# How Deutsche Bahn uses DeepL

**320,000+**: “320,000+ employees”

As published on [deepl.com](https://www.deepl.com/en/customer-stories/deutsche-bahn), April 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Deutsche Bahn](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/deutsche-bahn.md)
- Tool: [DeepL](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/deepl.md)
- Teams: Language Management Department
- Customer since (as the page says): DB started using DeepL to enable internal communication in January 2022

## What the story says

Deutsche Bahn uses DeepL Translator for text and document translation across departments, available to all employees as a browser extension. It uses glossaries built from a central terminology database to keep corporate and industry-specific terms consistent across languages.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of DeepL and Deutsche Bahn, not ours.

> DB started using DeepL to enable internal communication in January 2022, and has been heavily investing in it across the DB Group. DeepL Translator is used across departments for text and document translation, and is available to all employees as a browser extension.

- **30,000**: “30,000 glossary entries”
- **140**: “140 countries”
- **16**: “16 languages”

> \[We\] needed a way for employees speaking many different native languages and working in hundreds of different professions . . . to communicate clearly with each other, while accounting for industry-specific jargon, dialects, and idioms.
>
> Annette Kraus, Head of Language Department

> Along with data protection and data security, the ability to adapt the engine to DB's corporate language via glossaries is a main advantage of DeepL compared to other machine translation systems.
>
> Tom Winter, Data Scientist & Computational Linguist at Deutsche Bahn AG

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 320,000+ is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Deutsche Bahn.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Deutsche Bahn.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Deutsche Bahn uses DeepL. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/deutsche-bahn-deepl · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology