A12 Platform

PDF files are everywhere. Agencies, insurance carriers, and industries that handle heavy document loads rely on them daily. Contracts, notices, policies—all end up as PDFs for customers and in document management systems. Yet many overlook a critical detail: for long-term archiving and accessible use, these documents must meet specific standards. That’s where mgm’s A12 Print Engine steps in.

In Germany, there are clear rules governing many areas of life, such as road construction, finance, and healthcare. In the digital world, however, such rules are largely absent, even though it has become the backbone of our society. These regulatory gaps lead to dependencies, barriers to innovation, and a loss of self-determination. That is why government commitment to digital sovereignty is needed.

A look behind the scenes reveals why enterprise low code doesn’t mean the end of developers. Learn how domain experts and developers work together to build tailored solutions—and why separating business logic from technology pays off. Let’s dive into the world of the mgm A12 platform.

The international software company mgm technology partners GmbH became a new member of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) in April. By joining, mgm is underscoring its long-standing commitment to open source technologies as the foundation for durable enterprise software.

Does the quality of online services meet the requirements of citizens? DIN SPEC 66336, published in March 2025, provides a new reference. The specification places an even greater focus on the quality of online services. For the first time, the specification defines binding requirements for the design, implementation and evaluation of digital administrative services. As a provider of long-lasting enterprise software solutions, mgm welcomes the introduction of binding and comprehensive standards, the core content of which mgm has already been fulfilling for years.

Companies are faced with the challenge of working more efficiently and remaining innovative. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key technology that makes it possible to automate processes and free up valuable resources. The mgm AI Suite impressively demonstrates how companies can transform their workflows and concentrate on what is important: growth, innovation and customer orientation.

Authorization is a central and security-critical component of enterprise applications. Therefore, it is particularly important in this area to make the work for developers as clear and simple as possible. The new A12 release 2024.06-ext4 therefore offers extensive improvements to the developer experience with the authorization rules of the UAA component in IntelliJ and VS Code.

The key challenge for product managers and developers is to develop products efficiently and keep them up to date. How can time-to-market be reduced without sacrificing quality and scalability? How can a product remain technically up-to-date and easy to maintain for years to come? This is where mgm's A12 development platform comes in.

Remote working has shaped the modern working world since the COVID-19 pandemic at the latest. mgm and OpenTalk entered into a partnership at the end of 2023 to seamlessly integrate the GDPR-compliant open source video conferencing solution into the A12 platform. A showcase demonstrates how users can create meetings directly in A12, set reminders and participate with a click - efficiently and without media disruptions.

How can the relationships between different models and model types be visualized and explored in model-driven software projects? In cooperation with the Chair of Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, a prototype has been created that gets to the bottom of this question for the modeling world of A12.