Why

HighPots

1986

Foundation of tutoring association

1992

Expansion of the association to include innovation development

Fraunhofer Institute becomes sponsor
1993

1995

Establishment of an association subgroup for high intelligence and especially gifted people in the fields of computer science and microelectronics

Mercedes Benz becomes first customer
1996

1998

DASA becomes first aerospace customer

Deutsche Telekom Mobilfunk GmbH becomes first customer in mobile communications sector
1998

2000

Foundation of HighPots GbR

Olivetti becomes the first customer in the personal computer sector
2000

2001

Partnership of Sun Microsystems Inc.

Partnership with Microsoft
2001

2004

First participation in a world programming championship – 2nd place

2009

HighPots wins innovation award for new waste separation process

Amadeus becomes first customer in distribution and mass data processing of travel data
2011

2013

Internal product development Klick-Rally® Gamification

2015

Entry into quantum engineering

TUI becomes first customer in the tour operator sector
2015

2016

Best Western Hotels becomes first hospitality customer

2018

Foundation of HighPots in Switzerland

Partner in the EU research network Horizon 2020
2019
Volkswagen becomes first customer of HighPots Swiss
2019

2020

Development and expansion of the internal Partner Connect product

Deutsche Bahn becomes a partner
2021

2021

SAP becomes a partner

2021

Amadeus becomes a partner

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Who we are

Vision & progress

There are approximately 35000 IT companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined. Of these, less than 800 companies have one or more products of their own. HighPots belongs to those companies that have successfully developed and operate their own products. So we are not only a service provider, but also a manufacturer. And also we are looking for good IT staff to balance load peaks.

Thus, we not only have experience in release management and maintenance of software products, but it is also easy for us to identify with the situations of our customers. HighPots operates with about 130 IT experts on the market. Our focus is on software development, requirements engineering (technical

requirements management) and data analysis. All 3 areas are required to successfully implement machine learning for our customers. See also the Data Analytics Case Study from our cooperation project with the University of Oxford.
- Christoph Carnier, Senior Director & Head of Procurement Merck Group

When connecting Merck Healtcare to SAP Concur, HighPots often went the extra mile to solve problems without it being part of the actual scope. HighPots thus made a significant contribution to the success of the project.

- Christoph Carnier, Senior Director & Head of Procurement Merck Group

- Uta Martens, Managing Director Amadeus Germany

We work closely with HighPots to implement ideas and innovations very quickly using new high technologies and bring them to market. With HighPots we have an intensive partnership in product and software development since 2011. They were the first partner to develop and implement an application on our new web-based booking platform "Amadeus Selling Platform Connect". We highly appreciate the cooperation with HighPot's highly qualified team in the role of think tank, technology integrator and SW development service provider. See the full reference customer video (in German) here.

- Uta Martens, Managing Director Amadeus Germany

- Hendrik vor den Bäumen, Chief Product Officer (CPO) SAP

HighPots is an SAP implementation and development partner. HighPots develops high quality software very reliably and also quickly. Every audit and certification of the developed software performed by SAP was without any objections. HighPots services included requirements identification, technology selection, requirements implementation, and technology implementation. Beyond technology, we also work closely with HighPots in both innovation development and technology strategy. The company is a technology think tank with an eye for the big picture and a good feel for how the markets are developing.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

- Hendrik vor den Bäumen, Chief Product Officer (CPO) SAP

References

Opinions of our customers

Case Studies

Our most recently successfully completed projects. Success stories and case studies.
Case Study
HighPots-WPDEV

Success story of AI in the insurance industry

Success story about the development of an AI-based insurance rate calculator. Every policyholder has their own individual tariff. It all began with a successful project at Signal Iduna Versicherung in 2018, and we have since welcomed the third and fourth largest insurance companies in China and the No. 5 in

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13.03.2024

Rüdiger Off

Head of R&D

In terms of my university education, I am a natural scientist and engineer. But my job description is now more like that of a juggler.

I always make sure that all the balls - whether sales, software development, marketing or R&D - run in an orderly path; of course, I constantly adjust the paths to the dynamics of the market and the technological progress.

What applies to all employees of HighPots also applies to the management: we are given working time to develop our own ideas, services or prototypes, to try them out and to present them to customers.

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I also use my time to develop new research methods. As a physicist and engineer, I combine scientific methods with methods from epistemology, process philosophy and the sociology of knowledge. In my "old days" I even enrolled again at university to study sociology for this purpose.

HighPots was founded in the 1980s as a tutoring association to help students. The idea of helping is still firmly anchored in the HighPots DNA - regardless of whether it is still a matter of pupils/students, adults or organizations.

To me, there is no more beautiful sense than purposeful, peaceful and lively interactions and the realization of a common goal that everyone involved is burning for.

In this respect, every new working day is a (grounding) event for me. In the process, a great joy and curiosity develops, which I transfer to colleagues, customers and partners.

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Geschäftsführer des Softwareentwicklungsunternehmens HighPots in der Schweiz

Comments from our SW experts

Some of our employees have their say

Spoftwareunternehmen für Backend-Entwicklung
Denis Schumann
When I see this eternal pixel pushing of my SW development colleagues from the frontend area, I'm happy every time anew about my role as a backend developer. Whether REST APIs, Java, C++ or PHP - everything is better than Java/TypeScript & Co. 😉
Backend Development
Softwareunternehmen bietet Softwaresicherheit und Verschlüssung durch Experten
Ph.D. Yini Xing
I have only been working for HighPots since January 2022. Before that, I was at Tsinghua University in Beijing doing my PhD in theoretical computer science (on cryptography and homomorphic encryption schemes). I feel that the security of information regardless of how it is stored or transported is one of the most important future issues. Regardless of whether data is transmitted over quantum networks or classical networks. And it doesn't matter whether the attacks come from quantum computers or botnets, our customers' data and also HighPots data must be as secure as possible.
SW Security & Encryption
Softwareunternehmen DevOps Experte
Ph.D. Thomas Kull
I have been with HighPots since 2011 and ensure the smooth operation of our internal IT. This includes networks, servers, telephone systems and also the DevOps area; together with my department, I ensure that our site-distributed SW development works - this also includes, for example, the topics of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) - whether with Kubernates, Docker or server virtualization.
Internal IT & DevOps
Softwareunternehmen bietet Softwaresicherheit durch Lizenzprüfung anhand von Experten
Prof. Ph.D. Harald Lechner
I have been working as in-house counsel for HighPots for more than 20 years, taking care of software licenses and patents. I also work closely with my colleague Thomas from data protection. In doing so, I always try to take our clients' point of view and make the contracts as customer-friendly as possible while reducing the risk for HighPots. I walk this tightrope with passion every day.
Patent & License Management
Softwareunternehmen bietet Experten für Maschinelles Lernen und Statistik
Melanie Idler
Whether descriptive, inductive or explorative statistics, whether Gaussian, Bernoulli, Laplace, Bayesian epistemology or a mixture - everything succeeds with R or Python. But designing threshold functions in neural networks is also fun. Not because I studied theoretical mathematics, but because I am curious.
Data Analytics, Statistics & Machine Learning
Softwareunternehmen bietet Scrum-Experten für Softwareentwicklungsprojekte
Thomas Schulz
Whether sprint or refinement meetings, you have to pull every word out of the developers' noses 🙂 - if it weren't for us Scrum Masters, many developers wouldn't know that their vocal cords aren't a bad twist of fate.
Project Management / Scrum Master / Scrum Coach
Softwareunternehmen bietet Requirements Engineering-Experten für Anforderungsmanagement bei SW-Entwicklung
Deniz Müller
The agile manifesto and agile working, also in Scaled Agile environments (SAFe) is modern and in many cases also efficient. But Scrum and SAFe do not fit every project or (project) organization. Waterfall, V-model and phase project management methods also have their place. I am at home in many project method worlds and would not like to miss this versatility. But before I continue writing here, first a coffee.... 🙂
IPMA & Prince2 certified, Scrum Master & Requirements Management Specialist
Softwareunternehmen bietet Business Analysten Experten bei Softwareentwicklung
Jennifer Young
The quote from Alice in Wonderland describes my role at HighPots quite well: "Could you please tell me which way to go from here?" asks Alice "That depends mostly on where you want to go" replies the cat "I don't know" says Alice "Then it doesn't matter where you go" replies the cat. I make sure that all stakeholders know exactly where to go.
Requiements Engineering & Business Analysis
Softwareunternehmen bietet Softwaretest durch Experten
Aylin Rohrer
2 things are a real pleasure. Firstly, to prove that programmers are not infallible and secondly that unit tests are only half the truth.
Programming & Testing
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Softwareentwicklung aus der Reiseindustrie
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Softwareentwicklung aus der Elektrotechnikbranche
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Requirements Engineering aus der Touristik
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Softwareentwicklung Mobilfunkprovider
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Requirements Engineering aus der Netzwerktechnikbranche
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Softwareentwicklung aus Rüstungsindustrie
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Requirements Engineering bei TV Sender
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Softwareentwicklung aus Öl-Industrie
HighPots-Referenzkunde für Maschinelles Lernen Suchmaschinenhersteller

According to two independent company valuations, HighPots GmbH has 167 employees in Switzerland, the EU and Georgia. HighPots Holding AG, the parent company, has 253 employees worldwide, including working students, freelancers and IT trainees. HighPots is a certified member of the Silicon Valley Association for Employee Exchange. This means that HighPots has assessment centre procedures comparable to those of tech companies in California, for example. This qualifies HighPots as a service provider for the members of the association.