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We are exhibiting at Javaland 2022!
25. February 2022

Javaland 2022

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Yay, Javaland is back as a presence event! From 15-17 March 2022, the community will meet again at Phantasialand Bruehl to laugh, network and learn together. Karakun supports this unique event as a sponsor, with speakers and as an exhibitor.

We share knowledge!

Visitors to Javaland can expect over 130 talks on current topics in software development. We are especially pleased to contribute to the program with the following presentations:

Singularity aus Versehen - Warum meine KI die Menschheit auslöscht

In Filmen lernen wir, dass eine künstliche Intelligenz die Möglichkeit besitzt sich gegen die Menschheit zu stellen und das Ende der Welt einzuläuten. Ist dies nur die Fantasie aus Hollywood oder bereits Realität? Und warum hat Elon Musk „Angst“ vor der KI-Zukunft?

In diesem Vortrag werden wir mit gescheiterten Lernversuchen einer KI und den daraus entstehenden teils abstrusen Resultaten beschäftigen. Nach einem „Schnelleinstieg“ in das Thema Maschinelles Lernen werden wir PacMan durch eine KI das Laufen beibringen. Hierbei schauen wir uns vor allem an, welche Fehler bei den Lernprozessen einer solchen KI auftreten können. Wir werden hierbei nicht nur amüsante Ergebnisse sehen, sondern auch Szenarien, die in einem produktiven Umfeld eine echte Gefahr darstellen können. Auch werden wir die Ursachen dieser gescheiterten Lernprozesse genauer durchleuchten.

Christopher Keibel

Speaker: Christopher Keibel
Date & time: Tuesday, 15.03.2022, 17:00 – 17:40
Room: Quantum 3+4

Ich weiss, was Du letzten Sommer getan hast

Kannst du das auch über deine Java-Anwendungen sagen? Heute laufen Anwendungen nicht nur als Monolithen auf einem Server, sondern auch verteilt als (Micro-)Services in der Cloud. Umso wichtiger ist hier eine kontinuierliche Überwachung. Sobald man beispielsweise über knapp werdenden Speicherplatz, zu viele User-Sessions oder einen steigenden Memory-Verbrauch informiert werden will, reicht Logging alleine nicht mehr aus. Für diese und viele weitere Szenarien sind Metriken heute das Mittel der Wahl.

In dieser Session wollen wir uns gemeinsam anschauen, wie man Metriken für Java-Anwendungen umsetzen, visualisieren und auswerten kann. Hierbei wollen wir nicht nur Produkte und vorgefertigte Lösungen wie Grafana oder Prometheus betrachten. Vielmehr wollen wir auch herausfinden, wie man Metriken in Java sinnvoll ohne ein Vendor-Lock-in umsetzen kann. Mit Micrometer und Java Flight Recorder Event Streaming (JEP 349) gibt es zum Beispiel verschiedene APIs, um eine Java-Anwendung einfach mit Metriken und der Möglichkeit eines kontinuierlichen Monitorings zu erweitern. Zusammen werden wir uns verschiedene Ansätze anschauen und auf Best Practices beziehungsweise Pitfalls beim Nutzen von Metriken eingehen.

Hendrik EbbersStephan Classen

Speakers: Hendrik Ebbers, Stephan Classen
Date & time: Wednesday 16.03.2022, 09:00 – 09:40 
Room: Schauspielhaus

JDK 17 – das neue LTS-Release ist da!

Java 17 ist nach drei Jahren die neue LTS-Version und wird für die nächste Zeit die Referenz für eine gesicherte Java-Entwicklung sein. Die seit Java 11 hinzugekommenen Neuerungen sorgen dafür, dass Java weiterhin zeitgemäß und eine der verbreitetsten Programmiersprachen bleibt. Mit der im September 2017 vorgestellten Roadmap des OpenJDK und den sechsmonatigen Releases konnte die JVM in den letzten Jahren große Sprünge machen und Java 12, 13, 14, 15 und 16 wurden veröffentlicht. Ihr habt richtig gelesen, seit Java 11 gibt es wirklich bereits sechs Releases, die interessante und wichtige neue Features zur Sprachsyntax, der JVM oder den Java-APIs hinzufügen. Hendrik Ebbers und Wolfgang Weigend erläutern den Hintergrund und die Technologie zum Java 17, dem OpenJDK, unterschiedlichen Java-Distributionen und dem Java-Ökosystem. Während Wolfgang schon in den wilden Zeiten von Sun im Java-Team zu Hause war, leistet Hendrik durch seine Arbeit bei AdoptOpenJDK und Eclipse seinen Beitrag.

Hendrik Ebbers

Speakers: Hendrik Ebbers & Wolfgang Weigand (Oracle)
Date & time: Wednesday 16.03.2022, 14:00 – 14:40
Room: Wintergarten

We support the community!

You will not only meet our experts during their talks. At our booth, visitors can learn more about Karakun and ask our speakers open questions. And you have the chance to win awesome prizes.

Be part of a community video and share your view on current issues in a short interview. After Javaland, we will put together the video snippets and share the video via our social media channels.

Of course, we respect the protection of the participants’ data and their image rights.


Christmas tree with glitter ball and stockings in background
14. December 2021

Season’s Greetings

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The year is drawing to a close. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the trust you have placed in us and the valuable cooperation.

Instead of presents, we have again decided to buy CO2 certificates. Through our partner carbonfuture.earth, we will finance the removal and sustainable storage of 50 tonnes of CO2.

We wish all our customers, partners and employees a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


Dortmund Skyline at night
24. November 2021

Our review of DiWoDo 21

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Thank you for accompanying us during the Digital Week Dortmund. For our part, we were pleased to make a large number of interesting contacts. And we are more convinced than ever that Dortmund has a lot of potential for shaping the digital future.

Experience our presentations again

We actively participated at #diwodo21 with presentations about Open Source, intelligent text analytics & Enterprise Search, and the management and analysis of test and simulation data. Missed a presentation? We have recorded all presentations and published them for you:

We are happy to help!

Do you have questions about our presentations? Would you like to discuss one of the topics listed above? Our experts are at your disposal.

Hendrik Ebbers

Hendrik Ebbers

Open Source expert

Dr. Iryna Dohndorf

Dr. Iryna Dohndorf

KI Expert

Christopher Keibel

Christopher Keibel

KI expert

Simon Skoczylas

Simon Skoczylas

Big Data Expert

Contact Karakun Dortmund

diwodo - Digitale Woche Dortmund
1. November 2021

#diwodo – Digitale Woche Dortmund

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Bringing digitization professionals together with people and companies: That is the role of #diwodo!

The Digitale Woche Dortmund is a platform for everyone to get to know each other and exchange ideas! On November 8-12,2021, companies and institutions from Dortmund invite you to their events, workshops, conferences, etc. And you are spoilt for choice. If you want to raise your digital competence to a new level, you will get the information you need.

Our experts from Dortmund-based Karakun GmbH will also be presenting exciting lectures online on the following topics:

Open Source verstehen

Content Management Systeme, Web-Browser oder Betriebssystem: Viele der Produkte und Services die wir täglich nutzen werden mittlerweile als Open Source Projekte realisiert.

Das im Vortrag vermittelte Wissen soll helfen, Open Source Software besser verstehen und einschätzen zu können. Mit diesem Fachwissen können die verschiedenen Gefahren und Vorteile, die durch die Nutzung von Open Source Komponenten entstehen, in Zukunft besser beurteilt werden.

Die Slides des Vortrags sind verfügbar unter:
https://speakerdeck.com/hendrikebbers/open-source-verstehen

Intelligente Textanalyse und Enterprise Search

Auf intelligenter Sprachanalyse und Enterprise Search basierende Technologien durchdringen mehr und mehr alle Unternehmensbereiche. Diese ermöglichen die Umsetzung von Digitalisierungs- und Automatisierungsstrategien.

In diesem Vortrag gehen wir auf die technischen Möglichkeiten von Sprachanalysen und Enterprise Search ein und zeigen, wie Hibu-Plattform zur effizienten Erschliessung von Inhalten eingesetzt werden kann.

Die Slides des Vortrags sind verfügbar unter:
https://speakerdeck.com/karakun/intelligente-textanalyse-and-enterprise-search

Management und Analyse von Test- und Simulationsdaten

Die Menge der Daten, die bei Tests und Simulationen in der Automobilbranche gesammelt wird, ist in den letzten Jahren massiv gewachsen und es ist kein Ende dieser Entwicklung in Sicht. Bisherige Techniken zur Analyse stossen an ihre Grenzen.

In diesem Vortrag sollen die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Verwaltung von Test- und Simulationsdaten und der Analyse mit Big Data Technologien beleuchtet werden.

Die Slides des Vortrags sind verfügbar unter:
https://speakerdeck.com/karakun/management-und-analyse-von-test-und-simulationsdaten

Are you still hungry?

In the unique atmosphere of Germany’s largest soccer stadium, Bits & Currywurst offers a week full of impulses from top-class keynote speakers and industry experts on the topic of digitization. These include, for example, Sascha Lobo and our expert Hendrik Ebbers.

On November 12, 2021, starting at 10:25 a.m., you’ll have another chance to satisfy your hunger for knowledge with the lecture “Understanding Open Source.”

Logo Bits and Currywurst

We supply Digitization Food!

Dr. Iryna Dohndorf

Dr. Iryna Dohndorf

AI Expert

Simon Skoczylas

Simon Skoczylas

Big Data Expert

Christopher Keibel

Christopher Keibel

AI Expert

Free delivery!

Our online lectures deliver expert knowledge without hidden costs. All you have to do is register for the delivery service at https://karakun.com/diwodo/. This excludes the lecture as part of the Bits and Currywurst.

Registrierung für #diwodo Vorträge

IAA MOBILITY - WHAT WILL MOVE US NEXT
23. August 2021

Lyzium at the IAA MOBILITY

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An essential part of modern vehicle development is the analysis and evaluation of test and simulation results. Unfortunately, current tools do not adequately support these processes.

There are highly specialized and sophisticated applications, that deal with test data of specified components or aspects of a car. But modern car development requires connecting test data stemming from different areas. Today, this is only possible without several manual intermediate steps.

That is why we are developing Lyzium. Lyzium integrates the entire process in a web application, starting with import including quality assurance, visualization, and analysis of the data, and ending with export and archiving. For additional requirements, Lyzium can easily be extended.

The use of Lyzium brings engineers decisive advantages, for example:

  • Faster access and analysis because data is stored in a Big Data infrastructure and is immediately available for analysis
  • Lower costs through centralized management
  • More efficient collaboration between teams and departments through centralized management and analysis of data from different sources and components.

We will be presenting our Big Data platform Lyzium at booth B1.B414 from September 7 to 12 at the IAA MOBILITY in Munich.

Want to learn more about Lyzium or visit us at the IAA? Contact us!

You can find more details about Lyzium on the website https://lyzium.com as well as in our technical article published by the trade magazine Hanser Automotive (issue 1/2021).

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21. July 2021

Successful HERMES certification

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We are pleased to announce that several Karakun AG employees passed the HERMES 5.1 Foundation certification exam with flying colors in July 2021.

HERMES is a project management method developed by the Swiss Federal Administration. HERMES supports the control, management, and execution of projects of the most varied nature and complexity in information technology, the development of services and products, or the adaptation of business organizations. HERMES has a clear, easy-to-understand method structure and is easily expandable due to its modularity. With the latest extensions, agile projects are now also supported.

HERMES has already been used successfully in a large number of projects at a cantonal and communal level. But also at educational institutions and companies from the private sector, HERMES is well-suited. Knowledge of the HERMES project management method is now a mandatory requirement for federal and cantonal projects.

Our employees completed a two-day course at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Basel. The participants learned the base elements of the HERMES methodology (scenarios, modules, roles, tasks, results) and their interrelationships in small groups. In various exercises and with the help of sample documents, the knowledge just acquired could then be continuously consolidated. The participants also welcomed the wide range of dynamically generated test questions. For self-studies, the FHNW provided sample exams from previous years via their online portal.

At the end of the second day, the exam was taken on-site by a representative of TÜV Süd AG.

With our new HERMES experts, we are happy to be best prepared for future projects at a cantonal and federal level.


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29. June 2021

Karakun @ kmuRUNDSCHAU 2/2021

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The kmuRUNDSCHAU magazine sees itself as a direct communication platform between providers from the future industries and decision-makers from Swiss SMEs.

In the current issue 2 / 2021, we introduce ourselves to the magazine readers under the title “More than just bits and bytes” (to the eMag).

Using three practical examples (Carbonfuture, Covalo and Helvetia), we offer a quick overview of our services. If you also want to know what is behind Lyzium, HIBU, OpenWebStart and VOLTA and what distinguishes us from other software companies, then read the full article (German, PDF).

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28. June 2021

SwissText 2021

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For the 6th time, the three-day online conference Swisstext took place from 14-16 June 2021. The conference is the meeting place for text analysis experts from Swiss business and research. It is organized by the association SwissNLP (in cooperation with the two universities FHNW and ZHAW). As regular participants, we were also involved this year with a contribution. The poster “Understanding structural information in scanned documents” shows our approach for analyzing and processing tabular information in scanned documents.

Information extraction from tables

With our HIBU-Plattform, we develop custom solutions in the areas of enterprise search and text analytics. In these projects, we often deal with scanned documents that are digitized using OCR software. Standard extraction methods work well for continuous text but generally deliver insufficient results for tables because they ignore the table layout and thus hide important information / relationships. Typical problem areas are table cells whose content breaks across multiple rows, especially cells whose content can only be interpreted using the associated column heading.

Understanding structural information in scanned documents

Do you have any questions about the poster or the procedure?. Dr. Holger Keibel will be happy to answer them.

Networking at an online conference? Check!

How can participants at an online conference effectively link up with interesting contacts? That was one of the questions we asked ourselves when offering the organizers of SwissText 2021 our help.

The result was a networking format in which each participant in a session was randomly sent into a virtual room together with three other people. Once there, each person had a limited amount of time for a personal introduction. Before the session automatically ended, participants could exchange contact details if interested.

Of course, such a format cannot replace face-to-face exchange on site. But within the possibilities of an online conference, it worked very well. As the feedback from the participants shows, it was worth taking part:

Participant feedback Whirlwind Networking @ SwissText 2021

SwissText 2021 has just ended – and we are already looking forward to next year. Hopefully on-site – but certainly once again with active support from Karakun.


Bank safe
14. June 2021

Secure and retrieve sensitive data

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More and more data is being digitised or produced directly in digital form. And more and more data and applications are moving to the cloud. Companies have to ask themselves how they can efficiently handle these volumes of data, evaluate them and find information in them. And how they deal with data that needs to be protected, in particular. How do you manage to offer automatic processing (AI) and other beneficial functions around data and reconcile these functions with data protection at the same time?

As part of the bridge2digital Security & Compliance event, we illustrated these challenges together with our partner DSwiss AG using current joint projects in the intersection of both companies. We took a closer look at search solutions and automatic document processing in the context of “zero-knowledge” data encryption.

Would you like to learn more about SecureSafe, the integrated intelligent search or the HIBU platform? 

Case Story SecureSafe
HIBU Platform Website
SecureSafe Website

ELECTRO-TEC digital 2021
18. May 2021

VOLTA @ ELECTRO-TEC digital 2021

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ELECTRO-TEC is supposed to be the national meeting point for the Swiss electrical industry. This year’s edition takes place virtually on May 19 & 20. In addition to an extensive seminar program, companies present their products and services in digital showrooms. We will showcase

  • the full power of VOLTA, our ERP solution tailored to the needs of Swiss electrical companies
  • the corresponding tablet app VOLTA mobile for iOS and Android
  • the possibility of connecting existing solutions e.g. for time tracking or accounting.

With this, companies can ensure a custom-tailored working environment for maximum support regarding their administrative tasks.

We have prepared the following video to demonstrate the connectivity to an accounting solution like bexio:

Our ELECTRO-TEC showroom is available for one year. For more information, please visit https://myvolta.ch at any time.

ELECTRO-TEC Showroom
Website VOLTA
Contact

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12. April 2021

Still on the wave of success

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On our third birthday, we look back on an extremely successful business year. All parameters – customers, employees, developments, projects, partners, and memberships – are pointing upwards.

In the various business areas, companies and organizations from the industry and the public sector were acquired as customers, such as Swisslex AG, the German startup Carbonfuture, the University of Basel, and LVM Versicherung. The number of employees was further expanded and now totals around 60. Almost 20% of our workforce is female, a high percentage in ICT companies. Additionally, the German branch, Karakun GmbH, was founded in Dortmund.

We are particularly proud of the launch of two new platforms: the HIBU platform and Lyzium.

The HIBU platform is a flexible platform for the efficient development of customer solutions in the areas of intelligent search and text analysis. It positions us as an innovative player in the growing Swiss AI landscape. Plus, we are now a member of SwissNLP, the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing.

Lyzium is a Big Data platform for the analysis of measurement and simulation data in the automotive industry. Together with the acquisition of the German EXOKNOX GmbH announced a few days ago, the the way was paved for successful business in the automotive environment.

We can also report delightful developments in the products area: For example, the user base as well as the number of support customers of OpenWebStart, an open-source reimplementation of the Java Web Start technology removed by Oracle in Java 11, could be increased. OpenWebStart has been downloaded over 100,000 times since its release in 2019 and is running on an estimated 750,000 clients.

Likewise, a large number of new customers have been attracted to VOLTA. The cloud-based industry solution for the Swiss electrical installation industry was successfully expanded in terms of third-party system integration options, e.g. for time tracking.

As one of the founding members in the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group, we have successfully positioned ourselves as a Strategic Member. In addition to Karakun, members of the Working Group are industry giants such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

“We are extremely pleased with the developments and growth and look back with pride at the achieved milestones,” says Dr. Elisabeth Maier, CEO of Karakun AG. “When we founded our company April 1, 2018, we would not have dared to predict such rapid development. In particular, I would like to say thank you to all our employee. Without them, we would not be where we are today.”


Engineer in a car
30. March 2021

Karakun takes over EXOKNOX GmbH

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On April 1, 2021, Karakun AG will take over EXOKNOX GmbH based in Stuttgart (Germany). The German software company is one of the first start-ups to emerge from the Daimler AG innovation laboratory. All employees will be taken on, and the parties have agreed not to disclose the terms and conditions.

EXOKNOX’s offer is aimed at developers of technical systems such as simulation and test engineers or designers for whom functional component properties play an essential role. The software is considered a reference implementation of the FDX standard of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). FDX stands for “Functional Data Exchange” and enables a smooth exchange of development and simulation data between manufacturer and supplier.

“After a successful start in the corporate environment of a vehicle manufacturer, it was now important to find a partner with whom our product can be made accessible to the entire automotive environment”, says the old and new managing director of EXOKNOX GmbH Michael Baumann. “We are very proud to now belong to the Basel-based software company. Under the umbrella of Karakun, with his vast experience and know-how in software engineering, we will be able to make an important contribution to the digitization of development processes in the automotive industry.”

Hans-Dirk Walter, a member of the management and responsible for the automotive division at Karakun, explains: “We have been working very actively for some time on the challenges of digitization in the automotive industry. There is huge potential in this environment. Together with Lyzium, our Big Data platform for measurement and simulation data which was launched last year, we can offer an even wider range of solutions to simplify vehicle development. ”


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