More Than Just a Used Software Retailer. How PREO Advocates for the Interests of Software Buyers

PREO Software AG started in 2005 in Salzhausen, near Hamburg. This was not without risk, as founding brothers Boris and Christoph Vöge did not find a ready market for trading in used software. In fact, they had faced a lot of resistance for previous owners to be able to sell their used software to third parties. However, their persistence paid off. Our customer base can boast of saving millions of Euros with our assistance. Today, PREO is one of the leading retailers in Europe for trading in used software. Year after year, we help a growing number of medium-sized companies, corporations, municipalities and social institutions to reduce their costs when it comes to standard software.

It wasn’t always possible to resell volume licences or buy second-hand standard software. Your rights as a software owner initially had to be fought for over several years. So today, thanks to our dedication, you have more options...

• ...to reduce your costs with used software.
• ... to avoid offers that don’t fit your budget.
• ...to take out at least some of the capital ‘frozen’ in your software.

Providing standard software at reasonable prices is one of our core services, but quickly selling out of what we have on offer isn’t the main motivation behind our dedicated way of working. Instead, our customers value us as a partner that ensures reliability from a legal perspective when trading in used software, and offers you comprehensive services. This also includes consulting on the following, for example:

• Software Asset Management (SAM) and hybrid application structures which also include private/public cloud options;
• optimising your software budgeting as a whole; and
• considering whether to resell volume licences as a whole or in part.

For years, we have been experiencing an increasing demand for our dedication and special quality with respect to the legally-watertight trade of used software.

• In the ten years since 2010, our sales have increased by more than 560 percent overall, with growth accelerating since 2015 despite an increase in cloud offerings.
• And the number of employees has now grown to 21 permanent employees at the two locations in Hamburg and Salzhausen.
  
  

The fact that we actually meet our own quality and customer satisfaction standards is not least shown in our long-term relationships that we have established with many of our customers.

Our customers repeatedly confirm to us that they’ve had a good experience with PREO as a powerful marketplace for used software. We think there are two reasons for this:

1. Continuous investments in our own technology and pioneering work in integrating blockchain security into how transactions are documented.
2. The wide-ranging expertise of our employees, who have the freedom and vision to get involved with our customers and provide tangible added value.

Passion for customer focus is not just lip service. In fact, we’ve positioned ourselves in a way that allows us to work like this. This means that with us, our customers will find experts in software asset management, valuation issues, licensing agreements from Microsoft, Adobe and other manufacturers, and planning with respect to company-wide standard software landscapes.

We help customers and resellers from many European countries to optimise their total costs for standard software from our locations in Germany. Our experience particularly includes providing services to customers from France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Scandinavia.

• Whether you want to buy or sell – please get in touch if you not only want a good price, but also qualified advice and dedicated support, and you value legally reliable, audit-secure transactions