News from ERNI

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Almost four months after their start at ERNI, the fresh colleagues summarise their impressions.

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.

At ERNI Slovakia, we have a nice habit of having Breakfast at the office bi-monthly.

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.

Artificial intelligence is conquering the business world. But how do you actually teach devices to think for themselves? ERNI developer Marek Linka explains.

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.

How artificial intelligence and machine learning can make everyday work in the automotive aftermarket easier.

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.

It’s WomenHack at Facebook in Zurich. Again, our energetic ERNI Recruiting Team was participating at the beloved speed dating event.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Compared to large companies, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are generally lagging behind in the digital transformation.

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.

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.