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In the past 5 years most of the new software projects have used Kubernetes. This was also the case with Softelligence, as we witnessed Kubernetes become the global de-facto tool used in new software applications.

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With an experience of over 16 years in the software development area, Edwin was appointed as Head of Software Development in June 2022. He confesses this was a smooth transition, as his previous activities were similar to what he does today.

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Managed by Softelligence, but seamlessly integrated into your Engineering unit, we provide dedicated Agile software engineering teams, to build software independently or augment your existing product teams

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Join us and global executives for the World Intelligent Insurance Summit in Berlin, Germany, on October 20th and 21st, 2022.

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We’re gearing up for #TINTech 2022 by The Insurance Network, taking place physically on 11 Oct. 2022. Our team is looking forward to sharing insights on how our expertise can overcome the challenges around data quality, availability, and ‘leveragability’ to unlock the benefits of analytics and automation.

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We are eager to join this year’s CIO Council National Conference 2022 themed CIO IN METAVERSE AND AUGMENTED REALITY.

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Significant value can be derived from a modern data warehouse solution as it enables data experimentation. This is an essential component of a cross-functional data-driven organizational culture that relies heavily on the intersection of the Business and IT functions within a large company such as our customer’s.

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In this article, we will discuss some necessary steps to implement this procedure and the best methods for using it.

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Mihaela Chirapleș is one of the first employees of Softelligence. She started as an HR specialist when the company had only 30 employees and now she is the Site Manager for the Bucharest office, overseeing 150 colleagues.

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There is one thing that drives Daniel Jinga in his role as a Consulting Director at Softelligence. His focus is to help financial services companies enhance their customer and employee experience through Business Transformation.

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Our customer is a Fortune 100 company with more than 127,000 employees worldwide. They needed to increase the RTY (rolled throughput yield in terminology Six Sigma is a kind of factory efficiency metric) calculated for the first two cycles of production in a manufacturing plant, and to switch from SAS to Azure. In response to our customer’s request, we have formulated two pilot projects: factory digitization leveraging Big Data and creating a ccorecard for sales metrics to follow the rate of won opportunities of each month vs. the current year.

Case Study

It has long been held that the strength of MGAs is their agility and flexibility and it is perhaps that which has led to their survival and growth during these difficult times and hard market conditions.

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We are looking forward to the #BestEmployerFest powered by the HR Manager magazine on 08 June 2022. Andreea Fasui, Softelligence HR Manager, and representatives from other companies will join a panel discussion to share their visions on the employee experience process and the HR world in practice.

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We're gearing up for #TINTech 2022 by The Insurance Network taking place on 21st June 2022. Our team is looking forward to sharing insights on how our expertise can overcome the challenges around data quality, availability, and ‘leveragability’ to unlock the benefits of analytics and automation.

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Real-time data-driven decision-making is a strategic core competence to drive competitive advantage in the digital age. But how do we manage the increasing velocity, volume, value, variety, and veracity of this ‘big data’ and enable the business to gain actionable insight and value at the speed it needs?

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To decide whether an application needs a middle or top management review we used new optimized criteria and we tracked the portfolio in a streamlined way using interactive dashboards to better understand the impact of the new criteria real-time.

Case Study

Our customer is one of the most important Oil & Gas companies in Romania with a presence of over 20 years in the market. The organisation needed to increase average revenue per customer, stimulate cross-sell and upsell and encourage an increase in the utilization rate of loyalty points across a nationwide marketing program.

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We're gearing up for the Digital Claims powered by The Insurance Network on April 28th, 2022, in London. Softelligence will sponsor the ESG and claims session and our experts will explain how to develop a successful strategy using AI-driven claims management.

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Are you studying computer science or computer engineering in Craiova? Or maybe Informatics? Apply for the new edition of our Software Engineering paid program dedicated to students based in Craiova. By applying to this program you will have the opportunity to train with senior architects in modern software practices and career development, develop technical & teamwork skills, and by the end of this program start a career in IT and have a clear vision of what it is like to build software that matters.

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One of the most important qualities of a leader is vision. In any business process and decision, when all other requirements are met, it is the vision that makes the difference and influences the choice. Find out more in the interview below about why is the vision important to achieve excellence in an interview given to Florentina Caraiman for Revista Cariere by Adrian Blidăruș, CEO of Softelligence. 

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Human-Centred Design is most often defined as a process or approach, commonly used in design and management frameworks that develop solutions by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. But what does it mean to “resonate” and to “co-respond” for a company that offers AI-based solutions, not just at the internal level, but also at the external level?

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Humanity is about kindness and solidarity. About life and hope. Softelligence joins the Red Cross campaign “Humanity has no borders” and supports people fleeing the terrible war in Ukraine.

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Are you ready to start your career in software engineering? We invite you to apply for our new Softelligence Engineering Paid Internship Program, dedicated to students based in Craiova, Romania. It is a new paid program, focused on Python, React, and AWS technology, and may be the first of its kind dedicated to students in Craiova, using these technologies that are in such high demand on the market.

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Softelligence continues to sustain Romanian talents and will support the Romanian National Robotics Team AutoVortex for another two years. Recently the National Robotics team won a well-deserved silver trophy at the International Robotics Championship in Saint Petersburg and they will take part in the International Robotics Championships in Libya and South Korea this February.

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To obtain an accurate consumption forecast, we have taken the historic data of the customer for over 5 years regarding national consumption and using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. We reached a 3% variation which was a significant improvement compared to the 15% variance obtained in previous forecasting efforts based on the processing of excel macros.

Case Study

How we helped a leading Dutch software engineering and technology consulting firm deliver a Pension Administration platform that manages the pensions of over 3 million subscribers.

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When data becomes "food" for AI, it is valuable because it is part of a code + data association. Anthropologist Antonia Walford (2021) observed that “data is a form of potential and is valued not only for what it is but also for what it will become”.

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Externalizing your application development to a partner outside of your organization is a challenging and often time-consuming process, but fortunately for you, that part is now over.

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“Our aim is to create and expand an Eastern European excellence hub for consulting and digital transformation for companies providing financial services, which will be serving global large customers. In the past three years, Softelligence has been involved in increasingly complex international projects, which are an essential part of turning our customers’ visions into reality."

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Engaging the right development partner can be a challenging process; it is a bit more complex than simply conducting job interviews for various technical openings at your company. Because beyond “filling the gaps” and finding your initial development team, it is important to engage the right organization. A partner.

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The support of the Romanian National Robotics Team marks the third project of the CSR program "Generation Tomorrow" and focuses on practical education and innovation. The first three stages of this program, announced in early 2021, have been completed. The second program initiated and supported by the company was "SOS Planet Scholarships".

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Softelligence is the main private sponsor of the Romanian National Robotics Team for its participation in the Dubai 2020 International Technology and Innovation Exhibition. This is the third educational project in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program of the company, called CSR Generation Tomorrow.

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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known for since long. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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This article represents the materialization of the collaboration between Softellligence and Antropedia, the first of many in a long-term project – one of the few in our country – that will focus on the relationship between anthropology and technology, with emphasis on AI, machine learning, and Big Data.

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The focus of this article will not be on explaining how to choose a good partner or how to negotiate terms. This article is about what type of projects and people you may want to consider in your organization, as a Client, when outsourcing to a new partner for the first time. It will also help you prepare for some of the questions that your new software engineering partner will most likely ask before moving forward with your collaboration.

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SOS Planet Scholarships is an educational project initiated by the SOS Satele Copiilor Romania Association and supported by Softelligence within the “Generation Tomorrow” CSR program.

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2021 has been called by some IT industry actors “the year of Machine Learning”, heralding the time when ML predictions become the norm in almost all industries and sectors around the globe.

Opinion

Are you ready to start your career in software engineering? We invite you to apply for an opening with our software development and engineering program in Craiova, Romania.

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How and where do you get the right information, at the right time? The answer lies in the symbiosis between man and machine, in a partnership between humans and technology, known as the data-driven digital transformation of business processes.

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Learn more about Softelligence's growth and its ranking in the Technology category, of the 2021 FT1000 Fastest Growing Companies top compiled by Financial Times and Statista in Adrian Blidăruș's Interview with Aleph News.

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Risks of money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and the security of the citizens have always been a major concern for the European Union and remain of paramount importance during the COVID-19 crisis, as well. The anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory landscape continues to evolve.

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The technology and consulting firm, Softelligence, invests in 2021 in the sustainable development of society through education and innovation and during this year will run the "Generation Tomorrow" CSR program that will include initiatives to support projects with a positive social impact on the medium and long term.

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This is a success story that could have never been written without the help of Artificial Intelligence. Comprehensive research and expert programming created the "brain" behind the machine's ability to take care of itself and go where no human has ever gone, at least for now.

Opinion

It is an honor to announce that we have been selected for the Global Outsourcing 100 list by IAOP for the 2nd consecutive year. It is rewarding to see that our teams’ passion and hard work in digital transformation consulting and delivery in the US and Europe are recognized globally.

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Adrian Blidărus, Softelligence CEO: "At the end of this year, I'd firstly want to have achieved growth. I want to expand our focus to other markets, beyond Great Britain and Central and Eastern Europe, so we will be looking further on to Western markets." Watch the full video interview given to ZF IT Generation's Adrian Seceleanu for Ziarul Financiar.

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Starting December 2020, we consolidate our commitment to accelerate the digitalization of the financial services industry by announcing our associate membership with UK Finance, a trade association for the banking and financial services sector.

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Softelligence has refreshed its visual identity at the end of 2020 and announces a new partnership with Databricks, for banking and insurance industry. At the same time, the team will grow by at least 60 new employees to be recruited during this year.

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The agreement for product engineering, data analytics and data science services come as a result of an extensive RFI/RFP selection process that surveyed several suppliers, from different geographies, before selecting Softelligence as a preferred development partner for British start-up Wellbeing Science Group.

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While 2020 has had its many challenges, I would like to thank each of you for being along for the ride and for taking this journey further so beautifully. At the close of the year, we can all look back at the lessons we’ve learned and how they have made us stronger, better – together. I hope you agree that our new logo is an echo to this fact.

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"I discovered in this pandemic that projects do not have to take so long to be launched, nor do they need to be so bureaucratic. To produce value, you just need an open attitude towards finding solutions and leveraging innovation". Find more in the interview given to the global innovation ecosystem magazine Startup.info by Adrian Blidarus.

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Explore data and analytics trends and industry trends that will shape the future in banking and insurance by 2025. Find out how the way that data and analytics are produced and delivered will change over the next five years. More details here.

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As a Preferred Solution Supplier for Microsoft Power BI and Gold Data and Analytics Partner, we provide business intelligence, data integration and analytics consulting services to companies in Financial Services and beyond.

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Understanding the importance of data governance for enterprise analytics. Explore the essentials of governance in Tableau. Read the full article below.

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Understand the essentials of a DataOps platform. Find out why citizen developers need IT support and proper governance is a must in the DataOps process. Read the full article below.

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We recently had the pleasure to join the Managing General Agents'​ Association in delivering a webinar where our CEO, Adrian Blidarus together with Steven Haasz, Partnerships and European Accounts Director at INSTANDA explored how to improve the customer experience and the operational efficiency with personalisation at scale.

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Understanding the importance of governance in self-service analytics. Find out what to track in a Power BI governance program. Read the full article below.

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Explore the Digital Risk Inspection Concept. Find out how an omnichannel InsurTech solution can support the digital risk inspection concept. More details here.

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In order to accelerate growth and remain competitive in the industry, many companies choose to outsource part of their IT services to a reliable and trustworthy partner, often in a different country (nearshore outsourcing) or continent (offshore outsourcing). Read on in this blog article to learn why outsourcing IT services to Romania makes good business sense.

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All about Video Call Onboarding procedure. Find out how video-based customer identification process can help in the digital onboarding. Read the post.

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Digital transformation is as much about having the right culture and partnerships as it is about tech itself. Read the full article below.

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Understanding the role of software outsourcing. Why companies are outsourcing software engineering work. More details here.

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All about Electronic Signature procedure. Find out how Electronic Signature technology can help the customer onboarding process. Read the post.

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The novel COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated a greater reliance on digital delivery and many insurers have found that their own e-trade platforms are not robust enough. This issue may have only been extrapolated during lockdown.  It is anticipated that the use of e-trade is set to increase with many insurers exploring placement of further complex risks electronically.

Use Case

Explore the Facial Recognition process. Find out how Facial Recognition can help the customer onboarding process in Banking, Insurance and more. Read the post.

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Starting June 2020, Softelligence consolidates its commitment to accelerate the digitalization of the insurance industry by announcing their partnership with insurtech firm INSTANDA, a leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry.

Press Releases

The partnership started when Info Support's Business Unit Finance (BUF) sought to identify a partner to assist in the delivery of a large-scale application development project for a major Dutch pension fund.

Case Study

Softelligence Engineering recognized for Excellence in Strategic Partnerships as well as in the Rising Star category of the 2020 Global Outsourcing 100 list compiled by the IAOP.

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All about KYC - Know Your Customer procedure. Find out how KYC can help the customer onboarding process. More details here.

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All about OCR - Optical Character Recognition. Find out how OCR can help the customer onboarding process.

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By unlocking the potential of InsurTech, new tech opportunities are reshaping the world of insurance. Explore the latest trends in the insurance industry in our infographic.

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SCRUM is here to help, not get in your way. Explore some of the real-life challenges we’ve had with software building activities and discover our solutions.

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In the era of big data, augmented capabilities are becoming key differentiators for analytics and business intelligence (BI), data science, and machine learning platforms. Tools that leverage machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming how analytics are developed, consumed, and shared.

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As an MGAA Supplier Member, Softelligence has committed to offer complimentary workshops to support its members in accelerating their transformation aspiration or health-check existing strategies - strictly no obligations.

Consulting

Our client is a banking institution authorized to carry out all the specific activities of a commercial bank and some activities related to capital markets. In order to attain the Bank’s objectives, we delivered a solution built on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and our own digital acceleration platform.

Case Study

With the economic and social changes created in the current landscape, tech leaders are looking now more than ever to introduce digital capabilities to the learning system, moving towards a safe, digital future of educational activities.

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Aside from cost reduction and a rapid return on investment averaging 6 months, accuracy and increased productivity along with employee satisfaction are even more important when unlocking the power of RPA.

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We recently had the opportunity to partner with the Managing General Agents Association in the UK to deliver a webinar exploring Insurance during COVID-19, more specifically how the novel coronavirus pandemic challenges the status quo and shapes the world of Insurance.

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Containerization has become very popular during the last few years, especially given the growth of microservices architectures and cloud services. Using a stack such as Docker, Kubernetes and Helm can make one’s life easier in terms of building, running and deployment options.

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Adopting a digital mindset is rapidly becoming a top priority in 2020 for supply chain and logistics executives all over the world. To help you advance your operational efficiency we invite you to explore our infographic below with useful insights from business leaders in the Supply Chain and Logistics industries to learn the latest tech trends that are reshaping the current business environment.

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Emerging technologies such as telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI), big data and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) are bringing more business value to the healthcare sector. These benefits are translated into practical applications that aim for higher efficiency in providing digital healthcare services to patients worldwide.

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We have designed a 100% Digital Quote & Bind journey to boost operational efficiency while removing many of the risks associated with the delegated business.

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"What matters most for successful digital transformation is often not the technology itself, but rather how people react to it." Find more in the interview given to Insurance Insider magazine by Adrian Blidarus.

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Digital transformation is not a new topic. How will the post-pandemic business landscape accelerate this vision and deliver it to day-to-day practice, in an industry so heavily regulated as Banking?

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In light of the recent escalation of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, we would like to inform you that we have assessed the impact of the situation and put into effect business continuity measures in order to ensure the associated risks to our delivery capability and support services are mitigated.

News

We are proud to announce that we have received the accreditation as an organization carrying out research and development work (R&D) on behalf of companies for 2020 and 2021 from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI).

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While digital transformation has been on the agenda for years, 2020 is predicted to be a crucial time to accelerate and deploy it across industries. As a leader in this process, it is essential to remain transparent and open about every measure you are taking to enhance the future of the business.

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What is AI, why and when should we use AI if we want to deliver an operational efficiency? In the following article, we aim to answer all these questions.

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We are excited to announce that we’ve been selected for The 2020 Global Outsourcing 100® list produced by IAOP and published annually by FORTUNE Custom Projects, in the Rising Star category.

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Technology is growing at a fast pace, and we, at Softelligence, are growing along with it. That’s why we invite you to join our academy program. Upon completion for the 2 months’ Nexus Train and Hire Program, we will open job opportunities for our best-performing students to join our team permanently as Junior Fintech Developers and Junior Business Intelligence Developers.

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Meet Laura Niculescu, our new Head of Talent, at Softelligence. If you're interested to join us or take part in training programs at Softelligence, please contact us.

Testimonial

A business dashboard needs to be user-friendly and support the decision-making process. To help you on the journey towards achieving growth with data, we will delve into 15 dashboard design principles to help you develop the most comprehensive dashboard for the business needs.

Best Practices

Through a unique mix of software science, design thinking, and agile delivery, at Softelligence we enable companies to accelerate their product engineering and go-to-market strategy.

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Are you ready to start your career in software engineering? We invite you to apply for an opening with our software development and engineering program in Craiova, Romania.

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Softelligence is a Registered Supplier Member with the Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) since June 2019.  The MGAA is a UK-based not for profit organisation dedicated to representing UK’s MGAs, with 141 full members representing over £6.1bn of underwriting capacity.

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Building a data culture before undergoing digital transformation ensures buy-in from employees from the very beginning of the process. We support you to accelerate your approach.

Opinion

Recently we've launched the “S.E.T. for Success” Program under the motto "accelerate your emotional transformation". We invited Manuel Bajescu, Solution Architect at Softelligence, to share his motivations to join the “S.E.T. for Success” program as a Mentor.

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Alexandra Ionascu, about the Train&Hire Program at Softelligence Academy. As individuals, we grow when we have the courage to step outside our comfort zone and aim higher.

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Outsourcing is no longer only a cost-reduction tool, but a means to find the right, culture-add partner, often in a different geography. We can help engineer your vision by using webscale architectures, microservices, deep learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Cloud technologies and IoT.

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The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by 60 communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on Microsoft Azure. In the Bucharest edition, we're leading, we'll explore hands-on AI applications in Constant Scoring for the Banking industry, as well as best practices in building the business case for AI.

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Our expertise covers the most important Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms like Tableau, Power BI and Qlik. Take the optimal decision to invest.

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Learn more about the Softelligence Academy and internship program from Ligia Popescu, one of our most recent graduates. We take our interns through databases and web front-end classes, Insurance and Banking workshops.

Testimonial

The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by 60 communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on Microsoft Azure. In the Bucharest AI Night edition we're leading, we'll explore hands-on AI applications in Constant Scoring for the Banking industry, as well as best practices in building the business case for AI.

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Consumers are existing in an increasingly digitized world and their expectations are being set accordingly. This use case showcases the potential of utilizing IoT and AI-enabled service to give insurers the ability to deliver a level of customer service unprecedented for the industry.

Use Case

We developed a framework called Unified DATA, to accelerate digital transformation in the financial services industry. Find more in the interview given to Piata Financiara magazine by Adrian Blidăruș.

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63% of insurance executives believe that the entire industry will be transformed by intelligent technologies. This report aims to fill the literacy gap by providing a number of use cases of how AI can be actively put to work to improve the insurance industry right now.

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"Digital transformation means a lot of things these days and we are trying to demystify this term in several ways". Find more in the interview given to Fintech Connect by Adrian Blidăruș.

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Softelligence, a strategic technology partner for the banking and insurance industry, recently received the e-Growth award in the eFinance Gala 2019 for the successful involvement with FintechOS in the effort to localize George, the first smart banking platform in Romania launched by BCR in 2018.

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