Initiative Mittelstand is a leading media platform that brings together over 170.000 decision makers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany. With the overall objective to inform and support SME's regarding innovative products and technologies, Initiative Mittelstand organizes numerous events and innovation awards. Within this year's Innovationspreis-IT Qitera was awarded among the leading solutions for knowledge management and search in SME companies.

By using Qitera Enterprise companies can empower teams to collaborate over the web and share knowledge by just a few clicks. Qitera helps employees to easily gather market-specific information and perform powerful searches within the company's knowledge base. Qitera Enterprise is delivered as a web service ("Search-as-a-Service"). So companies can set up Qitera within minutes and realize fundamental cost savings (no hardware or installation costs, support included).