Case Study: Heidelberg University keeps research teams connected and aligned with Mattermost

Heidelberg University keeps research teams moving forward with Mattermost

Heidelberg University's Electronic Vision(s) research group, which studies neuromorphic computing, faced a challenge in keeping its distributed team of scientists aligned. Their previous real-time chat solutions lacked modern features like file sharing and did not provide the data control required for their groundbreaking research. To address this, they selected Mattermost, an open-source collaboration platform they could self-host on the university's infrastructure.

By implementing Mattermost, the team created a central hub for communication, integrating it with tools like Grafana for hardware monitoring and Jenkins for CI/CD pipelines. This provided automated alerts and streamlined their research workflows. Mattermost enabled seamless remote work during COVID-19 and was successfully used to manage a 200-user conference. The solution resulted in over 100 active users, 550,000 searchable posts, and improved operational awareness, making Mattermost a core part of the university's research infrastructure.

Heidelberg University