Software development company Uptime, which operates in Estonia, Norway, Switzerland and Macedonia, invested on the Danish market by acquiring 51% stake in West Soft Development A/S at the beginning of July 2018.
The main results of joining the forces are investments for expanding the company in region and better service for clients with more resources.
Like every summer, before the big holiday season, we once again met the results of the past year and looked at our customers how they were satisfied with the services of Uptime.
The results were good in the previous survey and customers are largely satisfied with our work, but it does not mean that in the meantime, we are not looking for ways to further improve ourselves.
Over the past 8 months, Äripäev (part of Bonnier Group in Estonia, business daily and news services) has developed a new methodology for sending up e-mails in partnership with the software development partner Uptime. This would take greater account of the interests of the readers and send them fewer, but better-quality, interest-based emails.
On February 14th, we organized the Uptime Challenge during the Information Technology Days of the University of Tartu and anyone who wanted could try to solve some challenging programming tasks.
Uptime Challenge participants had to solve some programming tasks with best code and among the best programmers, we drew out two awards: Samsung’s 500GB SSD and weekly stock of pizza.
Every year, Uptime organizes a festive Christmas reception with its partners, where you can meet personally in an out-of-the-office atmosphere and have a good time to finish the year. The previous year, 2017, was completed with the concert on Teachers’ House on Raekoja Square, where singer Kadri Voorand and Estonian Voices performed in front of more than 140 guests.
In Oslo Innovation Week some Estonian and Norwegian speakers introduced e-government and e-solutions and how this is helpful for government and citizens to communicate more easily. Uptime Comperio CEO Ole-Kristian Villabø also participated and gave a presentation about best practices of digital innovation.
In TechnoHack, a traditional format hackathon at Mectory technology centre in Tallinn, Uptime developers participated by building a hat for blind people which recognizes traffic lights.
There is a certain stereotype of software developers, perceived from the outside as dissatisfied workers who are usually weakly bonded to their employers. In fact, however, this is not true.
IT staff are happy about their work, and it is also their hobby, concludes Raimo Seero, Technology Manager of Uptime LLC, reading a recent survey of software developers organized by Stackoverflow.
Microsoft issues a certificate of Gold Partner every year, and Uptime received one for the 11th time in a row. Uptime was the first IT company in Estonia to reach the level of Gold Partner in the area of Collaboration and Content and the only company in the country who has been able to keep such level consistently.
Uptime CEO Eero Tohver participated in an Estonian business delegation visit to Switzerland on May 29-31, led by Vice Minister of Economic Development Mr. Viljar Lubi. Meetings were organized with Switzerland Global Enterprise and Swiss business representatives.
