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7. July 2023

Java Forum Stuttgart 2023

On July 13, 2023, we will be actively participating for the first time in the Java Forum Stuttgart (JFS) at the Liederhalle Culture & Congress Centre.

As a moderator, Karakun Scrum Master Claudine Zillmann will accompany various talks and thus ensure a unique conference experience for participants. In addition, we will present Karakun at our stand number 17 and show what we stand for and in which business areas we are active.

What is the JFS?

The JFS is an annual one-day conference with Java as its guiding topic. The JFS is primarily designed for developers but is equally beneficial to attendees’ decision-making skills. Use the forum to inform yourself about Java-related topics or to get the latest news from the Java and JVM environment. The spectrum is covered by basic lectures, field reports and information about specific products.

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We will show Karakun’s range of services by presenting selected customer projects. Of course, we will also answer questions about job vacancies and employee benefits. For example, we currently look for experienced Full-Stack Software Engineers for Java, Web and Mobile (f/m/d). Just drop by – we look forward to talking to you.

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7. June 2023

Karakun @ SwissText 2023

From June 12 to 14, 2023, text analysis experts from industry and academia will meet at SwissText 2023 at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Neuchâtel. In addition to our commitment as a Gold Sponsor, we will be moderating the “Battle for NLP Ideas” for the first time. This is a collaborative event where participants group together to brainstorm innovative ideas based on the latest NLP technologies. The best ideas are presented on stage and shared with the whole conference.

Efficient processing of information requests with PID Cockpit

When the revised Swiss Data Protection Act (revDSG) comes into force in September 2023, companies must have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect personal data following the new legal requirements. One of these processes is the response to requests for information from individuals. For this purpose, we have developed the PID Cockpit, a solution that offers users enormous time and cost savings.

This AI-based software solution lets users efficiently identify personal data in heterogeneous IT environments. For this purpose, PID Cockpit can search all data sources whose files can be accessed (directly or via API). It is irrelevant whether the data is structured or unstructured.

Poster about the PID Cockpit presented by Holger Keibelel at SwissText 2023.

Our Language Analytics & Search Solutions expert Dr Holger Keibel will present the PID Cockpit to interested visitors during the poster session. In addition, visitors can get comprehensive information about our HIBU platform at our booth in the attached exhibition. HIBU is a flexible software platform for the cost-effective development of customer solutions, especially in the areas of intelligent search solutions, content analytics and workflow automation.

prostep ivip Symposium 2023

For the 26th time, industry experts and executives will meet at the ICS Stuttgart on May 3 and 4, 2023 – this year with the motto “Pioneering Digital Transformation for Sustainable Systems”. We will be present again with a booth and live demos of our data management software EXOKNOX.

Innovative data management systems for modern product development

The EXOKNOX product family consisting of EXOKNOXhub and EXOKNOXlyzium is part of integrated development cycles, thus contributing to more efficiency in developing mechatronic products.

Typical development process of mechatronic products showing how EXOKNOX and EXOKNOXlyzium can help to achieve more efficiency.

While very good CAD product data management systems are already available for the classic design of components, the situation is quite different for component and system properties such as stiffness, damping, pressure loss or torque behaviour. These properties determine the DNA of the entire vehicle to a considerable extent.

Being the first fully comprehensive and future-proof data management solution for this product-relevant development data, we close the gaps in companies’ system landscapes. EXOKNOX is the reference implementation of the prostep FDX standard.

Pyramid showing in which areas EXOKNOX is filling the white spots where no integrated data management software is available on the market.

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Our exhibition team will be happy to show you how EXOKNOX can make your product development much more efficient and reduce time-to-market by up to 75%.

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4. April 2023

Happy 5th anniversary, Karakun!

On April 1, 2018, Karakun AG started its business in Basel. The company does not only focus on its customers but also places great value on employees who share the company’s values and carry them to the outside world. A strategy that paid off, as the company was able to position itself as an outstanding employer and fill vacancies with excellent employees despite a shortage of skilled professionals. Today, employee benefits are regularly put to the test and adjusted. As of 2023, all employees benefit from a 40-hour week with 30 days of holiday (at 100% workload).

Subsidiaries in Germany and India

“Karakunies”, as the employees call themselves, are active at four locations. In addition to the headquarters in Basel, Karakun founded branches in Mumbai (India) and Dortmund in 2020. The acquisition of EXOKNOX GmbH, a software company specialising in digital engineering solutions in the automotive industry, added a branch in Stuttgart. Of course, remote working is available at all locations.

Business development

On the revenue side, the company can look back on a stable turnover situation. The core business “Solutions”, i.e. project business with customers from a wide range of industries, and the increasing licence and maintenance revenues are of great importance. Customers are start-ups and large listed companies from different industry sectors. Karakun also celebrates its first successes in the new strategic area of public sector projects.

The company uses a considerable portion of the revenue for investments in the product business with the plan to ensure the future viability and sustainability of Karakun. Over the years, the company invested around 10 to 15 % of the annual turnover in the development of products – regardless of market fluctuations caused by Covid, the global political situation, shortage of skilled professionals or supply chain problems. Karakun plans to continue this strategy in the coming years.

The developments in the company’s industry solution for the Swiss electrical industry, VOLTA, show that this strategy is fruitful. The product team is more than busy with the introduction of new customers as well as customer-specific extensions. The team has grown accordingly to ensure future product development and guarantee maximum customer support.

When we launched Karakun, we expected to be successful in the market. However, the scale has far exceeded expectations.

Dr. Elisabeth Maier

CEO

Cooperation with universities

However, Karakun not only stands for high-quality and sustainable software solutions. The company also places a strong focus on research and innovation. To this end, Karakun experts work with several research institutions and universities as lecturers or in research projects.

In the AI environment, Karakun and its partners DSwiss and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) researched the industrial application of the latest Deep Learning technologies (pre-trained language models) in a project funded by Innosuisse. The results significantly reduce the efforts and costs of using such methods in customer projects.

Karakun is also well-known in the world of open-source software. In addition to active participation in Eclipse Working Groups and other widespread projects, the company has developed its open-source product, OpenWebStart. Thanks to OpenWebStart, companies and organisations worldwide can use their applications based on the deprecated Java WebStart technology without further actions. Until today, OpenWebStart has more than 300,000 downloads. The estimated number of active installations is more than 400,000. Companies like Deutscher Wetterdienst, DXC Technology or the Charité Berlin use OpenWebStart.

“When we launched Karakun, we expected to be successful in the market. However, the scale has far exceeded expectations,” says Dr Elisabeth Maier, CEO of Karakun. “Without the commitment of every single employee, this would not have been possible. However, we also know that we cannot rest on our laurels. By expanding our customer base and investing heavily in our products, we are already setting the course for tomorrow.”

22. March 2023

First DesignGarten in 2023

It’s 5:50 pm on a Thursday in the Karakun office. The rustling of crisp bags and the sound of beer bottles on their way to the fridge break the silence. The last checking glance across the meeting room is interrupted by the doorbell. Wooosh. The lift arrives, and in steps the first guest of the second Karakun DesignGarden on 9 March 2023.

In a round consisting of 5 UX enthusiasts, the participants first discussed questions about UX training or how to gain a foothold in the user experience design area. After a few drinks and pizza, the participants worked on two concepts and supported each other in their daily business.

Like at the first DesignGarten Basel, we enjoyed welcoming design colleagues and are already looking forward to the next round in summer 2023, which will take place on 28 June 2023 from 6 pm at our offices in Basel.

19. January 2023

Karakun @ Voxxed Days Ticino

The eighth edition of Voxxed Days Ticino will take place on 20 January 2023 at Palazzo die Congressi in Lugano. The hybrid software conference offers a broad spectrum of interesting talks from local and international speakers. With Markus Schlichting and Iryna Dohndorf, two Karakun experts are also part of the schedule.

Singularity by mistake – why my AI is wiping out humanity

In movies, we are often led to believe that an artificial intelligence has the ability to autonomously rise up against humanity and usher in the end of the world. Given the current state of technology, however, this nightmare idea is nothing more than a mere fantasy.

But why are technology giants such as Elon Musk nevertheless “afraid” of the AI future? Is our AI really going against humanity or is it actually just doing exactly what we have asked it to do?

In this lecture, Iryna Dohndorf looks at the failed attempts of machine learning algorithms and their resulting outcomes, some of which are significantly more amusing than you would expect.

Pushing documentation (so it doesn’t hurt anymore)

As developers, we love solving problems with technology. It helps us make our users’ lives – or at least their jobs – easier. But what happens when technology suddenly causes more problems than it solves?

Both we as developers and the admins of our solutions appreciate good documentation in such cases. But what is “good” documentation? How much documentation is sufficient and what does it take? How can documentation be created and maintained without getting too far away from the code? Or to put it another way: how do you integrate a dev toolchain with documentation tools?

After this talk, you will know which tools we use to make it easier for us to create, maintain and use documentation in our everyday development work. We will take a look at setups and approaches to solutions in current projects with small and large “helpers” from the open source world – from AsciiDoc with Gradle to DocToolChain and Antora.

Do you wish to learn more about us and our topics? We look forward to welcoming you at our booth. Alternatively, you are of course welcome to contact us by e-mail or phone.

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23. November 2022

ASAM International Conference 2022

The 5th ASAM International Conference continues the biennial series of ASAM International Conferences that address aspects of ADAS / AD development, with a focus on standardization. In 2022, after a one-year delay due to Corona, we are bringing together decision makers and technical experts again to share their experience and discuss possible next steps.

For more information please visit the ASAM Website.

At our booth, we will present our product family EXOKNOX for efficient management of engineering data to the public.

Exhibition back wall explaining EXOKNOX product family

In the context of a typical development process, EXOKNOX^hub and EXOKNOX^free contribute significant efficiencies at the beginning of a development loop, right through to the construction of digital and real prototypes.

EXOKNOX^lyzium comes into play when these prototypes produce results, such as raw timing data or bus data, which need to be managed, analyzed and compared with previous results.

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11. November 2022

Software for efficient data protection

The revised Swiss Data Protection Act (DSG) will become effective on September 1, 2023. By this date, companies must have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect personal data following the new legal requirements. Violations could result in severe penalties.

In addition, there is an increasing risk of cyber attacks in which unprotected or inaccurately stored customer and employee data are exploited. That leads to reputational damage and, in the worst case, to the loss of annoyed customers.

Together with our partner krm, we wrote the following article about why software solutions are essential for effectively and efficiently implementing data protection measures. This article was published in issue 11/2022 of Swiss IT Magazine.

Identifying personal data in heterogeneous IT environments

One such application for automating manual processes is our award-winning PID Cockpit. The „PID Cockpit“ is a joint development between Karakun and the Swiss Information Governance Competence Centre (krm.swiss).

This AI-based software solution lets users efficiently identify personal data in heterogeneous IT environments. For this purpose, the PID Cockpit can search all data sources whose files can be accessed (directly or via API). It is irrelevant whether the data is structured or unstructured. The system recognizes industry- and company-specific text types when set up correctly. It can be run on local servers or in the cloud, as required.

The benefits for users are simplicity and the associated time and cost savings. Automated, transparent AI processes also minimize errors and make search results reproducible and consistent.

Would you like to learn more about the PID Cockpit? We would be happy to advise you. You can get a first overview in our product flyer.

Take One, Action!

Its 6pm on a Wednesday night in November. The office is dark and empty. Everybody went home to their loved ones. Everybody? Wait, there is still light in the meeting room. Bowls of chips, chilled bottles of beer, laptops, colored pens and 6 heads in a discussion? What is going on in the Karakun Office?

Agenda of DesignGarten Basel

Discussions at DesignGarten Basel

Pizza and beer at the first DesignGarten Basel

You just witnessed the start of the very first DesignGarten taking place. The DesignGarten is a new meeting format similar to the Developers Hackergarten. A group of passionate people meet to discuss design topics, work on projects, test out new ideas- all related to the area of User Experience Design. We started by collecting the topics everybody brought and then started discussing about User Experience Design and collaboration. How to collaborate within the company, with developers, with the customer? Everybody shared their insights and thoughts, and we ended up having a very vivid discussion which continued way into our tasty pizza dinner. After dinner we tackled a more practical issue by looking into the details of a design project: An “Open Space Allocator”- a concept for an app which will help planning and scheduling sessions for open space conferences and events. We talked about potential users, functionalities, risks, and implementation ideas.

Take Two. Aaand – Action!

All the participants enjoyed the first DesignGarten and are looking forward to the next one, which will take place in the beginning of 2023. Simply join the DesignGarten meetup group at https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/designgarten-basel/ and get notified. Or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn. We look forward to meeting you next time!

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18. October 2022

AI-SDV 2022

AI-SDV is the place to be for everyone involved in advanced search and data applications, text mining and visualization technologies. AI-SDV 2022 took place on Oct 10-11, 2022, in Vienna (Austria).

Karakun expert Dr. Holger Keibel presented a talk about information extraction from tabular documents.

Abstract & Slides

In our customer projects involving automated document processing, we often encounter document types providing crucial data in the form of tables. While established text analytics algorithms are usually optimized to operate on running text, they tend to produce rather poor results on tables as they do not capture the non-sequential relations inside them (e.g. interpret the content of a table cell relative to its column title, interpret line breaks inside a cell differently from line breaks between cells or rows).

While there are elaborate information extraction products in the market for a few highly specific types of tabular documents, there is no general approach out there. The main cause for this is the fact that table structures can be encoded by a heterogenous range of layout means (e.g. column boundaries can be signaled by lines vs. aligned text vs. white space).

In this talk, we will illustrate several solutions that we have developed for a range of challenges occurring in this context, both for scanned and digitally generated documents.

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Karakun employees Claudine Zillmann and Markus Schlichting celebrating the second place of sol.IT Award 2022.

3. October 2022

PID Cockpit wins 2nd place

After being nominated for the sol.IT-Award, we were happy to have another highlight a couple of days later:

At the official award ceremony at the Bits + Currywurst, we won second place with our PID Cockpit.

Konfettiregen bei der Preisverleihung des sol.IT-Awards 2022.

Claudine Zillmann and Markus Schlichting were on site for us at the Signal-Iduna-Park in Dortmund and were finally able to receive one of the coveted certificates.

Urkunde zweiter Platz beim sol.IT-Award 2022

We congratulate Frederik Dürr and the team of MyShoeFitter GmbH on the first place and are already looking forward to the next edition of this exciting competition..

PID Cockpit simplifies data protection tasks

According to national and international data protection laws, every person has the right to know what data is stored about him or her, in order to have it deleted or corrected. Since this information is nowadays stored in a wide variety of data pools, requests for information and deletion can make identifying personal data a real challenge. Data protection officers, governance & compliance specialists, and HR departments in SMEs and large enterprises need a simple yet effective solution.

In contrast to traditional approaches, the k2 PID Cockpit allows direct access to the data sets in question and the connection of a wide variety of data sources. It offers transparency in the identification of a wide variety of structured as well as unstructured data sources containing personal data.

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22. September 2022

Karakun nominated for sol.IT-Award

Since 2013, the IT Club Dortmund has been awarding solutions with the sol.IT-Award. The sol.IT-Award honors products that excel through outstanding customer benefits.

Our submission with the k2 PID Cockpit has made it to the final round. Which of the companies finally wins the award will be revealed at the official ceremony at the closing event of #Diwodo22 during the Bits + Currywurst.

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