Custom Software Solutions Based on Open Technologies
Modern custom software, AI consulting and open-source expertise.
We develop tailored software solutions for use cases where no suitable standard products exist. For selected areas, we rely on in-house frameworks and customizable building blocks to create additional efficiency and value.
Solution Engineering
Developing ergonomic, high-quality custom software is one of our core strengths. With a strong focus on agile software engineering, modern software architectures and sustainable technological decisions, we support businesses in realizing complete custom solutions – from analysis and implementation to operation and maintenance.
IT Consulting
- Architecture consulting
- Open Source consulting
- Cloud strategy
- Design & usability
Business Consulting
- AI consulting
- Digital transformation
- Process optimization
Software Services
- Integration
- Backend
- Frontend / UI
- AI training
Products
Operations / SaaS
- Support consulting
- Maintenance
- Hosting & Cloud Services
Our experts quickly familiarize themselves with new domains and bring extensive experience with Java, modern web technologies, cloud platforms and mobile applications. We build solutions that run on desktops, on the web and in the cloud, using established tools as well as the latest technological trends.
Through our active involvement in the developer and open-source community, we don’t just follow developments – we help shape them. We share our knowledge in publications, presentations and conferences, providing our clients with a genuine technological advantage and long-term access to future-proof solutions.
Many of our team members are among the pioneers of agile software development. Working in distributed or hybrid teams across companies and borders is part of our daily routine – reliable, efficient and with proven track record across projects of all sizes.
years of experience in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology
experienced Software, AI and Data Engineers
satisfied customers
If you are looking to develop, modernize or extend a custom software solution, we are happy to advise you.
AI Consulting & Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is more than a trend – it is transforming how we work, decide and build the future. But what does this mean for your organization? Where does AI truly create value? And how can you approach the topic in a way that is legally sound, strategically meaningful and technically feasible?
Would you like to understand which AI opportunities exist in your organization? Our experts would happy to advise you.
AI Discovery Session
Our AI Discovery Session provides compact, practical guidance for a quick and well-founded introduction to the topic of Artificial Intelligence. The session is tailored to your business context, combining short impulses with active exchange.
For use case development, we apply design-thinking elements and structured ideation supported by an evaluation matrix based on value and feasibility. Demos, examples or screenshots make opportunities tangible, and in an open Q&A we address your individual questions in depth.
Would you like to determine which AI use cases are meaningful for your organization? The AI Discovery Session offers a clear and structured starting point.
Intelligent language analytics & enterprise search
The amount of information that you and your customers need to process is constantly growing. And since every employee of a company has his or her own filing system, the chaos quickly becomes perfect. Ultimately, we all spend far too much valuable time searching for the relevant information.
The Hibu platform by Karakun provides a proven, fully developed toolset that can be used to develop customized solutions for accessing content from structured and unstructured documents and data collections. The basis is a state-of-the-art analysis platform whose core components are constantly being further developed. These include intelligent semantic search, recognition of names, dates and units of measurement, classification of texts and their assignment to specific subject areas, and recognition of the tonality of a contribution.
The platform components use the latest AI technologies such as statistical models and neural networks – but also established procedures that are based on rule-based approaches. Using this mix, the Karakun solution can implement a wide range of business cases and master demanding challenges.
We use agile methods to implement your customized solution. A large team of experienced software engineers, computational linguists, UI experts and project managers develop and integrate them into your IT environment and ensure a smooth interaction with your infrastructure. At the same time, we only use technologies that we are convinced of and that suit you and your environment. Our team members all have a broad background with the latest approaches from the fields of artificial intelligence, language processing and big data.
As a customer, you will benefit from shorter implementation times and low development costs thanks to our many years of experience in the field of up-to-date software architectures and the development of scalable and usable applications.
Visit https://hibu-platform.com or read the related case studies of Covalo AG (formerly Chemberry by Clariant), the DSwiss AG or the University of Basel.
Digital Engineering Solutions – high-efficiency development of technical systems
Are you looking for a powerful management and analysis solution for large amounts of measurement data? Or do you want to shorten development times by efficiently providing data for your digital and physical development processes? If your answered one or both questions with a yes, explore our digital engineering solutions LYZIUM and EXOKNOX.
Lyzium is a modern big data platform that combines large data volumes with structured metadata and powerful, flexible analysis options. Lyzium meets ADAS requirements in the automotive area and is flexibly adaptable to the data management and analysis demands of NVH, crash or durability.
EXOKNOX closes the entire process chain for your physical/technical data that make up the functional DNA of your product. We call this functional data management. EXOKNOX consists of functional requirements management, supplier integration, data management according to PDM principles and automated data supply for downstream processes. For cross-company data exchange, EXOKNOX is compliant with the FDX standard.
Both EXOKNOX and Lyzium provide an integrated data management platform that allows storage, management, and analysis of all relevant data to describe physical-technical systems. Originally from the automotive sector, the solutions can be flexibly adapted by configuration to meet the needs of other industries such as aviation, the rail industry or energy.
Both solutions are available in an on-premises operating model or as software as a service, depending on your requirements.
Visit https://lyzium.com and learn more about the place for your measurement and simulation data.
If you want to know more about our activities in general, please write an email at info@karakun.com or give us a call at +41 61 551 36 00.
Visit https://exoknox.com and learn more about the place for functional maturity development.
If you want to know more about our activities in general, please write an email at info@exoknox.com or give us a call at +49 711 18426400.
VOLTA for Swiss electrical companies
Our cloud-based industry software solution VOLTA supports processes in electrical installation businesses of all sizes and provides users with individual and flexible operation – at any location and with any operating system. VOLTA simplifies and optimizes each production step from project start-up, invitation to tender right up to invoicing. Tailored to the needs of electricians, Volta furthermore scores with its simple and intuitive usability.
VOLTA is certified by CRB and VSEI and supports all industry standards such as NPK, Steiger, VSAS and ELDAS. In addition, the application offers numerous interfaces to systems such as SAP, Abacus, Sharepoint, SAGE, etc.
Volta not only facilitates office administration, but also the work of service technicians. With VOLTA mobile for iOS and Android, service and management reports can be created directly at the workplace. The required data are recorded using a Tablet PC and the customer can check the completeness and correctness of all information directly on the display and confirm this with his signature.
From the recorded data, VOLTA mobile generates a PDF document which is printed or sent to the customer by email. For invoicing, the reports are transmitted via Internet connection to the office, where the corresponding invoice can be generated with a just few clicks.
The core functions of VOLTA mobile are also available offline and allow problem-free working even in areas with poor reception, such as the basement.
Visit the product website at https://myvolta.ch or read the related case study of Burkhalter Holding AG.
Open-Source Consulting & Digital Sovereignty
Open source is a central part of our work – not only as a technology, but as a mindset. Many of our employees are active contributors or maintainers and play a significant role in shaping open-source projects. This hands-on experience enables us to support organizations in strategic, technical and organizational questions: from selecting suitable components to license and security considerations, all the way to long-term, sovereign use of open technologies.
We help companies and public-sector organizations strengthen their digital sovereignty by relying on open standards, transparent technologies and sustainable software solutions that remain independent of specific vendors.
Would you like to use open-source technologies strategically or strengthen your digital sovereignty? We are here to help.
OpenWebStart
Among our own open-source projects is OpenWebStart, a modern, freely available implementation of the WebStart and JNLP standards. It enables Java applications to be launched securely and without a browser – regardless of Oracle discontinuing WebStart support since Java 11.
OpenWebStart is based on IcedTea-Web, includes the most widely used features of Java WebStart and can reliably run any JNLP-based application.