Cloud-based POS, ERP, and ticketing platform for retail and venues
COMBASE AG operates KORONA, a unified cloud platform spanning point-of-sale, inventory management, ticketing, and event operations—deployed across retail chains, autonomous stores, leisure venues, and museums. The engineering-heavy project mix (microservices backends, API development, headless POS architecture, real-time data flows) paired with infrastructure maturity (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) signals a company scaling operational complexity rather than exploring new tech directions; the absence of adopting/replacing signals reflects stability in their core platform decisions.
COMBASE AG, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Dresden, builds KORONA—a unified software platform for retail operations and ticketing. The product consolidates POS systems, ERP, inventory control, and event management into a single cloud-native stack, serving customers from single-location retailers to large chains and leisure operators. The company operates as an independent, owner-led business and markets KORONA internationally. Current project work centers on microservices architecture, API expansion, payment integrations, third-party ERP connectivity, and financial process digitalization.
COMBASE uses Java, Kotlin, Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack for core infrastructure, with CI/CD via Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, version control via Git/GitHub, and infrastructure-as-code via Terraform and Ansible.
Active projects include KORONA cloud backend microservices, headless POS system development (KORONA.pos Next), API expansion, third-party ERP integration, payment solution rollout, financial process digitalization, and controlling instruments development.
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