Insights

Stabilizing the Manufacturing Industry by Leveraging Smart Manufacturing

Digital transformation within the Industry 4.0 sphere enhances data connectivity on various levels with the explicit goal of improving the performance of businesses, supply chains, production planning, execution, and monitoring. In such cases, software engineering solutions for the manufacturing sector are the key to the sustainability of factory systems.

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Perspectives of the Romanian IT – Today Software Magazine article

Making the high-volume business of software outsourcing profitable requires the use of special tools. Work processes and standards can make the difference between success and failure. Discover more perspectives by reading this summary of an article published by one of our colleagues in TSM.

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Impressions from the Techsylvania Hackathon

A delegation of 10 colleagues from Fortech attended this year’s edition of Techsylvania Hackathon. The much-awaited event brought together an intense coding weekend focused on product development and solutions that could improve our lives. Coffee, coke, code. Repeat. Project done.

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SciFi Movies Turned Real: 10 Emerging Technologies

The Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies recently published an article covering in detail the 10 technological breakthroughs that could reshape the future. From body-adapted wearable electronics, to screenless display and RNA based therapeutics, this takes us to a SciFi real-life scenario.

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Outsourcing Guide Romania Sponsorship

Fortech supported the German Outsourcing Association’s initiative to publish the Outsourcing Guide Romania. A comprehensive material aimed at helping decision-makers know what to expect from Romanian IT services providers, this is a relevant lecture for anyone interested in outsourcing to Romania.

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The Business Environment in Romania

The Romanian economy is on a positive trend for a while now, and the development of the IT sector is highly encouraged by both the state, though fiscal measures and incentives, and the software companies, through continuous investments in creating excellent working conditions for their employees.

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Romania – Destination for Software Outsourcing

We have the pleasure to start a series of articles about the software outsourcing phenomenon in Romania and Cluj-Napoca. Starting from glancing at the labor market and continuing with the advantages Romania brings as an outsourcing destination, we will try to paint a complete picture into this landscape.

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The Romanian Software Outsourcing Market

The National Association of Software and Services Industry recently conducted a study on the Romanian IT market. According to the study’s conclusions, the Romanian software outsourcing market grew by 5.7% in 2012 and is forecasted to grow with 2.4% annually, in the next five years.

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Romanian Teenager Ionut Budisteanu – In the top 16 of the Most Influential Teenagers

Ionut Budisteanu is the Romanian teenager who won the top prize at the Gordon E. Moore 2013 competition. He developed a self-driving car prototype by using artificial intelligence and a video camera to identify traffic lanes, curves, other cars involved in the traffic and even pedestrians.

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Romanian Teenagers Awarded @ Tech School

Tech School is a contest organized by UPC Romania and supported by the Ministry of Education and by Romanian and international partners. It is an opportunity for college and high school students passionate about digital media, gaming, robotics and programming to be awarded for their prototypes.

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Romanian Testing Conference 2013 – An Event of the Romanian Testing Community

The Romanian Testing Conference is a reference point for Romanian software testers who what to share their ideas and software testing experience with alike professionals. The 2013 edition of the conference attracted prestigious speakers from around the world, who shared their rich experience.

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Historical Perspectives of IT in Cluj-Napoca

The first reports of IT activities in Cluj-Napoca date back to 1957, when a well-known mathematician founded the “Computing Institute”. From the same year we have the first notion of a “Computer Department”, the department which built the first computer with Marica relay in its first two years.

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