About us
We build DAM from real projects
TESSA is built at EIKONA Media: owner-managed, in the media data business since 2001, a DAM vendor for over ten years. We build online shops and integrate PIM systems ourselves — which is why we know our customers' problems from our own project work. And we built TESSA with AI from the ground up.
What sets us apart
Why TESSA is built differently
Owner-managed and independent
EIKONA Media belongs to the people who work here — no investor, no exit agenda, no quarterly pressure. Our roadmap follows what our customers actually need, and we plan in years instead of funding rounds.
AI in the foundation, not bolted on
TESSA was designed and built with AI from the ground up, not retrofitted with a few AI features. Our own work runs on AI too — from development to marketing. What excites us most is the speed that suddenly becomes possible.
We build e-commerce ourselves
As EIKONA Media we develop online shops and integrate PIM systems for our customers. We know the deadline before a campaign launch, the data chaos before go-live and the interface that never quite fits — because we solve them in our own projects.
Decades with media data
We developed our first media database back in 2015, for Simba. Since then TESSA has grown out of real projects: over 75 customers, more than 50 million managed assets. DAM is not a side product for us — it is what we have worked on the longest.
Our Mission
“Developing the perfect media platform.”
Not an easy task — especially not for an owner-managed company. But precisely because nobody tells us what to do, we can take it on: we decide based on real-world usage and our own research instead of quarterly targets, we grow under our own steam, and we build TESSA the way we would need it in our own projects.
Torsten Herbert
CTO
Patrick Krisch
CEO
Our Achievements
- + 10
- Years as a DAM vendor
- + 75
- Satisfied customers
- + 50 Mio
- Assets under management
- + 10k
- Users
- + 20
- Partners
- up to 75%
- faster time to market
Our Journey
2001
EIKONA is founded – and develops its first in-house media database, for Simba.
2015
TESSA becomes an independent product and gets its name.
2018
After two years of partnership, we are a “Preferred Partner” of Akeneo with TESSA.
2021
The TESSA 2.0 platform is created.
2023
Our TESSA app for Akeneo is certified and TESSA BrandHub is released.
2024
Our first customer and partner day: the TESSA wham bam DAM day in Cologne.
2026
Release of TESSA – the first AI-native DAM for e-commerce.
The people behind TESSA
Your contacts
Short paths instead of a ticket system: you talk directly to the people who own and build TESSA.
Patrick Krisch
CEO
Torsten Herbert
CTO
Johannes Rauch
Head of Product
Martin Göbel
Senior Sales Executive
What you can rely on
Audited, certified, hosted in Germany
Hosting in Germany
TESSA runs in German data centres — GDPR-compliant, with granular rights and roles and an SLA you can read up front.
Software developed in Germany
TESSA is developed in Volkach near Würzburg — by our own team, with no offshoring. If you have a question, you talk directly to the people who write the code.
Open instead of locked in
An open API, a native MCP server and ready-made connectors for the common PIM, shop and creative tools: your assets stay usable wherever you work.
The company behind TESSA DAM
TESSA is developed and distributed by
EIKONA Media GmbH
EIKONA Media is an owner-managed e-commerce service provider with over 20 years of experience. We build online shops, integrate PIM systems and connect systems through our OSKAR middleware — for the same customers we develop TESSA for.
That is why TESSA is not designed on a drawing board: every feature has to prove itself in real e-commerce projects before it makes it into the product.
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