Ascora

Ascora GmbH is an SME IT company, based in northern Germany (Lower Saxony). Since 1994 we have been developing and selling software as an Independent Software Vendor with products that are used around the world. In 2007, we extended its range to provide business solutions as well. We offer IT consulting services to national and international companies. We are involved in several projects within the research and innovation domain. We offer a variety of services, with the main expertise in the domains of system integration aspects and the development and prototyping of SOA based solutions (services).

We have broad expertise in realizing personalized applications with a strong focus for creating fully adaptive solutions based on service oriented architectures and distributed system integration. We have strong experience in connecting different IT systems from a data perspective and from a semantic perspective. We are a founding member and editor of the International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS) and have organized several events in this domain.

We are highly active in the eHealth domain and have organized the workshop about SOA in Health Care at the recent GI conference in the course of the ongoing research project (SAMBA) in sponsored by the BMBF and is also active in the EU AAL programme. We have broad knowledge in secure data management of health information including patient data and device information.

In addition to our business solutions, we are one of the leading providers of software apps in Germany. Ascora software solutions are used by over 1.4 Mio registered users, distributed under own labels and under third party white-label approaches. Applications include desktop applications as well as web and mobile apps (Android, iPhone).

We are actively contributing to standards and are active in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). Additionally, we are an active member of the OISV (Organization of Independent Software Vendors), the biggest ISV association in the world. Moreover, we are a member of the NESSI ETP (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) and the Net!Works ETP (European Technology Platform for Communications Networks and Services) as the NEM Initiative (Networked & Electronic Media).