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Möt Gateway som satsar stort på digitaliseringen av svenska företag
Med sitt säte i Pampas Marina, Solna och huvudkontor i Nederländerna och Indien är Gateway Digital ett företag vi i Sverige trots allt inte är särskilt bekanta med. Men den digitala vägledaren har i snart 15 år hjälpt svenska företag och start ups med innovation och digitalisering. Nu satsar de ytterligare i Sverige och gör det genom att fokusera på sin gyllene målgrupp; medelstora företag.
Att ligga i framkant i sin digitalisering är i dag ett måste för att vara ett konkurrenskraftigt företag. I och med pandemin har värdet av digitala lösningar ökat ytterligare och behovet av att digitalisera sig är större än någonsin. Några som märker av detta är Gateway som hjälper sina kunder med denna resa.
– Tekniken medför mängder med möjligheter men för att kunna utnyttja dessa behöver man förstå den samtidigt som det är minst lika viktigt att förstå hur den appliceras i sin verksamhet, och det är där vi kommer in i bilden. Vi hjälper våra kunder matcha detta för att uppnå konkreta resultat, säger Ola Hammarlund, vd för Gateway Digital.
En praktisk och kostnadseffektiv lösning
Gateways mål är att driva digital transformation på ett praktiskt och prisvärt sätt. Det gör de tack vare sin långa branscherfarenhet och sin tekniska spetskompetens som finns hos över 1600 medarbetare världen över.
– I dag är vi totalt sju anställda i det svenska bolaget och över 50 konsulter nearshore och offshore som jobbar för våra svenska kunder. Det nya normala har öppnat upp för möjligheten för företag att inte endast jobba med konsulter på plats, utan de kan få samma hjälp remote och dessutom till en avsevärt bättre kostnad, eller varför inte mer output, snabbare, för samma pengar, förklarar Ola Hammarlund och fortsätter:
– Genom att anlita oss, kan ett företag minska sina utveckling- och integrationskostnader med upp till 50 procent och samtidigt ha tillgång till samma driv och kompetens som tidigare.
Flexibelt, prisvärt & skalbart
Som kund hos Gateway Digital har du tillgång till professionella konsulter ifrån hela världen. Du kan till exempel i ditt team ha en projektledare som jobbar på plats i Sverige och som har koll på den svenska marknaden och kraven men utöver det få hjälp av konsulter som jobbar remote.
– De större globala bolagen har länge använt sig av den här typen av offshore-struktur och resurspooler men lokala medelstora bolag som ofta säljer sina produkter och tjänster på en internationell marknad har många gånger inte tänkt på det som en lösning förrän nu. Här har corona helt klart drivit på utvecklingen och lett till ett ökat intresse för den här typen av leveransmodeller.
– Tillsammans med våra lokala och globala team kan ditt företag få en tydlig digital strategi tillsammans med teknisk kunskap och innovation för att driva igenom de nödvändiga förändringar som krävs för att möta kundernas krav och förväntningar, avslutar Ola Hammarlund.
Om Gateway Digital
Med över 20 års erfarenhet digitaliserar Gateway Digital din verksamhet, ökar effektiviteten och ger dina kunder, medarbetare och leverantörer en upplevelse i världsklass. Deras innovativa förmåga och leverans av hållbara lösningar ger dig som kund konkurrensfördelar, i en marknad där allt fler ser digitalisering som både en förutsättning och framgångsfaktor.
Remote Collaboration in Engineering Projects
Modern information technologies are changing all business sectors in one way or another, and engineering firms are no exception to this. It is now possible to design and build a project without having the entire staff at the project’s location. Engineering firms sometimes view this approach with skepticism, but it brings many advantages:
Companies with operations in multiple cities, states or countries are no longer required to have a fully-staffed team at each branch office, and instead they can focus on building specialist teams to work on many projects simultaneously.
Travel expenses are reduced significantly: Moving qualified staff members across multiple project sites is very expensive due to travel and lodging, not to mention the hours of work lost while traveling.
Redundant job positions can be consolidated with remote collaboration, making the company easier to manage while reducing total payroll. Supporting business functions such as accounting and legal services can be outsourced, while engineering firms focus on what they do best.
However, to deploy remote collaboration successfully, a company must make sure it has the right IT services to support such an operation, while focusing on team building and best practices. This approach is only feasible if teams can communicate effectively, while coordinating tasks and working simultaneously without interference.
Credits: New York Engineers
Remote Work: Engineering’s Perspective on Humanizing the Remote Work Experience
What’s it like for GitHub engineers to work remotely? Next in our remote work series, Dana Lawson, our VP of Idea to Code Engineering, and Sha Ma, our VP of Community and Ecosystem Engineering share tips to help humanize the remote work experience in order to build trust across teams. Dana is responsible for leading a team of engineers across the globe, and describes her remote experience at GitHub as “evening the playing field, where everybody participates and works together to build a global product with a global team.” Similarly, Sha has spent her career delving into today’s fast-moving, cutting-edge technology, and believes that now more than ever, we need to be intentional about how we think and communicate in order to help make the process feel more human.
How do you communicate and ensure that everyone is on the same page given that our everyday lives have changed so much due to COVID-19?
Sha: Given that we’re in the middle of this global health crisis and people are going through a lot of emotions right now, it’s very important to keep your employees in mind and add a human aspect to everything as best you can. It’s about being genuine, and most importantly, empathetic, specifically around the many personal disruptions that we’re all dealing with while working from home.
Dana: Adding to what Sha said, we’re privileged, with the engineering team in particular, that most of the team has been working remotely on a global scale for years. But we certainly don’t want to take our remote-first culture for granted with the COVID-19 pandemic just because we have this established workflow for working remotely. Now more than ever, we have to be intentional in our communications. With everyone juggling work and personal obligations, I cannot stress enough how important it is to write things down, as well as repeat information in different channels, to different groups, and to yourself. It’s very important to make sure that employees are using modern toolsets and multiple channels to communicate.
Sha: I agree, having strong written communications is so critical. We use a variety of tools for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration throughout the day—it’s important to summarize decisions and post them consistently for predictability. At GitHub, we use our internal repositories for announcements, updates, and decisions to help employees stay aligned. Oftentimes, simply restating what you’ve decided can save time in lieu of setting another meeting.
Credits: GitHub
DevOps for Remote Engineers and Distributed Teams
If you are a devops engineer working remotely or on a distributed team, you have a couple of challenges that can make or break your success working with agile developers, quality assurance engineers, site reliability engineers, and other system operators.
The first challenge is the ops responsibilities: making sure the systems and services operate reliably. According to a recent survey on the future of monitoring and AIops, 61 percent of respondents state that both the network operations center and devops engineers are responsible for responding to system and application incidents. So, most devops engineers need to help resolve operational issues, such as scaling infrastructure, dealing with blocks in build pipelines, or providing subject matter expertise on security issues.
The second challenge is the dev responsibilities, especially developing and supporting CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other automations. Devops engineers may be members of agile development teams and take on user stories to build or enhance automation. Other times, devops engineers can be part of a shared services team that supports these automations for multiple development teams. Regardless of the approach, creating CI/CD and infrastructure automation requires collaboration to understand functional requirements, operating environments, compliance factors, security posture, and performance considerations.
Although devops practitioners have dev and ops responsibilities, devops more specifically refers to the collaboration between application development and IT operations. My definition of devops focuses on collaboration. “Devops is about the culture, collaborative practices, and automation that aligns development and operations teams, so they have a single mindset on improving customer experiences, responding faster to business needs, and ensuring that innovation is balanced with security and operational needs.”
Devops requires establishing working principles to drive collaboration and foster the culture. If you consider yourself a devops engineer, study these best practices, especially if you work remotely or on a distributed team.
Meet your teammates where they are
The first important consideration is to understand who your teammates are and what tools they use to collaborate. This sounds simple, but it may not be in large organizations where departments and teams have some autonomy to select their tools and collaboration practices. It’s further complicated because, as a devops engineer, you may have to use one set of tools when working on dev responsibilities and a second set when responding to ops issues.
Credits: InfoWorld