Mission & Milestones
Mission
Better information leads to better decisions
The Internet can improve the quality of global information procurement for management and save time and costs. Since its inception in 1999, Consline AG has provided leading companies with relevant, accurate and complete data and analytics to better understand customer opinions, develop better products, reduce quality costs and prevent missteps. In order to structure information from social media, user-generated content, media and press and to combine it with internal data, the Consline Intelligence Management System (CIMS) offers users intuitive access to data, from individual statements to customer-specific reporting and consulting recommendations.
Understand your customers better than ever before
CIMS® combines the capabilities of Business Intelligence (BI), Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA), Social Media Monitoring (SMM) and Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) within a cloud-based SaaS solution.
With its unique range of services, Consline has been able to win leading corporations and market leaders as customers. Thanks to convincing quality, high utility value and continuous further development, Consline AG can now point to years of cooperation with many customers.
Milestones
Consline Management understands growth as the power to create and increase value for customers.
1999
Consline AG is founded and the first office is rented.
2000
Consline obtains trademark rights for Europe, Japan and the USA, among others. Dr. Heinz van Deelen is also appointed to the Executive Board.
2003
Successful development and implementation of a management news and market service for a leading automotive group.
2006
By combining all activities once, cross-media effects can be made transparent and the management-oriented preparation provides a compact, up-to-date decision-making basis for your own activities.
2009
Expansion of the Consline Intelligence Management System (CIMS) to include a flexible source connection with automatic filter options for the integration of all media types and news formats (print, TV, radio, online media, Web 2.0, social media).
2009
Expansion of the Consline Intelligence Management System (CIMS) to include a flexible source connection with automatic filter options for the integration of all media types and news formats (print, TV, radio, online media, Web 2.0, social media).
2011
Leading FMCG group commissions Consline with the conception of the e-commerce business expansion.
2012
Consline AG is named in a new study as a leading company in the field of web monitoring.
2014
Worldwide release of the 5th version of the Consline Intelligence Management System (CIMS 5.0). With currently 8 user languages and unlimited content languages, the version offers significantly more functionality for individual analyses, reports and alerting as well as flexible templates for use on smartphones, tablets and desktops.
2016
An expert opinion by Prof. Dr. Klindt, Noerr LLP, confirms the Consline-specific approach to Internet monitoring as a reliable methodology for legally required product monitoring on the Internet.
2017
Two leading automotive suppliers and a truck supplier opt for reliable product monitoring on the Internet using Consline AG's CIMS.
2019
Consline took second place in the Digital Services B2B category out of a total of over 150 applicants for the German Excellence Award 2019.
2020
After more than 2 years of development, the completely new CIMS version 6.0 is successfully introduced to customers. With over 40 new features, including 29 chart types, individual dashboard configuration and sharing and flexible interfaces, CIMS 6.0 forms an integrated data intelligence platform for analyzing product safety and internal and external quality data.
2021
After almost 22 years as CEO of Consline AG, company founder Dr. Heinz van Deelen is moving to the Supervisory Board on 14.12.2021. During this time, he has established Consline AG as a leading provider in the field of Product Safety & Quality Monitoring. As Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dr. van Deelen, together with his Supervisory Board colleagues Horst Rosenbauer and Dr. Uwe Maeck, will support the Executive Board as advisors and sparring partners. The new Chairman of the Management Board will be Dr. Dirk Schachtner, who joined Consline AG in 2003 and has helped shape the company as a member of the Management Board since 2009.
2022
In the current version 6.0, Consline AG has expanded its Intelligence Management System CIMS® into a modular analysis platform for all types of internal and external quality data: All quality and product safety-relevant data and information from quality management, production, warranty, complaint management, after sales and online customer communities can be monitored across processes and evaluated with regard to error accumulations and patterns. Combining the various data sources across all customers and markets results in a genuine control and early warning system for quality management.
2025
Forget the hassle of working with separate tools for business intelligence (BI), qualitative data (QDA) and spreadsheets. We've created a single, unrivaled solution for fully integrating your qualitative and quantitative data. It's simply easier and better. With CIMS 7.0 you will experience a new dimension of data visualization. Easily create, share and export powerful charts. For your top management, we introduce the Performance Impact Matrix - an innovative tool to help you make smarter and faster strategic decisions. Now with even more AI support for data structuring, tagging, evaluation and translation We developed it for global collaboration. A multilingual interface, shareable results and integrated workflow tools will bring your international teams together like never before. And thanks to flexible interfaces, importing and exporting data from any source is seamless. Welcome to the next evolution of Corporate Intelligence. Welcome to CIMS 7.0.
