I work as a User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) designer in one of Siili’s design tribes called Envisioning Experience. What would be a typical workday as a designer in Siili? 

The CMS market has been around for more than 20 years. The basic industry and competitive tools are providing a wide range of functionalities and ways to extend the services. Basically, every organization and company has their public websites along with other possible dedicated subsites for products, campaigns, services, etc. running on one or more CMS platforms.

Currently, nearly all work is teamwork. Does the establishment of teams constitute work? Yes it does, says Christopher Avery, who promises that anyone can build any team any time. Christopher has productised this promise through his Powerful Teams method. I will put this into practice.

How can you select just the right robotic process automation (RPA) technology for you? Is there an option for large commercial technologies – say an open-source solution? In this text, we compare commercial and open RPA technologies to help you make an easier choice.

The future lies in multi-talented teams. A multi-talented team accepts a challenge and builds a product or service, all the way from an idea to production, without any middlemen. A dream or reality? Read and decide.

Cloud services provide companies with such significant benefits that there is often no return to on-premises software after you have had your taste of the cloud. Every organisation should be interested in the benefits and risks of cloud services. However, the deployment of cloud services involves many misconceptions that I will set straight below.

Soon there will be at least two! Our Siilis Jari Rantala and Andrea Vianello are on their way to Botswana to coach lean, agile, and cloud to local startups.

In spring 2019, Siili launched Siili One, its new subsidiary, which employs experienced software specialists who need a challenge. Siili One means a return back to the roots of Siili – to a risk-sharing salary model. Its purpose is to find the right talent for the right project at the right time, without any unnecessary fuss. In this text, I will tell you what Siili One means for employees, partners and customers.

Azure Databricks is a great tool to set up a streaming application where a user can get insight to some data either in real-time or near real-time. In this blog series we build a streaming application to get real-time road traffic information from Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) open data API. The data is ingested by a custom container application made with .NET Core, processed by Azure Databricks via Event Hub, and then visualized with Microsoft Power BI.