Medium-sized Businesses
Cloud Computing
Alternative to Windows/Office365 and Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. Also for software development companies with preconfigured DevOps cloud. Developed by SMEs for SMEs.
Cloud Solution for SMEs
Your SaaS cloud for digital transformation. Open. Resilient. Secure. Certified. Made in Germany.
As a software development service provider, we have interconnected various software packages by developing interfaces. We offer support for all components that you can freely combine. We use our own cloud in our daily business and share your experiences with ours. Below are some important modules from which you can put together your cloud product:
- BerliCRM – Open source CRM system from the manufacturer crm-now, based in Berlin
- Matomo Web Tracking – Open source software for identifying, analyzing, and clustering target groups among your website visitors
- Matrix Server and Element Client – Open source software as a replacement for MS Teams or Zoom
- Innovaphone telephony solutions – VoIP PBX and (software) phones
- Kopano and NextCloud groupware – mail and calendar server as a replacement for MS Exchange
- NextCloud – Store and share files
- Collabora Office – collaborate with others on a document at the same time
- MailStore for email archiving and compliance with legal retention requirements
- AI systems such as Perplexity or Open Assistant as almost equal opponents to OpenAI
- Mail-Sicherheit und Anti-Spam mit Hornet Security
- Unsere DevOps-Lösung für SW-Entwicklungsunternehmen mit GitLab, Docker, Dockerorchestrierung, automatischem Testen und Deployment
- Univention Active Directory replacement
Areas of tension Cloud
When using clouds from US companies
The constantly changing business, purchasing, data protection, and data security regulations of cloud providers require constant legal monitoring and impact assessments. Constant price increases, sometimes exceeding 10% per annum, cause planning uncertainties. We offer our SME cloud at stable prices. Your employees' IT infrastructure and DevOps knowledge remains valid worldwide. That's because we rely on standards instead of proprietary environments. With us, you can discuss your needs and requirements in person—we tailor our services to you. We connect your software individually with the applications in our cloud, even if your application is not part of our portfolio. Or we can transfer your applications to our cloud.
Benefit from networking & open source AI
Security, data protection, and minimal licensing costs—transform and automate your applications
Small and medium-sized enterprises are caught between the EU GDPR, EU AI Act, EU Digital Act, license management, copyright, and digital transformation. Our cloud solution allows you to focus on your core business and use your resources for your digital transformation.
Risks associated with using global cloud providers
For us, as a medium-sized service provider for software development with only about 150 FTEs, the risks are too high for us to use cloud systems from global providers. Many other medium-sized companies think similarly to us. To highlight some important risks and expenses:
- The constantly changing business, purchasing, data protection, and data security regulations of cloud providers require constant legal monitoring and impact assessments. That is expensive
- A later separation from the cloud provider would be very resource-intensive
- Dependencies on arbitrary licensing cost policies of cloud providers
- Spying on innovations by cloud providers
- Unauthorized automated deletion of data by cloud providers, e.g., if the data is considered by an algorithm as “dangerous”, “obscene”, or “radical”
- Few possibilities for individualizing PaaS and SaaS platforms; one's own company is too insignificant for global cloud providers to make adjustments
- National laws and ethics are subordinated to the imperialistic global growth drive of cloud providers
- Employees' IT infrastructure knowledge is lost; globally valid knowledge and standards defined in ISO norms must be subordinated to the proprietary environment
Why Open Source Cloud?
To Avoid Misunderstandings
…let us preface by saying: Yes, we at HighPots are Amazon, Google, Microsoft partners and work daily for our clients on the GCP, Azure, or AWS platforms. Since March 2023, we are also a certified partner of Alibaba with its Aliyun Cloud and also develop software in Tencent/Tengxun’s Weiyun Cloud.
We work with the cloud systems of the big players on behalf of our clients. But internally at HighPots, we use our own cloud, primarily based on Open Source and software from Europe.
We also work internally at HighPots with all systems listed on this website. Therefore, we have many years of experience in dealing with these systems, both from a technical perspective and from the user’s perspective.
Furthermore, we drive the networking and integration of these systems with each other by developing ever new interfaces.
Advantages of our SaaS Cloud
Advantages of our SaaS Cloud for SMEs
- Flexibility. Feature extensions are cost-effectively developed and provided by us, regardless of whether it concerns the functional extension of an app or, for example, the integration of an AI-based assistance system.
- Security. No backdoors and a lower number of targeted attacks, such as those on Microsoft products.
- Data Protection. No data transfer to other states or third-party providers. EU GDPR compliance regarding the position on US laws Safe Harbor and Patriot Act.
- Costs. Although we are slightly more expensive in terms of computing power per square meter and KWh, due to transparency, flexibility, and individual customization options, we are ultimately still more affordable than US cloud providers.
- Transparency. You know exactly where your data is located - your data is not in globally distributed data centers (e.g., in Russia or China).
- Availability. Open Source software is available for years to come and cannot be shut down by a manufacturer.
- Interoperability. Our cloud promotes open standards and protocols that facilitate interoperability between different clouds, systems, and applications. This allows you to seamlessly integrate various software components and benefit from a greater variety of options.
- Support and Consulting. We advise you personally. You can define your SLAs with us together; we advise you on data protection and the use of, e.g., AI.
Open Source SaaS Cloud for SMEs
Work Focused. No Colorful Gamification-Like Animations that Distract. Integration where it is Useful and Controllable. In the Office365 Universe, it is Becoming Increasingly Confusing and Colorful. Integrations and Mergers of Teams, Skype, Outlook, Azure, SharePoint, OneDrive and other Office Applications as Well as with Windows Itself Make it Difficult to Distinguish which Information Was Transmitted on which Channel. Because not all Information Channels Come from the Same Manufacturer. Information from, for Example, a WebEx or Zoom Chat Will not be Seamlessly Integrated into the Microsoft Universe in the Future. Then Even the Best Search Function Will not Help to Find the Data. Most Corporations Want to Establish Their Own Proprietary Protocols. In the Open Source Domain, We Work with Globally Valid Standards. Thus, We Can Quickly Integrate any Arbitrary Open Source Channel into your Desired Applications. Chats Can be Automatically Saved in Nextcloud or the CRM System, or Converted into a Podcast/Audio File via AI, E.G., ElevenLabs. A Community of Tens of Thousands of People Work Daily on Open Source Solutions. License-free for You. In our SaaS Cloud.