Our Services

We develop individual solutions for typical applications where no suitable standard software currently exists. For selected areas, we use our own frameworks / customizable products, thus accomplishing further efficiency gains.

Solution development

The agile development of ergonomic and high-quality software solutions is encoded in the DNA of each Karakun coworker. And for us solution development means not just the implementation of customer requirements but rather the corresponding value-creation chain in its entirety:

Customer support
We support our customers starting with requirements analysis, via solution design right through to the review of the definitive solution.
Software development
Although we write code, we keep a constant eye on the overall application architecture as well as the development process. Furthermore, we carry out project reviews and evaluate program code.
User-oriented approach
Users are the focus of the entire development process, thus guaranteeing intuitive operability and optimal customer satisfaction.
Maintenance and support
We maintain the software we develop and keep it up to date, as needed.

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We at Karakun are at home in many domains and can quickly familiarize ourselves with new subject areas. The focus of our technology is the Java platform. Our experts are equally at home on the desktop, the web and mobile devices as well as in the cloud, and are familiar with both well-established tools and the latest trends. Thanks to our strong commitment to the developer and open source community, we don’t just keep our knowledge up to date, but actively help shape new technologies. We support the marketing of these innovations with a variety of publications and presentations at regional and international conferences. As a customer, you will benefit from our advanced expertise.

Many of our experts are pioneers in agile development. All employees are very familiar with working in distributed and / or virtual teams across company and national borders.

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.

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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.

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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

We at Karakun believe in open source and the power of the community. However, we don’t just consume. Many of our employees are active contributors or have the lead of open source projects.

The list of Karakun’s own open source projects includes OpenWebStart.

With “Java Web Start”, Java applications can be transferred via the Internet and started without a browser. This standard was supported by the Oracle JDK in the form of Oracle WebStart up to Java 10. However, since Oracle no longer includes WebStart support with their JDK distributions as of Java 11, and since Oracle no longer issues free updates for Java 8, a gap has arisen here.

OpenWebStart is an open source implementation of the WebStart and JNLP standard (JSR-56) and is based on IcedTea-Web. OpenWebStart will include the most used features of Java Web Start and is therefore able to handle any JNLP-based application.

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