The statutory e-invoicing obligation demands answers — not products. While the market reflexively reaches for large platform solutions, a second look is worthwhile: not every compliance requirement needs a subscription. Not every process needs the cloud. And not every investment needs to recur for five years.

Imagine your government agency receives a bill at the beginning of the year. The software licenses for day-to-day operations have gone up in price again, this time by 17 percent. No room for negotiation, no alternatives. Many government agencies in Germany have built up digital dependencies from which they can hardly free themselves today. There is more to this than just an IT problem: it is about who retains control over critical digital infrastructure. It is about digital sovereignty.

At the end of May 2026, mgm technology partners made its A12 development platform open source – a move that has attracted attention within...

Every year, there's a certain excitement when the German Digital Industry Association (BVDW) publishes its Internet Agency Ranking. This year, that excitement has a special edge for us: after a three-year break, we're back in the ranking – and landed straight at rank 7.

mgm technology partners GmbH is making the source code of the A12 AI Low Code Platform available from 27 May 2026. The Community Edition is now available on openCode and GitHub. The A12 platform has proven itself over many years on highly complex public administration projects, such as ELSTER. A12 enables the creation of complex specialist applications using model-based software development and low code. By opening up the source code, all organisations and companies can now benefit from this experience and operate their applications with digital sovereignty.

When the topic of digital sovereignty comes up in public administration, many people first think of technology—software, servers, the cloud, and license agreements. That’s not wrong, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. At its core, digital sovereignty is a question of power.

mgm technology partners and Fsas Technologies are joining forces in the new ESACA cooperation – a sovereign on-premise solution for AI-powered programming in security-critical environments where code and data must not leave the organization's own data center.

In virtually every company, it has long been on paper: the IT strategy, closely integrated with the business strategy, with clear goals and defined priorities. And yet, implementation is proving difficult. Budgets are insufficient, resources are scarce, and entrenched structures offer silent resistance. It is precisely this gap between strategic aspirations and operational reality that mgm consulting partnershave examined in detail in their latest CIO study.

AI-assisted code generation promises speed — but without clear architectural boundaries, the result is risk, not results. Generated code isn't inherently secure, maintainable, or testable. What matters is the framework it's produced in: precise architectural constraints limit what's possible so that entire classes of errors are structurally eliminated. How this works in practice — and why A12 acts as a safety net.

Year after year, the Future Congress on Government & Public Administration serves as the central gathering place for everyone actively shaping the digital transformation of the public sector. mgm will be there again this year – and has two powerful messages to share.