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sum.cumo stands for the successful, integrated digitalization of traditional business models. Our locations in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Zurich offer companies in the lottery and insurance sectors disruptive innovations and customer-centric solutions based on the latest technologies. With the guidance and support of our specialists in Consulting, User Experience, Frontend Development, Backend Development and Marketing, the success of each project is ensured from initial conception to final execution.

About us

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Who does sum.cumo work for?

Since its founding in 2010, sum.cumo has focused on the planning, developing, operating and marketing of digital business models in the lottery and insurance sectors. Contributing to these digital successes are not only our experts in Consulting, User Experience, Frontend Development, Backend Development and Marketing, but also the many innovative technologies and customer-centric solutions that we’ve developed. Our agile interdisciplinary teams possess a great deal of technical know-how and bring along years of accumulated experience in the sectors where we’re active.

Björn Freter 01. July 2019 1 min reading time

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The company

With the ever-shifting online behaviors and constantly increasing expectations of today’s consumers, companies are presented with huge challenges. Often having only a rudimentary awareness of what is needed for an optimal solution, and faced by a huge array of possible technical solutions, any organization can be quickly overwhelmed.

Björn Freter 06. May 2019 2 min reading time

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Our mission

The internet is what sum.cumo lives and breathes. We firmly believe that technology can be used to make the world a better place, making life easier and opening up entirely new possibilities – for our clients, their customers, and sum.cumo as their partner. It’s a simple win-win-win equation.

Björn Freter 06. May 2019 1 min reading time

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The digital age

Long-established companies are finding it increasingly difficult to find their way forward in what is still a new digital world. On the other hand, while today’s purely digital startups have very high ambitions, they often lack the experience and qualified personnel needed in order to tackle such ambitious goals and successfully achieve them.

Björn Freter 06. May 2019 1 min reading time

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Our offices

Continually growing since its founding in 2010, sum.cumo has always been excellently situated and offers plenty of room for its teams of digital experts at the locations in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Zurich.

Björn Freter 06. May 2019 1 min reading time

Latest articles

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sum.cumo reinforces its presence in Switzerland

sum.cumo has been successfully implementing projects in Switzerland since 2012 and would like to become even more active with its new location in Zurich. Peter Dähler, long-time partner and founder of Dextra Rechtsschutz, will become Country Manager.

Peter Dähler 04. November 2019 1 min reading time

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Which browsers should an e-commerce platform support?

The selection of browsers to support is one of the most significant decisions to be made in establishing a new international e-commerce platform. In this article, Markus Siering describes which criteria need to be considered.

Markus Siering 29. October 2019 5 min reading time

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"Just the right size"

What is the meaning of the terms "monolithic architecture" and "micro services"? Our own Andy (Wenk), management and backend management takes a critical look at the new buzzwords and its application.

Andreas Wenk 10. October 2019 7 min reading time

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Frontend at sum.cumo, a fast and vivid expansion

These days frontend experiences a vast development as a technical discipline. The user’s positive experience becomes more and more important for any developer. In a group of videos we want to show sum.cumo's approach to frontend work and give an inside into our teamwork and company culture.

Jonas Ross 09. October 2019 3 min reading time

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Working at sum.cumo: How we think team planning forward

The tech industry is growing fast and this is accompanied by a shortage of IT specialists. sum.cumo nevertheless manages to be attractive for developers.

Björn Freter 24. September 2019 2 min reading time

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Insurers need to rethink technology - how can SCIP help make the digital future possible?

Insurance companies are in a state of flux and are faced with the challenge of keeping pace technologically. For this they need flexible, individual and customer-oriented systems.

Andreas Wenk 17. September 2019 4 min reading time

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Are design systems the monocultures of the digital world?

Anian and Katja were in Brighton, UK, at the Pattern Conference for Designers and Developers. They attended lectures on "Why monocultures" and from the guru Emil Björklund on his system theory.

Anian Hering 04. September 2019 3 min reading time

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people@sum.cumo: Cora-Nadine Harder, teamleader backend

Cora is a backend team leader on one of our projects, and was among the earliest to join the sum.cumo crew. She writes clean code from her home office and loves working with her teammates to develop state-of-the-art features.

Cora-Nadine Harder 29. August 2019 3 min reading time

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UX has become a major focus for our customers and therefore for sum.cumo

User Experience (UX) has become a major focus at sum.cumo, because we want to offer a wide range of services in this area to our clients in the insurance and lottery sectors. As a driver of digital transformation, sum.cumo is strongly committed to agility and user-centric design. This is also why we design all web applications on a solid basis of advanced UX principles.  Here, some of our UX’ers tells us about their experiences, aspirations and biggest challenges in this field.

Carolin von Below 21. August 2019 6 min reading time

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A Beautiful Place to Work: sum.cumo

sum.cumo has made it into the Top 10 of the Best Workplaces in 2019. This makes us proud. From March 25 to May 26, 2019, kununu and the IBA (an office interiors industry association) conducted a search for the most beautiful offices in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Julia Lees 12. August 2019 1 min reading time