Yatta Solutions' History
Company Background
Yatta Solutions was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the Fujaba Project. This cross-university research project was conducted under the auspices of the Universities of Kassel and Paderborn as well as the Technical University of Darmstadt. A number of other colleges and research institutions such as the Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam, RWTH Aachen University, University of Victoria, Canada and University of Bayreuth were involved in the project from 1997 onwards.
The purpose of the project was to create a powerful and flexible development platform. The connection between Java code generation and reverse engineering was a key concern of the project right from the start. The idea was to overcome the limit between model-driven and agile software development. Therefore, Fujaba is also the abbreviation for “From UML to Java and back again”.
Yatta Solutions starting-up
Promotion Nordhessen 2008
As Yatta Solutions, we continued to develop the Fujaba approach – independent of the target language.
With an experienced team of software engineers and former Fujaba contributors, we developed a reliable solution for the reconciliation between the model, diagrams and source code.
Under the working title ‘Prometheus Project’, the effort was initially sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and continued by Yatta Solutions, University of Kassel and other partners in the software industry. Among others, we received assistance from Hessen Agentur and Volkswagen AG.
Past Corporate Development
The Yatta team currently counts 13 employees, including the two managing directors Dr. Christian Schneider and Johannes Jacop, as well as three scientific associates of the University of Kassel.
Yatta Solutions has already achieved impressive company successes during its short company history. We are particularly proud of…
- winning the promotion Nordhessen business plan award in 2008,
- securing an investment by High-Tech Gründerfonds in 2009,
- successfully completing a major project for software-assisted electrical system optimization with Volkswagen AG in 2009/10,
- the management of two LOEWE projects of Hessen Agentur in 2009/10,
- winning the GFFT e.V. “Best Start-up” award in 2010 as well as
- being awarded as most successful German ICT-Start-up of the year 2011 by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
However, at Yatta Solutions we consider our greatest success to be the satisfaction of our customers and partners. UML Lab’s public premiere took place in projects at two DAX30 companies. Micromata was the first software company in Germany to use the Modeling IDE from Yatta Solutions.
This success allowed us to reach and exceed our business plan goals. After its inception, Yatta Solutions was immediately able to secure and complete its first customer projects with exceptional software requirements thanks to our exceptional and dedicated development and consulting team.
Outlook
Since mid-2010, UML Lab has been publicly available to software developers and architects worldwide as a powerful modeling and programming solution.
After less than 30 days, our UML Lab Update Site already was one of the twenty most popular entries in the Eclipse Marketplace.
Yatta Team at W-JAX 2010
Building on these achievements, we will continue our major investment in research and development. Since April 2010, Yatta Solutions has been managing a joint project on story driven testing and modeling with the partners University of Kassel and Micromata. The project is sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research’s IKT 2020: KMU-innovativ program.


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