Effective Webwork was founded in 2007 by two former HITeC staff and longterm researchers from the Informatics Department. Dr. Matthias Finck and Dr. Iver Jackewitz will professionalise and commercialise the services that were formerly part of HITeC, namely the usage of digital media in education. Effective Webwork GmbH is an expert for communication and cooperation in the internet. If you really want to use the Internet --- trust effective webwork GmbH.

 Gentleware AG is a spin-off from the University of Hamburg, Dr. Marko Boger founded Gentleware in June 2000. Gentleware AG designs visual modelling tools for software development (UML-CASE-Tools). There is a free Community Edition vailable of their product line "Poseidon" for UML.

 Wimmel + von Bargen GmbH develops IT-Solutions in the areas of knowledge management and knowledge representation. With our product SKTools one can construct ontologies and topic maps. We support XML, OIL, KRSS and topic maps. Fields of application are online product advice (B2C) and information retrieval.

 c1-wps Workplace Solutions Gesellschaft für DV-Beratung mbH is a software developer for object-oriented projects. Our services include but are not limited to:

• Consultation for object-oriented software development: We conceptualise and evaluate architectures for large object-oriented application systems.
• Project organisation: We elaborate and implement application-oriented solutions.
• Training/Coaching: We provide training for task forces and advise management in all aspects of object-oriented projects and current technologies.

Using our framework  JWAM we develop inhouse and internet solutions for or with our customers.

What first impression does your website, advert or title page make?

Companies invest a lot of money into this media without knowing the effect.  MediaAnalyzer.com helps their customers to analyse and optimise the design of such media from a users point of view. We provide entire studies (usability/market research) or licences for our innovative processes.

Advice, quality control and expertise in the fields of

Data security

IT security

IT products

Acccident analysis

 itqs GmbH is a spin-off from the Informatics Department at the University of Hamburg (Prof. Dr. Klaus Brunnstein), focussing on "Inclusion of students in economy-oriented projects as an in-depth research project" as well as IT consumer safety.

We design Germany's most innovative website!
Our customer Edgar Medien received an award for  edgar.de in the category "Germany's most innovative website" at the Neo Awards in Stuttgart. The epublica team looks after edgar.de since 1998. Our business is:

• the technical conceptualisation and production of dynamic, database-supported websites,
• developing the software behind those websites,
• administration and support for websites,
• developing and supporting website communities,
• setting up and supporting servers and server farms as well as
• practice-oriented training

The  ifu Institut für Umweltinformatik Hamburg GmbH was founded in 1993 by experts from the field of ecology informatics. The staff members are competence leaders in the areas of informatics, natural sciences, economics and organisational sciences.

As a service business, we support our customers in their ecological management. It is our goal to apply concepts, techniques and tools from ecological informatics in order to help with ecological issues.

 NewH ("new age") provides advanced webhosting, including application hosting and java-servlets, JSPs and Tomcat. NewH specialises in individual solutions and provides the know-how for employing up-to-date technology.

 Racer Systems GmbH & Co. KG develops and distributes the Racer-Software, a semantic Middleware for industrial projects with RDF/OWL, a W3C standard. Based on the Racer-Software we also develop customer specific solutions and contribute our knowledge of Description Logics and knowledge-based systems to projects.