Prizes & Awards

By awarding the IT INNOVATION PRIZE the InitiativeMittelstand recognizes companies with innovative IT solutions and high utility value for medium-size businesses. The expert jury awarded eschbach with the title BEST OF 2018 for Shiftconnector® io.

This excellent product has impressed the jury and has been placed in the top group of all submitted applications. The IT Innovation Prize from the Initiative Mittelstand bridges the gap between IT innovations and medium-sized businesses and is highly regarded.

Huber Verlag für Neue Medien GmbH recognizes companies with high economic, social, technological and environmental benefits through the INDUSTRY AWARD.

Eschbach and Shiftconnector^® io has specifically impressed the jury and therefore Shiftconnector^® io belongs in the leading group out of more than 500 applications which were submitted. 

The sponsor was was Jörg Bode, Lower Saxony's Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport and the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

The Initiative Mittelstand presents the IT Innovation Award each year to particularly innovative IT solutions that bring significant benefits for medium-sized enterprises and their successful digital future. The panel recognizes the industry leading product from eschbach once again in this category with the title, "BEST OF".

Shiftconnector® impressed the jury and has been placed in the leading group for the IT Innovation Award 2016. The Sponsor of the IT Innovation Award 2016 is the TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH.

The expert jury of Huber Verlag für Neue Medien GmbH recognized eschbach once again in 2016.

eschbach are proud that Shiftconnector® has been awarded the Industry Prize for exceptionally advanced industrial products with high economic, social, technological and environmental benefits.

Under this years Motto "With progress to success" many companies had submitted products for assessment. Shiftconnector® was selected by an independent jury of industry experts, professors and journalists which ensured maximum objectivity.

For a second time the Initiative Mittelstand awarded eschbach with the prestigious IT Innovation Prize for cutting edge IT solutions and high utility value.

Shiftconnector® has impressed the jury and has been nominated as leader from over 5,000 submitted applications. The IT Innovation Prize from the Initiative Mittelstand bridges the gap between IT innovations and medium-sized businesses in the awards eleventh year. The sponsor of this year's IT Innovation Award is the Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand e.V. (BITMi).

Shift Connector 6.0 impressed the jury and therefore belongs to the top group of applications submitted and as a result was awarded the title BEST OF 2014.

A leading jury of experts from a total of 30 professors and journalists form the select group of judges This size and cross section of expertise provides an objective evaluation and makes the prize in the industry so unique and sought after.

In a ceremony, Andreas Eschbach has been presented with the Start­–Up Award 2009 in Waldshut on 7 October. In front of 200 guests representing politics and business, the chairman of the “Founders Initiative” Working Committee, Dietmar Kuehne commented:

“With the prize, an entrepreneur has been awarded who has successfully established eschbachIT, the company from Bad Säckingen, in an innovative market segment. With solutions for process optimization like the Electronic Shiftbook, eschbachIT has already won clients beyond the local regional borders.

"With the advancement of this successful solution and the development of new technologies the entrepreneur is looking ahead optimistically into the future".

The founders prize is donated by Sparkasse Hochrhein, the Volksbank of the county and Badenova.