Startups
2019
1-10 Employees
IndiScale GmbHIndiScale GmbH supports innovative companies and research facilities throughout Germany in making their data management individual and scalable at the same time. The company provides services, advice and development for general data management based on the open source LinkAhead data management building blocks. Their services include the integration of software into existing business processes, the expansion of required and useful features and customisation.
Address
Lotzestraße 22A, 37083 Göttingen, Germany
Commercial Register
GmbH
HRB 205721
Details
Customer Problem
"I have a lot of data and I want to store it together with the information where it comes from, what the circumstances were when it was generated."
"My data structure never stays the same for a long time, so I need a system that allows me to use old and new data side by side."
"I have heterogeneous data from many sources, but I still want automatic data acquisition because my human time is just too valuable."
"I want to keep track of how I produced or analyzed specific pieces, because I need this information for my customers or to comply with regulations."Business Model
We develop and improve the Open Source data management software LinkAhead or customize it for our customers.
Customizations include data dashboards, automated data integration and analysis pipelines and integration with customers' IT environment.
We also provide subscriptions to the Open Source framework LinkAhead, and offer server maintenance, support packages and workshops.Technology Description
LinkAhead is an agile semantic data management framework (open source) which builds upon the research data management software CaosDB.
It has typed references between entities to allow for the modeling of semantic context and accountability networks. LinkAhead stores raw data as references, so it is ideal for huge data files. Its powerful query language enables analysis right in the database, and with the flexible data model, no data migration is necessary when data schemas are changed.Market Description
We come from academic research but are currently developing our customer base towards industry, especially wherever digitalization is required but traditional data concepts proved too rigid.USP
LinkAhead eliminates the shortcomings of
1) traditional SQL databases, which are too rigid
2) data lakes which tend to turn into data swamps
3) GraphDBs which are too unwieldy to use.
LinkAhead finds the sweet spot when structure, agility and connectedness of data are all required.Videos