Case Study: German Informatics Society accelerates research timelines and ensures GDPR compliance with Mattermost

German Informatics Society accelerates research timelines 6x with Mattermost

The German Informatics Society, a large nonprofit association for computer scientists, faced challenges with inefficient email communication that slowed collaboration among its distributed members and required a solution that ensured strict GDPR compliance for handling student data. They turned to the self-hosted version of Mattermost to replace email and provide a secure, flexible platform for their community.

By implementing Mattermost, the society gained a high-performance collaboration tool that streamlined project management and accelerated research timelines. The solution provided complete data sovereignty and easy GDPR compliance. A key measurable result was a project that was completed in one month, a six-fold acceleration from what typically took an average of six months, due to vastly improved communication.

German Informatics Society

Stefan Hildebrand

Executive Board Member, German Informatics Society