Uptime teams meet every winter, in addition to other activities, on a two-day ‘winter days’ retreat, bringing together people from both Tallinn, Tartu, Norway and Denmark at the beginning of the year. Software development involves teamwork, but this event allows us to get together also with others we may not see during the year.
Every day we can read news about modern phones, speakers, headphones, or washing machines that allegedly contain artificial intelligence (AI). Do we really have thinking machines already? And if not, what does AI actually mean? Raimo Seero, Chief Technology Officer of Uptime, published a thorough overview in the daily newspaper Eesti Päevaleht (in Estonian) in December, explaining how developers see the software that is referred to as artificial intelligence.
IT developer´s work may look like just sitting behind the computer, but in fact it’s exciting and something interesting happens every workday. 12th grade student of Suure-Jaani High School Taavi Lipp was following the work of the Uptime developers Siim and Liis.
Our Danish company Uptime Development A/S received a Gazelle 2018 company award from business newspaper Børsen – and it is 3rd consecutive year from now.
Software development company Uptime, which operates in Estonia, Norway, Switzerland and Macedonia, invested on the Danish market by acquiring 51% stake in West Soft Development A / S at the beginning of July 2018.
The main results of joining the forces are investments for expanding the company in region and better service for clients with more resources.
Like every summer, before the big holiday season, we once again met the results of the past year and looked at our customers how they were satisfied with the services of Uptime.
The results were good in the previous survey and customers are largely satisfied with our work, but it does not mean that in the meantime, we are not looking for ways to further improve ourselves.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the Swiss Estonian Association wanted to donate to Switzerland a hundred nest boxes to protect endangered bird species. An idea was introduced by the video and also appeared on Estonian Television and in the news media. Uptime was the main sponsor of the event.
Over the past 8 months, Äripäev (part of Bonnier Group in Estonia, business daily and news services) has developed a new methodology for sending up e-mails in partnership with the software development partner Uptime. This would take greater account of the interests of the readers and send them fewer, but better-quality, interest-based emails.
In search of IT specialists, talent must be recognized – You have to find those who are already able to „jump and lay a basketball from top to score“, but how to do it and how to recognize a talent? Uptime CTO Raimo Seero and marketing specialist Kaido Einama wrote about it in the March issue of the magazine „Director“.
On February 14th, we organized the Uptime Challenge during the Information Technology Days of the University of Tartu and anyone who wanted could try to solve some challenging programming tasks.
Uptime Challenge participants had to solve some programming tasks with best code and among the best programmers, we drew out two awards: Samsung’s 500GB SSD and weekly stock of pizza.
