„The DWH is dead, long live the DWH” – so what? Many organizations deal with the question of whether their data warehouse is still up-to-date or has already become obsolete because of Hadoop, the cloud and other new technologies. Is more…
Caught between compliance, agility and flexibility The logical data warehouse concept was introduced by Gartner in 2012 and has been continuously developed and promoted since then. It provides recommendations on how organizations can build a demand-driven, modern data management capability more…
“Nothing is comparable to the new life that a reflective person experiences when he observes a new country. Thought I am still always myself, I believe I have changed to the very narrow of my bones” – Goethe The opportunity more…
Have I found the right recipe? More questions than Answers? Early this morning I received a beautiful Mother’s Day card from my dear daughters. What a lovely surprise I thought. I treasure these moments, and save the masterpieces to recall more…
Beginnings: I want to start the story by presenting myself. I am Peter and I’ve been a tester for about three years. I want to point out that successful testing runs through my family as my father was a professional more…
I am new in a leadership role, that was also the purpose of my visit to a leadership workshop with Tatiana. She is the one who shows people how to become THE leader. I could not have chosen anybody better more…
As I write this blog, Christmas is approaching, and the end of year festivities are underway. I am catching up with my annual correspondence writing Christmas Cards to my friends and acquaintances with whom I like to keep in touch. more…
Not long ago I had my car stolen from a multi-storey car park. I reported the theft to the police who were quite sympathetic. I enquired about the action which would be taken to apprehend the thieves, recognising that the more…
Last week we attended the IMWorld 2017 in Bucharest. The fact that there were 8 721 visitors, 6 scenes that hosted 148 speakers who supported 130 sessions, 133 partners who featured over 2 500 business solutions and 46 media more…
I’ve finished my university studies last year, so this was the first year when I was working on a full-time contract. I have never thought that I would say this, but I honestly miss going to school and studying. That’s more…
During job interviews or discussions with fellow testers I very often hear that they’re passionate testers and they all are working on themselves and trying to learn new things and improve in testing area. It is always great to meet more…
The annual Report by Gartner, the leading research and advisory company, identifies “Cool Vendors” in key technology areas, highlighting innovative vendors, and their products and services. Prague, Czech Republic – June 14, 2017 Simplity has been recognized in the 2017 more…
Simplity has been listed as a Representative Vendor for our Accurity Data Governance Solution in the April 2017 Gartner Market Guide for Information Stewardship Applications.
Can these two sit together comfortably in the workplace? “Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller In a conversation once with my grandfather, he recalled his early days when he first started work in more…
One day, when I became tired of not having a job and having my parents pay my rent, I decided to find a job. The most experience I had from school was with Java, so I was searching for companies more…
Putting back into the community what the community has given to us is most rewarding Many residents of Vienna are guests here in Austria. We have received a warm welcome from the City of Vienna and its local community which more…
There are many challenges that tester faces every day. Someone could even say that being tester is lifetime adventure! The questions that true tester ask himself are: When to stop? When is the application ready to be shipped out? Have more…
As you already read in our previous article, our persistence data was based on database with support SQL as in many companies (specifically Oracle and Teradata). Unfortunately, this approach became gradually obsolete. We also pointed out that Solr was our more…
IT companies fight long-term with a lack of skilled people and the recruitment process is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, Simplity has started to cooperate with the newly founded, a bit different personal agency, Iconity. The company focuses specially on the more…
The challenge of balancing my Working Life and my Social Life with my Family Life Working mums are busier than ever in our fast moving working environment. We are trying to juggle the important duties and responsibilities of our working more…
How big consultancy companies create opportunities for us. It happens quite often that new opportunity and challenge for some is missed opportunity, a pile of problems and a loss of a customer for others. In world of IT projects, it more…
Our meeting room was transformed into recording studio one beautiful spring day and our CEO Petr Mahdalíček was recalling the beginnings of his career and the long way to the success. What was on his way to award and what more…
„I am going to participate in Data Hackathon in London.” “OMG, are you a hacker?!” was the common answer I got after I told someone that me and Torsten were attending London Data Festival in June 24-26, 2016. Data festival more…
As a Lego fanatic, I often see things from the perspective of an intricate construction of Lego building bricks. Simplity’s logo was no exception. Using my vast resources of Lego pieces at home, I took the opportunity to set myself the challenge of building the blue and orange circle with Lego bricks. The more…
As you have already read in the last article, several weeks ago we started to think about new technology for user interface of our products. Why? In Simplity, we want to keep up with new technologies and JavaScript is gaining more…
As our last post said, the following articles will discuss about our huge code refactoring. So let‘s start with the first part of this serial. Our persistence layer consisted of MyBatis framework on top of 2 databases, Oracle and Teradata. more…
One and a half year of hard coding. One and a half year of work… Should we reconsider the way we are developing our tool? Can we change the architecture of Accurity, the whole software solution? Yes, we have to, more…
A few days back we attended the Spring IO 2016 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Almost 500 developers from around the world discovered the latest developments in the de-facto industry standard Spring Framework. For us, the Simplity Products Team, four of more…
At the end of March, our colleagues spent a swell day at the jobfair iKariéra organized by the ČVUT. A large number of companies have tried to catch many students into their ranks, but we believe that we have really more…
You can try hard to be famous by your skills. You can be lucky, otherwise you have at least a good feeling about a well done job. Simplity is different. You can easily start your star career at a company’s more…
Simplity has succeeded again. One of the steps we are taking on our way in the US, was the Czech ICT Incubator program application. And the effort has paid off. We got a special jury award. It means very much more…
“What are you doing now? Where are you working?” is a common question from someone you have not meet for quite a while. “… I work for a small international company … we develop data governance software which is then more…
How hands-on experience affects quality of final model. Once a business user came to a BIM team member with a query regarding certain attribute. They wanted to know where the attribute came from because it is not possible to source more…
As we want to understand key business issues our potential customers face nowadays, what their expectations and needs are, we have started the cooperation with Gartner. We will use their know-how in order to fit Accurity products more to customer more…
“Where’s your office?” I asked on my first interview in a cafe in Vienna. “We don´t have any. Our consultants work exclusively at our clients’ offices,” smiled Petr Mahdalíček, the managing director of the company. But I was not so more…
Our CEO Petr Mahdalíček has been again cussessful at the end of the year. Computerworld Magazine has classified him in fact among TOP 30 IT celebrities in the Czech republic, and thereby he starred alongside other experts in the field. more…
Let’s have a magazine example. As the analyst for Glossary, I am often asked to explain what this product is for and how it works. We have a lot of materials – text on the web, brochures, user guide, presentations, more…
Many people think that you have to work for a large international company if you want to travel abroad in your job a lot. Well, it does not have to be your case if you decide to join Simplity. Neither more…
We can claim that almost the whole technology and data world is based on natural principles. We can mention neural networks based on our central neural system or artificial intelligence…etc. But what about data quality? I have been thinking about more…
Today everybody is speaking about data, how it is important, how it changes the whole world, how its processing in companies increases profits and efficiency…etc. But is it useful? Don´t we rely on it too much? Does it really help? more…
Our Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award still produces fruits. Online magazine focused on technology news Lupa.cz has published very interesting article about Simplity. Read it here.
From October 29 to November 1 Simplity was participating at the renowned 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data in Santa Clara, California. And the lucky winner of our recent competition for a free trip and conference ticket was with us. He helped us to represent our methods and tools among high-class universities and global players like LinkedIn, Google, eBay and Huawei.
Simplity is the first Czech company which has reached the first position of the ranking of the fastest growing companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. We are proud of this award and we appreciate that our story has had own more…
On Monday, Simplity has received Deloitte award of the fastest growing technology company in the Central Europe. Hospodarske Noviny has written about this success as the first. See the article here.
We’re more than just big data. Each year we try to do something for those less fortunate. This year our team participated in the “Vienna Night Run” project, which provides financial support for the nongovernmental organization “Light for the World”. more…
Interview with our CEO Peter Mahdalíček about his way to the business, obstacles that he had to overcome, and prerequisites of a successful entrepreneur. See the interview.
Simplity has received the CIO Grand Prix for AT DataPool Implementation for Sberbank Europe AG Headquartered in Vienna. CIO Grand Prix
Peter Mahdalíček reveals, how he uses modern technology in his business. You can find it in the interview here.
We were a sponsor of the TDWI Conference in Munich, one of the largest gathering of expert Business Intelligence leaders, where Dr. Torsten Priebe (CTO) presented our methodology Business Information Modeling.
In March the Forbes magazine has published an article about Simplity, our CEO Petr Mahdalicek and his way to winning the “EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2014” award.
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