KUMAVISION AG acquires a majority stake in akquinet business solutions GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, a subsidiary of akquinet AG. This was given by KUMAVISION CEO Kay von Wilcken known. With this, the companies bundle their competence in the field of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Managing Director remains Thomas Urban. Akquinet AG will continue to be represented as a shareholder and, in cooperation with KUMAVISION, will promote customer management in the context of Microsoft's platform strategy.

An app that makes it easy to measure the current energy consumption of all machines and production equipment and to forecast future energy consumption. This vision should soon become reality with the "GREEN Factory". The app uses innovative for it CloudService solutions, opening up the opportunities for demand-based energy use and capacitive fine planning. Forward-looking energy planning enables companies to benefit in several ways: they avoid cost-intensive peak loads, can, in combination with storage systems, buy electricity at low prices and also reduce their energy consumption.

As part of this year's ELO ECM Tour in Heidenheim, KUMAVISION won two prizes: The DMS project implemented by KUMAVISION at Kiefer GmbH was honored as the best project in the Bavarian region. ELO also awarded KUMAVISION the title of "Rising Star of the Year 2018 / 19", also for the region of Bavaria.

Artificial intelligence - for some, that sounds like the future. We, on the other hand, welcome them in the present. thanks to the CloudPlatform Azure from Microsoft not only benefit companies today from pioneering developments such as image recognition, speech recognition or knowledge mining, but also the middle class. The current issue of KUMAlive is dedicated to these new technologies. A decade ago she would have been a science-fiction magazine. Today she gives an exciting look into the practice.