SMEs
Cloud Computing
Alternative to Windows/Office365 and Azure, AWS or Google cloud. Also for SW development companies with preconfigured DevOps cloud. Developed by the midmarket for the midmarket.
Cloud solution for midsize companies
Your SaaS cloud for digital transformation. Open. Resilient. Secure. Certified. Made in Germany.
As a SW development service provider, we have interconnected different software packages by developing interfaces. We offer support for all components that you freely assemble. We use our own cloud in everyday business and share your experiences with ours. Below are some important modules from which you can assemble your cloud product:
- BerliCRM - Open source CRM system from the manufacturer crm-now, based in Berlin.
- Matomo Webtracking - open source software for identification, analysis and target group clustering of your website visitors
- Matrix-Server and Element-Client - Open Source Software as MS Teams or Zoom replacement
- 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 like Perplexity or Open Assistant as almost equal counterparts to OpenAI
- Mail security and anti-spam with Hornet Security
- Our DevOps solution for SW development companies with GitLab, Docker, Docker orchestration, automated testing and deployment
- Univention Active Directory Replacement
Areas of tension Cloud
When using clouds from US companies
Constantly changing business, purchasing, privacy and data security regulations of cloud providers require constant legal monitoring and impact assessments. Permanent price increases, sometimes by more than 10%/anno, cause planning uncertainties. We offer our midmarket cloud at stable prices. The IT infrastructure and DevOps knowledge of your employees remains valid worldwide. Because we rely on standards instead of proprietary environments. They can talk to us personally about your needs and requirements - we focus on you. We connect your software individually with the applications in our cloud. Even if your application is not part of our portfolio. Or we move your applications to our cloud.
Profit through networking & open source AI
Security, data protection and hardly any licensing costs - transform and automate your applications.
Medium-sized companies move in the area of conflict between EU DSGVO, 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 when 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 also think similarly to us. To highlight some important risks and expenses:
- The constantly changing business, purchasing, privacy and data security regulations of cloud providers requires constant legal monitoring and impact assessments. This is expensive
- Subsequent separation from the cloud provider would be very resource intensive
- Dependence on arbitrary licensing cost policies of cloud providers
- Spying on innovations by cloud providers
- Automated deletion of data by the cloud provider, e.g. in case the data is considered "dangerous", "obscene" or "radical" by an algorithm.
- Hardly any possibilities for individualization of PaaS and SaaS platforms; one's own company is too unimportant for the global cloud providers to make adjustments
- Country laws and ethics are subordinated to the imperialistic global growth drive of cloud providers
- Employee IT infrastructure knowledge is lost; global knowledge and standards defined in ISO standards must be subordinated to proprietary environment
Why open source cloud?
To avoid misunderstandings
…let’s start by saying: Yes, we at HighPots are Amazon, Google, Microsoft partners and work for our customers on GCP, Azure or AWS platforms every day. Since March 2023, we are also a certified partner of Alibaba with its Aliyun cloud and also develop software on Tencent/Tengxun’s Weiyun cloud.
We work with the cloud systems of the big players on behalf of customers. But internally at HighPots we use our own cloud, mainly based on open source and software from Europe.
With all systems listed on this website we also work HighPots-internally. Therefore, we have many years of experience in working with these systems. Both from a technical point of view and from a user perspective.
Furthermore, we are pushing the networking and integration of these systems among each other by developing more and more new interfaces.
Advantages of our SaaS Cloud
Advantages of our SaaS Cloud for medium-sized businesses
- Flexibility. Feature extensions are developed and provided by us cost-effectively. Whether it's the enhancement of an app's functionality or the integration of an AI-based assistant system.
- Security. No backdoors and fewer targeted attacks, as seen in products like Microsoft's.
- Data Privacy. No data sharing with other countries or third-party providers. EU GDPR compliance concerning the stance on US laws like Safe Harbor and the Patriot Act
- Cost. While our computational power per square meter and kWh might be slightly higher, the transparency, flexibility, and customization options ultimately make us more cost-effective than US cloud providers.
- Transparency. You know exactly where your data is located - your data isn't stored in globally distributed data centers (e.g., in Russia or China).
- Availability. Open-source software remains available for years and cannot be shut down by a single vendor.
- Interoperability. Our cloud promotes open standards and protocols that facilitate interoperability between different clouds, systems, and applications. This enables you to seamlessly integrate various software components and benefit from a wider range of options.
- Support and Consultation. We provide personalized guidance. You can define your SLAs with us, and we offer advice on data privacy and the implementation of technologies such as AI.
Open Source SaaS Cloud for SMEs
Focused Work. No flashy gamification-like animations to distract. Integration where it makes sense and is controllable. In the Office365 universe, things are becoming increasingly cluttered 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 discern which information was transmitted on which channel. This is 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. Even the best search function won’t help much in finding the data.
Most corporations want to establish their own proprietary protocols. In the open-source realm, we work with globally recognized standards. Therefore, we can quickly integrate any open-source channel into the applications you desire. Chats can be automated and stored in Nextcloud or the CRM system. Or, using AI like ElevenLabs, they can be transformed into a podcast or audio file.
A community of tens of thousands of people works on open-source solutions every day. License-free for you. In our SaaS Cloud.
