Bechtle renews experimenta partnership

• Three-year sponsoring term
• Germany’s largest IT system house renews contract with largest German science centre
• Bechtle strengthens regional ties

Neckarsulm, 01 June 2023 – Bechtle AG is renewing its sponsoring partnership with the experimenta science centre in Heilbronn. The new agreement will run until the end of May 2026, following the initial contract signed in 2019. True to the motto “Experience gives rise to knowledge”, experimenta’s mission is to get people of all ages excited about science and technology. Since opening in 2009, Bechtle has been its trusty IT partner, providing a wide range of IT solutions and services. The science centre is packed with experiences including 275 interactive exhibitions, studios, labs, maker space, a planetarium and a Science Dome, allowing people to experience a particularly vivid form of digitalisation in the transfer of knowledge.   

For Bechtle, extending its established partnership with the experimenta makes perfect sense as its concept doesn’t just meet two of Bechtle’s Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy criteria—education and children and young people—it also combines digital opportunities with tangible, visual, and auditory experiences, providing young people with diverse access to information technology. With this agreement, both Germany’s largest system house and science centre are cementing regional ties in the Heilbronn-Franken economic area.

From digital backpacks to a glass data centre
There from the very start, Bechtle has been a crucial IT partner in equipping the science centre, managing the digital infrastructure including networking and IT security, linking up of systems and end devices as well as providing a scalable cloud solution as a foundation for experimenta’s “Digital Backpack” that allows visitors to securely save images, video, and music created as they explore. The glass data centre in the foyer and eight modern labs are also equipped with hardware and software by experts from Bechtle in Neckarsulm.

Modern Workplace concept brought to life
Bechtle also supports experimenta with the ongoing development of their modern workplace to provide employees with the best collaboration opportunities as the interplay of end devices, software and services enables them to embrace flexible, hybrid and networked working.