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The Macedonian .NET User Group is the largest developer community in Macedonia and was recently registered as a non-governmental organization. The group provides a communication channel for .NET related news and job opportunities, and offers a networking and learning location. The newly elected managing board member and Netcetera software engineer Ljubomir Zivanovic about the Macedonian .NET User Group: "Within a short time after the Java User Group, this is the second software developer community founded in Macedonia. It will be a pleasure for me to help this community rise".
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Girls and boys visited Netcetera in Zürich and accompanied the father or mother during the working day. Netcetera sets a great value on equal opportunities and is happy to encourage young talents in giving them an introduction to information technology.
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At the conference of 4 November Netcetera’s CTO Joachim Hagger showed how the finance industry can profit from the latest mobile technology. Furthermore, Netcetera presented its comprehensive solutions for financial planning, payment technologies and systems integration. At the Finance Forum’s Run for Sponsors the Netcetera runners once again used their legs for a good cause.
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With Tramdroid Netcetera has launched its first mobile application for the iPhone. Tramdroid enables iPhone users to quickly find updated tram and bus timetables for the city of Zürich. After only a few days in the iTunes AppStore, Tramdroid receives very positive user reviews and made it to the top 10 in Switzerland.
German Media Release (PDF)

The wait is over: Get the current tram and bus timetable of Zürich’s public transportation for your iPhone. Netcetera’s mobile application “Tramdroid” can now be downloaded for free in the iTunes AppStore.
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Brain-Group is specialized in financial advisory software and acquires all customer contracts of Tribut. Brain-Group raises its equity capital of which Netcetera takes over a 33% share. Furthermore, Netcetera is represented in Brain-Group’s board of directors with Mike Franz and Tom Molag. German Media Release (PDF)

On 1 October 2008 Benno Häfliger (49) was appointed Managing Director for Metaversum, a Netcetera company. Metaversum is focusing on state-of-the-art consulting & solutions for sales and marketing management. Marcel Altherr, former managing director, who successfully set up the company, is leaving after four years. German Media Release (PDF)

With their canteen robot a grammar school team from Sargans won the «Robot Team Challenge». Netcetera and AdNovum jointly initiated this contest in Switzerland's year of information technology, called informatica08. The happy winners and all other contributions exceeded all expectations. At Netcetera we are very proud and happy to have raised awareness for the importance of IT education in Swiss grammar schools with this hands-on project.
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Netcetera developed the "NeTS" software for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) together with their partners Ergon and NOSE. SBB is currently using the system to plan its nationwide passenger and freight traffic for the year 2010. The world's most powerful planning software for railways also stands for a highly successful collaboration between all the parties.
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Early this year, Netcetera invited Swiss grammar school teams to hand in their projects for a Robot Team Challenge. On the day of Information Technology, 29 August 2008, 26 teams are presenting their robots to the jury and the public on Zürich's Turbinenplatz between 8:30 and 17:20 hrs. The robots are showing their capabilities and for sure will cause suprise. At Netcetera we are happy that contributions for the Robot Team Challenge exceeded all expectations.
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Cultura supports interesting projects in culture, education, society and leisure in countries where Netcetera has offices. Cultura has already received the first applications for projects in 2008. Currently, the Swiss Scouts’ Jamboree is being supported. In the sub camp 1, named 360°, Cultura facilitates a tower serving equally as center and landmark.
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The Netcetera Group has added one professional to the team: Lamin Barrow passed the tests for his apprenticeship as a chef with flying colors. He works at Netcetera's staff restaurant, the historical Café Boy, operated by Netcetera Gastro. Yesterday, the employees were celebrating Lamin’s successful graduation at Netcetera’s headquarters in Zürich.
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Following SAP’s buy of Business Objects, Fujitsu Services Switzerland and D1 Solutions established a consulting partnership for SAP and Business Objects solutions. As a result of both companies combined expertise, their customers benefit from integrated business intelligence solutions. Fujitsu Services contribute their extensive knowledge of SAP, complemented by D1 Solutions’ broad experiences in Business Objects. German Media Release (PDF)

mitLinks and Netcetera developed the new website of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) and implemented its technological redesign. The new system architecture allows a gradual integration of different existing as well as future applications. The expansion of the website includes the Content Management System OpenCMS, enabling ZVV to support their internet platform with ease and control. German Media Release (PDF)

About 850 participants and over 90 speakers from 37 countries attended the Java technology conference Jazoon’08 in Zürich from 23 to 26 June 2008. IT and Java people were exchanging knowledge and opinions with well-known experts and outstanding speakers in an ideal atmosphere. As co-initiator and technology partner, Netcetera is looking forward to contributing to the attractive conference program again in 2009, and to serve the best coffee in town at its popular networking bar "A Taste of Java". More about Jazoon

At the general assembly 2008 of mitLinks AG, Ronnie Brunner was unanimously elected as a board member of mitLinks AG. Ronnie Brunner is co-founder and Head Corporate Development of Netcetera, with whom mitLinks established a strategic partnership on 20 February 2008. German Media Release (PDF)

The programming contest Code Fu, initiated by Netcetera in Macedonia, has ended. Pance Cavkovski won with his solution to five algorithmic problems that passed the most unit tests. Nikola Postolov and Ivan Milanov occupy the second and third place. All of them attend the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University in Skopje. Between 13 April and 8 June 2008, the 500 participants had to overcome four rounds; the warm-up round was followed by two online rounds and ultimately, the remaining 32 participants competed in the finale. The jury evaluated the presented programs by the number of unit test they passed. The three happy winners are now looking forward to a trip to the Java Conference in Zürich, Jazoon. More...

2008-06-10: Six Netcetera speakers are coming up with exciting technical sessions and talks at Jazoon: Stefan Rufer is presenting how a continuous database build reduces dependency . Patrik Auf der Mauer and Jürg Straub are delivering insights into Swiss Railway’s track management system and into managing such a huge project. Stefan Tramm, our unix/shell enthusiast is showing the advantages of Unix command line tools for Java development . In two additional technical short talks Jason Brazile / Stefan Tramm are demonstrating Sun’s dynamic tracing tool Dtrace , while Nicolas Schmidt is presenting the integration of Google Map’s API into a web portal .
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The Swiss IT service firm Netcetera opened a new branch in Vaduz, Liechtenstein on Monday 2 June 2008. The company is now present with sales and engineering teams in Zürich, Bern, Skopje (Macedonia), Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Vaduz.
German Media Release (PDF)

Netcetera participates in the Swiss campaign “bike to work“. 24 employees ride their bike to work. Our bike-pros, who use their two-wheeler even in snow and rain, as well as our bike-greenhorns are cycling to their workplaces in Zürich and Bern until 30 June. At Netcetera “bike to work” is not limited to Switzerland; our colleagues in Skopje too, use two wheels in favor of the environment and to promote their health.
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The Java User Group Switzerland (JUGS) establishes a new Special Interest Group. The mission of the Swiss Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is the promotion of the Eclipse RCP framework for custom applications. Their goal is to provide an environment that enables the exchange of information and experiences, for example with the Eclipse Verticals presentation. Netcetera as a sponsor of JUGS envisions that the Eclipse community could benefit from these networking and knowledge exchange opportunities.
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The Java User Group Macedonia (JUGMK) aims to promote the usage and the overall awareness of Java technology in the Macedonian IT society. It is mostly a community-driven group, formally organized as a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) with defined structural and financial processes. JUGMK strives to become one of the main evangelist for Java technology and other open source technologies thriving in the Java development environment. The meetings with technical presentations and discussions are intended to be enjoyable as well as educational. The organization receives tremendous response from its affiliate Jugs and from the Java community. Netcetera supports their ambitious goals as a sponsor and highly esteems their achievements.
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The Zurich-based software companies Netcetera and AdNovum invited interdisciplinary grammar school teams to hand in their projects for the «Robot Team Challenge». This challenge was launched in context of the year of information technologies in Switzerland – informatica08. The initiators of the challenge expected a maximum of 15 applications that would fulfill the quality requirements for soft and hard skills as well as originality. However, after the application deadline at the end of April, twice as many projects were presented and all of them were accepted. The school teams located all over Switzerland, for example in Basel, Bern, Zurich, central Switzerland and Grisons, are receiving an introduction by the software engineers from both companies in the course of the next few days. The projects are being developed over the next five months and awarded in Zurich on 11 September 2008. More about informatica08

The Netcetera team Daniel Eichhorn and Stefan Ferstl developed an astounding, cutting-edge application based on the licence-free mobile device platform Android. They have entered the project called Tramdroid in the worldwide Android Developer Challenge. Tramdroid is a perfect example of high-quality software development and may very soon be ensuring that cell phone users never again miss the next tram. More...

Netcetera's CEO Andrej Vckovski was elected as president of the board at the general assembly of simsa, the Swiss interactive media and software association. Furthermore, the umbrella organization of the Swiss IT and telecommunications associations - ICT Switzerland - nominated him as member of the board. With a seat in these two major professional associations Netcetera fulfills its role for the Swiss IT and actively raises the public's awareness of the importance of information technology for economy and society in Switzerland. More about simsa .   More about ICT Switzerland

Today's dynamic competition needs fast and well-founded decisions. As IT is increasingly used in business, the volume of data and information is growing immensely and their analysis is getting more and more difficult. Business Intelligence is the key for this challenge. The Swiss market research institute Sieber & Partners  investigated the value of Business Intelligence in Swiss companies. D1 Solutions , a Netcetera company, supported the survey and is specialized on Business Intelligence solutions. Order the Business Intelligence Study... (German only)  

mitLinks chose Netcetera to become the preferred partner for implementing complex applications and security-critical projects. The company is specialized in website branding and develops design, content as well as software for their customers' web presence and business. The partnership marks the start of an extensive cooperation, in which Netcetera is also taking seat in mitLinks' board of directors in April 2008.
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German Media Release (PDF)

Netcetera, together with Ergon and NOSE, is developing the "NeTS" software system for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). SBB will use the system to plan its nationwide passenger and freight traffic from 2010 onwards. The pilot phase of one of the largest Eclipse RCP projects in Switzerland will run until June 2008. NeTS represents a highly successful collaboration between all the parties. More...

Netcetera and AdNovum are launching a robotics project contest for teenage pupils in Switzerland. From April to August 2008 school teams can explore the real challenges of an IT project, develop own solutions and win attractive prizes. The Robot Team Challenge is supposed to get boys and girls enthused about IT as a fascinating area of science with attractive professional opportunities. More about informatica08

Netcetera and United Security Providers, the largest Swiss network and application security provider, announce their official partnership after years of successful cooperation.
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