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Dortmund, 2nd of May 2025 sovity has restructured their licensing model for Data Space components, effective as of now. The goal is to give more clarity about the open-source Community Edition, and the enhanced Enterprise Edition of their products and services.

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The strategic partnership between NTT Communications and sovity is emerging as a transformative force, empowering global data collaboration in Data Spaces such as the Catena-X automotive network. Guided by principles of data sovereignity, NTT and sovity are leading the charge towards more interconnected and efficient data ecosystems.

sovity’s Connector-as-a-Service Bundle is officially certified by the Catena-X network, and available on the Confinity-X marketplace as an enablement service to accelerate participation and onboarding of companies. We recently expanded the capabilities of our SaaS solutions to connect the entire automotive value chain.

At sovity, we deeply believe in the principles and values of open source software. We are convinced that developing software in a community cultivates an atmosphere where users can access and participate freely. This approach not only champions transparency and builds trust within the community but also promotes accessibility and speed of development for all.

Dive into sovity’s mission, where the focus is on driving the development and potential of Data Spaces forward. We aim to promote the adoption of standards and Open Source Software (OSS), incorporating these advanced technologies into various domains. This approach ensures not only interoperability but also establishes essential connections among all data spaces.

Michael Schäfer, Managing Director of Mobility Data Space, is interviewed about the latest developments within the Data Space and the cooperation with sovity. sovity is an important partner of the MDS and provides the EDC Connector as a managed service for the MDS participants.

sovity’s EDC Connector-as-a-Service (CaaS) has achieved official certification by Catena-X. In this article we dive deeper into the standards that our CaaS meets to give us the full certification level as a Catena-X Enablement Service Provider.

In the recent interview with “Sicherer Datenaustausch in der industrie” Sebastian Kleff explains sovity’s approach to enable SMEs to participate in Data Spaces and leverage secure and sovereign data exchange.

sovity further lowers the barrier to participate in Data Spaces by releasing its newest version of the EDC Connector-as-a-Service. This radically decreases effort for participating in Data Spaces like Catena-X.

Dortmund-based start-up sovity has secured seven-figure seed funding to boost the efficiency and innovative potential of companies by providing fast and easy access to Data Spaces.

sovity further lowers the barrier to participate in Data Spaces by expanding its portfolio of managed services with the Eclipse Dataspace Connector. This makes the access to Data Spaces even easier.

The greatly increased usage of data in our society and our heavy dependency on the US and Asia for digital infrastructure are increasingly at odds.

In the newest product demonstration video sovity shows how to setup, deploy and use a Connector- by sovity. Within just a few minutes data space participants can deploy a connector, add a data source to it and create a data offering with clearly defined usage policies.

German article from the 6th release of Hub.times by Digital Hub Management GmbH about latest activities from the Hub in Dortmund.

sovity was founded in December 2021 and is accomplishing key results within the first 100 days. The key vision stands over all activities: Enable companies to be frontrunners in data ecosystems by providing an easy access to technology of data sovereignty. To achieve this vision, the team is growing, sovity’s product is enhanced and key partnerships a signed. Team: Extending the core team is a mission critical topic as young company. So far, we scaled from three to eight with more experts to come.

Most startups can only dream of such support: barely founded, sovity is already backed by a strong network of experts and partners from industry and research. Automobile manufacturers such as Volkswagen and BMW, ICT service providers such as T-Systems, and organizations such as the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) or Gaia-X are behind the idea of the young Dortmund-based company and endorse it. “Yes, it feels a bit like founding in the comfort zone,” says Sebastian Kleff, co-founder of sovity, the youngest member of the Digital Hub Logistics. “But the task that awaits us remains an immense challenge.”

We are happy and excited to announce the partnership between T-Systems and sovity , a spin-off of the Fraunhofer ISST which provides tchnology to enable data sovereignty. Together we are taking a step further towards the future of data economy, the secure and controlled exchange of data between companies based on Gaia-X and IDS standards.

Dortmund, December 2, 2021. sovity GmbH, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST, starts its business activities as an independent company as of today. The startup’s solution enables companies of any size and in any industry to fully control and manage their data at any time when interacting with partners, suppliers and customers through “Data Sovereignty as a Service”: with sovity, companies can determine for themselves who is allowed to view or use which data when and to what extent. The solutions are based on the IT architecture of the International Data Spaces for sovereign data exchange between companies with simultaneous control of the use of the data by the data provider. sovity is now implementing this architecture in a concrete software offering for data exchange.