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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.

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?