Sunday, May 20, 2007

Public is Good ... lets invest in Private

In the next few months, Greece will look like a contsruction site, again. 3 + years after the Olympic Games and Greek construction is starting again. This time mainly with PPP projects.

Public Private Partnerhips is what we need not only for the construction industry but for most of the activities of a modern economy. Ionia Odos, Central Greece Highway, Thessaloniki Submerged Tunnel as well as Maliakos and all Peloponnese highways are the ones that will start in the next 2-3 weeks. DATA CONCEPT is basically monopolizing this crucial sector as the only IT company that develops and operates specialized applications for PPP construction. Our clients the largest construction and design companies such as OMEK, Scott Wilson, Jacobs, AKTOR etc. Having a significant amount of ongoing public projects and with the upcoming load of the private ones we target 3 years down the road to go public. Lets see !!!

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Dealing with Ninja Programmers


I have been buzzed myself lately as I see that a service oriented company, such as, can only become successful through its Ninjas. The devotion and the effectiveness of these Ninjas is the main factor that turns a “lost” project into SUCCESS. Our latest Ninja – heroic example is the OAED project.
The client, who else, the Greek Public – OAED “Greek Manpower Employment Organization”.
The objective, very simple: Do everything possible to develop a custom made software solution that we don’t know what exactly is suppose to do, we have it in our minds but no one wants to deal with it and lay down any specs.
Schedule: One year, but we basically want everything yesterday
Cost: 100.000 € (roughly).
… and YES we managed the unmanageable and through our Ninjas we delivered on time our deliverables.
Best regards to our Ninjas programmers then. They are heroic and glorious but not so easily managed and detained, they have their own … Ninja attitude!!!

Friday, May 04, 2007

A companys' Idenity

Engineering applications | Web Communication | ICT Networks.
How do you identify a company that does system integration and has engineering solutions as a specialty, with ONE phrase?It's very difficult to establish a company’s identity!!!! especially when there is a co-existence of diverse fields such as: collaborative project management solutions for construction and civil works and system integration for IT. OK maybe will go this way, or maybe not.

How about ... engineering solutions | systems integration. We still have to work on it. We still have to re-establish ourselves and our corporate identity. Any suggestions ?