November was a month of transformation at MMI. From modernizing our core components and integrating AI-powered search to strengthening software quality and expanding our cloud capabilities – we’ve been hard at work building smarter and more secure solutions for the future. Dive into the highlights and discover how these innovations can empower your business.
ID Repository – Our ID Phonebook
One of our core components, the MMI ID Repository, has been modernized. Originally built on MS SQL Server, customers can now choose between PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server for their implementation. Relational databases remain essential for managing large amounts of objects and structurally storing IDs and metadata.
What's new? We’ve integrated AI-powered search into the repository. Using Natural Language Processing (NLP), you can now intuitively search your data, identify gaps (e.g., missing IDs in planning systems), or query objects directly.
We achieve this through the use of MCP servers and clients, based on our own codebase and designed to connect agents and data sources via the Model Context Protocol.
This AI capability can also be applied to your own data solutions. Contact us to learn how natural language search can increase your team's efficiency.
Middleware Solutions
At MMI, we frequently design and implement middleware platforms that act as an integration layer between systems. Our solutions are built around a Message Bus, similar to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), offering key advantages for modern IT landscapes:
- Flexible integration of heterogeneous applications
- Asynchronous communication for scalability and resilience
- Robust architecture for consistency and fault tolerance
We leverage proven open-source technologies like RabbitMQ to ensure reliable messaging. This approach creates a stable backbone for digital infrastructures, enabling decoupling, scalability and high availability.
Security and Software Quality with SonarQube
Quality and security are fundamental to our REDNET 2030 development process. That’s why we introduced SonarQube as a central Quality Gateway:
- Every change to the master branch must pass the SonarQube Quality Gate
- Automated analysis of maintainability, code smells and security vulnerabilities
- Full integration into our CI/CD pipeline and GitLab for transparent code reviews
Developers also benefit from the SonarQube IDE extension, which highlights issues like excessive complexity right during implementation and offers detailed guidance.
Documentation with xWiki – Structured Knowledge for Agile Projects
Effective documentation is crucial for sustainable software development. We use xWiki as a central platform for project knowledge:
- Predefined templates for consistent structures help architects, developers, admins and ops teams understand the software solution
- Adaptable to frameworks like arc42
- Faster onboarding and transparent tracking of decisions
Hosting in the MMI Cloud – European, Secure, Transparent
Our MMI Cloud offers a sovereignty-focused alternative to hyperscalers, designed for security, transparency and enterprise-grade hosting.
Find the technical setup here.