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The year 2024 presented many companies in Europe with major challenges, some of which threatened their very existence. Ongoing energy shortages and the resulting high energy prices, high inflation, ongoing global conflicts and unresolved environmental problems had a major impact on the economy. In Germany, the crisis in the automotive and mechanical engineering industries exacerbated an already tense situation and placed additional burdens on many companies.

Naturally, the new challenges did not go unnoticed by us. Processes were reorganised, strategies reconsidered and, in some areas, new creative approaches adopted in order to bring the year to a successful close despite the adversities and to position ourselves better and more securely for the future.

Cyber and IT security became even more of a focus in times of rapidly increasing cybercrime. Optimising and continuously developing new security concepts and encryption technologies has therefore been a top priority, both for our own business models and digital products and for all customer-related components. All aspects of security are consistently reflected in our software solutions, product developments, training and services.

Product development milestones

The focus of our product development this year was on the further development of the password manager PassSecurium™ and the process management tool JIRA2SAP. Both products have been continuously optimised, enhanced with new features and adapted to the current state of the art.

With the introduction of Pass4SAP, a version of PassSecurium™ specially developed for SAP landscapes, SAP companies now have the opportunity to benefit from the advantages of the powerful enterprise password manager. The SAP certification makes Pass4SAP and PassSecurium™ the first SAP-certified password manager worldwide.

In addition, the new PassSecurium™ Desktop version has been released, which impresses with extended functions, MDM capability and now also with the option and use of central deployment.  In addition, the completely redesigned PassSecurium™ App for Apple devices was introduced, setting new standards in both usability and security.

The latter allows organisations to efficiently deploy the application on a large number of devices and control it centrally. In addition, the PassSecurium™ mobile app for Apple devices has been completely redesigned, offering improved usability and state-of-the-art technology.

Staying on the ball in 2024 with media presence and participation in specialist committees

In addition to our ongoing involvement in various popular communities, we have kept interested parties and customers up to date with numerous publications on our own products and a wide range of security and service information, on our own websites, in press articles and news, and in relevant online and print media.

We regularly publish articles on the Swiss media platform swissmadesoftware.org, on our company and product (PassSecurium™) websites, on social media pages (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram). Here you will find numerous PR articles from the company dealing with password management, cyber and IT security, the prevention of cyber attacks, Switzerland as a secure data location, the password management tool Pass4SAP for SAP companies, a wide range of data protection topics and the development, opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.

Of course, 2024 also had a lively exchange with other IT and security companies, universities and faculties, mostly in the form of collaborations, including some involvement in specific research work.

One final word

We will also use the coming year intensively tofurther develop our products and services. One of the focal points will be the implementation of the multilingualism of the product platforms, in particular PassSecurium™. And in view of the probable further increase in threats and cyber attacks, we see the need to continuously and intensively address our own and our customers' specific security requirements. 

The team of ALPEIN Software SWISS AG would like to thank all business partners, customers and interested parties for their trust in 2024 and wishes them a peaceful end of the year and a new year full of confidence, success and positive moments!