Our Company

Data In Motion is a small software development company based in Jena, Germany, focused on smart data modeling and data interoperability. We use data and process modeling to enhance synergies between technical and non-technical spheres, following one goal: To address every challenge with a holistic and sustainable solution.

Our company was founded in 2010 and has since grown into a cutting edge technology and knowledge provider for IoT, Smart City solutions, machine learning and digital transformation processes – serving mostly public entities, B2B clients and NGOs. Being actively involved in federally funded research and piloting projects across various industries, we are proud to have built a highly dynamic team that strives to improve and find new solutions every day, making projects not only successes for our customers, but also for our own advancement.

Our Vision

We believe in Open Source as a way to provide digital enhancement for everyone. Both our CEOs are longtime open source evangelists and actively engaged in various community projects, thus committing our solutions to unfold lasting value.

By developing purpose driven and longtime-sustainable solutions for various challenges we want to improve people’s lives directly and with lasting impact. We want to unleash the potential of digital data to make interactions between people and organizations easier, increase data transparency and accessibility, and transform IT infrastructures into safer, human friendly and more efficient tools.

Our Values

Solution Independence

Every new project benefits from our versatile experience. Nevertheless, we always focus on the individual case and strive to find the optimum solution for each case. We follow paradigms, not dogmas. It is important to us that the result also creates benefits for the entire target organization beyond the specific use case.

Purpose Driven and Holistic

For us, projects are not just about “how”, but also about “who”, “why” and “with whom”. All relevant stakeholders are involved. In this way, we want to offer our customers purpose-driven solutions. Our approach to projects is therefore always holistic and includes the organizational culture as well as its context. Because only if a solution is accepted by all stakeholders it will also benefit the organization.

Responsibility and Fairness

Our aim is to develop sustainable solutions. In a world increasingly permeated by digitalization, we always consider the social, economic and ecological implications. In particular, this includes fair solutions and know-how transfer for all parties involved. We see our work not only as a service, but also as a contribution to progress and innovation. We want to develop solutions that create an overall value for society and offer our employees a meaningful working environment.

Open Source

Open source is an important component of modern software architectures that is used in a large number of products without being obvious. As common property, these components are freely available, but not for free. They require maintenance in order to function. As active members of the open source community, we contribute to this, use open source assets and integrate them into our solutions. Through our involvement ( e.g. in the Eclipse Foundation) we want to give something back to this community. We maintain a broad network in this area and are involved in the selection and development of the latest industry standards. Our work not only creates added value for specific use cases, but also for future applications and innovations.

Our Management

Jürgen Albert, B.Sc.

(CEO and founder, community evangelist, software architectures, development processes)

After graduating in Internet Business Engineering and five years of professional experience as a software developer, he founded Data In Motion in 2010. Familiar with the advantages of modular and distributed architectures, Jürgen has been passing on his knowledge in this area to our customers for over a decade now. He is very involved in the open source community and currently chairs the OSGi Steering Committee of the OSGi working group in the Eclipse Foundation. He is also the project lead for the OSGi Technology Project and is involved as a committer in many other open source projects.

Mark Hoffmann, M.A. and Dipl. Business Economist (FH)

(CTO and co-founder, process optimization, modeling)

After graduating in business administration with a focus on business informatics, he obtained a master’s degree and gained nine years of professional experience in several large companies. He joined Data In Motion in 2012. His knowledge of social interactions in teams, judgment and decision-making processes as well as agile change processes expanded his deep technical skills, from which our customers benefit in their exchange with him on a wide variety of topics. He is also the project lead for the OSGi Technology Project, a member of the OSGi Specification Project and involved in many other projects as a committer. Furthermore, he is a TÜV-certified data protection officer and represents us in the Model for Privacy Interests Group.

Our Team

We are a small company with a broad, interdisciplinary and international range of expertise. Our employees excel at a wide range of fields: software development, data science, astrophysics, economics, humanities and social sciences. This diversity and our well-developed cooperation network enable us to approach projects and challenges from a wide variety of perspectives, always thinking outside the box and developing innovative solutions.