Automation is not just a technology problem. That’s why Texobox exists.

It is well known that organisations that are data driven are more likely to succeed and to ride out waves of uncertainty and shocks. However, they only have insight into their own organisation and their own data, and that is only the first step. The natural next step is timely access to relevant data from their partners, peers and vendors, and from other relevant parties in their macroeconomic environment. With that access, imagine the resilience an organisation can achieve, and how it can secure its trajectory towards its goals.

Then why don’t organisations share data with each other, even when everyone agrees they should? The easy answer is technology: incompatible systems, missing APIs, formats nobody agreed on. That answer is almost always wrong. What’s missing is the arrangement around the data: who is allowed to ask for what, who decides, what the recipient may do with it, who is liable when something goes wrong, and how any of that is checked without a lawyer reading every request.

That’s the key challenge. It’s partly legal, partly organisational, partly cultural, partly commercial, and only then technical. And it has to work between parties who don’t report to each other, don’t fully trust each other, and often compete with each other.

What changed

For a long time, sharing data between organisations has been ad hoc, and sometimes even forced on parties who didn’t want it. Data is shared in various formats and in an incoherent way, which makes it difficult to achieve its full potential value. Connected products are one example: in many cases the buyer or lessee of a device doesn’t know what data it generates. The EU Data Act changed that. Since September 2025, users of smart devices and services (“connected products and related services” in the Act’s terms) have a legal right to access the data those devices generate and to have it shared with third parties of their choice. Since 12 September 2026, new smart devices have to be designed so that this data is accessible by default.

At the same time, sectors have been organising themselves: shared rulebooks and infrastructure that let many organisations exchange data under common terms, through associations, industry bodies, community systems and, increasingly, data spaces. Both groups are working on the same underlying problem. They need different kinds of help.

Underneath both sits one question: can an organisation still decide what happens to its data once it’s shared? Data spaces are one of the strongest answers to that question, and they’re where most of our work is today. They’re a means, though, not the goal.

Two ways we help

Organisations that want to become data driven, especially across their value chains with upstream and downstream parties, to gain efficiency in their processes and potentially automate them, need judgement and guidance. They may be setting up a data space, deciding whether and how to join one, or designing an architecture that has to hold up against regulation, standards and competitors’ interests at once. For them, Texobox offers consulting on digital transformation, data sharing and data spaces: data driven transformation, data (sharing) strategy, data space governance and business strategy, architecture and solution design, and, where needed, the software development that turns a design into something running.

Other organisations need something that works. They make smart devices or run the services around them, or simply want to become data driven, and what they need is a reliable way to meet their Data Act obligations without building it all themselves. For them, Texobox builds products, starting with DataSovi (external site, opens in a new tab), that package the same expertise into something you can deploy rather than design.

The two lines feed each other. The patterns we see repeat in consulting work become product. The product keeps our advice honest, because we have to build and run what we recommend.