ISS Nautilus is a commercial booking system for media sales of digital advertising space and is thus specialized in the processes between the parties involved in media buying and selling.

Multifunctional all-rounder

The system maps all steps from the creation of the offer to the order and billing. ISS Nautilus records all planning, technical and commercial aspects of ad management. At the same time, marketer, customer and product master data as well as price lists are managed. Accounts receivable, publisher and agent billing are also handled in the system. It is also possible to map complex discount and billing procedures.

CRM systems, ad servers and financial accounting systems can be seamlessly integrated into the processes via interfaces. All relevant ad servers are supported. Monitoring and controlling are fully possible. A forecasting system enables analyses of problems. ISS Nautilus is available as an on premise and cloud solution.

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Firmly established with our customers

iqd

Ströer

Handelsblatt Media Group

Ad Alliance

sevenone media

Azerion (Goldbach)

Sky Media GmbH

Solutions by HANDELSBLATT MEDIA GROUP

With ISS Nautilus4Digital, we are relying on a powerful solution to future-proof our digital ecosystem. The collaboration with SQL Service helps us to drive our digital growth and offer our partners and customers even better services.

Matthias Trott

Vice President of Product and Adtech Operations

DBCFM is a great initiative where marketers, agencies and their customers directly benefit from simplified communication, a clear increase in efficiency through further automation and increased data quality. We are therefore convinced that this new standard will establish itself step by step in the market - and increasingly so as more publishers and agency networks participate.

Thorsten Ebbing

Chief Investment Officer GroupM Germany

In order to offer our advertising partners the best user experience, we need to digitize the value chain. Our Nautilus booking system is a central building block in this. Making our print titles accessible via it is a logical step - also in the implementation of our CrossOver strategy. With the onboarding of print, we have now integrated almost all genres into Nautilus, so that everything is possible from one system, from quotation to order management to billing.

Isabella Thissen

COO Ad Alliance

SQL has been our partner for many years and regularly develops new solutions for us for a range of services that is up-to-date with the market. By switching to ISS Nautilus as a SaaS solution, we are reducing complexity and ensuring even more stable processes - a welcome optimisation for the benefit of our customers.

Steffen Bax

Managing Director iq digital

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Offer & Orders
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Satisfied users
20 y +

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News

Wuppertal, 02.03.2026

Modern TV booking: Old systems, new expectations

In an ideal world, digital media buying would be automated, largely standardized, and possible across all channels. In contrast, TV in many places is still characterized by historically grown processes, media breaks, and manual workflows. But the market is changing. CPM models, programmatic approaches, and the growing influence of connected TV are transforming the existing infrastructure. In this interview, Jens Pöppelmann from SQL explains where the biggest gaps in the TV booking workflow lie, why programmatic TV is not yet standard, and why the actual change depends less on individual technologies and more on when the market leaves old systems…

Wuppertal, 05.01.2026

Sky Media becomes new customer, new Nautilus modules, and RTL Ad Alliance utilizes cloud service

2025 was one of those years where, at the end, you blink and ask yourself, “When exactly did we manage to do all that?” Spoiler alert: we did. And we did a lot. Because 2025 was a year of big topics for us: Digital, TV, and print are converging. In addition, there were new and revised modules, the launch of our Managed Cloud Services, and several exciting customer projects on top of that. Things are going well for us. Sky Media neuer Kunde, neue Nautilus Module und RTL Ad Alliance nutzt Cloud Service

Wuppertal, 08.10.2025

Bridges instead of standards: What CTV teaches us about booking systems and DBCFM

In the ADZINE interview ‘Modern Video Advertising – Innovation through Integration’, our managing director Jens Pöppelmann describes the reality of CTV in his d-force role: fragmented device worlds, different data and targeting standards, and unanswered questions regarding verification, measurement, frequency capping and consent. His plea: build bridges – partners agree on a clearly communicated technical setup. This is precisely the pragmatic approach ISS Nautilus pursues for booking systems and DBCFM: clean interface contracts, consistent field/status mapping and shared IDs accelerate integration and time-to-value until market-wide standards take effect. Read more in the article – and in our projects. To the…

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