XING is a European career-oriented social networking site for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company claims that it is used by people from over 200 countries. XING employs around 1.000 people and has a yearly revenue of around 150 Mio. €

Consultation
Biggest challenge
XING has highly complex systems. These require a high degree of abstraction.
Solution
Various challenges could be easily solved according to the KISS principle.

Concept
Biggest challenge
Solid concepts are essential, and they are particularly demanding under high time pressure.
Solution
With a prototypical approach and modern communication tools, it has always been possible to find consensus across national borders.

Development
Biggest challenge
Integrating the software into XING's existing infrastructure has always been a special challenge.
Solution
XING always uses top notch technology so that we reached our goal without problems by using GitLab and deployment pipelines.