About us

datenhaus GmbH was founded in 1998 by Dr. Kathrin Schmidt and Olaf Schmidt.

In our "early years" we've developed a large Investment-Calculation-Software for the german enterprise "Deutsche Bahn AG" - with integrated Monte-Carlo-Simulation, to extrapolate future effects at the balance of large enterprises regarding decisions made in presence. Our second "main-pillar" was the DiVAS-System, offering synchronous capturing of video-streams and measurement-data for biomechanical analyses in competitive sports.

In the year 2000 we've finished a great environment for VB-developers, offering a complete "WebDesktop-Framework" (called dBAS), because we've found, that rich Web-

Applications (able to run offline too) couldn't be implemented in a performant and reliable way with "pure browser-functionality" using only JavaScript as "the glue".

Long story short: we had no success with it - probably because we offered the "right product at the wrong time" ;-).

Now, seven years later, look at all these "brandnew" WebDesktop-Environments, popping out everywhere, as e.g. "Adobe Apollo", "Dekoh", "EyeOS", etc. or the much rumored "GoogleOS" - most of them are using a "feature-rich runtime/language" at the clientside (beside the builtin standard-functionality of a usual Web-Browser).

Anyway, we've decided to stop dBAS in 2002 and integrate the knowledge about TCP/IP-based server-engines from this project into DiVAS, wich in its current incarnation is capable, to capture and store video in high quality (with 50Hz PAL-Field- frequency) from up to 16 LAN-camera-streams synchronously (stored centrally on huge RAID-Arrays).

So this "LAN-DiVAS" makes our main-business now - it is used in large competitive-sports- centers as indoor swimming-pools or athletic-sports-halls by trainers and sports-scientists.