Pärnu Financial Conference held at August 27-28, financial managers and specialists gathered to spend two useful days listening to the necessary presentations and also finding new contacts. Uptime was present to share recommendations for choosing a development partner. Many new contacts were made, too for further cooperation.
This year, the Summertime flag was hoisted at Ojako Recreation Centre in Pärnu County, where more people had arrived from the Estonian offices for the Uptime summer days than ever before.
2020 is a different year, because even employees in the same office have seen each other much less often than usual. So, there was even more reason to come together and see those who have worked at home for a long time. The summer days took place as they have been for years – with beautiful sunny weather and plenty of people. Although there were more participants from Estonian offices than ever before, this time, unfortunately, Uptime’s Norwegian, Danish, Swiss and Polish offices could not participate due to travel restrictions.
Software developer Uptime expanded to Poland and invested in Polish software house JMMJ gaining major share.
JMMJ Software is established in 2008 and has a team with strong software development background, mostly focused on .NET and front-end development. JMMJ has two offices, one in the capital city Warsaw and the other in important regional and educational centre Lublin.
Alexela, Uptime’s long-term software development partner, has set a goal to become carbon neutral by 2030 at the latest. This means that the company will no longer emit additional carbon dioxide (CO2) after ten years. All customers can also contribute to this climate goal by reducing their carbon footprint by refuelling. Uptime helped to update Alexela’s fuel card transaction management software so that refuelling clients could donate part of their rebate to tree planting.
Uptime received the status of Microsoft’s Gold Partner for the twelfth time in a row this year and is the only one in Estonia that has been able to earn this recognition every year for so long.
This time, Uptime was awarded Gold Partner status in four areas: Application Development, Collaboration and Content, Messaging, and Datacenter.
As a Microsoft gold partner, Uptime has provided development services to several well-known and demanding customers, such as Äripäev, Alexela, G4S, ABB, EAS, Coop and others.
Last week, ITL convened a seminar where Uptime presented its export strategies and different approaches for entering new markets. More than 40 IT companies were listening to the three speakers.
Uptime has created a local team in each new market to better provide services for long-term customers. The local team knows the market best, understands the customers in their own country and can also provide them with substantive business support.
As the coronavirus emergency situation had kept us all in our home offices for several months, gradually everyone started to get bored and wanted a chance to get out of the room. To keep the spirit of the Uptime team fresh, we decided to get people out of the house following the 2+2 rule and sent them to explore Tallinn at the weekend. We created an orienteering application which guided users to the coordinates of various checkpoints at exciting places in both Tallinn’s city center and the Old Town.More
The crisis is a good time to accelerate changes that are already under way and pushes us to do things that could have been postponed in good times. This is forcing us to look for new outputs and goals, and to think about how to do better in the future. One way to do this is to join forces and develop business together. Consolidation has been going on in both the Estonian and European markets for some time, but the crisis could give it an even stronger impetus.
The coronavirus crisis that began with the coronavirus epidemic has affected all sectors of the economy – some more than others. The impact in the software development sector has certainly already been felt quite strongly, and its effect will intensify in the coming months. However, software companies are definitely most affected by customers’ uncertainty about making investments.
In Uptime, being a team lead is more than just IT project management. In addition to that, team lead also deals with people management and customer relation management. Such versatile work suited Aleksandr and so he came to Uptime. He currently works with both start-up clients and already established companies.
It needs to be familiar with their area of business and to understand what the client’s business model is more precisely – With each of them he needs to get to know their business and understand their business model.
Magazine “Tööstusest” (“About Industry”) reports on how ABB Eesti benefited from Uptime’s industrial software development experience. For Estonia, this is a pretty big solution.
ABB needed a project management tool to plan and manage the production process to support the operations of the manufacturing company. The production management system also needed to interact with other software used in the company, including accounting and financial software. Previously, traditional Excel was used. To reduce manual work and make production more efficient, Uptime helped to set project goals and developed a software solution that brought together all of the data and calculations in one system instead of many Excel tables.
