A Look Back at 30 Years of Success and an extraordinary Anniversary Celebration

Con­gra­tu­la­ti­ons on 30 suc­cessful years! Con­ti­nui­ty cha­rac­te­ri­zes the deve­lo­p­ment of Ori­sa, which is not always the case in the IT sec­tor. I wish you con­tin­ued visi­on for the company’s deve­lo­p­ment and the luck of the bra­ve!”
- Diet­mar Win­ter, BVMW Jena/SHK

Thank you very much for the per­so­nal invi­ta­ti­on.
All the best for from the heart #Team­O­ri­sa.
- Micha­el Hof­mann, Mana­ging Direc­tor cdmm GmbH

An unforgettable evening

The cele­bra­ti­on began with a warm speech by our Mana­ging Direc­tor Mat­thi­as Schwuchow, who ans­we­red ques­ti­ons such as what “O‑R-I-S‑A” actual­ly stands for. From the hum­ble begin­nings in 1994, when ORISA Soft­ware GmbH was born, to the renow­ned cus­to­mers we ser­ve today, a lot has hap­pen­ed. Wit­hout the visi­on of our late foun­ders Rein­hardt Beh­rendt and Die­ter Schu­ma­cher and our co-foun­der Dr. Peter Ficht­ner, we would not be whe­re we are today. And, of cour­se, our for­mer, long-stan­ding Mana­ging Direc­tor and co-foun­der Georg Els­ner was not to be missed, who brought the deve­lo­p­ment of our com­pa­ny to life once again on stage with his humor and sto­ries from ORISA’s begin­nings.

A very spe­cial moment was the reco­gni­ti­on of our long-stan­ding col­le­ague Ralf Hoh­mann, who has been an inte­gral part of the ORISA fami­ly for 30 years now. His long-stan­ding con­nec­tion with the com­pa­ny and his com­mit­ment from the begin­ning shows how stron­gly our team is moti­va­ted by trust, cohe­si­on and a fami­ly atmo­sphe­re. You can find out more about Ralf’s care­er path, his gre­at suc­ces­ses, mis­haps and why he has remain­ed loy­al to the com­pa­ny for thir­ty years in this blog post.

In his speech, Jena’s Lord Mayor Dr. Tho­mas Nitz­sche par­ti­cu­lar­ly high­ligh­ted ORISA’s com­mit­ment to socie­ty and its fami­ly-fri­end­ly approach. Fle­xi­ble working hours, mobi­le working and a fami­ly-fri­end­ly cor­po­ra­te cul­tu­re are not just buz­zwords for us, but inte­gral parts of our dai­ly work. The­se values help us to make it easier for our employees to achie­ve a good work-life balan­ce. The initia­ti­ves sup­port­ed by ORISA to pro­mo­te young talent, such as “Code­Week” and “Girl’s Day”, were also men­tio­ned posi­tively. The­re were also exci­ting insights into cur­rent topics: Key­note spea­k­er Prof. Dr. Nils Boy­sen, Chair at FSU Jena, made the audi­ence smi­le with his humo­rous expl­ana­ti­on of how arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence and con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on are con­nec­ted.

Entertainment and artistic highlights

Of cour­se, the infa­mous ORISA nerd quiz, a modi­fied ver­si­on of the pub quiz and a very popu­lar com­pa­ny tra­di­ti­on that has alre­a­dy cau­sed many asto­nis­hed “aha” moments, was not to be missed that evening. Each table, at which a colorful mix of ORI­SAn­ers, part­ners and cus­to­mers sat, was given a ques­ti­on­n­aire and then the puz­zles were dili­gent­ly ans­we­red. Would you know off the top of your head whe­re you can find “fee­ler warts” in the office or which food does­n’t have an emo­ji? The attempt to mark the last ORISA HQ on the map of Jena befo­re the move to Hum­boldt­stra­ße cau­sed a few laughs, becau­se — spoi­ler — cir­cling the who­le of Jena did­n’t count.

Our sales mana­ger Kay took over as quiz­mas­ter and led the ques­ti­ons with a lot of humor. After the storm on the buf­fet, the ans­wers were eva­lua­ted and the win­ners announ­ced to loud applau­se. The table with the most cor­rect ans­wers was reward­ed with cho­co­la­tes and eter­nal honor and glo­ry.

In addi­ti­on to explo­ring the IMAGINATA “Sta­ti­on Park”, an expe­ri­men­ta­ri­um for the sen­ses, which invi­ted our guests to explo­re with over 100 inter­ac­ti­ve exhi­bits from the fields of mathe­ma­tics, phy­sics, tech­no­lo­gy and bio­lo­gy, they were also able to admi­re Mal­com Brooks’ tem­po­ra­ry exhi­bi­ti­on “The Won­derful World of Auto­ma­ta”. Ano­ther high­light of the evening was the arti­stry and jugg­ling shows by the Jena arti­stry trou­pe Tole­dos. Impres­si­ve gym­nastic cho­reo­gra­phies, whir­ling light clubs and the fit­ting back­ground music crea­ted a spe­cial atmo­sphe­re and ama­zed the audi­ence. The lovin­g­ly pre­pared buf­fet also left not­hing to be desi­red. The­re was ple­nty of eating, laug­hing, dancing and par­ty­ing — the per­fect mix for an unfor­gettable evening.

Dear ORISA,
once again all the best for your 30th bir­th­day. Here’s to many more gre­at years.
Thank you very much for the invi­ta­ti­on to this fan­ta­stic anni­ver­sa­ry par­ty. It was a cele­bra­ti­on! I’m loo­king for­ward to the next joint dis­cus­sions, exch­an­ges, expe­ri­en­ces, cus­to­mer appoint­ments … sim­ply a suc­cessful col­la­bo­ra­ti­on.

- Felix Voigt, Port­fo­lio Clus­ter Lead eCom­mer­ce at Tele­kom MMS

A look into the future

In addi­ti­on to cele­bra­ting past suc­ces­ses, we also took a look into the future. ORISA is always stri­ving to deve­lop fur­ther and dri­ve new inno­va­tions — espe­ci­al­ly in the field of arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence. Our goal is to make our soft­ware solu­ti­ons even smar­ter and more effi­ci­ent in order to offer cus­to­mers the best pro­ducts. We look for­ward to working clo­se­ly with our cus­to­mers and part­ners to dis­co­ver new oppor­tu­ni­ties and rea­li­se exci­ting pro­jects tog­e­ther. The exch­an­ge of ide­as and expe­ri­en­ces will con­ti­nue to be cru­cial in the future in order to actively shape digi­tal chan­ge and deve­lop the best solu­ti­ons for the chal­lenges of tomor­row.

At the end of the evening, we all agreed: it was a gre­at cele­bra­ti­on that not only show­ed how far we have come tog­e­ther, but also what still lies ahead of us. We would like to thank all our guests, part­ners and ser­vice pro­vi­ders for making this evening so unfor­gettable.

We are alre­a­dy loo­king for­ward to the next few years tog­e­ther — and of cour­se to the next anni­ver­sa­ry!

Dear Ori­sa team, we wish you all the best for your anni­ver­sa­ry!
Con­tin­ued suc­cess and here’s to the next 30 years! Nice to cele­bra­te this spe­cial day with you.

- Mar­co Klet­te, Mana­ging Direc­tor PROMEDIATEC