Our client is one of the biggest suppliers of spare parts for transport vehicles and buses in Slovakia and the only producer of buses in our country. With more than 90k different kinds of commodities in its warehouses and growing operations every year, the point where all the stock movements in, between and out of the warehouses became particularly challenging was reached. It has had certain implications for controlling, reporting processes and in overall transparency of financial and data flows in company.
Scrum is a mechanism to manage projects which was created as a group of people discussing and advising on how to solve a concrete problem. Its creation meant the introduction of individual parts of a development team to the self process of making specification which elegantly made room not only for developers but also common users whose opinions started to matter more then any time before.
Interns are made to take a plunge and we take it, as well. Since the very beginning of localhost.company, we have been cooperating closely with students from SPŠE, TUKE and IAESTE. These collaborations were brought to a next level this May in form of a unified HR platform — IT Summer Camp (ITSC) which is focused on acquisition of talented people.
At high school, we were to attend student research and professional activities program (SOC) organised by the ministry of education. Physics projects led by our physics teacher had already had their rich tradition. Younger students took over projects after the school’s graduates and one of those was called “magnets”.
Gekko Is an open source platform for crypto trading using automated business strategies. Gekko creates a link between merchant and a stock exchange. Our main goal is to create such business strategies which will bring us the desired profit.
In our IT and SW engineering world, we are (finally) becoming more and more “people-centric”. Many enterprises and corporates realised, that the most precious “assets” they have are their people. Companies invest a lot to their employees to boost their talent and innovative mind, creating competitive advantage for them. On the other hand, behaviors, emotions, mood within the teams, attitude and soft skills in general are carefully observed to retain the talent within the company. Consequently also employees are more and more interested in company’s reputation, their activities, if the company is eco-friendly, transparent etc. when joining it.
What is PSD2? As of January 2018, a new regulation for payment services within the EU market has been in place. PSD2 meant revolution in financial services area. According to the regulation, each bank is to allow access to online client’s account for third parties. This act applies to every payment account providers within the EU, no matter the size of organization. The bank and the third party communicate via secured API — application programming interface. This enables third party to inform client about their account status without the need to log into bank’s environment or even process payments on their behalf.