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Rocking Digital Business with dotSource
What distinguishes dotSource and what role does the agency play in the digital transformation? Apart from impressive images of the dotSource headquarters in Jena, the film also provides answers to these questions.
Our Vision: Designing Digital Customer Relations
Digitisation is increasingly influencing all industrial sectors and is changing entire business models. In the online age, the key to sustainable commercial success no longer lies solely in high-end e-commerce, but also primarily in optimal customer interaction.
We pave the way into the digital future of marketing, sales and services for medium-sized enterprises and internationally operating companies. We combine creativity, experience, and technology in intelligent digital solutions. Our claim: »Digital Success right from the Start.«
We integrate strategy, conception, development and implementation, as well as marketing in a holistic project process in order to effectively present our clients’ brands. This way, we make digital success possible right from the start.
Our Mission: Digital Success right from the Start
dotSource, that is over 300 creative and tech savvy heads: industrial engineers, computer scientists, designers, MBAs and humanities majors: what connects us? – the passion for unusual digital solutions. We design the future ourselves, instead of just keeping up with it.
We uncover the imminent challenges of the digital transformation already today and tirelessly research innovative answers to the questions of tomorrow. This way, we help our clients to successfully recognise and use the chances the digital era has to offer.

We Transform Ideas into Success
We support companies from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in their digital transformation and in the presentation of their brands on the Internet.
With our pioneering solutions, we have established ourselves as one of the top 10 e-commerce agencies in the German-speaking area.
As an owner-run agency, our team has already been providing long-lasting success in digital business for more than 10 years.
Awards and Rankings
- Winner of the »i-work Business Award« presented by JenaWirtschaft for exemplary cross-cultural openness (2019)
- Winner of the »Shop Usability Award« with SLV in the »B2B« category (2019)
- Certification as »Trusted Agency« by the German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) (2019)
- Winner of the »Rising Star Award 2019« presented by StiboSystems
- Winner of the »Internet World Business Shop Award« with WÜRTH in the »Best B2B shop« category
- »TOP Shop 2019« award for our client netto-online.de presented by Computer Bild (issue 09/2019)
- 1st place at the E-Commerce Germany Awards in the »Agency of the Year« category (2019)
- Place 27 in the internet agency ranking of the BVDW, place 10 in the subranking e-commerce (2018)
- »Company of the Year in East Thuringia« (OTZ, 2017)
- Certification as »Trusted Agency« by the BVDW (2017)
- Place 38 in the internet agency ranking of the BVDW, place 13 in the subranking e-commerce (2017)
- Nomination for the »Shop Usability Award« [Musicstore.de, »Freizeit, Hobby & Haustier« category (Free time, hobbies & pets), 2016]
- Place 50 in the internet agency ranking of the BVDW (2016)
- Winner of the »Shop Usability Award« with Lensbest.de/4Care GmbH in the »Wellness, beauty and health« category (2015)
- Certification as »Trusted Agency« by the BVDW (2015)
- Nomination for the »Großer Preis des Mittelstandes« presented by Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft Jena mbH (2014)
- Place 17 in the individual ranking Mobile of the BVDW (2014)
- Certification as »Qualitätsagentur« (Quality Agency) by the BVDW (2013)
- Place 15 in the e-commerce agency ranking of the BVDW (2013)
- Place 56 in the internet agency ranking of the BVDW (2013)
- 2nd place in the individual ranking of the fastest-growing agencies as part of the internet agency ranking of the BVDW (2012)
- »Hauptdarsteller der Thüringer Kreativwirtschaft« (Kreativradar, 2011)
- »Thüringer Gründerpreis« [3rd place in the »Erfolgreiches Jungunternehmen« category (Successful Start-Up Company), 2011]
- Winner of the »Thuringian Website Award« (Preisbock.de, 2009)
- Winner of the »IQ Innovation Award«(Special Award, 2009)
- Winner of the »Shop Usability Award« (Preisbock.de, »Live Shopping« category, 2009)



E-Commerce comes from Jena
If you shop online, you cannot get past the innovative e-commerce solutions from Jena. Ever since the first e-commerce software was devised here 20 years ago, the e-commerce industry has grown continually.
Entrepreneurial and innovative spirit have a long tradition in Jena: companies such as Zeiss and Schott base their success on the close combination of entrepreneurial thinking and scientific curiosity.
At dotSource, this networking manifests itself in the cooperation with educational institutions of the region:
as cooperation partners and sponsors of the specialised field of industrial engineering management, co-initiators and founders of the e-commerce degree programme at the Ernst-Abbe Fachhochschule Jena (University of Applied Sciences Jena), as a company that takes on trainees or as a practice partner for the Berufsakademien Gera and Eisenach (Universities of Cooperative Education) as well as for the regional colleges and universities.
dotSource lives the attachment to the entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of Jena in its newly renovated loft offices.
In 2012, a think tank, a concept powerhouse and a creative workshop in one came into being in a former Zeiss workshop – a source of inspiration for the further growth of the agency.