Andreas has many years of management experience as CEO of high-tech, medical technology and industrial groups. He also knows ERNI as a member of the Board of Directors for several years.
Christoph leaves the company and accepts a new challenge: He becomes a member of the Swisscom Executive Board and thus climbs the career ladder. Christoph will take up his new position on 1 February 2019 and will continue to work for ERNI until he leaves the company. His exact tasks will be clarified in the near future in close dialogue with Andreas.
“I am happy that this opportunity has arisen for Christoph and that he can pursue this career path,” says Daniel Erni, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ERNI Global. At the same time, he notes: “Last year we initiated the new direction at ERNI, which we are now consistently continuing with Andreas as an experienced leader.”
On behalf of the Board of Directors, he thanks Christoph and wishes him and Andreas every success in their future challenges.
NewsROOM
- How to keep morale high in the home office
- Senior Masterpiece: Helping the customer to build the right product
- Techletter: IoT vs. IIoT
- #buzz-words: NewWork, Agile and Digital Transformation
- It’s the customer’s journey, yet you’re the one who needs the map
- How to overcome the remote tiredness syndrome
- My first year at ERNI: Georgi Stoev
- Book summary: Drive
- How to keep team morale on a high level during remote work
- First month at ERNI: Michal Piskozub
Personnel changes at ERNI
Andreas Gisler becomes CEO of the ERNI Group with immediate effect. He also remains Delegate of the Board of Directors of ERNI Global and thus responsible for the operational management of the company with the three divisions ERNI, SEI and People Business.
News from ERNI
In our newsroom, you find all our articles, blogs and series entries in one place.
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05.05.2021.Newsroom
How to keep morale high in the home office
A year has passed now since the start of remote work at ERNI in regard to the corona outbreak. How has the everyday working life changed and how do we tackle the related challenges? Today Joel Sommer from our Zurich site shares his tips for an efficient home office practice. -
28.04.2021.Newsroom
Senior Masterpiece: Helping the customer to build the right product
Every year, the number of companies which are involving end users in the earliest stages of software development to gather and incorporate feedback as soon as possible rises. But there are still plenty of companies which are getting in touch with the end user only after the entire product is released and ready to be used for the first time. -
21.04.2021.Newsroom
Techletter: IoT vs. IIoT
The IoT world is a big world that everybody is talking about. IoT products nowadays come in different forms –some are labelled as IoT, but in fact they represent only a small portion of what an IoT product really entails. A fully fledged IoT project not only requires programming and hardware expertise but also expertise on a broad range of domains from energy to smart home and even automotive. -
15.04.2021.Newsroom
#buzz-words: NewWork, Agile and Digital Transformation
The business world is influenced by trendy buzzwords, often tagged with the hashtag #. In this article I am taking a deeper look at three of those that are related to the current work setting: NewWork, Agile and Digital Transformation. -
12.04.2021.Newsroom
It’s the customer’s journey, yet you’re the one who needs the map
Travelling can be chaotic, so count yourself lucky if you have a map. It’s essentially the same for the customer journey, with one small difference – it’s not the travellers who need a map. -
22.03.2021.Newsroom
How to overcome the remote tiredness syndrome
With the ongoing home-office situation more and more people are getting tired of remote settings; be it business meetings, virtual networking events, team (building) sessions, virtual coffee breaks, live streams, and so on. Based on our experience from the Service Agile Transformation and DevOps, here are our four favourite tips on how to overcome the “remote setting tiredness syndrome”. -
17.03.2021.Newsroom
My first year at ERNI: Georgi Stoev
We are continuing our series on experiences of newjoiners at ERNI. Now, Georgi, our colleague from ERNI Germany speaks about his first year at the company. -
11.03.2021.Newsroom
Book summary: Drive
Have you ever found yourself thinking about what drives us as people and keeps us motivated? Today, our colleague Barbara Schiller from ERNI Germany tells us about a book that changed her perspectives – Drive by Daniel H. Pink. Read the book summary. -
03.03.2021.Newsroom
How to keep team morale on a high level during remote work
How to keep team morale on a high level during remote work? That was the question I asked myself as a Scrum Master after the situation Covid-19 forced the teams to work from home. -
01.03.2021.Newsroom
First month at ERNI: Michal Piskozub
Michal Piskozub joined ERNI Germany in January. He is part of the new team in Schorndorf and works as a Test Engineer. Read about his experience during the first month at the company. -
19.02.2021.Newsroom
Digital Maturity Fitness Check: Seeing the entire forest and not every single tree
Where do banks and insurance companies stand in the digital change? Where do they want to go and how is this to be achieved? For the purpose of situation assessment, ERNI has developed the Digital Maturity Fitness Check. -
15.02.2021.Newsroom
Leonard Cheong: My first month at ERNI
A month since Leonard started his journey at ERNI on 4 Jan 2021, he would love to share his discoveries with regards to ERNI. Some nuggets of information using the 10P’s for Business model that Leonard has created back in 2019, over a period of time he mentions here. -
10.02.2021.Newsroom
My first month at ERNI: Florian Benzler
“Erni? Like Erni and Bert? No ERNI! So, my family and friends didn’t just react once when I talked about my new job”, says Florian Benzler. Here is his experience during the first month at the company. -
28.01.2021.Newsroom
Adding visibility to work with Kanban: How to do it right
With Kanban, the flow of tasks is being visualised. That is the basic perception people have about it. But Kanban can be also much more. Most of the users however do not know all the possibilities it offers. The basic use of Kanban is the tracking and overview of open tasks. Yet, as an experience, Kanban is often set up and drafted but then in the end not developing further. It is there, defined, but not really used.
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25.01.2021.Newsroom
Book summary: Midnight library
We have many active communities at ERNI that make up our global team spirit. At ERNI Romania, the book club recently red and talked about the Midnight library. Find out what the members have to say about this book. -
19.01.2021.Newsroom
Agile best practice series: Backlog Refinement
Backlog Refinement – formerly known as backlog grooming – is one of the meetings practiced in Scrum. It is a regular meeting where the Product Owner and the Development Team add detail, estimates and order to items in the Product Backlog. Read about what our expert Joffrey Zehnder has to say about his experience and best practices. -
14.01.2021.Newsroom
Techletter: Serverless Architectures – a trending alternative in a fast-paced world
Nowadays, in a more digitised era, there is an increasing need to develop new applications faster and faster. Things are moving quickly and so is the demand for shorter time-to-market with lower costs. Serverless Architecture is a relatively new and rising approach that promises just that. We will explore the characteristics and benefits of Serverless Architectures to see how this can be an option worth considering the next time we go to choose our technology stack. -
13.01.2021.Newsroom
My first 2 weeks at ERNI
Leonard Cheong joined ERNI Singapore on 4 January this year as Managing Director. After his first 2 weeks, he describes his impressions and his onboarding process. -
05.01.2021.Newsroom
How digitalization is changing the banking sector
Technology has always been important in banking, as the long history of e-banking shows. But today, technological progress, changing customer behavior and the entry of new competitors have led financial institutions to intensively address the issue of digitalisation and the associated opportunities and risks. Our guest author Prof. Dr. Andreas Dietrich points out some of these developments. -
16.12.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: Excellence Wins
Pavo Kohler joined ERNI in May 2016. In this interview, he summarises the book by Horst Schulze, Excellence Wins. -
15.12.2020.Newsroom
Cashless future?
Mobile payment is growing rapidly. The proportion of contactless card payments in Switzerland has more than doubled in the last 12 months, while cash withdrawals from ATMs are declining. Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, payments have also been increasingly made by using mobile phones and Smartwatches. In a highly competitive environment, the brand profile of the providers is crucial. -
14.12.2020.Newsroom
Digital transformation as an adaptive approach to an ever-changing environment
It has become obvious that being ready for a digital change has become one of the biggest challenges tech companies face nowadays and ERNI, as an IT services provider, will certainly be a part of it. -
11.12.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: Sapiens
Evert Smit joined ERNI in September 2018. Currently Principal Consultant, Evert is responsible for topics like Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation and Data Intelligence. In this interview, he summarises the bestselling book by Juval Noah Harari, Sapiens. He will also speak about how this book influenced him in his sales and leadership role. -
09.12.2020.Newsroom
Values as the driving force
Six ERNIans from the Spanish Agile Community attended the Agile in the New Normal event, allowing us to learn about recent tendencies, meet some new agilists and bring more knowledge to the Community and to ERNI. We enjoyed various keynotes related to Agile and how different companies are adapting to the ‘new normal’. Keep reading to find out more about this event. -
08.12.2020.Newsroom
Targeted design and creation of strong brand experiences
Brand experience design aims to form strong experiences for users. This consists of much more than just a good logo and a snappy tagline. For a genuine experience the spirit of the company must be captured and transmitted through all touchpoints. -
04.12.2020.Newsroom
Concatenating data
Distributed Ledger Technology or “Blockchain“ is also considered a game-changer in the financial services sector. Is it just hype or are there already useful applications in banks and insurance companies? -
26.11.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: Failosophy
In the recent episode of the Book summary series our colleague Nikol Laschan speaks about her book tip Failosophy. Find out more about the art of failure. -
20.11.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: Antifragile – Things That Gain From Disorder
Today’s agile book summary comes from our Principal Consultant Patrick Wilhelm. What does Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder say to its readers? How can it navigate you especially in times of insecurity like the ones we live in now? -
12.11.2020.Newsroom
The scattershot approach has outlived its usefulness
The number of digital touchpoints between consumers and brands continues to grow. For successful communication, they must be specifically selected and managed. The strategic and systematic management of all contact points between the person and the brand is crucial for success and presents companies and agencies alike with a number of challenges. -
11.11.2020.Newsroom
The virtual temporary colleague
Robotic Process Automation, or RPA for short, has raised many hopes in recent years and caused a stir in the financial services industry. What can this technology do and what can it not do? Sandra Bruderer and Remo Rambaldi, Senior Consultants at ERNI, recommend a well-considered use of software robots. -
06.11.2020.Newsroom
Case study: How Agile are you?
For a leading developer and manufacturer of injection and infusion systems for self-medication and a renowned diabetes specialist we performed an Agile Fitness Check. Learn more about what the customer gained. -
04.11.2020.Newsroom
Disruptive trends: How to fend off value vampires successfully
Michael R. Wade had probably just seen the film classic Dracula or the horror flick Eclipse when he coined the term “Value Vampire“ in connection with the digital disruption of our days. The professor for innovation and strategy at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, uses it to describe young companies that are destroying existing business models without mercy: “They offer their products or services extremely cheap or even free of charge and thus suck out the profit pool, which leads to shrinking market shares for the established providers.“ At the same time, these startups also convinced consumers with a better customer experience and innovative services. -
02.11.2020.Newsroom
Agile best practice series: Sprint planning
In this episode of our series about Agile best practices, we focus on sprint planning as the first of the Scrum ceremonies. Joffrey Zehnder and Zuzana Gočová explain what they have encountered in their work as Agile coaches, including the pitfalls they frequently experience and how to avoid them. -
29.10.2020.Newsroom
Techletter: Scaling Cross-Platform Mobile Development using Flutter
Cross-platform mobile development surpasses the limitations of native mobile development. You only need one team that can develop apps for both Android and iOS, instead of having two teams that develop apps on each platform separately. Since its release two years ago, Flutter has been used by developers as one of their go-to cross-platform mobile development framework. -
27.10.2020.Newsroom
Numerous advantages of outsourcing, but …
Make or buy? Do-it-yourself or outsourcing? Every company today is challenged to put itself, its services, its organisation and its costs to the test bench again and again. At the latest, this raises the question of what belongs to one’s own core competencies and what does not? And this is followed by the question of whether it is advantageous to outsource certain processes or areas. However, this decision can be quite complex and is not so easy to make. -
26.10.2020.Newsroom
Long Dailies on a blended or fully remote environment?
Are your Scrum Daily meetings lasting more than 15 minutes? Are you achieving Dailies’ goals? -
19.10.2020.Newsroom
Agile Best Practice Series: Retrospective
Patrik Opát joined ERNI in April 2019. With his previous experience as Scrum Master, IT Business Analyst and IT Consultant, he became Service Unit Leader of Scrum Masters and Product Owners on our Bratislava, Slovakia site later in January 2020. Patrik follows his motivation of helping people improving their work life through coaching, guidance, process improvements and removing impendments. -
16.10.2020.Newsroom
Outsourcing in software development: What is suitable for it?
The reasons for outsourcing are actually always the same: Lack of in-house expertise – i.e. too few or not the right employees on the one hand – and concentration on the core business on the other. Often there is also a lack of internal resources for the implantation of new technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence or virtual reality. -
14.10.2020.Newsroom
Big data meets idea
Simply capturing data doesn’t automatically make for good customer relations. The desired effect is only achieved when you have the right idea to match. -
13.10.2020.Newsroom
External Interferences? Doubts about roles & duties? Scrum Master, please, keep things clear!
Are people outside the team assigning directly tasks to the scrum team members? Is the team clear about what they are expected to do? -
08.10.2020.Newsroom
From the daily life of an Agile Coach
Christine Salzeller has been with ERNI since 2017. In 2013, at her previous job, she first came in contact with Agile and Scrum, which she got to know as an alternative to the classical waterfall model. She took over the role of a Scrum Master at ERNI in April 2019 and currently coaches three teams. In this interview, Christine tells us what a typical day of an Agile coach looks like. -
07.10.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: This is Lean
Today’s agile book summary comes from our Agile Coach Christian Glück. Read about why he thinks the book This is Lean from Niklas Modig and Pär Åhlström is the best he has read so far. -
05.10.2020.Newsroom
Forge long-term relations with consumers
Brands must act successfully throughout the entire customer journey. And this doesn’t end once a successful purchase has been made. -
01.10.2020.Newsroom
Agile Best Practice Series: Dailies
Have you ever wondered what makes an Agile practice run smoothly? The factors are described widely. From daily life, you can point out habits that make the difference and are worth following. In this series, our Agile expert Joffrey Zehnder reveals what he has learned throughout his years of working as an Agile Coach. -
29.09.2020.Newsroom
How customers perceive their contact with the brand
In our digital day and age companies can only be successful if they see things from the customer’s point of view and create a better customer experience. -
28.09.2020.Newsroom
Book summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Tanja Neuenschwander joined ERNI in September 2018. Currently, she is a Professional Consultant and a Product Owner of an agile team. She has been practicing agile for more than 10 years now in several different roles. She used to be a software developer and is now more focused on the business side of agile environments. Today, she introduces a book dealing with agile teamwork called The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. -
23.09.2020.Newsroom
Outcome-based collaboration: A customer’s voice
What does an outcome-based collaboration require from the customer? What do you have to prepare yourself for when considering switching to this kind of setup? Someone who can tell the best is one of our customers who introduced this model into their organisation. We talked to the Sourcing Manager at the customer about his view and experience. -
23.09.2020.Newsroom
Boosting inspection and adaptation on virtual retrospectives
Are you facing collaboration and tracking challenges on virtual retrospectives? Find tooling tips about how to boost your feedback loops. -
17.09.2020.Newsroom
Case study: From time and material to the outcome-based collaboration
Our customer in the telecommunications area requested more efficiency in the service delivery alongside raising quality. Is it possible to reach these seemingly contradictory aspects? Yes. We proposed to switch from the time and material model to an outcome-based collaboration. Read more about how the realisation worked out and what it meant for the customer. -
14.09.2020.Newsroom
The customer’s trek through the world of brands
Nowadays someone’s decision to buy is no longer a single, impulsive act but usually the culmination of many steps taken before the final selection is made. -
10.09.2020.Newsroom
Outcome-based collaboration: evaluation according to performance
If the maturity with the customer allows it, an outcome-based collaboration is an effective way for both the customer and the service provider. In this article, we talk about what outcome-based cooperation is based on and what benefits it can bring to all parties. -
08.09.2020.Newsroom
Four Digitalists Part 04 – Digitalizing traditions
In our new four-part interview series about Digital Business Consulting, we want to give you some insights into the daily work of our experts. We talked to four of them about their recent projects, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them to create the most value for our customers. In the last interview of this series, Patrick Wilhelm talks about how he and his team helped a company, which is rich in tradition, to move into the 21st century. He is active as a Principal Consultant for the Swiss market unit and is globally responsible for the Innovation and Digital Business Consulting services. -
03.09.2020.Newsroom
Four Digitalists Part 03 – Change is the only certainty
In our new four-part interview series about Digital Business Consulting, we want to give you some insights into the daily work of our experts. We talked to four of them about their recent projects, the challenges they faced, and how they overcame them to create the most value for our customers. In the third interview of this series, Evert Smit talks about consulting on bringing a state organisation to a more state-to-the-art IT system and helping them keep their image of an innovation company. Evert is a Principal Consultant with long-year expertise on topics like Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation and Data Intelligence. -
02.09.2020.Newsroom
Case study: Strategy & Business Model Workshops
An association of architects and engineers in charge of overall norms and directives in the construction area needed to respond to the changing requirements of their end customers on interaction and exchange. -
25.08.2020.Newsroom
Brand potential in the B2B sector
B2B companies need strong brands in order to lend an emotional power of distinction to rational arguments. Strong brands help companies to assert themselves in competitive markets. -
17.08.2020.Newsroom
Case study: Development of a data strategy
Our customer in the transportation area reached out to us to bring along the initialisation of a data strategy in the area of human resources and recruiting. -
12.08.2020.Newsroom
Four Digitalists Part 02 – Connecting two perspectives
In our new four-part interview series about Digital Business Consulting, we want to give you some insights into the daily work of our experts. We talked to four of them about their recent projects, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them to create the most value for our customers. -
05.08.2020.Newsroom
Digital brands: Today’s customers want a convincing experience
Brands today have a very different role to play compared to just a few years ago. Customers expect them to understand their needs perfectly and to act accordingly. -
29.07.2020.Newsroom
3 participant voices from the IoT World Congress
The IoT World Congress is the largest IoT event in the world, dedicated to helping increase productivity via disruptive technology. The ERNI engineers who attended the congress summarise their opinions and concerns regarding IoT deployment and development over the next few years. -
20.07.2020.Newsroom
Case study: Development of a long-year strategy for the IT department
A customer of ours in the area of science-based innovation asked us to develop a 5-year strategy for their IT department. This is how we took on the challenge. -
16.07.2020.Newsroom
Four Digitalists Part 01 – A new data strategy in just three months
In our new four-part interview series about Digital Business Consulting, we want to give you some insights into the daily work of our experts. We talked to four of them about their recent projects, the challenges they faced and how they overcame them to create the most value for our customers. In the first interview of this series, Nicolas Neuwirth talks about how he and his team initiated a new data strategy in just 3 months. He’s a Zürich resident and a Junior Consultant at ERNI with a master’s degree in business innovation at the university of St. Gallen. -
07.07.2020.Newsroom
Are you ready for a DevOps organisation?
There are many companies that struggle with the transformation into a DevOps organisation. In general, it is challenging to organise a bigger group of people. On a company level this is even harder and the stakes are higher. Again, there are companies that can guide you on the way as a trusted partner. -
02.07.2020.Newsroom
Techletter: How to choose the right approach to develop a mobile app
There are four technological approaches for the development of a mobile app: Native, Cross-platform, Hybrid and PWA. Which option to choose depends on many factors. ERNI has now developed a questionnaire that supports you in this important decision: the AppType Chooser. -
30.06.2020.Newsroom
Building a strong brand
Strong brands ensure long-term customer loyalty to a company and create turnover and growth. They are present in the minds of potential customers, are seen in a positive light and enjoy a sense of trust. -
24.06.2020.Newsroom
Case study: Digitalisation of tool-based cooperation in the area of project engineering
One of our biggest customers in the transportation area approached us with a request to establish a programme for digitalisation of processes in the area of project engineering. -
17.06.2020.Newsroom
5G Barcelona: A digital innovation centre
An interview with Dr Sergi Figuerola, Founder and CTO of the 5G Barcelona Alliance. -
10.06.2020.Newsroom
Health insurance providers: Apps on prescription
The manufacturers of health apps have not had an easy time in recent years. The e-health market is not only fiercely competitive, but is also fraught with numerous legal hurdles. -
03.06.2020.Newsroom
Competitive edge through design
When we speak of design, we usually mean something’s visual appearance. Design is much more than this, however. -
21.05.2020.Newsroom
Digital Twins – technology with high potential
Today, more and more companies – from the manufacturing sector to the engineering industry – are starting to use such technology to optimise products, refine processes and predict possible failures. -
19.05.2020.Newsroom
How IoT gets integrated into the field of sports
IoT has been changing the mindset of the entire sports industry for years now. The IoT market does have an upward trend and the top leagues and teams will be a significant part of it. IoT can not only provide useful data when developing one’s performance but also influence the team strategies, boost fan experience, and help referees make the game fairer. ERNI engineers and keen sports enthusiasts Robert Cluet and Toni de la Torre discussed the key areas that the sports industry focuses on nowadays and offered their opinions from multiple perspectives. -
13.05.2020.Newsroom
In every design aspect there is the potential to touch the people
At the very beginning, we find the most important question. What does a brand stand for? And where is the brand heading to? People are irrational and so are their choices. This reflects itself in many decisions they make. While that’s perfectly fine in private life, it can be challenging for a company. In each brand, each company and in every design aspect there is the potential to touch the people around. And a strong brand and appealing design generate business value. You can control and optimise the emotions of your brand based on data. -
12.05.2020.Newsroom
Brand experience design – strengthen brands long-term
Only when a brand impresses the consumer, stands out from the competition, enthuses, captivates and surprises is the consumer prepared to buy, change supplier or try something new. This is exactly what brand experience design aims to do. -
12.05.2020.Newsroom
What is the Internet of Medical Things?
Healthcare is facing numerous challenges. As our population ages and the cost of care increases, the healthcare industry must find innovative ways to solve operational, clinical, and financial challenges. Technology allows these devices to generate, collect, analyse and transmit data, creating the Internet of Medical Things: a connected infrastructure of health systems and services. -
05.05.2020.Newsroom
Home alone? Boost Virtual Coffees!
We all know it, Covid-19 killed human interactions. But there are two different contexts our ERNIans are living nowadays -
04.05.2020.Newsroom
Three Agilists Part 02
In our second episode of the interviews with three Agile experts at ERNI, we deal with the transformation to agile itself. What does it bring along and are there any tips for doing it right? What pitfalls are there? -
29.04.2020.Newsroom
ERNI helps you in your efforts to make the most out of your customer interactions
If your company is able to deliver a positive experience for your customers, it not only raises their willingness to buy but also their loyalty to your brand. To find out, if your company is able to do so, you can start by taking an unbiased look through your customer’s eyes. Would you be happy with the experience? -
27.04.2020.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI: Virtual Coffee Break
At ERNI Germany we as a team want to stay connected throughout the Corona crisis. -
27.04.2020.Newsroom
Scrum: What Scrum is and why should you choose it?
There are plenty of project management methodologies, so what makes Scrum so special and how can we compare it to traditional project management frameworks? -
27.04.2020.Newsroom
Three Agilists Part 1
Agile is functioning well, remotely just as good as in person which is especially important in the time of the Corona crisis now. Having expertise with working in distributed teams, our experts Christian Glück, Tanja Neuenschwander and Joffrey Zehnder answer some of the principal questions about the methodology in our series of 2 episodes. -
20.04.2020.Newsroom
Creative design thinking done remotely
Design thinking, Lean and Agile are mainly based on in-person workshops, yet the reality of most teams is that they are global and thus not able to meet in person on an every-day basis. -
20.04.2020.Newsroom
Killed by Overreporting? How to recover trust.
Are you killed by overreporting? Are you overloaded with meetings, reports? -
17.04.2020.Newsroom
Case study: Problem-solving with creativity – at a distance
Due to the recent pandemic situation worldwide, we did our first fully remote design thinking and innovation workshop for a customer in Switzerland. The prospects are that this will ongoingly be a remote design thinking process also for the future. -
14.04.2020.Newsroom
Hospitals in the digital world
Electronic records, faster and more precise diagnostics, new technologies helping people get better. There is no doubt that the future of hospitals is digital. -
07.04.2020.Newsroom
Remote Onboarding
Welcoming a new employee in times of Corona and home office: Sandra Hohl started on 1 April 2020 as a Junior UX Engineer / Consultant and gives us an insight into how she experienced her remote onboarding process. -
02.04.2020.Newsroom
Digital Business Transformation: Are you ready for it?
Working from home offices, ordering food from online shops, telemedicine via video – the global corona crisis has brought digital business models into the daily life of many people in record time. The current crisis shows us how important digital business models are these days. -
31.03.2020.Newsroom
The disruptive situation of today: What next?
These days we are confronted with a crisis of unprecedented proportions. Within a very short period of time, many social norms have been turned upside down, and we have to cope with challenges in our everyday lives that we have hardly known before. -
30.03.2020.Newsroom
How to work in distributed teams
Simply asking your colleagues something across the desk is less of a hurdle than writing an email and then waiting a long time for an answer. But even if a team member is on the other side of the world, you can still work efficiently. Learn some basics on how to keep the distance short despite the actual distance. -
25.03.2020.Newsroom
Digital Business Transformation: Holistic process
“He who does not move with the times, will be removed over time.” What the German poet, philosopher and playwright Friedrich Schiller prophesied more than 200 years ago on the subject of progress is also true today for the digital transformation. -
18.03.2020.Newsroom
Distributed teams are taking over
Within the current situation related to measurements in regard to the Covid-19, remote work is becoming a crucial part of business continuity. What are the factors influencing its effectiveness? As a partner with experience in working with geographically dispersed teams we know the key factors to focus on. -
16.03.2020.Newsroom
My first months at ERNI: Christian Bösiger, Remo Grossen and Stanley Lam
Almost four months after their start at ERNI, the fresh colleagues summarise their impressions. -
13.03.2020.Newsroom
Digital Business Transformation: Coming to stay
Digital Business Transformation is an umbrella term that is made up of many individual elements – which can include, for example, the digitalization of internal processes, customer experiences or business models. This is what makes the topic so complicated. -
11.03.2020.Newsroom
Sharing office breakfast with the homeless ones
At ERNI Slovakia, we have a nice habit of having Breakfast at the office bi-monthly. -
09.03.2020.Newsroom
ERNI Snow ‘nd Fun 2020
ERNI «Snow ‘nd Fun» started at the beginning of 2000 under the name «Snow Xtreme» organised by a former colleague. Typically two to four hard guys attended this event on the first Friday of March in Engelberg. Nothing but powder snow they were looking for. -
09.03.2020.Newsroom
Machine Learning: How things learn to think
Artificial intelligence is conquering the business world. But how do you actually teach devices to think for themselves? ERNI developer Marek Linka explains. -
05.03.2020.Newsroom
First ERNI Development Day of 2020 in Switzerland
The first ERNI Development Day of 2020 was the first EDD I was attending just as an attendee since I joined the organisation team about two and a half years ago. -
02.03.2020.Newsroom
Machine Learning: Intelligent recording of chassis numbers
How artificial intelligence and machine learning can make everyday work in the automotive aftermarket easier. -
27.02.2020.Newsroom
Techletter: Serving you with a slice architecture in a project template
Building software has never been this painless before. We now have powerful tools at our disposal such as version controls, greatly improved IDEs, the cloud, and many more. As these instruments enable us to build complex applications, the intricateness of the software architecture in our applications also evolves along the way. -
24.02.2020.Newsroom
My first months at ERNI: Adina Dragos, ERNI Romania
It’s been exactly 6 months since I joined ERNI and my journey so far has been amazing. -
21.02.2020.Newsroom
Women who hack the network in Zurich again
It’s WomenHack at Facebook in Zurich. Again, our energetic ERNI Recruiting Team was participating at the beloved speed dating event. -
20.02.2020.Newsroom
Software development in Europe: Healthcare faces many challenges
In the European healthcare industry, software solutions are needed that are specially tailored to the respective care landscape in each country and can be rolled out nationwide. -
18.02.2020.Newsroom
New ERNI collaboration with Babes Bolyai University in Cluj
In ERNI Romania we started a long-term collaboration with Babes Bolyai, one of the main universities in Cluj Napoca, with over 3,500 graduates each year in Mathematics and Informatics. -
17.02.2020.Newsroom
My first year at ERNI Series: Teodor Vasile
Teodor Vasile joined ERNI at its site in Munich in 2019 working as a Professional Consultant in the area of MedTech. How did he spend his first year at the company? Read the following lines and find out yourself. We are happy to have you on board, Doru! -
11.02.2020.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI: The Blue Pen
What does the Blue Pen that has been in use at ERNI for years mean? Is there any philosophy behind it? Daniel Hartmeier as a long-year employee tells us. -
06.02.2020.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI: Lunch at 11 on our Bratislava site
Further within our Typical at ERNI Series, our colleague Braňo Pavelka from ERNI Slovakia explains why people on this site are used to have lunch at 11. -
05.02.2020.Newsroom
What is artificial intelligence allowed to do – and what not?
The fear that the machine will make people superfluous or even dominate them is old. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), these and other fears are more relevant than ever. For this reason, ethics is increasingly being discussed in this context. -
28.01.2020.Newsroom
Are small and medium sized companies digital dinosaurs?
Compared to large companies, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are generally lagging behind in the digital transformation. -
13.01.2020.Newsroom
Health insurance providers: The winners of digitization in the health care system?
According to a study by management consultants Roland Berger, the market for digital products and services in the healthcare sector in Europe is progressing faster than previously assumed: By 2025, the European-wide market volume is expected to be around EUR 155 billion. According to the forecast, digital healthcare offerings will then account for around eight percent of total spending in the healthcare sector. -
08.01.2020.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI: Breakfast with Diamonds
At ERNI Spain, we have introduced a nice habit 3 years ago, which is called the Breakfast with Diamonds. -
30.12.2019.Newsroom
Software development in Europe: Financial services industry relies on Open Banking
New, flexible strategies and agile working methods are necessary to modernize the IT of the financial services industry in Europe. This also applies to software programming. -
23.12.2019.Newsroom
Values Series: Key to driving employee interest in a company
Having a compelling mission, culture and values are critical for attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive job market. -
20.12.2019.Newsroom
Year-End Party 2019 in the Philippines
After lots of challenges being encountered all throughout the year, ERNIans in the Philippines and Singapore celebrated its 2019 Year-end Party last December 06, 2019, which was held at Ace Hotel and Suites, a hotel near the EPH office. -
18.12.2019.Newsroom
Great things come in small packages
It has become a lovely tradition already that the ERNI Slovakia employees participate in helping children in orphanages, crisis centers, children in foster families, or children in need every year before Christmas. -
09.12.2019.Newsroom
Software development in Europe: There is a lack of programmers
Margrethe Vestager has many plans. As Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Digital Policy of the new EU Commission, she is responsible for digitisation for a few weeks now. In order to score points in global competition with the US and China, for example, she wants to set binding targets for the introduction of digital citizen services, as there is still “considerable catching up to be done” in most countries. The same applies to infrastructure. -
25.11.2019.Newsroom
Algorithm ethics wants to integrate morality into the software
Computer programs today are anything but error-free – and they can only ever make decisions as well and as ethically as the person who developed them. -
21.11.2019.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI: Life is nicer with karaoke
At ERNI Philippines – and generally, in the Philippines – we love karaoke. Life is smoother and happier with singing. -
14.11.2019.Newsroom
Typical at ERNI Series: Hack ‘n Hike
Today, we are starting a new series of articles dedicated to the typical things we have at ERNI. Let our colleagues tell you what is of habit in our company life. -
13.11.2019.
Newsroom
Techletter: Accessing Azure virtual networks securely using P2S VPN in non-interactive environments
With the industry-wide shift towards cloud computing, securing access to compute and data is becoming more important than ever. Unfortunately, strong security often limits ease of use. This is often felt within teams employing dev-ops practices like continuous integration and continuous deployment. -
13.11.2019.Newsroom
The ERNI Development Day in Spain
The EDD (ERNI Development Day) was the first ERNI event I attended after I joined the company 8 months ago, that’s why it is so special for me. I could get an impression about the authentic ERNI spirit here. -
11.11.2019.Newsroom
Social skills are key at ERNI – also in Asia
In the sense of “old ways don’t open new doors”, ERNI is putting emphasis on training and developing the communication skills of its employees. -
11.11.2019.Newsroom
IT Days 2019 this time also with ERNI
Attention! This year you will find us for the first time at the IT Days 2019 on 9-12 December in Frankfurt am Main. -
05.11.2019.Newsroom
ERNI opens office in the USA
Swiss Software Engineering goes West: ERNI now has its own office in the middle of New York’s Manhattan district. -
04.11.2019.Newsroom
Machine ethics seeks moral compass for robots & Co.
How should a self-driving car decide when an accident is inevitable? Who is allowed to suffer damage and who is not? An exciting question that machine ethics is dealing with. -
30.10.2019.Newsroom
Digital skills needed
At ERNI, we believe the digitalisation is important across industries. The healthcare is not exempt from this improvings. Listen to new ERNI Podcast and learn more. -
24.10.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The land of cheese, chocolate and noble values
In our Insider Tips Series, this time we chose to present one colleague who is Bernese – through and through. -
24.10.2019.Newsroom
Digital ethics is an economic factor
Soon, algorithms will decide in many areas, and not people. What role does ethics play in this? -
17.10.2019.Newsroom
Design Thinking – a quick overview
Often, we hear the buzzword “Design Thinking” but what does it really mean and what’s behind it? -
16.10.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: All the wonderful things that the country of Dracula has to offer
The next participant in Insider tips series is our ERNI Germany colleague “Doru” Vasile Teodor… -
16.10.2019.Newsroom
The Distributed Big Ball of Mud Meetup
On October 15, ERNI once again sponsored a meetup for software architects in Zurich, this time on the topic “The Distributed Big Ball of Mud”. -
14.10.2019.Newsroom
Meet our Recruiting Team on job fairs in Switzerland
After the exciting string of job fairs that our Recruiting team participated in during the first half of the year, we are going on now. -
11.10.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The pearl on the Red Sea Coast – Eritrea
Mulugheta Samuel (ERNI) – Agile Coach at ERNI Deutschland – came to Germany with the fall of the Berlin Wall end of 1989/beginning 1990. -
09.10.2019.Newsroom
The right partner for nearshoring and offshoring
If you have experienced nearshoring or offshoring, you already know that the choice of the right partner is crucial. -
01.10.2019.Newsroom
Techletter: IoT bears huge potential to improve life quality for the ageing population
The WHO (World Health Organization) published a comprehensive report on the trends, challenges and solutions for our ageing population. The report sheds light on many aspects we all globally will have to deal with at a point of time in our lives. -
30.09.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The jewels of Croatia
Tipura Ilija, Professional Consultant at ERNI Switzerland reveals some pieces of his background in this episode of our Diversity Series. -
26.09.2019.Newsroom
What innovation demands from leadership
Capabilities Leaders Need to Have to Ensure the Survival of Companies -
25.09.2019.Newsroom
Challenges of the healthcare industry
Which are the biggest challenges of the healthcare industry in 2019? -
19.09.2019.Newsroom
Plant trees. Save lives. ZOO Bratislava
How to combine teambuilding, fun and nature care in one? (Part 2) -
17.09.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The magic of India
Maneka Fahrer is Managing Director of Bloom Identity which – as of 2018 – is part of the ERNI Ecosystem… -
16.09.2019.Newsroom
New outsourcing records, but the disruption is coming
Outsourcing tasks, projects or services is not new. It is nothing more than a modern form of labour division. Companies concentrate on their core competencies and outsource other activities to appropriate specialists. For example, the entire IT operation, individual tasks such as security and telecommunications, certain business processes or software development. -
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12.09.2019.Newsroom
Health conferences 2019
Which are the health events no one in the industry should miss in autumn 2019? -
10.09.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: What you did not know about Kiel in Germany
Franziska Grohmann is our third candidate in our Diversity Series. She works as a Senior Consultant for ERNI Switzerland but originally comes from Northern Germany. -
06.09.2019.Newsroom
Digital hospitals
The iconic doctor with a leather suitcase, illegible handwriting and conservative views is being substituted by the first internet generation: the handwriting is still illegible, but it does not matter, as the tech-savvy millennials typewrite everything. -
05.09.2019.Newsroom
Dynamic capabilities in uncertain environments
We’re moving in a world that spins faster than it already does. New technologies are popping up that serve as enablers for the creation of new business models. -
03.09.2019.Newsroom
Numerous obstacles delay the AI boom
Highly praised by some – feared by others. Scepticism and concerns about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are not only expressed by many employees who worry about their jobs, but also companies see risks – especially when it comes to data security. -
28.08.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The unusual combinations of Turkey
Selim Akyol, Managing Director of the digital marketing agency NexMarket belonging to the ERNI Global has half Swiss and half Turkish roots. -
19.08.2019.Newsroom
A new era thanks to artificial intelligence
Will artificial intelligence have the same impact as the steam engine had? Find here our brief overview of possible potentials and application examples for AI and data science. -
09.08.2019.Newsroom
ERNI Social Project scholars completes IT Education training
ERNI scholars deeply express their gratitude to ERNI for opening up vast opportunities, and for igniting their interest in IT education. As the next step, the top three graduates will proceed with an internship at ERNI where they can further enhance their learnings and use their theoretical know-how to practical work. -
06.08.2019.Newsroom
Plastic fantastic: Smart manufacturing meets plastic research (A photostory)
Allow us to introduce you to the future of manufacturing. The fourth wave of industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, is already changing the world of manufacturing in many ways. Intelligent connection of all machines involved in the manufacturing process, automated data collection and analysis, autonomous decision making based on the current data from the environment – these are just some of the hot topics that manufacturers are talking about. -
01.08.2019.Newsroom
Insider Tips: The marvelous Netherlands through the lens of two Dutchmen
In the first episode of our Diversity Series we do not get tips from one person only… -
23.07.2019.Newsroom
Applying Agile to Machine Learning
Machine learning is research-intensive work with a more-than-usual amount of uncertainty that provides new challenges to an agile mindset. Furthermore, data scientists often have an academic background and have limited exposure working in a customer-focused engineering environment. -
08.07.2019.Newsroom
What makes a data scientist?
On 20th June 2019, at the ERNI Development Day taking place in Bern, Switzerland, a new Service was introduced by the name AI & Data Science. -
02.07.2019.Newsroom
One day at ERNI Barcelona with Lara
Have you ever wondered what a day at ERNI looks like? Watch the second video from our “One day at ERNI”. -
28.06.2019.Newsroom
A rendez-vous with Our City
After a year now, on 8 June, nine colleagues from ERNI Slovakia again participated in the “Our City” initiative (Naše Mesto) making Slovakian capital city Bratislava a better place to live. -
25.06.2019.Newsroom
Benefits of IoT
The benefits of IoT are many, but something that is common for most of them is cost reduction. Whether it is through better quality of products, fewer work-related accidents, or better tracking of shipments – the implementation of IoT typically brings in significant cost savings for a company. In our experience with clients, we’ve identified the following benefits: -
10.06.2019.Newsroom
Summer Outing: One Team. One Goal. One Better ERNI.
The Summer Outing/Team Building is an annual company event that every employee looks forward to. -
06.06.2019.Newsroom
Soňa Pochybová: If you have a vision, where you want to be, be sure to have a plan how to get there, and follow it.
Read this interesting interview with our colleague Soňa which was included in series Women in IT. -
22.05.2019.Newsroom
IT Fooscup 2019 – connecting the IT world with foosball
Already 5th year of IT Fooscup happened last week in Bratislava. This special event connects the world of IT with the favourite office activity – foosball. -
21.05.2019.Newsroom
Techletter: A plea for Test Automation
What kind of tests can be automated and why is test automation an essential part of the development process? With the Information Technology industry developing more and more and becoming one of the core industries in society, the need for having the best and most reliable product is irrefutable. -
15.05.2019.Newsroom
Intelligent Apps: A new man’s best friend
At ERNI, we strongly believe in the benefits of intelligent apps. Currently, we are developing the “Intelligent Meeting Room”, where members of the meeting are recognised by a camera. Listen to ERNI Podcast and learn more. -
13.05.2019.Newsroom
Java is still free
Oracle. A company that holds the license to Java. Java. One of the most popular programming languages, according to Octoverse. Oracle Java. An implementation of the Java language which costs money. Are you using Oracle Java? Are you paying the Oracle license fee? Continue to read if you want to find out what other options there are for using Java, like not to pay. -
10.05.2019.Newsroom
Swiss banks outsource more and more services
The new study of the “Institute of Financial Services Zug (IFZ)” of the University of Lucerne states that Swiss banks outsource more services than ever. The outsourcing volume of Swiss retail banks alone is estimated at CHF 2.2 billion. An estimated CHF 1.75 billion (80%) of this is accounted for by IT services. -
03.05.2019.Newsroom
Even in Augmented Reality, your mindset will set the tone of innovation
Augmented reality has been a part of “the real reality” for a while now. It is predicted that AR would reach its peak in 2019. Do you agree? Listen to ERNI Podcast and learn more. -
03.05.2019.Newsroom
SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) course for soon to be internal SAFe Agilists
On 8-9 April in the premises of our Zurich office, our 18 ERNI colleagues went through a Leading SAFe course. This prepared the participants for the SAFe Agilist certification that they are entitled to take afterwards. -
30.04.2019.Newsroom
Slices vs. Layers
The n-tier or layered architecture is one of the most known and used concepts in enterprise development. -
30.04.2019.Newsroom
ERNI opens its new office in the centre of Zurich
Welcome to our new home: You can find the ERNI office in Zurich now at Löwenstrasse 11, only a few minutes’ walk from the main train station. -
19.04.2019.Newsroom
Social Project: ERNI Team Surprise Visit
Last month the EPH Social Project Core Group team paid a surprise visit to the ERNI 15 scholarship students. -
17.04.2019.Newsroom
Joseph Cadag: One day at ERNI Philippines
Have you ever wondered what a day at ERNI looks like? We are starting a new video series about our colleagues and their working day. -
17.04.2019.Newsroom
Unit Economics and Features
Unit economics, a term from business meaning the fundamental minimum piece of your business that you can measure to understand where your revenue comes from, helps companies stay in control of their return of investments (ROIs). -
17.04.2019.Newsroom
Azure Pipelines Agent Deployment
This article can help you set up fully automated deployment of Azure DevOps build agents. It explains step-by-step instructions on how to set up automated deployment of self-hosted agents using Azure DevOps Pipelines. -
16.04.2019.Newsroom
Social Project: ERNI Scholars Site Visit
Helping someone to see them become better is not an easy task. You need to exert all your efforts, attention and time to achieve it. -
15.04.2019.Newsroom
ERNI Hero Teams protect the nature
The winners of the internal ERNI Hero Team contest decided to use their reward for a good purpose – to visit the Haribon Foundation at Lumban for seedlings preparation. -
12.04.2019.Newsroom
ERNI Community: Coffee Painting workshop at ERNI Philippines
Who says coffee is only good for drinking? It’s now good for painting too! Anyone can enjoy the art of coffee painting. This has encouraged me to start some Coffee Painting Workshops. -
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03.04.2019.Newsroom
Positive vibes at the Polymesse
On 2 April 2019, we had the pleasure to attend the ETH Polymesse job fair in Zurich. -
01.04.2019.Newsroom
Performance Days 2019: There is no better time to take a deep breath and slowly exhale
As a habit already around mid of March, also this year the ERNI Performance Days (EPD) took place near the Bratislava site – this time in a recreational area of the city of Senec. Between 14 – 16 March the crew spent two days fully packed with workshop sessions developing technical as well as soft skills, networking and some sports and leisure activities. -
01.04.2019.Newsroom
Xamarin: Integration with Azure Functions
Imagine a scenario wherein you need to quickly setup APIs or microservices for your POCs or small projects without the hassle of provisioning or managing of your infrastructures. -
26.03.2019.Newsroom
New 3D printer for the enthusiasts in our Bratislava office
At ERNI Slovakia, we have an established group of 3D enthusiasts. This week their new 3D printer arrived – bringing their passion to a new level. The machine came in parts so the printer had to be assembled. Michal Molčány and Miloš Karas tell us more about it. -
26.03.2019.Newsroom
Techletter: How to speed up Data Science tasks in Python using Dask
Nowadays there is a great deal of hype around Data science. But what exactly is it? Let me take a stab at a basic definition. And also explain why Python is the programming language to go for in this field and why Dask comes into play. -
22.03.2019.Newsroom
5 trade-offs an enterprise software developer will have to deal with in 2019
Software developers are facing a lot of trade-offs every day. This list is not meant to be complete. It is just a selection of interesting trade-offs we expect to pop-up during this year. Also, there is no simple answer to the trade-offs we discuss here. The correct answer is, as always, “it depends”. -
20.03.2019.Newsroom
Adopted fallow deers at Bratislava ZOO
The Marketing team of ERNI dedicated its internal “Hero” reward to the breeding of fallow deers at the ZOO in Bratislava. -
12.03.2019.Newsroom
MWC19 – Minutes
Last week we had the opportunity to participate in the MWC19 as Friends of the Swiss Pavilion. -
05.03.2019.Newsroom
Apps have a lot of indispensable advantages in customer communication
Let us talk about the advantages that apps bring to the customer interactions and communication -
04.03.2019.Newsroom
New subpage with facts from the world of ERNI
Did you know that this year we changed the format of our information about the facts and figures from the world of ERNI? -
01.03.2019.Newsroom
The goodwill of design
The management consultancy McKinsey not only dedicated a study to this topic in 2018, but also developed the McKinsey Design Index (MDI) from it. This should quantify the business value of an appealing design. -
26.02.2019.Newsroom
How it works at ERNI: Recruiting and hiring
Each ERNI site has its own way of hiring and recruiting. -
25.02.2019.Newsroom
Profiling memory leaks in Xamarin Forms
I remember one time I was working with a mobile project and it was already deployed to the client. It work out well from planning, development, testing to deployment but after a while the client was clamoring that the app is getting slower and slower when it was continuously being used up to the point where it will just crash suddenly. Well it is a given fact maybe not all but I’m guilty of it that we really love our code, so in that sense I was pointing the blame on maybe the device or something unusual that the client was doing with the Application. To make the long story short I’ve learned that Profilers are programmer’s best friend. -
22.02.2019.Newsroom
Rapid growth in worldwide app downloads
The research company “App Annie” has revealed that worldwide app downloads have increased by 60 percent between 2015 and 2017 to a total of more than 175 billion annually – statistically this means almost two downloaded apps per inhabitant per month. No wonder, since the number of apps available on Google Play and the iOS App Store has now grown to more than six million. -
21.02.2019.Newsroom
ERNI collaboration with Theodora foundation
Last year 2018 ERNI Spain had the opportunity to start a collaboration with Theodora Foundation bringing smiles to the hospitalized children and their families. -
21.02.2019.Newsroom
Opportunities and challenges of digitalisation in industry
Since 2010, Hans Hess has been President of Swissmem, Switzerland’s largest industrial association, and Vice-President of economiesuisse, the Swiss Business Federation. For our .experience magazine, he contributed with his guest article on industry 4.0. -
20.02.2019.Newsroom
ERNI at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2019
ERNI will be sponsoring and attending the Barcelona Mobile World Congress from 25-28 February organized by the GSMA within the Swiss Pavilion. -
19.02.2019.Newsroom
Understanding design
Apple founder Steve Jobs once said: “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” Jobs was known for placing a high value on the design of his products. But he wasn’t the first. -
13.02.2019.Newsroom
Partnership between ERNI and PEDCO
PEDCO and ERNI will work together in fostering the growing numbers of Applied SAFe® customers; where PEDCO delivers its own product Applied SAFe® and ERNI with its 25 years of experience in Swiss Software Engineering delivers consulting, technology, delivery, and agile coaching in order to bring the Scaled Agile Framework to live at Applied SAFe® customers. -
12.02.2019.Newsroom
Three main principles for enterprises wanting to go Agile
As a more than 4-year-long SAFe® practitioner and trainer, I see that SAFe offers a lot of chances for our customers. Generally, in the long run, enterprises want and need to change the way they are working, but often do not know where to start. -
07.02.2019.Newsroom
How it works at ERNI: Outsourcing and shoring
Nearshoring as a way to focus on the core business and let a nearby location take care of your software development is around for some decade. However, the competition among nearshore locations in Europe has intensified and it is not an easy decision to pick the right one for your needs. -
30.01.2019.Newsroom
Techletter: What is RPA and what is it not?
RPA is a buzzword of today. What can we imagine under the term and what definitely not? Let us explore the topic more deeply. -
28.01.2019.Newsroom
Cottolengo Outreach Program – Their own amazing world
Last month our ERNI team in the Philippines experienced a memorable event. We all got united for one purpose and that is to extend our generosity and love. This year, instead of having the usual exchange gifts we came up with an idea to raise funds and give donations to our chosen charity. This program was called “Exchange your gifts to those in Need”. -
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21.01.2019.Newsroom
The infamous silos
When we as ERNI visit a customer for the first time and they explain to us how the company works and what their structures and internal conflicts are, we typically recognise the three infamous silos. -
15.01.2019.Newsroom
Cross-platform apps as the recommended solution
The advantages of cross-platform apps are similar to those of a hybrid application. Eager to know why they are a recommended app solution? Read our article. -
10.01.2019.Newsroom
How it works: 3D Printing
In a nutshell, a physical object is created from a virtual design, i.e. the digital design is converted into a physical three-dimensional object by adding material layer by layer until the object is formed. -
08.01.2019.Newsroom
Donation to Slovak foster homes
At ERNI Slovakia, we took the opportunity to make some dreams of kids in Slovak foster homes come true. -
07.01.2019.Newsroom
Dust Measurement Network: Building an IoT Sensor Network
How do you get from a great idea which you believe could have a significant impact to a tangible product? In a recent community project at ERNI, we put ourselves to this task. -
18.12.2018.Newsroom
Swiss applications have a hard time on the market
Currently, according to Statista, WhatsApp is by far the leader among cross-platform apps (Android and iOS), followed by Facebook, 20 Minuten, Instagram and various weather apps. -
13.12.2018.Newsroom
Support from Switzerland
Switzerland has been named the most innovative country in the world for eight consecutive years, according to the Global Innovation Index. -
06.12.2018.Newsroom
Step by step towards innovation
When we talk about innovation in general, we talk about three steps. Let us explore which ones. -
04.12.2018.Newsroom
Hack & Dive in the Philippines
On November 9, 2018, ERNI Philippines held its 1st Hack & Dive community activity. -
27.11.2018.Newsroom
Techletter: Cybersecurity is the next big thing
Why is cybersecurity gaining importance for everyone and how can you eliminate risks? Read our newest Technology Post. -
26.11.2018.Newsroom
The Mobile Team from the Philippines
Another team portrait from the Our Teams series in awaiting you on the following lines. -
22.11.2018.Newsroom
Apps – The most important channel of customer interaction
Apps have become the most important channel for customer interaction for almost all industries and countless companies within just a few years. This is particularly true for so-called Mobile-First markets, where mobile devices are the No. 1 platform and many of their users have completely skipped the generation of desktop devices at the desk. -
20.11.2018.
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How well-established companies can embrace agile
Recent rapid developments in business and technology require businesses to become faster, more global, more agile. -
13.11.2018.Newsroom
Dust Measurement Network: Shaping the idea
How do you get from a great idea which you believe could have a significant impact to a tangible product? -
13.11.2018.Newsroom
Are PWA the future of apps?
What attributes make Progressive Web Apps attractive? Explore our second article. -
06.11.2018.Newsroom
5 Years at ERNI Event in Barcelona
On October 15-16, 2018 we came together in beautiful city of Barcelona to celebrate the 5 Years @ERNI Event. -
06.11.2018.Newsroom
Our teams: The Dream Team from ERNI Spain
We all have dreams and dreams are always good. Especially if you have a dream within your team. -
06.11.2018.Newsroom
Our teams: Deadpool – “We know we are awesome”
In our new series we present you our teams at ERNI. Get to know us better. -
02.11.2018.Newsroom
What is a PWA?
Progressive Web Apps: What does it mean particularly? Let’s explore it deeper in the article. -
26.10.2018.Newsroom
ERNI Germany breaks new ground
We have entered into a strategic partnership with QCENTRIS in order to grow faster in the German market. -
12.10.2018.Newsroom
Social engagement series: The socially responsible ERNI Hero Team
Being socially responsible is a respectable act. Do you agree? We do. -
08.10.2018.Newsroom
Agriculture 4.0: IoT – the new era
What are the challenges of the modern agriculture? And what uses does IoT have in this field? -
28.09.2018.Newsroom
Hack and Hike Slovakia 2018
After a successful Hack and Hike event in Switzerland, another one took place in Slovakia this weekend. Twenty employees joined this event in order to spend some free time with their co-workers, enjoy the fresh mountain air and organise a few hack sessions. -
24.09.2018.Newsroom
ERNI at the Fintech Switzerland in Madrid
Attending conferences is a door opener in every business area. In Madrid, The Swiss Business Hub Spain as representative of the Swiss trade and investment promotion agency Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE) and part of the Embassy of Switzerland in Spain organized the Swiss fintech conference and B2B event FINTECH SWITZERLAND. -
12.09.2018.Newsroom
Three ERNIans in the U.S.A.
Since the beginning of 2018, starting with our market entry to the U.S., a group of three ERNI experts has been performing work for our medical technology customer in the States. What is it like to be working in the U.S.A. and how are our colleagues doing overseas? We talked to one of them – Nuria Lluch, our Barcelona Lab Manager about the experiences. -
12.09.2018.Newsroom
The Swiss Hack and Hike
At the end of every summer, the developers meet and spend a weekend together surrounded by nature. This activity, called Hack & Hike, brings an opportunity to escape from daily routine, clear the minds by hiking and come up with new ideas during the hack sessions. -
22.08.2018.Newsroom
Social Engagement Series: Talking digital in Madagascar
Previously, we already talked about the healthy lifestyle pages of our colleagues from ERNI Philippines and the engagement of our Slovak colleagues for the Capital city of Bratislava. Today, Stefan from ERNI Switzerland tells about his support of a non-governmental organisation in Madagascar. -
20.08.2018.Newsroom
My favourite programming language: Why I don’t have the ONE favourite programming language
Oliver Gramberg from ERNI Switzerland closes up our series My favourite programming language. Read why he has NOT ONE single programming language. -
14.08.2018.Newsroom
Straightforward – Python
What is so special about Python? Nina Duchoňová, Professional Software Developer tells us about her affinity for this programming language. -
10.08.2018.Newsroom
The challenge of Camino de Santiago
As on the job, also in life, walking challenging ways pushes your inner strength forward. -
01.08.2018.Newsroom
An app for a healthy lifestyle
Read a success story of our colleague John who motivated also his colleagues to lead a healthy lifestyle and get back on the track -
01.08.2018.Newsroom
ERNI Slovakia Team: Volunteering for “our city”
Since several years, at ERNI Slovakia our team has been volunteering within the initiave “Naše Mesto” making life in Bratislava more enjoyable. -
30.07.2018.Newsroom
Innovation in Medical Technology
The majority of challenges that businesses in the medtech industry have to face are related to innovation and market access, says a study carried out by the Swiss Medical Technology Institute. -
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23.07.2018.Newsroom
Discovering Azure Workshop
On 19 July 2018, the ERNI Philippines Community Core Group held its 4th External Community Event in the company premises. -
23.07.2018.Newsroom
How to embrace change
Do an experiment, approach your friends or colleagues and ask: “How do you think you will have changed in the next 15-20 years?” -
17.07.2018.Newsroom
How DIY Medical Testing Could Save Your Life
During a TEDx talk in Calgary, Alberta last summer, MIT doctoral student Steven Keating explained how curiosity about his brain led him to volunteer to have it scanned for a study. -
12.07.2018.Newsroom
Techletter: Moving an existing Java Web application to the Cloud Foundry Platform
“It’s easy to create and run a new cloud-native application, but migrating an existing Java Web application to the cloud might be quite complex: most applications have to be changed in a way that makes them incompatible with the old environment and thus additional risks arise. In this article, we’re sharing our experience with the migration of large Web applications, including some advice and best practices.” -
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06.07.2018.Newsroom
Ready to take a step towards data?
An overview of the skills needed for both small- and large-scale projects -
06.07.2018.Newsroom
My favorite programming language: TypeScript
As a developer who regularly uses multiple programming languages, it’s always hard to single one out as the “favourite programming language”. -
06.07.2018.Newsroom
Agile: The Answer to Working with Data
Agile methods and sprint-based development make our teams more effective. -
06.07.2018.Newsroom
Successful Rapid Development through Agile
Agile is a methodology that can be used to launch new software projects efficiently and rapidly. -
06.07.2018.Newsroom
Two cases of Agile and Scrum
Read these two case studies about external scrum master and nearshored scrum team -
03.07.2018.Newsroom
Engineer meets creative thinker: ERNI cooperates with design agency Bloom Identity
With Bloom Identity, the ERNI Group is teaming up with an agency that specialises in brand consulting and thus enhancing the customer experience services it offers to customers. -
01.07.2018.Newsroom
Why a thriving learning culture pays off for employers and employees
An active learning culture is a crucial part of a modern organisation that wants to attract and nurture the best talent. Fostering communities is a great way to achieve this. -
26.06.2018.Newsroom
Operationalizing machine learning models 3/3 – Production-grade, scalable deployment
The previous two articles in this series introduced the Azure Machine Learning Workbench and walked us through the process of wrapping our ML model in a self-contained Docker image. Now is the time to take this image and deploy it into a production-grade environment. -
20.06.2018.Newsroom
C# is simple. C# is object-oriented. C# is powerful and flexible.
My favorite programming language -
16.06.2018.Newsroom
How to create a shared vision for changes – The Power of visualisation
In change initiatives one key success factor is to create a shared view on what the future will look like. Visualising of the envisioned target state is a powerful method for guiding the change team on their way through the change. -
31.05.2018.Newsroom
Operationalizing machine learning models 2/3 – From model to service
The first part of this series of articles introduced the Azure Machine Learning Workbench and showed us how to setup the resources required to operationalize our machine learning models. In this article, we will see how to get our model into Azure and run it locally for testing purposes. Let’s get to it! -
29.05.2018.Newsroom
Operationalizing machine learning models 1/3 – Azure ML Workbench
Machine learning and AI are everywhere. More and more people are discovering the advantages that learning algorithms can provide – decreasing costs, improving efficiency, eliminating menial tasks, etc. Knowing at least a little bit about how these algorithms work is quickly becoming a necessity. Read it now. -
23.05.2018.Newsroom
Work in the innovation sphere gives me the chance to develop myself
Interns at ERNI series: Isabelle Rüthemann -
22.05.2018.Newsroom
I have greatly improved my vision and understanding of programming
Interns at ERNI series: Adrian Chiorean -
15.05.2018.Newsroom
ERNI and IoT projects
Many of our customers’ data projects are subsets of larger Internet of Things initiatives. Although the IoT produces data, the scope of the IoT projects is usually more extensive and covers a broader pool of activities. This illustration describes/shows the ERNI collaboration model for IoT projects. -
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09.05.2018.Newsroom
How we have changed our visual language
A cyclist full of energy, a passionate painter, a handball player jumping in the air with a clear goal to score: Anyone who is currently looking at the external presentation of ERNI can see a clear move. -
03.05.2018.Newsroom
Stricter regulations on personal data even outside of health records GDPR
The upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. -
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19.04.2018.Newsroom
Data Science Projects: How to Manage Stakeholders
The second part of our Managing Stakeholders article evolves around further phases of data projects and what stakeholders to involve. -
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16.04.2018.Newsroom
ERNI Hero: Darina Stipula
We are all working together at ERNI, but not all of us can see each other daily. Some of us have the opportunity to work closer with other teams and know each other better – long distance is not a limiting factor anymore. -
16.04.2018.Newsroom
Geneva Community Workshop
Why is culture an important element of our company? Check the video from our latest workshop in ERNI Geneva and learn more. -
12.04.2018. -
11.04.2018.Newsroom
Missed security pitfalls
It is not just securing the transmission and storage of data against hacks that is important. Here are some easily missed security pitfalls. -
09.04.2018. -
08.04.2018.Newsroom
VSTS/TFS automated build agent provisioning
Continuous Integration / Delivery is bread and butter of every agile development team nowadays. Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server is one of many tools providing this feature. Although I will use VSTS/TFS in this article same process can be used with any other CI/CD tool. -
06.04.2018.Newsroom
Managing Stakeholders in Data Science
Innovation can be hard to implement if there is no common understanding about it between the organisation’s stakeholders (colleagues, partners and leadership). For a project manager, stakeholder management is not only important but it can also often make or break the project. -
04.04.2018.Newsroom
Leaner Mobile DevOps Implementation Using Visual Studio App Center
DevOps is an important facet of mobile app development that is now a requirement for a successful app life cycle. When building and delivering mobile apps nowadays, one has to consider setting up a lot of different things. -
22.03.2018.Newsroom
7 under 30: Marek Linka
In our 7 under 30 series, we are introducing you our young and successful ERNIans! -
16.03.2018.Newsroom
The new ERNI Website
We have worked hard on the implementation of our website. The result is a page with a new design, new content and simplified navigation. It fits into the new overall appearance of the ERNI Group. -
16.03.2018.Newsroom
Major methodology trends in software development for 2018
An integral part of consultancy and software development in a VUCA world – meaning volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguine – is focusing on making feedback loops shorter and more efficient. The agile mindset is spreading within organisations – from agile software development to business or corporate. Here are the 5 major methodology trends we see for 2018. -
15.03.2018.Newsroom
ERNI Hero: Ruel Dognidon
Are you sitting next to a Hero? Has your team member positive impact on personal and company development or social engagement? -
15.03.2018.Newsroom
High-performance teams in an agile environment
With the recent status of digital transformation, besides the technical skills of teams, soft skills for fostering collaboration are gaining even more importance. -
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13.03.2018.Newsroom
Raising efficiency with user adoption
Applying “Business-centric user experience” is decisive for whether an application will be used by the end users or will fail. -
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12.03.2018.Newsroom
From business idea to business case
Existing business models must be reviewed during digital transformation, with new business ideas developed, sorted and evaluated. -
07.03.2018.Newsroom
ERNI Hero: Dieter Niklaus
This is the first time at ERNI, that our employees had the chance to nominate any of their colleagues for their positive approach or social engagement. -
05.03.2018.Newsroom
7 under 30: Laura Gallardo
Laura is 28, married and living in a small village close to the mountain called Begues, Barcelona. -
02.03.2018.Newsroom
Taking on full responsibility for innovative applications
“DevOps as a Service” ensures that a solution with a directly measurable benefit is found. -
02.03.2018.Newsroom
7 under 30: Kris Lenard Ocampo Fajardo
Get to know some of our young and successful ERNIans! -
01.03.2018.Newsroom
Leading the innovation process towards sustainability
“Innovation as a Service” delivers customised methods for the entire process from creating ideas to implementation of a solution with measurable added value. -
27.02.2018.Newsroom
Continuous IT governance driving transformation
With the adoption of smart technologies for business innovation, it is crucial for IT governance to be a process of continuous improvement. -
25.02.2018.Newsroom
Never start from scratch again
The beauty of digital solutions lies in their ability to adapt to customer specifics. The underlying technology framework does not have to be recreated each time. -
25.02.2018.Newsroom
7 under 30: Enrique S. Cavestany
Enrique joined ERNI shortly after graduation and ever since has devoted himself to his responsibilities of quality assurance. -
24.02.2018.Newsroom
Vendors that help with digital transformation
Vendors can no longer only rely on the monitoring and management of IT infrastructures to keep pace with market needs.