maintains headquarters in Monheim am Rhein, Germany, with sales and engineering operations in the United States, France, Sweden, Cyprus, and Serbia.
Eplan runs Salesforce, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP BW/4HANA for ERP and BI. Development uses Python, Java, C++, and JavaScript. Reporting and dashboards are built on Power Platform and Power Apps.
Current projects focus on platform integration, customer implementations, analytics dashboards, SAP data integration, and dashboard development for reporting and planning. The company is also building planning models and analytics centers.
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