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Asseco Enterprise Solutions (AES), registered in Slovakia, will ultimately integrate Asseco Group’s resources specialized in the development of proprietary ERP software. The project implementation will be supervised by Jozef Klein, a vastly experienced leader and President of the Management Board of Asseco Central Europe, our Slovak subsidiary. The initiation of AES in Slovakia is also aimed to continue our strategy of building sector and product competences in the regions where Asseco Group operates. AES is going to focus on developing and strengthening the Group’s international position in the segment of ERP solutions.“As forecasted by Gartner research firm , the global ERP software market is expected to grow by over 7% on an annual basis to reach the worth of USD 41.7 billion by 2020. Given the potential of our Group as well as a very favourable outlook for this sector, we decided to establish Asseco Enterprise Solutions,” said Marek Panek, Vice President of Asseco Poland, who is responsible for the international growth of Asseco Group.The newly founded Asseco Enterprise Solutions (AES) holds 46% of shares in Asseco Business Solutions (ABS), a Polish subsidiary of Asseco Poland. In exchange for the contribution of these shares, Asseco Poland acquired 100% of shares in Asseco Enterprise Solutions with a total par value of EUR 6.8 million.“Asseco Enterprise Solutions will be our competence center for ERP solutions. Its first and fundamental pillar has been formed by Asseco Business Solutions, our company that has a successful track record in this business. In the future, we are going to expand Asseco Enterprise Solutions by adding other resources already held by the Group, and we will also look for new companies operating in this sector in various countries. From the perspective of operations conducted by Asseco Business Solutions, there will be no change except for the fact that the new shareholder will focus on the market of ERP solutions, and will try to make better use of synergies occurring within the Group in this sector of the IT market,” Marek Panek added.

Asseco’s cooperation with ASIF is based on the function points model, allowing for the settlement of our actions. The annex increased their amount in terms of modifications and software development. Now, Asseco can continue to adapt it to the current needs of the Fund.Workflow acts as an integrating layer for the most important domain-specific systems used by the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund. These are the systems used for handling farmers’ insurance and benefits, as well as a system for document management and archiving. Automation of business processes and the application of SOA architecture enabled the consolidation and optimization of access to ASIF resources. The solution provides users with an unified graphical interface, and it allows for, among others, a comprehensive and centralized management of user identities, and data exchange with external institutions.

Several of NATO systems run graphical user interfaces based on Silverlight technology. It is going to be phased out over the coming years and will no longer be supported by its manufacturer. Some third party solution providers are already withdrawing their support for products based on Silverlight. Additioanlly, some web browsers (including Chrome, Microsoft Edge) will not run it either. It is a natural phenomenon associated with the life cycle of a certain technology, but it requires preparation and taking into account the current activities of the organization.This is why Asseco developed an IT systems migration strategy for the NCIA (NATO Communications and Information Agency). The strategy is designed to transfer solutions based on Silverlight on to newer, modern technologies based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It describes detailed procedures for migration, technologies, and potential problems that may arise during its implementation.

Zdzisław Wiater, Deputy Director of the Public Administration Division at Asseco Poland: Having a good strategy is essential for systems migration, in particular when you’re acting for a unique and demanding organization like NATO. Procedure is grounded in Asseco’s expertise and experience gained, among others, by carrying out a number of migrations for the EU agency FRONTEX. This project also required Asseco to check and modify the source code used in NATO systems. It is worth noting that we are the only company from Poland doing this type of work.

The company also carried out a successful migration of a NATO application – this, too, was done according to the previously developed strategy. This helped create a system prototype, running on HTML5 and JavaScript.

Tomasz Jaros, systems architect at Asseco involved in the project, said: A working prototype confirmed that the procedures and technologies selected by Asseco were correct. It has been presented in the Hague, during a dedicated internal NATO workshop, alongside the entire strategy.

Asseco is the only Polish company that has a team of experts who, for 15 years already, specialize in software development for the defense industry. It benefits both the Polish armed forces as well as NATO and European Union agencies, such as ESA and FRONTEX.

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Video commentary by Asseco regarding this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIthj7sZiwE&feature=youtu.be

Jacek Socha, Vice President of the Board of PwC: The export of Polish products and services is growing dynamically, likewise are Polish investments abroad. This success is best reflected by the companies recognized in this year’s edition of the ‘Polish Firm – International Champion’ contest. They’re present on every continent and represent different industries, from the agricultural and food industry, cosmetics, chemical materials, through to the oil industry and the services industry. Innovation is on the up and is certainly one of the elements common to all the winners this year. There are a lot of Polish brands which are recognized and praised abroad – this is fantastic, and we need more of those. In the minds of the consumers Polish products and services have to be a synonym for the highest quality.

The Polish Firm – International Champion contest promotes Polish companies being proactive and engaging in global markets. Companies investing in foreign markets transform themselves in global entities, successfully compete in those markets, and help build the ‘Poland’ brand at the international level.

This change allows more flexible plans to be offered and provides greater automation of customer service processes. This is consistent with Orange’s strategy which aims, among others, at maintaining a wide sale offer and services of the highest quality.Implementation took place between March 2014 and October 2016. The main focus was on safety, quality, and consistency of the migrated data.Marcin Zagdański, IT BSS Director at Orange: The most important outcome of the project is that Orange Polska customers are now billed more efficiently. Additionally, a new billing environment means new opportunities for further development.Jacek Krupa – Director for Invoicing, Settlements, and Debt Recovery, leading the program of data migration, said: Processes which have previously required manual labor have now been simplified and automated. Implementation of billing cycles has accelerated the process of clearing and invoice preparation for customers.Karol Maroszek, Head of Projects Implementation at the Telecommunications and Media Division, Asseco Poland: We carried out an operation on the clearing system which forms the basis of Provider’s revenues. Asseco carried it out without disruptions to the functioning of Orange and with no negative effects for the end customer. This project was successful thanks to very good cooperation and understanding on Orange’s side.

Asseco Poland is the largest IT company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. It has developed technologically advanced software solutions for all key sectors of the economy for more than 25 years.Today, Asseco Poland stands at the forefront of the multinational Asseco Group. It is one of the largest software vendors in Europe, taking the sixth place in the Truffle 100 ranking. Asseco Group is present in more than 50 countries worldwide and employ over 20 000 people.