EARP speaking in high tech meetings of Berlin and Wroclaw IT companies in Luneta
LUNETA 2016 is an interesting initiative to bring Wroclaw and Berlin together much closer than 350 km. Under the patronage of Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin, and Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wroclaw, Luneta is an installation open to visitors from 9 May to 3 July. When you enter the blue tent, you can see the street scenes from the partner city Berlin (near Friedrichstraße Train Station). Not surprisingly, visitors in Berlin can watch people walking by near the Wroclaw’s railway station.
The real time character of the installation quickly triggered ideas to use Luneta as a place to organise remote business conferences between the two cities without the need to travel.
On 12 May the organizers of the first interactive event, SIBB e.V. (association for companies in the IT and Internet industry within Berlin and Brandenburg), Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency SA (WADA) and ITCorner association, brought IT companies from Berlin and Wroclaw together in order to exchange the know-how in the field of machine 2 machine, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and 3D printing projects. The remotness methaphor was used to show cooperation possibilities between German and Polish companies.
Four companies from Berlin and four from Poland were matched in a very clever way to show the synergy potential.
A good example of the business matching are the companies ICE Gateway (Berlin) and EARP (Wroclaw).
ICE Gateway, specialising in connected digital infrastructure, held a presentation about the street lighting infrastructure extended by various IoT solutions. The wireless infrastructure could be used in the future for traffic control, real time marketing, security and logistics.
The CEO of EARP, Piotr Stawinski, spoke about a big smart metering solution the company was working on for its German strategic partner. Over the years they have been working on digitalizing the business processes of their customer, making use of the heat and water consumption metering data. That let their customer to cut their operational costs and gain advantage over their competition in Germany.
ITCorner association in Wroclaw has lately become a strategic partner of the Berlin SIBB association, and both parties plan to strengthen the business cooperation among their members. On 26. May during the SIBB Summit 2016 in Berlin ITCorner representatives will present their association to the SIBB members. It is a great chance for the business in Berlin and Wroclaw to start working together closely.
EARP speaking in high tech meetings of Berlin and Wroclaw IT companies in Luneta
LUNETA 2016 is an interesting initiative to bring Wroclaw and Berlin together much closer than 350 km. Under the patronage of Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin, and Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wroclaw, Luneta is an installation open to visitors from 9 May to 3 July. When you enter the blue tent, you can see the street scenes from the partner city Berlin (near Friedrichstraße Train Station). Not surprisingly, visitors in Berlin can watch people walking by near the Wroclaw’s railway station.
The real time character of the installation quickly triggered ideas to use Luneta as a place to organise remote business conferences between the two cities without the need to travel.
On 12 May the organizers of the first interactive event, SIBB e.V. (association for companies in the IT and Internet industry within Berlin and Brandenburg), Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency SA (WADA) and ITCorner association, brought IT companies from Berlin and Wroclaw together in order to exchange the know-how in the field of machine 2 machine, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and 3D printing projects. The remotness methaphor was used to show cooperation possibilities between German and Polish companies.
Four companies from Berlin and four from Poland were matched in a very clever way to show the synergy potential.
A good example of the business matching are the companies ICE Gateway (Berlin) and EARP (Wroclaw).
ICE Gateway, specialising in connected digital infrastructure, held a presentation about the street lighting infrastructure extended by various IoT solutions. The wireless infrastructure could be used in the future for traffic control, real time marketing, security and logistics.
The CEO of EARP, Piotr Stawinski, spoke about a big smart metering solution the company was working on for its German strategic partner. Over the years they have been working on digitalizing the business processes of their customer, making use of the heat and water consumption metering data. That let their customer to cut their operational costs and gain advantage over their competition in Germany.
ITCorner association in Wroclaw has lately become a strategic partner of the Berlin SIBB association, and both parties plan to strengthen the business cooperation among their members. On 26. May during the SIBB Summit 2016 in Berlin ITCorner representatives will present their association to the SIBB members. It is a great chance for the business in Berlin and Wroclaw to start working together closely.
Choosing the right outsourcing option for your software projects
Your business is growing fast, and you need to add people to your software team or even build new teams? You can’t get enough talented people in a short time? You should consider hiring an outsourcing partner.
Three basic options available when considering outsourcing are offshoring, nearshoring and onshoring. We will analyze these shortly and present to you one more option, which is an interesting and proven alternative experienced in our daily work with customers.
Offshoring means that a company relocates software development to a foreign, distant, and lower-cost labor country. That often means cultural differences, time zone offset and a long distance to travel to meet the partner. However, it is a frequently chosen option if money is the main criterion.
We talk about nearshoring when a company outsources IT processes to a nearby country. It has a lot of advantages over offshoring:
- geographical proximity
- same time zone
- cultural, social and legal similarities, which leads to better trust
So you relocate the work to a country in the same region, but to a lower-cost organization. You do not reduce the cost as much as with offshoring, but all the other aspects work better.
At first sight onshoring should be the best option. It is when you outsource to a company in your own country. It means the best proximity and the same culture of course, but you do not reduce the cost and usually have to wait longer to get the people from your partner, because they have the same problem that you have – there is not enough talent in your country.
So, how to kill two birds with one stone? That is, to reduce cost and effectively outsource work to complete your software projects on time?
Smartsourcing is all about finding a trusted partner first. A strategic partner that:
- has a mission to help you grow your business
- wants to learn about your core business, the processes you apply and to be on the same page when you start talking about IT projects
- wants to build relations based on trust and thinks long-term
- will help you innovate and achieve a competitive advantage in the market
- will help you with more than just software development; your strategic partner, knowing your business, should support you from the inception of your business ideas
So, if a company thinks about building a long-term relation with a software house, and is ready to outsource their IT projects to a nearby country, we talk about smart-nearshoring.
How we do that?
At EARP Integration, we concentrate on building strategic partnerships with European companies, that need help in software development.
“When starting a new working relationship, with a customer, our first priority is to ensure we have a comprehensive understanding of their business. That’s the only way we can help them technologically innovate in their industry. We also give ourselves time to get mutual trust with the customer. And indeed, after some time we cooperate as smoothly as a remote department for the customer’s business.” – says Piotr Stawinski, CEO at EARP.
EARP’s approach is based on building well-tuned teams for their partners. People who have already cooperated together on previous software projects, and who, understanding the customer’s business, help solve their problems with software. They build IT solutions using agile approach, working very closely with their partners.
“EARP has been in charge of many very successful projects at Elysio. EARP provides a very sound and professional turnkey service for creating software. From specifying the needs to finding the right architecture, from developing in fast moving environments to trouble shooting, from leading the whole process with fine management qualities even in stormy conditions to celebrating the success with their superb social skills.” – says Andreas Bauer, the CEO of Elysio GmbH, a long-term customer of EARP. And adds – “Elysio was and still is very satisfied with the co-operation with EARP. It is a pleasure and a relief to be able to share the responsibility with such a reliable partner. You just sleep so well at night.”