About us

With our activities, we contribute significantly to the information infrastructure: We provide information to researchers in science and industry worldwide. To this end, we develop very large volumes of patent and research information from a wide variety of sources. For precise research and intelligent analysis of these data, we develop and operate innovative information services and e-research solutions, e.g. for research data management and digital preservation.

We advise our customers so that they can use our services competently and efficiently.

The first priority for us is the quality of our services. In order to maintain and further develop their high level, we conduct research with a focus on new methods of text and data mining and semantic analysis.

Our unique selling proposition: We are a large company in the SME sector and generate significant revenues on the international information market with our products and services. We combine the neutrality, independence and reliability of a public institution with the professionalism of a service provider who has been internationally successful for decades. We see ourselves as a partner for science, industry and politics.

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Our strategic goal is to support the entire scientific value generation process, i.e., all steps that involve information and knowledge and in which data are generated – from the idea to the experiment to analysis, aggregation, publication, editing and indexing, post-processing and utilization in teaching and education. In line with this goal is our mission statement “Advancing Science”.

Our products and services have paved the way for digitization and continue to do so. We have accompanied and promoted the digitization process throughout the more than 40 years of our our history, and we will continue to contribute our ideas and to research into innovative solutions in order to respond to the requirements of scientists. The “Milestones” timeline chronologically presents our interim goals in a wider context.