Press Area

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E-mail: jennifer.vosseler@daasi.de
Phone: +49 7071 407 109-4

Company Portrait

Who Is DAASI International?

DAASI International is a medium-sized IT service provider from Tübingen in Germany, specialised in modern open source technologies. DAASI International has two business areas:

1. (Federated) Identity & Access Management
DAASI International implements Identity & Access Management solutions for customers from private and public organisations, e.g. companies, universities and authorities. A speciality of DAASI International is the focus on IT federations, i.e. complex incorporations of IT landscapes.
[What is Identity & Access Management?]

2. Digital Humanities
DAASI International supports national and international projects in the fields of Digital Humanities, i.e. liberal arts oriented disciplines which use digital research methods. DAASI International is specialised in the setup of virtual research infrastructures.
[What are Digital Humanities?]

In both business areas, DAASI International offers a wide range of services, including consulting, software development, IT integration, support and training.

Facts and Figures

Founded in 2000 in Tübingen as a spin-off of the University of Tübingen, Germany
Founder and CEO: Peter Gietz
Number of employees: 24
Annual sales in 2023: 2,200,000 Euro
Customers: universities, research institutes, authorities, companies
More: [About DAASI International], [Management], [References]

Unique Selling Point

specialisation in open source and participation in standardisation bodies
exceptional expertise in federations
focused on research
didmos as open, individual IAM framework
official German support provider for Shibboleth, midPoint and Collabora Online

didmos - the In-House Developed IAM framework

didmos is the open source framework for Identity & Access Management (IAM) made by DAASI International. In contrast to stiff standard solutions, didmos flexibly adapts to already existing IT structures and work processes. That is possible by the use of seven synchronised and expansible modules.
[Click here to get an overview of didmos and its modules.]

Mission Statement

We help organisations make their IT infrastructure more efficient and secure with advanced open source technologies, and provide a reliable and easy-to-use infrastructure. In this way, we facilitate the users’ daily work despite an increasing complexity of IT landscapes and enable new working methods. We offer our employees an interesting workplace with projects which match our values. This includes, among others, research in the Digital Humanities – a field that we support in national and international projects to contribute our share to a common good and fulfill our corporate social responsibility.

Vision Statement

We are one of the leading open source providers in the areas of Identity & Access Management and Digital Humanities. Through the support of open source products and open standards as well as with our commitment to research, we stand out and make a valuable contribution to the common good. The well-being of our customers and employees composes the core of our interest and our dealing is characterized by fair, cooperative and social cooperation.

Press Releases by DAASI International

19.03.2024:
Universities improve protection against hacker attacks with “eduMFA”
Freie Universität Berlin, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) and the Tübingen-based company DAASI International GmbH, which specialises in research infrastructure, have jointly published open source software that offers better protection against hacker attacks for IT services in the academic network. A fork of the existing open source software “privacyIDEA” was created for this purpose, which is now being further developed under the name “eduMFA”.
29/08/2023:
Halftime for the German traffic light coalition: Thanks for the nice words, but practice finally what you preach!
DAASI International takes a negative mid-term review of the German government’s digital policy and, together with 20 stakeholders from civil society and the free software industry, calls for the German government and the coalition parties in the Bundestag to urgently implement the digital policy promises made in the coalition agreement.
14/11/2022:
Gaia-X Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Reference Implementation Ready for Proof of Value
Critical questions are being raised today that will define the future champions. Questions such as: What opportunities await your organization in an economy of data spaces and industry 4.0? How will you implement Zero Trust networks or even address General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a data driven economy?
Vereign and DAASI International can help you find those answers, harnessing the potential of modern SSI technology.
05/10/2022:
TA4NGI – DAASI International Creates Concept for Secure Authentication Procedure on Internet
In October 2020 DAASI International became an “NGI architect” as part of the European initiative Next Generation Internet (NGI). NGI promotes new technologies as well as the development of existing technologies across Europe. As part of this programme, DAASI International made its contribution with TA4NGI.
04/02/2022:
New Technologies for Gaia-X: Consortium Announces Project Start

The open source companies Vereign and DAASI International will lay the cornerstone for the use of state-of-the-art SSI technology in the Gaia-X sub-project GXFS.
29/06/2021:
As NGI Architect DAASI International Presents Concept for Novel Internet Security Technology
After announcing the participation in the project NGI Pointer of the European Commission, DAASI International now published a complete concept paper, an important milestone in the development of Internet security technology fit for the future with TLS-KDH.
08/10/2020:
DAASI International Will Become an “Architect for the Next Generation Internet”
The IT-service provider DAASI International from Tübingen is going to join the EU-project Next Generation Internet (NGI). The project seeks to develop sustainable encryption and authentication technologies for the next generation Internet. Ultimately, these new technologies are supposed to also prepare for the new challenges which are ought to come along with quantum computing.
16/07/2020:
DAASI International released new version of their open source solution didmos
didmos, the open source solution for Identity & Access Management (IAM) from DAASI International is now available in second generation, the source code is publicly available. The revised modular framework consists of state-of-the-art technology, exclusively based on open source software. The redesign of the IAM suite offers many new features and is now even more flexible in building individual systems for identity and access management.
09/07/2020:
Cooperation between the Publishing House Cornelsen and DAASI International enables SCIM Interface to midPoint
The source code of the midPoint SCIM connector, as well as the overlay will be published. As open source product it is freely accessible for anyone interested.
14/05/2020:
Video Conference Tool for NGOs Free of Charge
The Tübingen IT service provider and software development company DAASI International provides communication servers for the open source software Jitsi, and is going to host them for one year free of charge. This offer extends to any private organisation which are charitable to social, humanitarian, or environmental causes.

Find more press releases on our news page.

Relevant News Published on the DAASI International Website

2024

26/03/2024: AARC revolutionises authentication and authorisation in research

2023

20/09/2023: DAASI International Supports You with Your Keycloak Project
25/05/2023: Benefits of Containerisation for Security Relevant Technologies
30/03/2023: Commentary Regarding the Cyber Resilience Act

2022

16/12/2022: New Partnership for Technological Progress
18/11/2022: Supporting Federation of German Institutions of Higher Education
16/09/2022: Types of Access Control
28/06/2022: All Roads Lead to Rome – Many Factors to More Secure Data
24/06/2022: Don’t Be Scared of OpenLDAP 2.5
21/03/2022: Partner Gluu Introduces New Open Source Strategy

Find more on our news page.

DAASI International in Anglophone Media

04/02/22 (online): Techzine
European Union starts developing Web3 technology
04/02/22 (online): The Register
EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X hands out ID tech contracts
11/02/22 (online): Datacollaboration.org
The Data Drop News for Friday, February 11, 2022
14/03/2019 (online): OpenSourceForU.com
Crust Technology Releases A 100 Percent Open Source Unified Work Platform
08/03/2016 (online): Collabora Productivity
DAASI International signs up with Collabora Productivity and integrates CloudSuite/LibreOffice Online as a pilot into the European Commission funded AARC project.

For press articles, press releases and news in German language, please visit the German press area.

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