Associations

bitkom

The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom). Bitkom is the largest and most influential industry association in the German information and telecommunications sector.

kwsoft^® has been a member of Bitkom for many years and actively participates in expert committees and working groups.

DOXNET

DOXNET is an international professional and interest association for users and manufacturers in the field of document management and high-volume digital printing. It consists of about 200 members – companies and organizations from various industries. The association organizes top-class knowledge forums and holds regular congresses.

kwsoft^® has been a DOXNET member for many years and regularly participates in the annual conference in Baden-Baden with customer and technical presentations as well as an exhibition area.

DSAG

The German-speaking SAP user group DSAG is one of the world’s largest independent associations representing the interests of SAP users. kwsoft^® is part of the network of more than 60,000 members from over 3,700 companies, ranging from medium-sized businesses to DAX-listed corporations and spanning all industries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We support the goals of the association for partnership-based coordination of interests and cooperation between SAP software users, solution providers and SAP. We are involved in the document processes working group and actively participate in the members’ meetings.

Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit organization in which the members of the Eclipse community are organized. The goal of this vendor-independent community is to provide and further develop the Eclipse open source platform for software development within the framework of various IT projects.

M/Workbench, the module for central administration and resource creation of the M/ series, is realized as an Eclipse plug-in. Therefore, we are a member of the Eclipse Foundation and support the further development of this open-source platform with our contributions.

GSE

Guide Share Europe, GSE for short, is a European user group for IBM hardware and software. More than 1300 companies are organized in it, which use IBM systems or products in the field of information technology.

GSE supports its members in the exchange of experience and information and offers them opportunities for further education and for influencing IBM’s product policy. Every year, it organizes an annual conference lasting several days, as well as other events on special topics, in which we participate and occasionally contribute with presentations, especially when it comes to the topic of mass printing and digitalization.

PDF Association

The PDF Association develops open standardized electronic file formats based on PDF. The association provides opportunities for education, development and experience sharing for various stakeholders worldwide.

As a software manufacturer of CCM solutions, PDF plays an important role for us as both an input and output format.

Binding standardization by ISO bodies creates internationally valid, valid table PDF standards – and qualifies documents for global use.
Wide range of functions – uniform basic format that can always be displayed with the standard viewer.
The standard is mature, and the market has considerable human and technical resources available to implement PDF projects.

That is why we support and promote the PDF Association with our membership. Our PDF output renderer includes the formats PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA and PDF/VT.

For the relatively new PDF/VT format for mass printing, we have developed an application specification together with a customer and the printer manufacturer Canon, which is now in productive use.