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Discover the what, why,
when and who of Sqills

Sqills is an innovative full service provider of software solutions.
At Sqills, we build, implement and maintain high-quality software solutions
for rail and bus operators, focused on reducing cost, increasing revenue
and improving customer overall satisfaction.

S3 Passsenger, our industry-leading sales and distribution platform
is specifically designed for public transport operators.

History Our team

Our story

Sqills was founded in 2002 in Enschede (the Netherlands), and has experienced a tremendous growth ever since its start. In 2007 the brand Sqills was launched and the business became even more internationally focused. 10 year later and Sqills has established a strong international footprint and customer base. And this is just the beginning!

Our beliefs

Within 5 years, Sqills becomes worldwide market leader for public transport (rail and bus) sales, reservation and distribution software because:

Sqills is the only vendor offering a commercial-off-the-shelf software suite offering thousands out-of-the-box functionalities which are in use by the current S3P users.

Sqills is committed to continue investing in product innovation to remain best in class and stay ahead of competition.

Sqills exceeds customers expectations with our team of highly qualified, knowledgeable and enthousiastic colleagues!

Our history

Some of the most memorable events in the history of Sqills.

June 2019

Start of TER partnership

March 2019

Start of RDG partnership

August 2019

Sqills introduces a new corporate style

June 2018

Sqills listed in Top 100 most innovative Small and Medium Enterprises in the Netherlands

March 2018

Start of Eurostar partnership

March 2018

Sqills listed in Top 250 scale-ups in the Netherlands

February 2017

Start of OUIGO/iDTGV partnership

November 2017

ISO 9001:2015 certified

November 2016

ISO 27001:2013 certified

September 2016

Start of IZY (Thalys) partnership

September 2015

Start of OUIBUS partnership

December 2014

Start of Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) partnership

November 2014

Sqills is listed in the Main Software 50

October 2014

ISO 9001:2008 certified

June 2012

Start of partnership with Arriva

May 2012

Start of partnership with Keolis (Syntus)

August 2008

Sqills becomes 4th in 2008 and 7th in 2009 in the Tech Fast 50

July 2007

Rebranding to Sqills

January 2005

Start of long-term cooperation with Dutch Railways

January 2002

JB-IT founded

Our team

We are a team-based organisation. Our teams work as self-organised agile teams composed from various parts of our organisation. These teams are designed to optimise flexibility, creativity, and productivity.

Join our team!

Development
Analysts
Operations
Testing
Security
Consultancy
Infrastructure

Development

Our developers use a wide variety of disciplines and programming languages to power S3 Passenger product development and ensure continued innovation. Each development team is responsible for a specific components and powers innovation and customer implementation.

Analysts

Our analysts work closely together with our consultants to develop the technical implementation plan together with our distribution partners per customer, as well as the generic internal S3P roadmap.

Operations

Our functional maintenance & support engineers manage the technical availability and performance of S3P and the Service Level Agreements with the S3P customers.

Testing

Our software testers work with our developers to ensure that the business- and/or customer requirements are met within our software and service. They document problems and ensure that the software is ready for a wide release. This ensures high-quality, intuitive and stable release cycles.

Security

The security team is a multi-disciplinary pool of resources in charge of implementing all necessary measures, procedures and tools to protect our mission critical software from outside threats.

Consultancy

Our business consultants ensure that our implementation meets the business and technical needs for our customers and distribution partners. They do so by working closely with our integration partners to understand the functional and technical client needs.

Infrastructure

Our cloud engineers ensure that our clients’ mission critical applications are constantly available. They manage cloud environments and are constantly involved in rethinking strategies, solutions, and tooling.