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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.

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:

The Summer Outing/Team Building is an annual company event that every employee looks forward to.

Read this interesting interview with our colleague Soňa which was included in series Women in IT.

Already 5^th year of IT Fooscup happened last week in Bratislava. This special event connects the world of IT with the favourite office activity – foosball.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The n-tier or layered architecture is one of the most known and used concepts in enterprise development.

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.

Last month the EPH Social Project Core Group team paid a surprise visit to the ERNI 15 scholarship students.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

 

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.

What does a Predictive Maintenance solution look like?

On 2 April 2019, we had the pleasure to attend the ETH Polymesse job fair in Zurich.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

The Marketing team of ERNI dedicated its internal “Hero” reward to the breeding of fallow deers at the ZOO in Bratislava.

Last week we had the opportunity to participate in the MWC19 as Friends of the Swiss Pavilion.

Let us talk about the advantages that apps bring to the customer interactions and communication

Did you know that this year we changed the format of our information about the facts and figures from the world of ERNI?

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.

Each ERNI site has its own way of hiring and recruiting.

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.

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.

Last year 2018 ERNI Spain had the opportunity to start a collaboration with Theodora Foundation bringing smiles to the hospitalized children and their families.

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.

ERNI will be sponsoring and attending the Barcelona Mobile World Congress from 25-28 February organized by the GSMA within the Swiss Pavilion.

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.

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.

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.