Interview with dimedis CEO Dipl. Ing. Wilhelm Halling
What came first: The idea of @it or the company dimedis?
The idea to create an enterprise whose goal it would be to store and manage multimedia-based content in a database system. And all of that by exclusive use of internet technology - with freely available browsers as the user interface, to ensure that anyone with access to the internet can instantly work with all dimedis applications. Worldwide, without the neccessity to install and maintain any extra software, thus eliminating almost all need for extra training. As one of the first companies ever, we have been employing open source components from the very beginning, working with freely available software packages like PERL, Linux and Apache.
By and by, our products new.spirit, @it, kompas and FairMate have evolved from these beginnings. All products are the results of successful market- and customer-oriented projects. One of the benefits of this is the high stability of our applications. All dimedis products offer a very high rate of availability!
What sets dimedis apart from its competitors?
We offer sound advice and take a very close look at the existing data sources of our customers before we begin carrying out a project. In the course of time, we have specialized in discovering synergies (like existing data etc.) and implementing them as smoothly as possible with the online presence of the customer. This way, we can kill two birds with one stone: The data on the web site or within the digital signage system are always up-to-date, and at the same time, the maintenance efforts are reduced to a minimum. That is our credo: "Create once - deploy many". We take one piece of information and use it in as many ways as possible with the smallest effort. The same bit of data may appear on a website, a CD, as a text message or automatic e-mail notification.