News from ERNI

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.

At ERNI Spain, we have introduced a nice habit 3 years ago, which is called the Breakfast with Diamonds.

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.

Having a compelling mission, culture and values are critical for attracting and retaining top talent in a competitive job market.

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.

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.

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.

The third episode of our Typical at ERNI series deals with the handshake as an important part of our culture. What does Oliver Blindenbacher from ERNI Switzerland have to say about it?

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.

At ERNI Philippines – and generally, in the Philippines – we love karaoke. Life is smoother and happier with singing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Attention! This year you will find us for the first time at the IT Days 2019 on 9-12 December in Frankfurt am Main.

Swiss Software Engineering goes West: ERNI now has its own office in the middle of New York’s Manhattan district.

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.

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.

In our Insider Tips Series, this time we chose to present one colleague who is Bernese – through and through.

Soon, algorithms will decide in many areas, and not people. What role does ethics play in this?

Often, we hear the buzzword “Design Thinking” but what does it really mean and what’s behind it?

The next participant in  Insider tips series is our ERNI Germany colleague “Doru” Vasile Teodor…

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”.

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.

Mulugheta Samuel (ERNI) – Agile Coach at ERNI Deutschland – came to Germany with the fall of the Berlin Wall end of 1989/beginning 1990.

If you have experienced nearshoring or offshoring, you already know that the choice of the right partner is crucial.

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.

Tipura Ilija, Professional Consultant at ERNI Switzerland reveals some pieces of his background in this episode of our Diversity Series.

Capabilities Leaders Need to Have to Ensure the Survival of Companies

Which are the biggest challenges of the healthcare industry in 2019?

How to combine teambuilding, fun and nature care in one? (Part 2)

Maneka Fahrer is Managing Director of Bloom Identity which – as of 2018 – is part of the ERNI Ecosystem…

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.

How to combine teambuilding, fun and nature care in one?

Which are the health events no one in the industry should miss in autumn 2019?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Selim Akyol, Managing Director of the digital marketing agency NexMarket belonging to the ERNI Global has half Swiss and half Turkish roots.

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.

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.  

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.

In the first episode of our Diversity Series we do not get tips from one person only…

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.

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.

Have you ever wondered what a day at ERNI looks like? Watch the second video from our “One day at ERNI”.

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.