Milestones

DIaLOGIKa through the years

Our staff has been engineering innovative and sometimes breakthrough solutions for many years now. Below follows a chronicle tracing the milestones and achievements of our company. It not only showcases our areas of expertise but our flexibility and technical breadth as well.

1980s …

1982–1996

Development of intelligent industry solutions for various trade associations (carpentry, interior finishing, tradeshow booth construction, interior decorating) for costing, production planning and control, based initially on CP/M, then MS-DOS, Pascal MicroEngine, and ultimately various UNIX operating systems.

1984

Development of MICT, the EU multilingual thesaurus system for administering EUROVOC (official EU thesaurus).

1984–1997

Development of the Catel and Crenot multilingual databases for the European Commission for the indexation and global online distribution of EU documents and publications in all EU languages (features an optimized application transaction core server and a variety of UIs).

1986

DIaLOGIKa commissioned by a kitchen vendor to jointly develop with a marketing firm DIaCAD, an interactive graphics system enabling the 3D planning of kitchens. Complex plausibility checks (drawers, doors, counter tops, lighting) prevent mistakes and enable precision planning. This is followed by the creation of a photorealistic virtual 3D rendering of the kitchen. DIaCAD is now used by hundreds of kitchen and bathroom studios.

1987

DIaLOGIKa first integrator in Germany of Eicon-X.25 cards for the PC. Eicon is now a household name.

1990s …

1990

DIaLOGIKa first to deploy the new ISDN technology in Saarland.

1992–1994

Our proprietary implementation of the TCP/IP protocol and other components including contract development products are incorporated in the TokenRing Ethernet router.

1993

Development of an entire UNIX-like operating system for the terminal server hardware of a Siemens subsidiary. At the same time: assumption of the maintenance of X/Open UNIX System V for a German vendor.

1994

DIaLOGIKa certified as a Microsoft Solution Provider for the first time, specializing in Microsoft Exchange Server and Internet/intranet technologies. This is the beginning of a key development partnership with Microsoft and customers offering Microsoft products.

1995

DIaLOGIKa develops a Windows driver (Windows NT und 95) under contract and becomes a member (of the world-wide tiny) group of alpha developers on the basis of the Microsoft ISDN API under Windows 95 (integration of an ISDN card).

1997

Deployment of a large-scale distributed X.500 project in the distributed network of the European Institutions; this enables participants to research in the up-to-the-minute databases containing the telephony and e-mail directories of other institutions.

1998

Increased Internet and web activities. Development of a web application featuring leading-edge Java Servlet technology for Tiefbauberufsgenossenschaft (TBG), the German civil engineering trade association. DIaLOGIKa becomes a member of Microsoft Internet InnerCircle, a select group of specialists engaging in regular exchanges of ideas and information.

1998

multiDESK® Workflow – our standard tool for workflow automation – is short-listed at CeBit 1998, being one of the three best-of-tradeshow products (recipient of the renowned BYTE Award).

Since 1998

multiDESK Workflow used as the basis for developing an information request system featuring a complex workflow structure that transparently networks thousands of users at four sites across the nation providing for 24/7/365 availability.

12 July 1999

Romano Prodi, then President Designate of the European Commission, informs the press and the public at large that LegisWrite – the package developed by DIaLOGIKa in 1996 to support the authoring, editing and exchange of documents created by the EU Institutions involved in the legislative process – is a core element of the inter- and intra-institutional strategy of the new Commission.

2000s …

2000

DIaLOGIKa staff implements the first text messaging gateway of P&T Luxembourg.

2000–2005

Development of the e-learning system SAP Tutor for SAP AG. Current user base: 2.5 million.

2001–2005

Key components of SAP Enterprise Portal (part of SAP NetWeaver) developed by DIaLOGIKa. The portal is based on Java technology.

2002

DIaLOGIKa staff member Thomas Kopp becomes an official codeveloper of Jigsaw (reference web server of the W3C Consortium). Focus: security (HTTPS).

2002

DIaLOGIKa commissioned to implement an information request system for communication data. During the years following, this system is systematically expanded into a large integrated system for handling the information requests of government authorities including law enforcement and security agencies.

Since 2004

Development and maintenance of a server-based system for the automatic conversion of MS-Office documents into PDF format for the European Commission. Conversion between MS-Office formats (e.g. OpenXML to ODF) or OCRing of scanned material follow as additional services offered.

Since 2005

LegisWrite used as the basis for eNorm, catering to the requirements of the German legislative process; this system is now used by almost all German federal ministries, the Bundestag and a number of state governments.

Since 2005

Development and maintenance of EP/Kit for creating complex publications using Microsoft Word. Among other things, this system is used for the generation of the European Commission’s annual spring and autumn expertises.

2006

Proceeding from the web-based InfPort43, DIaLOGIKa engineers an integrated subscriber number management and porting administration system for directly linking to Siebel and another customer care system.

2007–2010

DIaLOGIKa conducts testing of the Open Source OpenXML/ODF converter on behalf of Microsoft, followed by assuming its continued development.

Since 2008

DIaLOGIKa takes on the maintenance and continued development of IPM (Interactive Policy Making), the European Commission’s electronic questionnaire system.

2008–2010

DIaLOGIKa develops the Office Binary (DOC, XLS, PPT) Translator to Open XML on behalf of Microsoft; collaboration in DIN/ISO standards drafting.

2008

The specification developed by DIaLOGIKa for signing PNG files becomes a W3C standard.

Since 2009

Assumption of the continued development of CIRCABC, the new collaborative platform of the European Commission.

2010s…

Since 2010

DIaLOGIKa supports Deutsche Bundesbank in migrating its many applications to the Office 2007 platform.

2011

The Council of the European Union entrusts DIaLOGIKa with the adaptation, continued development and migration of LegisWrite.