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#design, #teamwork, #ai, #concept, #Kohdataan, #hackathon, #hack
Eficoden tiimi suunnitteli Kohdataan-hackathonissa tekoälyllä toimivan virtuaalisen Markotin, joka valloitti tuomariston sydämet.
Leading Finnish digital service and DevOps solution provider Eficode Oy and private artificial intelligence laboratory Silo AI Oy are revolutionizing software development through artificial [..]
The six largest cities in Finland have joined forces to tackle their common urban challenges. The Six City Strategy 6Aika is implemented with cooperative projects which enable the cities to [..]
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, and Eficode Oy, a leading DevOps company headquartered in Finland today opened the Alibaba Cloud – Eficode Innovation Center in Helsinki. The [..]
At Eficode we've had a tradition of organizing our own internal hackathon twice per year. We call it 'Ihan Hyvä Päivä' or IHP for short - our very own implementation of the FedEx Day. Generally [..]
These are fast-changing times. During DPB2017 event, we demonstrated that old certainties are collapsing around us and the new generation of digital product builders, masters of the art of digital [..]
What were your favorite classes at elementary school? Programming lessons, maybe? You often stayed at afternoon code clubs after the normal school day? Did you secretly learn English during different [..]
#user experience, #usability, #accessibility
Hankinnoissa käytettävyys jää usein huomioimatta. Yleensä hinta ja toiminnallisuudet ratkaisevat digitaalisen järjestelmän kilpailutuksen. Meillä on tarjota menetelmä, jolla myös käytettävyys voidaan [..]
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group and Eficode Oy, a leading DevOps company based in Finland and a subsidiary of the Finnish Tech Consulting Group TCG Oy ("TCG Group"), today [..]
Hacked WPA2, what does it mean and what can I do? This morning your security got a heart attack and you are not quite sure why all the IT people went to panic mode. At least in Eficode it started as [..]
No more endless debate-cycles and slow, time consuming decision-making processes. This is about 0-day delivery capability with a design to delight.
As the smartphone has become an essential part of our lives, we interact with different services and do various tasks through them. The mobile platforms have matured into vibrant ecosystems filled [..]
#user experience, #usability, #accessibility
Kaikkien julkisen sektorin verkkopalveluiden on oltava muutaman vuoden päästä saavutettavia. Saavutettavuus tarkoittaa, että kaikkien kansalaisten mukaan lukien esimerkiksi senioreiden, [..]
When I was hired by Eficode about five months ago I was very happy with the position. Some people like me just need to work with people and Scrum Master and Agile Coach are definitely that kind of [..]
Eficode, a Finnish design and technology company opens its second office in Sweden. Eficode’s new know-how centre for car industry will be established together with the new Gothenburg office. The [..]
#user experience, #usability, #design
We meet more than 500 users every year in usability tests, and we see nearly 200 different digital services. Based on our experience, we collected five of the most common issues that pose a challenge [..]
I was one of the privileged ones to go to a training in France regarding Pepper. The training took five days and was organized by SoftBank Robotics in Paris.
Deveo, a Finnish company providing repository management platform, has been acquired by Perforce Software. Perforce is based in US and specialised in revision control systems. Deveo product will be [..]
#user experience, #Service Design
Eficode rakentaa upouutta UX-Studiota Helsingin ytimeen. Uusi UX-Studio mahdollistaa Eficoden asiakkaiden, digitaalisten palvelujen käyttäjien ja suunnittelijoiden kohtaamisen sekä tarjoaa [..]
#user experience, #Service Design, #usability
Eficode oli mukana kehittämässä Aku Ankka Lataamo -palvelun käyttökokemusta toteuttamalla käytettävyystestin toukokuussa 2017. Aku Ankka Lataamo on maailman ensimmäinen digitaalinen Aku Ankka [..]
“I am full of this management b****t on Lean Startup when we clearly just keep on doing things the exact same way. KPIs are the same. The way we work is the same. Everyone’s calendar is so damn [..]
#user experience, #Service Design, #design
You may have noticed that our world today is flooding with products and services that are confusing, annoying or almost impossible to use. At worst, you can’t even tell for whom and what the service [..]
Eficode's old office at Kuortaneenkatu used to have a small electronics and hobby project laboratory space. It was created at the end of 2015 and beginning 2016 and named "Efitronics lab". It was a [..]
Happy summer days from the office! Today, just like many others, the office is looking a little bit like a ghost town with an occasional spotting of a member of the human species here and there. I’m [..]
#test automation, #software development
What is CITCON CITCON (Continuous Integration Testing Conference) is open space conference where people can join and present their ideas or problems. The event is held in different country every year [..]
My name is Manvisha Kodali and I am working as a consultant at Eficode. I am currently, working in our customer project operating Devops. With keen interest on latest technologies, I had the [..]
Forget guesswork on how people really use your digital service. Usability testing provides you with facts. In a usability test, actual users test your service with realistic use cases, and you get [..]
DEVOPS 2017 is now officially wrapped up and what a great event we had. Couple of weeks ago, people from different companies and backrounds gathered together in Helsinki Messukeskus to listen [..]
The discussion on digitalization is quite often focused on technology when actually the real change comes from working with people, and from the way of making new things, or old things in a new way. [..]
My name is Niklas Tanskanen and I work as a consultant here at Eficode. I'm currently working on a very interesting project at our customer which utilizes latest cloud technologies delivered by Red [..]
At Eficode, automation is written in our DNA. Therefore it's no wonder that recently many of our customers are asking our opinion on the topic of RPA, or Robotic Process Automation, one of the [..]
The beginning of 2000s was the time when interactive voice response (IVR) systems started to become popular among customer service. Companies appreciated but customers did not. Probably all of us can [..]
We've all heard about them: Code conventions and best practices that will help create high quality code that will be more maintainable, less buggy and generally make our lives easier. So when a new [..]
The fact that a lot has changed in the organization of IT, owes an awful lot to the emergence of Agile and its Manifesto in 2001. It claimed to be disruptive and indeed it was, but also to the extent [..]
Adage Corporation, a trailblazer in user-centered design and service design and one of the best in Finland, is uniting with Eficode Ltd, the leading Devops-operator and pioneer of automated software [..]
You probably all remember the scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where R2-D2 in the last moment saves Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca from being garbage disposal 3263827 at the Death [..]
DevOps has passed the novelty phase and is now being implemented in larger companies than start-ups or web-shops. The concepts of collaboration amongst Developers and Operations open the recurring [..]
Everyone loves Selenium. And why not, it’s great. Yet, I recall moments of complete frustration when browser drivers fail and I just can’t quite recall the correct version of Firefox to work with a [..]
Back in 1996 Bill Gross founded Idealab, the first “startup studio”. As stated in their website, Idealab was founded to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies while also [..]
- My first day at Eficode, was a positive culture shock. The atmosphere was very different from my previous jobs. I noticed right from the start, how the employees said what they really thought, no [..]
Devops has been around as a term for roughly eight years now, and it’s time to review what has changed if anything. As you probably already know, Devops is a common term for how to make better [..]
In the beginning of my career, when every teenager owned a lava lamp and Devops was an unknown word, I was part of a Software Configuration Management (SCM) team. Agility started to replace waterfall [..]
- It made me speechless for a while, when whilst signing my job contract I was asked: ‘Which phone and computer do you want?’. ‘Out of all the models in the world?’ I remember asking myself , says [..]
Do you own your company’s source code? Probably you do. What about tests?
Hello, Eficode offers us a capability to apply for conferences and based on how good your explanation is you get to go there. In my case after reading Phoenix Project and hearing about Velocity I [..]
Cześć! My name is Taavi Rouhiainen and I’ve been working as DevOps consultant at Eficode from the beginning of 2016. This post describes how I ended up working in Poland and how working remotely [..]
My name is Richard Weber, and I am a Senior Consultant here at Eficode. During September I was teaching a course for students at Arcada. We wanted to give schools the opportunity to offer a course in [..]
Hi everyone, it's me, Dila again! In this two-series blog post I wanted to open up my GDPR journey which was made in August 2016. I feel very lucky to be part of the GDPR journey by visiting seven [..]
Hi everyone! My name is Dila Uzsut and I am currently working as a project worker at Eficode. In this two-series blog post I want to open up my GDPR journey which was made in August 2016. I feel very [..]
Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment and Docker are the hot topics these days. In principle CD is part of a Devops pipeline that extends Continuous Integration (CI) and delivers production [..]
Every transformation journey in business have to meet face-to-face, the famous Mr. FUD. Here is a little story about Mr. Fud and Mr. Change.
Eficode has always wanted to work with young and upcoming professionals. This means often working with universities and student teams doing a number of things. In this case, Eficode already had an [..]
In this video tutorial, we combine Jenkins and Zed Attack Proxy to Atlassian Jira. This way we can use Jira as a security defect tracker, without having to manually input information on security [..]
On first day of Devops 2016 the topic of security in Devops processes was picked up by Jani Kirmanen from Silverskin and Visa Parviainen from Eficode. Their presentation had two parts to offer [..]
If you read the last post about the problem of liver cancer ablation training system , this is a continuation post where I describe how we actually set out to solve the problem. If you didn’t I [..]
Liver cancer is pretty bad. About 70% of people who are diagnosed, die as a result of the cancer. Even worse, mechanically removing the tumor usually also means removal of a significant portion of [..]
The second day of Devops 2016 started with a technical talk from a RedHat employee, Siamak Sadeghianfar. The focus of this talk was specifically automation of the DevOps processes with containers.
On July 20th 2016 Eficode released their second official Jenkins plugin. But how does software get from your computer into global distribution?
Hey, my name is Paul Laihonen and I work here at Eficode in platform support. I, as well as many others, participated in the DEVOPS 2016 conference a few weeks back, and would now like to write a [..]
In early 2016, the EU legislative bodies agreed on two legislative projects that will considerably increase every EU citizen's rights to the electronic data that pertains to them. These projects are [..]
Hello, once again this time I managed to find a topic that I can write a good guide as it’s very basic thing, but you will have to dig through internet to find the correct settings as Atlassian has [..]
Everything good eventually comes to an end. This year’s event is now wrapped up and it is time to check what people thought about DEVOPS 2016 - How people felt about the event venue, how relevant and [..]
Hello, I am Richard Weber, a Devops consultant here at Eficode. I attended the Devops2016 conference and today I am writing about the presentation that Markus Suonto held about Docker Datacenter.
I usually blog about big data related issues, but this time I decided to write about the things I do in my freetime. How does it relate to Eficode? How does it relate to hacker culture? What is it [..]
Here in Eficode, we have a prime directive that has been mentioned in this blog already several times: If you can write it down, we can automate it.
Ever wondered what it means to use NoSQL or SQL? What's the difference? Here’s a little post to help you identify a suitable solution: if not the perfect fit, at least a good one – and the ones you [..]
The future of server side: how will analytics revolutionize the server side design? Here at Eficode I work as a data analyst, but I’ve also had a lot of experience with the server side. Here’s my [..]
#user experience, #Service Design, #design
You may have noticed that our world today is flooding with products and services that are confusing, annoying or almost impossible to use. At worst, you can’t even tell for whom and what the service [..]
#user experience, #Service Design, #usability
Eficode oli mukana kehittämässä Aku Ankka Lataamo -palvelun käyttökokemusta toteuttamalla käytettävyystestin toukokuussa 2017. Aku Ankka Lataamo on maailman ensimmäinen digitaalinen Aku Ankka [..]
#user experience, #Service Design
Eficode rakentaa upouutta UX-Studiota Helsingin ytimeen. Uusi UX-Studio mahdollistaa Eficoden asiakkaiden, digitaalisten palvelujen käyttäjien ja suunnittelijoiden kohtaamisen sekä tarjoaa [..]
Happy summer days from the office! Today, just like many others, the office is looking a little bit like a ghost town with an occasional spotting of a member of the human species here and there. I’m [..]
There has been long time Robot Framework test library for Java Swing widget set but JavaFX has been missing. As we had the need we started checking toolsets for JavaFX at spring 2017 and found out [..]
What were your favorite classes at elementary school? Programming lessons, maybe? You often stayed at afternoon code clubs after the normal school day? Did you secretly learn English during different [..]
Eficode, a Finnish design and technology company opens its second office in Sweden. Eficode’s new know-how centre for car industry will be established together with the new Gothenburg office. The [..]
DEVOPS 2017 is now officially wrapped up and what a great event we had. Couple of weeks ago, people from different companies and backrounds gathered together in Helsinki Messukeskus to listen [..]
#design, #teamwork, #ai, #concept, #Kohdataan, #hackathon, #hack
Eficoden tiimi suunnitteli Kohdataan-hackathonissa tekoälyllä toimivan virtuaalisen Markotin, joka valloitti tuomariston sydämet.
The Finnish technology and design firm, Eficode, has achieved a certified Advanced Partner level in Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN). As part of the certification process, more than 50 [..]
#user experience, #usability, #accessibility
Hankinnoissa käytettävyys jää usein huomioimatta. Yleensä hinta ja toiminnallisuudet ratkaisevat digitaalisen järjestelmän kilpailutuksen. Meillä on tarjota menetelmä, jolla myös käytettävyys voidaan [..]
Forget guesswork on how people really use your digital service. Usability testing provides you with facts. In a usability test, actual users test your service with realistic use cases, and you get [..]
I was one of the privileged ones to go to a training in France regarding Pepper. The training took five days and was organized by SoftBank Robotics in Paris.
At Eficode we've had a tradition of organizing our own internal hackathon twice per year. We call it 'Ihan Hyvä Päivä' or IHP for short - our very own implementation of the FedEx Day. Generally [..]
As the smartphone has become an essential part of our lives, we interact with different services and do various tasks through them. The mobile platforms have matured into vibrant ecosystems filled [..]
“I am full of this management b****t on Lean Startup when we clearly just keep on doing things the exact same way. KPIs are the same. The way we work is the same. Everyone’s calendar is so damn [..]
Eficode's old office at Kuortaneenkatu used to have a small electronics and hobby project laboratory space. It was created at the end of 2015 and beginning 2016 and named "Efitronics lab". It was a [..]
These are fast-changing times. During DPB2017 event, we demonstrated that old certainties are collapsing around us and the new generation of digital product builders, masters of the art of digital [..]
#user experience, #usability, #accessibility
Kaikkien julkisen sektorin verkkopalveluiden on oltava muutaman vuoden päästä saavutettavia. Saavutettavuus tarkoittaa, että kaikkien kansalaisten mukaan lukien esimerkiksi senioreiden, [..]
#user experience, #Service Design, #usability
Asiakaspalvelua on vaikea kehittää ilman asiakaskokemuksen mittaamista. Sähköinen kysely on kustannustehokas ja helppo tapa kerätä määrällistä palautetta palvelun asiakkailta. Lisäksi se täydentää [..]
When I was hired by Eficode about five months ago I was very happy with the position. Some people like me just need to work with people and Scrum Master and Agile Coach are definitely that kind of [..]
Devops has been around as a term for roughly eight years now, and it’s time to review what has changed if anything. As you probably already know, Devops is a common term for how to make better [..]
The six largest cities in Finland have joined forces to tackle their common urban challenges. The Six City Strategy 6Aika is implemented with cooperative projects which enable the cities to [..]
My name is Niklas Tanskanen and I work as a consultant here at Eficode. I'm currently working on a very interesting project at our customer which utilizes latest cloud technologies delivered by Red [..]
The discussion on digitalization is quite often focused on technology when actually the real change comes from working with people, and from the way of making new things, or old things in a new way. [..]
My name is Manvisha Kodali and I am working as a consultant at Eficode. I am currently, working in our customer project operating Devops. With keen interest on latest technologies, I had the [..]
No more endless debate-cycles and slow, time consuming decision-making processes. This is about 0-day delivery capability with a design to delight.
In this video tutorial, we combine Jenkins and Zed Attack Proxy to Atlassian Jira. This way we can use Jira as a security defect tracker, without having to manually input information on security [..]
Hello, once again this time I managed to find a topic that I can write a good guide as it’s very basic thing, but you will have to dig through internet to find the correct settings as Atlassian has [..]
- It made me speechless for a while, when whilst signing my job contract I was asked: ‘Which phone and computer do you want?’. ‘Out of all the models in the world?’ I remember asking myself , says [..]
The fact that a lot has changed in the organization of IT, owes an awful lot to the emergence of Agile and its Manifesto in 2001. It claimed to be disruptive and indeed it was, but also to the extent [..]
A couple of Eficodeans visited Leipzig Messe halls from 27 to 30 December 2017 for the 34th instance of the Chaos Communication Congress. This time the congress motto was “tuwat” (eng. “do [..]
When a company is planning a new service for its client, it is often desirable to conduct market research and run controlled experiments. This is to test if the new service has good enough potential [..]
The beginning of 2000s was the time when interactive voice response (IVR) systems started to become popular among customer service. Companies appreciated but customers did not. Probably all of us can [..]
#test automation, #software development
What is CITCON CITCON (Continuous Integration Testing Conference) is open space conference where people can join and present their ideas or problems. The event is held in different country every year [..]
Hey, my name is Paul Laihonen and I work here at Eficode in platform support. I, as well as many others, participated in the DEVOPS 2016 conference a few weeks back, and would now like to write a [..]
Back in 1996 Bill Gross founded Idealab, the first “startup studio”. As stated in their website, Idealab was founded to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies while also [..]
DevOps has passed the novelty phase and is now being implemented in larger companies than start-ups or web-shops. The concepts of collaboration amongst Developers and Operations open the recurring [..]
You probably all remember the scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope where R2-D2 in the last moment saves Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca from being garbage disposal 3263827 at the Death [..]
- My first day at Eficode, was a positive culture shock. The atmosphere was very different from my previous jobs. I noticed right from the start, how the employees said what they really thought, no [..]
Eficode was approached by the management of the Nordic Business Forum to come together and think about a possible AI-enabled mobile application to help take the Nordic Business Forum guest experience [..]
Cześć! My name is Taavi Rouhiainen and I’ve been working as DevOps consultant at Eficode from the beginning of 2016. This post describes how I ended up working in Poland and how working remotely [..]
We've all heard about them: Code conventions and best practices that will help create high quality code that will be more maintainable, less buggy and generally make our lives easier. So when a new [..]
Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment and Docker are the hot topics these days. In principle CD is part of a Devops pipeline that extends Continuous Integration (CI) and delivers production [..]
On first day of Devops 2016 the topic of security in Devops processes was picked up by Jani Kirmanen from Silverskin and Visa Parviainen from Eficode. Their presentation had two parts to offer [..]
Ever wondered what it means to use NoSQL or SQL? What's the difference? Here’s a little post to help you identify a suitable solution: if not the perfect fit, at least a good one – and the ones you [..]
The keynote speeches and display stands had a strong focus on IoT hardware, of which there were multiple modules: SoCs, microcontrollers, sensors etc; with good discussions as to how they can be [..]
In the beginning of my career, when every teenager owned a lava lamp and Devops was an unknown word, I was part of a Software Configuration Management (SCM) team. Agility started to replace waterfall [..]
Hello, I am Richard Weber, a Devops consultant here at Eficode. I attended the Devops2016 conference and today I am writing about the presentation that Markus Suonto held about Docker Datacenter.
Do you own your company’s source code? Probably you do. What about tests?
Every transformation journey in business have to meet face-to-face, the famous Mr. FUD. Here is a little story about Mr. Fud and Mr. Change.
The second day of Devops 2016 started with a technical talk from a RedHat employee, Siamak Sadeghianfar. The focus of this talk was specifically automation of the DevOps processes with containers.
If you read the last post about the problem of liver cancer ablation training system , this is a continuation post where I describe how we actually set out to solve the problem. If you didn’t I [..]
Liver cancer is pretty bad. About 70% of people who are diagnosed, die as a result of the cancer. Even worse, mechanically removing the tumor usually also means removal of a significant portion of [..]
The future of server side: how will analytics revolutionize the server side design? Here at Eficode I work as a data analyst, but I’ve also had a lot of experience with the server side. Here’s my [..]
On July 20th 2016 Eficode released their second official Jenkins plugin. But how does software get from your computer into global distribution?
Here in Eficode, we have a prime directive that has been mentioned in this blog already several times: If you can write it down, we can automate it.
My name is Richard Weber, and I am a Senior Consultant here at Eficode. During September I was teaching a course for students at Arcada. We wanted to give schools the opportunity to offer a course in [..]
I usually blog about big data related issues, but this time I decided to write about the things I do in my freetime. How does it relate to Eficode? How does it relate to hacker culture? What is it [..]
Hi everyone, it's me, Dila again! In this two-series blog post I wanted to open up my GDPR journey which was made in August 2016. I feel very lucky to be part of the GDPR journey by visiting seven [..]
Eficode has always wanted to work with young and upcoming professionals. This means often working with universities and student teams doing a number of things. In this case, Eficode already had an [..]
Hi everyone! My name is Dila Uzsut and I am currently working as a project worker at Eficode. In this two-series blog post I want to open up my GDPR journey which was made in August 2016. I feel very [..]
In early 2016, the EU legislative bodies agreed on two legislative projects that will considerably increase every EU citizen's rights to the electronic data that pertains to them. These projects are [..]
Everything good eventually comes to an end. This year’s event is now wrapped up and it is time to check what people thought about DEVOPS 2016 - How people felt about the event venue, how relevant and [..]
Hello, Eficode offers us a capability to apply for conferences and based on how good your explanation is you get to go there. In my case after reading Phoenix Project and hearing about Velocity I [..]