While each MakaluMedia project is priced according to its specific requirements, we realize that it is helpful for potential customers to have some idea, up front, of what our services will cost. The following is a rough guideline of what to expect.

• Corporate identity. 750- to 1.5k Euros. (950- to 1.8k $USD) We work closely with you, in an iterative process, to identify the characteristics that are important to your brand, and embody those in a set of corporate identity assets, which typically include a logo mark, and typography/color usage specifications.

• Small “Brochure” website. 2.5k to 5k Euros. (3k to 6k $USD) A beautifully designed website, with a handful of informational pages (5 to 10), and including a contact form.

• Business website. 5k to to 15k Euros. (6k to 18k $USD) A larger-scale site, supported by a content management system allowing you to manage both the content and structure of the site.

• Web application. 15k to 60k Euros. (18k to 75k $USD) A software development project, resulting in a website or business application meeting the specific, custom needs of your organization or context.

MakaluMedia’s web development and design activities are primarily conducted through our office in Marbella, Spain.

MakaluMedia
Calle Juan de la Cierva, N° 5
1° Planta, Local 5
29600 Marbella, Málaga
Spain

+34 667 031 837 (telefone)
+34 952 778 166 (fax)

Site Manager: Matt Henderson

Please feel free to use the form below to directly contact us:

MakaluMedia’s space-related activities are primarily conducted through our office in Darmstadt, Germany.

MakaluMedia GmbH
Robert-Bosch Strasse 7
64293 Darmstadt
Germany

+49 6151 872 4600 (telefone)
+49 6151 872 4619 (fax)

Site Manager: Fausto Roveda

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A picture is worth a thousand words.

The following is a small portfolio of examples that should provide an idea of our capabilities.

Catalog Choice — www.catalogchoice.org

We designed, developed and maintain Catalog Choice for a group of environmental non-profits in the United States, to help American consumers manage their mail preferences. On track to register over one million users in its first year, managing over 10 million catalog subscriptions, the project has been a tremendous success. Since launch, the site has seen a conversion ratio of over 70% (literally seven out of every 10 unique visitors have signed up), and has become one of the top 100 Ruby on Rails sites in the world.

Google/O’Reilly Where 2.0 Map — en.oreilly.com/where2008/

Working with Google and O’Reilly, we designed and developed a map application allowing visitors to geographically browse the attendees and speakers participating in the 2008 O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference.

Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur — www.mlk.com

For more than 10 years, we have provided web application development and operations for one of Europe’s largest and most influential entertainment promoters. In addition to their corporate website, summer festival site and photo sharing site, we have developed (and continue to evolve) an amazing back-end content management and business operations system.

ARTS (Anomaly Report Tracking System)

We developed a large-scale issue reporting and resolution management system for the European Space Agency. ESA use this system to manage problem reports, change requests and even minutes-of-meetings, across more than 50 projects (ranging from satellite missions to station equipment), and supporting more than 700 users. We subsequently commercialized the product, and have since licensed it to other satellite operators.

Henderson & Henderson LLC — www.thehendersonbros.com

We developed this web application to align a small Georgia home builder’s online presence with its position as a niche provider of luxury lake homes. We adapted the open-source WordPress blogging platform to provide a site that was both affordable, and end-user manageable.

Mocca Marbella — www.moccamarbella.com

We occasionally take on smaller, equally fun projects like this one, for the favorite lunchtime dining spot of our team in Marbella, Spain.

A leader in the European space industry.

From our offices in Darmstadt, Germany, MakaluMedia GmbH provides system engineering, development and consultancy services within the European space industry. Over the past decade, the company has built successful, long-term relationships with organizations such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and Eutelsat Communications.

Ground segment systems and communications.

MakaluMedia has profound expertise in the satellite ground segment, which we apply to the development of related software systems and the provision of study/consultancy services. We developed the embedded software for ESA’s globally-deployed satellite tracking system (the IFMS), the embedded software for EUMETSAT’s METEOSAT tracking system (the MRS), as well as an advanced telemetry distribution system (TEDIS) for EUTELSAT. We have participated in studies related to monitoring and control systems, international data exchange formats, ground segment communications technologies and modern satellite tracking techniques.

Space Consultancy.

MakaluMedia is a recognized provider of space-related engineering consultancy. At EUMETSAT, we provide consultancy services ranging from spacecraft operations, to multi-platform software engineering, to scientific research support. At ESA’s operations center (ESOC), we provide ground segment engineering and software validation & verification consultancy through multiple, long-term service frame-contracts.

Quality Assurance & Configuration Management.

Through the development and maintenance of two advanced systems for ESA, MakaluMedia has positioned itself as a competent provider of QA and configuration management expertise. ARTS is used within ESA to support issue reporting and resolution across more than 50 projects and missions, and involving more than 700 users. CRS is in use by ESA, and numerous industrial system developers, to provide detailed and complete configuration reporting. Both systems, ARTS and CRS, are now available from MakaluMedia as commercial products.

We build wildly successful products.

From Marbella, Spain and Atlanta, USA, we’ve built successful products for some of the world’s most recognized organizations.

The right ingredients.

Experience design is at the core of all successful products. On the web, it encompasses aesthetics, typography, copy, interaction, and flows—everything that marries people and technology together into a simple and effective world. Our team includes world-class, award winning user experience designers.

We develop products in an agile environment, using modern technologies like Ruby on Rails and Drupal. Not only do we use these tools, we are also active members in the related communities. We speak at conferences, maintain core components, release freeware and sponsor both products and events.

The results speak for themselves.

• CatalogChoice.org is on track to register one million users in its first year. Since launch in October 2007, seven of every 10 unique visitors has signed up.

• A map application we developed allowed Google & O’Reilly to offer an innovative experience for browsing attendees and speakers at one of the world’s leading geo conferences.

• Europe’s largest entertainment agency runs their entire online operations on software built by MakaluMedia.

• The European Space Agency use our ARTS enterprise issue-tracking system to manage end-to-end quality for its satellite missions. ARTS has also been chosen by Galileo, the European competitor to the GPS Global Positioning System.

Working. Together.

To build great products, you need a team of passionate and amazingly capable people, who work well together. That’s exactly what you’ll find at MakaluMedia.

Matt Henderson

Founder, and General Director

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Pino de la Fuente

Founder, and Financial Controller

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Fausto Roveda

Site Manager: MakaluMedia Germany

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Michel Ricart

Chief Systems Architect

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Jim Holme

Business Development Manager

In the beginning.

MakaluMedia GmbH was founded in 1997, when Matt Henderson and his wife Pino de la Fuente decided to leverage their experience as engineers at the European Space Agency, to form a small company providing systems engineering, development and consultancy within the space sector.

The company’s first major project was the development of the embedded software running within ESA’s next-generation satellite tracking system, the IFMS. In parallel, the company began to expand in the area of spacecraft operations engineering consultancy within both ESA, and another European satellite operator, EUMETSAT.

Growth.

The success of the IFMS system at ESA, and the reputation of the company’s growing team of consultants established MakaluMedia as a serious and reliable provider in the European space industry, allowing the company to grow, and to win further contracts at ESA, EUMETSAT and, later, EUTELSAT.

The company also began to diversify into the area of web- and internet-based system design, development and operation, leveraging its technical and management experience gained in the space sector, to win contracts with important industry customers such as Germany’s leading entertainment agency, and the city government of Darmstadt, Germany.

In 2004, the company diversified again, into the area of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product development and sale. Its first product, ARTS, is an advanced issue and action management system in use by more than 700 users at ESA to manage problem reporting and resolution across more than 50 missions and projects. Its second product, CRS, is a powerful system configuration reporting tool in use by several manufactures of space ground segment systems.

Today.

Today, MakaluMedia GmbH is a successful SME (Small- to Medium-sized Enterprise) within the European space industry, developing and maintaining advanced software systems, and providing a broad range of engineering consultancy. Most recently, the European Space Agency confirmed its confidence in the company through the award of two five-year consultancy frame contracts — representing the largest success of the company to date, and ensuring its steady growth over the next five years.

In 2005, MakaluMedia formed a sister company in Spain, and opened an office on the southern mediterranean coast, in the city of Marbella. While the group in Germany focuses on activities in the space sector, the group in Spain focuses on the areas of web-application development, interface- and interactivity design.

Below are a number of example licensing cases. In these examples, we hope to emphasize the fact that a single ARTS User may act in multiple Roles within multiple ARTS Projects, while only requiring a single token (associated to the User):

Scenario 1: ARTS Evaluation

Four tokens are provided for free, allowing an organisation to fully evaluate (or use) ARTS in a single-project configuration.

Scenario 2: Web Development Services Firm

In this example, we consider a small web development firm that has one project manager, three developers, and hosting websites for five active customers.

Such an organisation might consider an ARTS installation with the following configuration:

Scenario 3: Multi-National Space Agency

In this example, we consider a large multinational space agency, operating numerous satellite missions. This example especially highlights the fact that a single ARTS User can act in multiple ARTS Projects under a single token.

Such an organisation might consider an ARTS installation with the following configuration:

To contact MakaluMedia about Anomaly Report Tracking System (ARTS) please use the contact form on this page.

ARTS Installed at Customer Site

For customers wishing to install and operate ARTS themselves, MakaluMedia offers a Token based licensing scheme, providing the flexibility to support any customer needs. One token is required per configured ARTS User, and two tokens are required per configured ARTS Project. (No tokens are required for inactive users, or users assigned only to the Guest role.) To support ARTS evaluation, MakaluMedia provide a fully functional ARTS with the first four tokens for free.

Licensing Case Studies. To help clarify how the token-based licensing scheme functions, we provide three licensing case studies.

ARTS installed at MakaluMedia

In the future, MakaluMedia will provide our own hosting service for ARTS, according to the Application Service Provider (ASP) model. Please contact us if you are interested in being notified when this option is available.

ARTS Support Plans

Each Initial ARTS installation receives 30-days of free support. Beyond this, we also offer a Standard ARTS Maintenance Package, plus a choice of phone, virtual and on-site consultancy options.

Standard ARTS Maintenance Package (Annual)

The Standard ARTS Maintenance Package includes email-based support Monday through Friday, 9:30 to 17:30 Central European Time (excluding holidays), Web support (Frequently Asked Questions, Knowledge Base, etc.) (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), and software updates (all ARTS releases) — for a period of one year. Each Initial ARTS installation receives 30-days of free support.

The cost of the Standard ARTS Maintenance Package is 20% of the license fee, if purchased with the license. The maintenance package may be renewed for 25% of the license fee, within the current maintenance package period of validity; otherwise, the renewal fee is 40% of the current license.

Important. Software updates and support are only provided to customers whose Standard ARTS Maintenance Plan is current for all purchased licenses.

Phone Support

Once the Standard ARTS Maintenance Package has been purchased, a Phone Support add-on may be purchased for 75 Euro per incident. A 5-pack of incidents may be purchased for 325 Euro, and a 10-pack for 500 Euro. A minimum initial purchase of 5-incidents is required and all incidents must be pre-paid.

On-Site Consultancy

Some customers request the presence of an on-site MakaluMedia engineer to assist with installation, configuration, and occasionally migration of data from other systems. MakaluMedia provide this service for 850 Euro per day, plus expenses. This service is provide anywhere within continental Europe, with two weeks of advance notice. For sites outside of continental Europe, please contact MakaluMedia.

Virtual Consultancy

Some customers request the dedicated virtual presence (telephone, instant messaging, etc.) of a MakaluMedia engineer during a pre-determined period of time. MakaluMedia provide this service for 100 Euro/hour. Please contact MakaluMedia to request this service.

ARTS Custom Development

MakaluMedia are available to provide custom development or extensions to ARTS to meet your specific needs (interfacing with a particular legacy system, use of a different database, etc.) Such developments are quoted on a firm-fixed price basis. Please contact MakaluMedia to enquire about this service.

One way to see how ARTS looks and works, is by viewing screenshots. We’ve selected several ARTS screenshots to display the user interface and operation of the tool.

Login & Welcome Screenshots

Login Screen [screen]

Shown to the user when accessing ARTS.

Welcome Screen [screen]

Once a user logs into ARTS, this Welcome (or Home) screen is shown, listing all of the Projects (and corresponding Roles) to which he has been assigned. Access to project documentation is also provided in this screen. In this particular screenshot, Administration and ACI tabs are shown, but these are only available to the Administrator (and are not shown to general users). The ACI tab is shown active, to inform the Administrator that new incoming messages are waiting to be processed.

Project Anomaly Reports Screen [screen]

Shown to the user when first accessing an ARTS project. A default listing of all non-closed Anomaly Reports is displayed.

Search Function Screenshots

QuickSearch [screen]

Display of the various pre-defined QuickSearch filters that can be applied to the Anomaly Report (or Action) listing display.

Advanced Search [screen]

An example of the power Advanced Search screen, from where an arbitrarily complex set of search criteria can be applied.

Anomaly Report Screenshots

New Anomaly Report Form [screen]

Shown to the Originator when creating a new Anomaly Report in ARTS. (Only a portion of the full form is shown here.)

Anomaly Report Display (Top: [screen] Bottom: [screen])

When presented in Display Mode, ARTS displays the Anomaly Report in a convenient manner for online viewing.

Anomaly Report Modify (Top: [screen] Bottom: [screen])

When presented in Modify Mode, ARTS displays the Anomaly Report as a web form, with services to change state, update the AR, manage files and relationships, and add/manage Actions.

Anomaly Report Printing [screen]

When presented in Print Mode, ARTS displays the Anomaly Report in a convenient (scaleable) manner for printing.

Anomaly Report Attached Files [screen]

It is possible to attach (upload) one or more files to any Anomaly Report. A Manage Files area is provide for this purpose.

Anomaly Report Relationships [screen]

It is possible to relate one Anomaly Report with one or more other Anomaly Reports. A Manage Relations area is provide for this purpose. The user identifies the target ARs using the advanced search mechanism, and then manages via the Add or Remove services.

Actions Screenshots

Project Actions Screen [screen]

Shown to the user when first accessing the Actions area of an ARTS project. A default listing of all non-closed Actions is displayed.

Action Display [screen]

When presented in Display Mode, ARTS displays the Action in a convenient manner for online viewing.

Action Modify (Top: [screen] Bottom: [screen])

When presented in Modify Mode, ARTS displays the Action as a web form, with services to change state, update the Action, and manage files.

User Details Screenshots

User Profile [screen]

User profile screens provide general information about system users, as well as a direct email contact form.

User Profile: Modify [screen]

When a user accesses his own profile, he is presented a form to update his information (email address, etc.)

User Profile: Email [screen]

User Profile screens also provide an email form for direct communication with another user.

Histories [screen]

Every step that occurs during the lifecycle of an Anomaly Report or Action is captured in its History, which is a chronological record of the events. Only the project Supervisor (or Deputy) has the authority to modify an object’s History.

General Administration Screenshots

Admin: Administration Screen [screen]

Shown to the Administrator when accessing the Administration area. From this screen, the Admin has access to the Projects and Users Registries, and the Database Maintenance and ACI areas.

Admin: Database Maintenance [screen]

Provides the Administrator with access to a variety of system database maintenance services.

User Administration Screenshots

Admin: User Registry [screen]

Provides the Administrator with management access (for creation, modification, deletion and role assignment) to all Users within in the system.

Admin: User Role Assignment [screen]

Provides the Administrator, from within a user’s record, to assign roles within projects defined within the system. (This is the same services as the Project Role Assignment, just presented in the context of the User, for convenience.)

Project Administration Screenshots

Admin: Project Registry [screen]

Provides the Administrator with management access (for creation, modification, deletion and role assignment) to all Projects within the system..

Admin: New Project Form [screen]

Shown to the Administrator when creating a new Project within the system.

Admin: Project Role Assignment [screen]

Provides the Administrator, from within a project’s record, to assign roles to users defined within the system. (This is the same services as the User Role Assignment, just presented in the context of the Project, for convenience.)

Admin: Project Delegates [screen]

An informational screen, displayed to the Administrator within the context of a Project, of all Project Pairings that have been established.

Communication Interface Administration Screenshots

Admin: ARTS Communication Interface [screen]

The entry screen for the Administrator to the ARTS Communication Interface (ACI) management area.

Admin: ACI Systems [screen]

A listing of Systems with which Project Pairings (local or foreign) have been established.

Admin: ACI System Configuration [screen]

From the ACI area, the Administrator may configure certain information about his or her system that will be broadcast to other ARTS requesting Project Pairings (for the purpose of external Action delegation.)

Admin: ACI Foreign System [screen]

An informational display of data related to a Foreign System with which one or more Project Pairings have been established.

Admin: ACI System Delegates [screen]

A listing of all Project Pairings that have been established with a particular system, along with services to remove those pairings.

Admin: ACI Projects [screen]

Provides the Administrator with a view of all local projects, and any pairings that have been established with other projects (local or foreign) for the purpose of Action delegation.

Admin: ACI Project Pairings [screen]

Provides the Administrator with a view of all pairings that have been established with a particular local project.

Admin: ACI Pairing Request Form [screen]

Provides the Administrator with a means to request a Project Pairing with a foreign or local project.

Admin: ACI Incoming Messages [screen]

The area where the Administrator manages incoming ACI messages from the ARTS Communication Interface.

Central Registry

ARTS allows a central registry of users to participate in a variety of roles within an arbitrary number of projects.

Manage Issue Reports

ARTS facilitates and manages the complete lifecycle of issue reports, from entry through resolution.

Manage Actions

ARTS facilitates and manages the complete lifecycle of actions created during the resolution of issue reports.

Flexible Assignment

Actions can be assigned to users within the same project, or delegated to other projects, either within the same ARTS installation, or transparently via email to another ARTS system.

Powerful Searches

ARTS provides extensive browsing and searching facilities.

Data Access & Reporting

ARTS provides extensive data access and reporting, including on-screen and downloadable reports in common formats such as PDF.

Powerful Web Application

ARTS provides advanced features, such as secured logins, web-based administration, event logging, email notifications and alerts, and database maintenance.

The Anomaly Report Tracking System (ARTS) is an easy-to-use, yet powerful tool, facilitating the lifecycle of problem reports and actions, within the context of projects.

ARTS provides full lifecycle support for issue and action management. An issue could be an Anomaly Report (AR), Software Problem Report (SPR), Change Request (CR) or similar, depending on the end user’s domain of activity. Actions are the tasks required to resolve an issue. ARTS supports multiple users, acting in multiple roles, within multiple projects. ARTS was developed to be compliant with the ECSS Standard Q-20-09B, Non-Conformance Control System.

ARTS is immediately available, either in a customer-hosted configuration, or a MakaluMedia-hosted configuration. ARTS runs on most platforms that support Apache, PHP and relational databases such as MySQL or Oracle (e.g. Linux, Solaris, MacOS X).

  ARTS combines powerful issue management tools with web-based flexibility.

Anomaly Report & Tracking System (ARTS)

Powerful issue and action management system, facilitating the management of issues across project teams and the enterprise. Learn More »

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Configuration Reporting System (CRS)

Embedded solution for the reporting and management of complex configurations across a single system, or a hierarchy of systems. Learn More »

Real-world examples are often the most effective means of communicating capabilities. The following case studies provide a broad overview of the type of customers that rely on MakaluMedia, and the scope of space-related projects in which we have been engaged.

IFMS (ESA’s Intermediate Frequency & Modem System)

MakaluMedia developed and maintain the embedded software running inside the satellite tracking system in use today by the European Space Agency (ESA), to control and track all of its presently operational satellite missions.

TEDIS (EUTELSAT’s Telemetry Distribution System)

MakaluMedia developed and maintain the web-based software application allowing EUTELSAT users and partners to retrieve real-time and archived telemetry from its network of European communications satellites.

Software & Systems Engineering Consultancy at ESA

MakaluMedia provide verification & validation software engineering support to ESA’s mission & ground systems development efforts, as well as systems integration and power systems engineering support, through multiple, long-term consultancy frame-contracts.

Scientific research support at EUMETSAT

MakaluMedia consultant Dr. Alessio Lattanzio participates in scientific engineering research at EUMETSAT, discovering advanced applications for the use of surface albedo derived from METEOSAT satellite observations, resulting in the publication of several scientific articles.

What is CRS?

CRS is a straightforward solution for a complex problem: the maintenance of the hardware and software configuration data.

Maintaining the configuration information of a large and complex system, perhaps geographically distributed, is a very challenging task. Normally, even a complex and ad-hoc designed database application does not provide an end-to-end solution and therefore some of the steps, typically the data-entry, must be manually executed leaving space for mistakes and misalignments. The amount of information is normally relevant and therefore any manual intervention is long and error prone.

CRS in One Sentence

CRS allows to simply press a button and the complete configuration management report of your system is generated in XML format

CRS is not only a database application for the configuration management; CRS is not only a tool that allows displaying and browsing the Product Tree and searching among the configuration data. CRS has some unique features that allow automatically fetching the configuration data directly from the system under configuration control.

CRS and the European Space Agency

In year 2003, the European Space Agency (ESA) entrusted MakaluMedia GmbH with the development of a software tool for the on-line reporting of configuration information of the ESA Ground Station’s hardware and software.

The project was based on the following idea: the only solution to reliably report the configuration information of an arbitrary complex Product Tree (PT) is to fetch such information directly from the Configuration Items (CI) of the target system.

CRS has been delivered in year 2004 and deployed on all ESA Ground Stations. It is now considered Operational Software. The XML reports are retrieved, compared and analyzed either locally at the station site or at the Operations Control Centre in ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.

In the next future it is foreseen that all station’s sub-systems will provide on-line configuration reporting capabilities and therefore an interface to CRS.

CRS Architecture

CRS is based on two modules: (a) the CRS Core Agent (CCA), a daemon that provides the core services, and (b) the MMI, a web-based application that can connect to any CCA. The task of each CCA is to fetch, report and manage the configuration information of the locally defined CIs like hard-disk, operating system and patch level, locally installed software systems and components, hardware boards, devices, etc.

Moreover, one or more Core Agents can be defined to be part of the CIs of another CCA at higher level, this allows to build up a hierarchy of CCAs, perhaps spanning over a large number of sub-systems, and to create an arbitrary complex Product Tree. The following figure is an example of the CRS hierarchy.

  CRS Hierarchy

For instance, one CCA could be installed on each facility of the primary ground segment reporting the configuration information for that facility; another CCA could be installed on one of the main servers of the control room, and connected to all facility’s CCAs reporting the entire configuration of the primary segment.

In the same way another set of CCAs could be installed on the backup segment providing the configuration information of the entire segment.

Optionally, a CCA could also be installed at Site level and connected to both the primary and backup segment. The process can be iterated in both directions towards higher or lower levels.

Retrieval of the Configuration Data

CRS was specifically designed to be completely independent from the sub-systems under its control, this means that the retrieval of the configuration data is achieved through well-defined interfaces. The internal architecture of the CCA is based on following three software layers:

• The service layer provides the communication layer towards the MMI or the higher-level CCA.
• The retrieval layer provides the infrastructure necessary to fetch the configuration data and convert them into XML. It also aggregates all CI data into a single report.
• The set of driver instances provide the details on how the attributes are retrieved for each CI. The set of drivers for the most common hardware and operating systems is provided with the standard distribution.

This architecture provides a very high degree of configurability and flexibility which allow CRS to retrieve configuration data from virtually any kind of software and hardware without requiring modification of the CRS code itself.

Augmentations

For attributes that cannot be retrieved automatically, CRS can store the manually inserted values and add them transparently to the report when it is generated.

ARTS is a powerful software tool that facilitates the lifecycle of “issues” (Change Requests, Bug Reports, Anomaly Reports, Software Problem Reports, etc.) and the related “actions” required to resolve them.

The system was developed by MakaluMedia for the European Space Agency (ESA), and presently supports issue and action management across more than 50 concurrent missions and projects, to more than 700 registered users.

The web based system is now available as a commercial product from MakaluMedia, and has already been adopted within the space industry by other key operators, such as EUMETSAT.

From its highly usable interface, to its powerful searching and filtering, to its native PDF report generation, to its email/XML-based communication interface allowing issue and action delegation between systems, ARTS is truly unique in the marketplace. It represents the perfect solution for any organization dealing with issues and actions, and/or maintaining compliance to issue management requirements under modern quality standards (such as ISO-9001).

Use the navigation on the right to learn more about ARTS, or feel free to contact us to arrange for a demonstration.

If you would be interested in using ARTS in your organisation, or just to receive more information, please don’t hesitate to send an email to mail@makalumedia.com

For more than a decade, MakaluMedia has been providing space- and internet-related services to organizations large and small, public and private.

Consulting.

We can analyse your business processes and recommend innovative strategies and solutions for improving performance, and meeting objectives.

User interface & experience design.

At the heart of any successful product is great user-interface and user-experience design — tying aesthetics, copy, interactions, and workflows together in a way that marries people and technology together in a simple and seamless world. From satellite tracking systems, to consumer web applications, we create beautiful, simple, effective (and award winning) user experience.

Development.

We have extensive experience in the design, development and operation of software systems, ranging from C/C++/Java-based embedded systems, to modern web applications using Ruby on Rails.

Specialty Know-How.

Based on the background of our staff, and the activities in which we’ve been involved, our company has particular experience and know-how in the areas of space ground-segments, satellite operations, scientific data processing and visualization, formal software development processes, communication systems and protocols, and advanced web development and interface technologies.

We’ve acquired considerable experience and know-how that may be valuable to your organization — either directly, or as a sub-contractor on large-scale projects. Please contact us today. We’d love to hear from you.

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Who we are.

MakaluMedia is a group of about 30 people with whom you will definitely love to work. We are organized into three small offices, located in Germany, Spain and the United States. About half of us work in the area of consumer web application design and development. The other half works in the areas of software development and engineering consultancy in the space industry.

What we do.

We’re a small company, but we’ve done some big things. Here’s a few examples:

• We built and maintain a web application for the US’ largest environmental organizations that allows American consumers to opt-out of paper catalogs.

• We built, maintain and operate a web enabled suite of applications that facilititates the operations of Germany’s largest event promoter.

• We built and maintain software systems that track satellites for the European Space Agency, and process telemetry data for EUTELSAT.

• We are among a select group of companies that participate in the development of a large-scale collaboration platform for the US government, in use by governments, agencies, NGOs and educational institutions around the globe.

• We’ve designed the logos and corporate identities of companies that have been acquired by Google, as well as some of the most visible brands on the web.

What you can expect from us.

This is what you can expect from everyone working at MakaluMedia.

• Integrity. We treat others the way we want to be treated.

• Competence. We know our stuff, and are good at what we do.

• Dedication. We won’t let you down.

• Passion. We love what we do, and believe that shows in all aspects of our work.

Get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you..

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