Mobile Communications Software Electrical Engineering

AEG Gesellschaft für moderne Informationssysteme mbH

www.aegmis.dewww.beam.ag www.bombardier.com www.ci-wi.com

www.dctss.de www.eads.net www.euro-telematik.de www.exxcellent.de

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between Stuttgart and Munich

www.infitec.net www.inworks.de www.iptel-ulm.de www.it-informatik.de www.mju-media.de Information Technology www.neumatic.de www.nokia.de www.protel-film.de www.siemens.de www.soon-systems.de Mobile Communications

www.tfk-racoms.com www.temic-sds.com www.tiscon.com www.thales-electrondevices.com

With friendly cooperation of:

www.ums-gaas.com www.visos.de www.wilken.de

Office Editor City Development Association City Development Association / Neu-Ulm Ulm/Neu-Ulm Augsburger Strasse 15 Design: Büro Maus Ulm 89231 Neu-Ulm Text: textcetera Vöhringen, Uschi Knapp text+kommunikation Elchingen Photography: AEG, ARtem, beam ag, corbis, EADS, Hochtief, IT-Informatik, Phone +49 (0)7 31/7 25-62 62 M. Duckek, protel, Siemens, TFU Fax +49 (0)7 31/7 25-62 61 Lithography: Digital Litho [email protected] Translation: Sylvia Gebhardt www.stadtentwicklungsverband.ulm.de Printed by: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Securing the Future through Innovation

With the activities of their joint city Regional innovation partners such as chambers of commerce, unions, development association the Ulm / Neu- educational institutions, communities and companies of all branches Ulm communities have given an impulse meet within the open network “forum wiley online”. for newly located IT companies, assuring “Forum wiley online” aims to channel consulting services, offering a favorable climate and fertile grounds navigation support and facilitating synergies between the consulting for their growth. services of individual companies in order to ease the entry into the world of IT for the region’s users. Science Parks, edisoncenter, incubation www.wiley-online.de center for new media plus other initiatives The free state of has provided the are exemplary facilities, channeling the funds for the project “house of new media” The competence center Electronic Commerce KECoS in Ulm essential competences in the region today: realized in the edisoncenter. Four state of supports small and medium enterprises in all areas of electronic the art class rooms are available to qualify business relations (e-Business) – for instance free consulting for entre- The Ulm Science City with Science Parks, students in the study course of information preneurs, coordination of services, concept support with Internet Steinbeis Transfer centers, Daimler Chrysler management. In addition, further education presentations and information events. IT Security as well as costumer Research Center, Polytechnic, Ulm University courses in IT subjects by the Neu-Ulm poly- relations and marketing form the main focus. plus attached institutes, is home to innovative technic and the Schwaben chambers of www.kecos.de companies, all within one neighborhood. commerce are held here. Regional companies may rent the ED-laboratories as well. On the Neu-Ulm side these services are provided by CEBIS. As a project In Neu-Ulm’s new city quarter Wiley the of business development within the Neu-Ulm district companies and edisoncenter has evolved as an IT and Right next to Wiley we find the incubation organisations also benefit from e-business consulting free of charge. service center whose excellent infrastructure center for new media, young and innovative www.cebis-neu-ulm.de is ideal for companies in these fields. service companies working wall to wall, The edisoncenter complements the Ulm their main features multimedia services and The internet portal of the Ulm Science Park serves to enable direct Science City on the Bavarian side. IT for specialized application. communication between all members of the Science City and represents an innovative self-organized infrastructure. The portal supports the Science Park‘s innovative character and enhances Ulm / Neu-Ulm as a technology and business location. Employees are able to communicate, to exchange ideas and technologies; trainees and students are efficiently referred; car-sharing and other location related topics are discussed. www.sciencepark-ulm.de

KIT’s stands for communication and information technology in Swabia. The association aims to be a platform for the most growth intensive branch of the region, becoming the development engine for the application of new IT business ideas. www.kitschwaben.de 2 3 Know How in Development and Product Within an environment of traditional FRITZ & MACZIOL is one of the leading system Innovation is tradition Liquid crystal displays for all kinds of TEMIC SDS is a spin-off company of Harman/ production industry numerous highly houses for software, systems and services in and aiming for the future information systems are the specialty of AEG Becker Automotive Systems, a market leader specialized companies in the fields of , and Switzerland. Software Information technology has a long tradition MIS, leading the world market. The company for language dialogue systems in vehicles digital media and IT have established and system solutions for public clients, here in Ulm. Some of the region’s most has specialized the production of LCD (Liquid as well as hands free mobile phone themselves in the Ulm / Neu-Ulm inno- medium sized companies as well as respected companies in the field keep putting Crystal Displays) for large screen displays, integration. The language control systems by vation region. The impressive spectrum wholesale companies are developed and their cards on the region’s location advantages. in mobile as well as stationary application. TEMIC SDS enable the operation of electronic of these app. 250 regional companies distributed together with the sister company At the same time young Ulm and Neu-Ulm devices in vehicles - for instance mobile phone, reaches from the innovative “smart card” INFOMA. In addition, the company as IBM companies conquer the market with their IT EADS in Ulm delivers telecommunication audio systems or navigation systems – simply for tourism all the way to complex premium partner offers encompassing services products as well. solutions for transport & industry, business, by voice control. software for airplane navigation. Quite to her clients in the areas of consulting and defense and public security. With TETRAPOL- a few Ulm and Neu-Ulm companies system integration. Nokia is world leader for the mobile technology EADS is world market leader Euro Telematik AG in Ulm provides mobile are working on crucial developments communications industry. The mobile phone for digital professional mobile radio nets – IT systems to optimize transportation and of technological infrastructures IT-Informatik GmbH in Ulm is specialized in branch develops mobile phones for all represented in 34 countries with more than logistics processes as well as road and air for tomorrow’s information society. the whole spectrum of IT-Services required by important mobile phone standards and client 80 networks. navigations. medium sized enterprises. Many well-known segments at the Ulm location. Bombardier Transportation, one of the world’s Programmed for success companies are long-standing clients such as THALES ELECTRON DEVICES GmbH in Ulm leading suppliers of innovative traffic Many of the region’s IT companies are working for instance merckle/ratiopharm, Stuttgart Siemens AG is operating a development center develops and produces changing field tubes solutions, develops and tests on-board on the optimization of diverse and complicated Airport, Liebherr and WMF. An expert team for mobile radio technology, handy and as boosters for high frequency waves as well equipment for the European Rail Navigation business processes. Let us name just a few of more than 100 employees provides services net infrastructure elements in Ulm. Siemens as other components for satellite commu- system ERTMS/ETCS as well as telematic who have achieved impact beyond the region and solutions for the whole spectrum of covers the total segment of mobile radio with nication and radar applications, leading the rail applications. with their own developments or who even information technologies. final products, network components and world market. Their newest innovation is a achieved market leader positions in Germany applications. multiple stage plasma drive for application as United Monolithic Semiconductors GmbH and Europe. “eXXcellent solutions” in Ulm focuses on main or correctional drive for satellites and (UMS) manufactures high frequency semi- individual software solutions based on model Science Park II in Ulm Science City is home to space probes. conductor components based on GaAs for Wilken GmbH, Ulm, has created business driven architecture (MDA). At the Systems DaimlerChrysler TSS GmbH. It is Daimler communication and sensor. As component process standard software for more than 2004 fair the IT-company received the Chrysler partner worldwide for innovative „Future based on Tradition – TELEFUNKEN supplier of vehicle radar systems for driving 25 years. Among those who trust in Wilken’s “Innovation Area Award” for their model software solutions, developed for individual RACOMS GmbH & Co. KG“ in Ulm develops safety UMS is the best address worldwide. software procedures for financial accounting, driven generative development requirements and demands for almost all areas and distributes innovative system solutions product inventory systems or E-Business framework “pleXX” and the integrative of the company. and products in the field of tactical and strategic Ulm based BEAM AG, “Service of the Year are such various clients as the Federal social development process “XXProcess”. mobile communications, as well as for self 2002”, develops High Tech Software to security agency and the Swiss Finance Ministry. Infineon Technologies AG keeps a development organizing ad-hoc mobile networks and produce mobile information systems for For the development of the AllgäuWalserCard Development services and products for center for “secure mobile solutions”. The Ulm for broad band communications in train industrial clients (B2B). A central component for tourism accounting Wilken received the telecommunication projects are the location in the Science Park mainly develops systems. are portable computer systems, which Austrian State award for E-Business 2003. speciality at ikon GmbH. Next to their own high frequency chips for mobile standards have earned the company second ranking in products for ISDN and VoIP protocol stacks of GSM and UMTS. the “German Internet Award 2003”. leading suppliers are part of their portfolio.

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Telecommunication engineering

Information technology

Information management

Communications technology

Digital media

Medical documentation

Knowledge creates profile

One trademark of the Ulm / Neu-Ulm Ulm university at present has a student One result of the close cooperation between innovation region is the close link between body of more than 7200, attending the Ulm University and the local Siemens develop- Business communication business and science. University and faculties of natural sciences, mathematics, ment center is a foundation professorship for Polytechnic colleges form an exemplary economics, medicine, engineering and telecommunication engineering and applied unity with industrial development centers. informatics. Prime research fields are theory information theory, a definite enhancement Media engineering Many new study courses and professions and formal methods, telematics and new for the field of mobile communication. have been created in this exciting media, biologically motivated informatics, environment, generating an important software systems, information systems for the Founded at the Neu-Ulm polytechnic college, work force potential for regional IT mobile society and bio systems technology – the Information Logistics Institute (IIL) is Communications engineering companies. engineering methods for life sciences. consulting, conception and executing partner Ulm and Neu-Ulm Polytechnic colleges deal for all questions of designing information flow with media competence in our age of in the area of work processes. It offers support IT systems business training information as well. in design and implementation of work pro- cesses, information flow and the corresponding Ulm Polytechnic college offers study courses knowledge data bases which play an important in the fields of technical informatics and part for logistic efficiency. Specialized Information engineer business informatics, industrial electronics, www.iil-institut.de communication engineering and digital media as well as medical documentation and Application development informatics. Additional specialties are data security, e-learning systems, medicine and virtual reality. Neu-Ulm Polytechnic has created IT systems electronics engineer an “information management” department, including business informatics, information management and business communications. www.uni-ulm.de, www.fh-ulm.de, www.informatik.fh-ulm.de

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