Latest news Social Engineering: The biggest IT security threat doesn’t come from technology It’s called social engineering. It’s simple but efficient, and it requires no specialist tech knowledge: You just make up a credible cover story, send an email and sit back and hope the recipient is careless enough to give you the requested confidential information. It works. Data Respons subsidiary, MicroDoc, has once again proven it on behalf of their clients. Read more » Cloud-based service cluster: Managing the testing of BMW’s electric vehicle components Car manufacturers spend years of development and testing before they put a new car model into mass production. Everything is controlled and tested, to find the best possible solutions and to fix problems before the new model goes to the assembly line. Read more » Car sharing – Easy on the outside, complex on the inside Ease of use and seamless integration of services are crucial requirements, when you’re developing a car sharing app for young urban customers. They want everything rolled into one, delivered to them via an intuitive mobile phone user interface. To achieve that, it requires an astonishing complexity behind the scenes. Data Respons subsidiary IT SONIX makes it all work. Read more » Fleet Management – platform, connectivity and interface for smarter and more efficient trucks German Data Respons subsidiary MicroDoc knows a thing or two about making cars and trucks smarter. Over a period of 15 years, MicroDoc software experts have made significant contributions to fleet management systems, telematics platforms and infotainment systems for passenger cars and trucks. Read more » 5G from space, Industry 4.0 on water: The Internet of Things via satellite The world of satellite communication is changing, promising more data throughput, broader coverage, and lower price per bit. And not least: new satellite constellations are coming. Specialists from the Data Respons subsidiary, TechPeople, are helping one of the leading global satcom companies to stay ahead of the competition. Read more » Bridging legacy systems and modern technology: The mainframe is dead, long live the mainframe You rarely start from scratch when developing technology. There is always some legacy to take into account. In fact, the bridging of legacy systems and modern technology, is a business in itself. Never more so than in the world of mainframes. Although declared dead decades ago, they continue to run the world’s banking and insurance industry – and much more. Take a look at how two of the companies in the Data Respons group, Frobese and DONAT IT, are navigating between old and new. Read more » A box that enables autonomous snowploughs Sweeping the road might not be a typical high-tech challenge. Unless you are talking about sweeping a runway in arctic conditions. Without a using a human in the process. Now the Kongsberg company Yeti Move is taking the human factor out of the equation with newly developed technology for autonomous snow removal. Data Respons R&D Services designs and manufactures the box that connects it all. Read more » Improving the interface between man and warehouse robot «Stop airhousing, start warehousing» is the motto of cube storage and warehouse robot pioneer AutoStore. The Norwegian company is pushing the envelope of logistics, designing automated storage and retrieval systems with binpicking robots criss-crossing on top of a gigantic Rubics Cube. Specialists from Data Respons R&D Services are assisting the AutoStore in-house development team in taking warehousing to the next level. Read more » AKKA & Modis, a new global Smart Industry powerhouse in engineering and digital solutions Following the closing of the acquisition of a controlling stake in AKKA Technologies by the Adecco Group, AKKA & Modis becomes a global engineering and digital solutions powerhouse able to meet the diverse needs of customers worldwide and seize opportunities generated by the fast growing Smart Industry market, where IT and engineering technologies converge into a digital and connected world. AKKA & Modis are soon to become Akkodis. Read more » Meet Jan Schmidt – the mathematician turned software specialist What does the everyday life of a software specialist actually look like? Do I go around telling other companies how they can do things better? What makes me the expert? Read more » Electrifying the boat industry – a first for Data Respons The Data Respons subsidiary, inContext, are experts in electrification and wire harnesses for the automotive industry. Now they’ve left their comfort zone to explore the sea of electrifying boats, developing the electric design of a hi-tech electric luxury cruiser on hydrofoils. Read more » DevOps culture clash – when agile meets automotive Born in the world of software, the DevOps concept has been facing some resistance meeting the classic engineering methods of automotive OEMs. But things are starting to change in an industry disrupted by the emergence of the software-defined car. Read more » Six UX design trends you should know about What is going on, where are we heading? Much is happening in the world of User Experience. We’ve asked two UX experts from IT Sonix about what to look out for – these are their six top picks for UX design trends. Read more » Building a data infrastructure for automotive AI It’s no secret that software is “eating” the automotive industry. According to some estimates, as much as 90 per cent of automotive innovation comes from software. Stefan Jahncke is one of the experts building the computing infrastructure needed to develop new AI-based solutions for the automotive sector. Read more » Connecting the dots of industrial digitalization Telecom, shipping, healthcare, agriculture, automotive – what do these profoundly different industries have in common? Well, ask the 130 developers at Data Respons R&D Services. In fact, their secret of success is their ability to see similarities between domains that may at first glance seem incompatible -an ability that is crucial to industrial digitalization. Read more » Enabling young girls in Nepal to promote quality of life Nepal is a small country in Asia and home to many of the world’s most famous mountains. However, it’s also among the world’s top ten poorest countries. Approximately 40% live below the poverty line and 47% of the population is unemployed. Read more » Clean Code – Software development by and for people At the beginning of a software project, it is about choosing a tech stack, the core set of those technologies that will be used to solve the problem at hand. At the same time, a software architecture must be chosen to determine and ensure the basic organisation, components, relationships with each other and with the environment, and evolution of the intended software solution. Continuous Integration and Delivery must then be configured. And then the real work begins, the programming. Read more » DevOps – What does it really mean? And when are you “DevOps ready?” DevOps is a buzzword that seems to be on everyone's lips in the IT sector. Nowadays, it’s not “system administrators” who are in demand but “DevOps engineers”. Developers are increasingly using the buzzword “DevOps” when discussing the skills they need. Testers are supposed to "do DevOps". And more and more companies are declaring that they themselves and their products are "DevOps ready". Read more » e-Trucks – the future is powered from above Say hello to the pantograph, the ancient device invented in the 1890s that’s currently mounted on e-trucks on test tracks in Germany. Pantographs have been used on trains and trams to connect them to overhead wires, and it’s a key component in the future of road freight. Cable harness experts from inContext are designing the e-trucks’ wiring. Read more » Data Respons reaches out to suppliers and partners to reduce emissions At Data Respons we highly value our cooperation with our suppliers, and it is crucial that the supply chain reflects one of our main values - Being responsible. We have therefore invited all our suppliers and partners to joins us in reducing our shared emissions and in the end help us become carbon neutral by 2025. Read more » Article search
