Netcetera News

Graubünden cantonal Police keep Public informed with Netcetera's ePolice Mobile

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:10:49 GMT

Following in the steps of the police corps in the cantons of Bern, Luzern and Basel, the Graubünden cantonal police are now also using Netcetera's ePolice Mobile to communicate via smartphones. The iPhone and Android apps are available free of charge at the iTunes App Store and Android Market in Switzerland. In addition to policing information, they also keep the public informed about road conditions and avalanches within the canton. For this, Netcetera integrated avalanche bulletins of the institute for snow and avalanche research, Davos, as well as road condition reports from the highways department in Graubünden.

ewz optimizes Electricity Supply Service Processes with Netcetera

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 GMT

In cooperation with Zürich’s energy company ewz Swiss IT service provider Netcetera is developing the new ESISplus event and fault management system for the power distribution grid. Netcetera won the contract in a WTO competitive public tender with ten other bidders and has overall responsibility for the system’s design, specification and commissioning in the fall of 2012.

Kinect Coding Competition at Netcetera

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:48:28 GMT

At this year's innovation competition at Netcetera, the employees were asked to come up with programs for Kinect. Kinect is a 3D camera used for interacting with computer systems. Four Netcetera teams rose to the challenge and presented their projects on video stream to all their colleagues on 26 October. The winner project “Arcade” by the Fantastic Four team from Netcetera Skopje was elected at a live vote in every Netcetera location, using a poll tool for smartphones.

Planning the Shopping at Migros with Netcetera

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The Swiss IT service provider Netcetera and design partner NOSE joined hands to create Migros’ popular shopping planner M-Go for the Web and iPhone. The free iPhone app was launched in May 2011 and quickly became the top-ranked item in the Swiss app store, used by around 6,000 customers every day. The convenient shopping planner helps customers to organize their purchasing, notifies them of special offers and new products, and regularly presents personalized suggestions to Cumulus members based on their purchasing profiles.

Netcetera develops Knowledge Engine for Health

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:05:00 GMT

The Swiss IT service provider Netcetera and its branch office in the United Arab Emirates have developed the Knowledge Engine for Health (KEH) for the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD). This solution allows the general health of the population and the overall performance of the healthcare system to be monitored, regulated and improved. As a specialist in cross-platform software development with many years of experience in Swiss electronic healthcare projects, Netcetera utilised a data model to develop the business intelligence solution, which converts electronic claims submitted to health insurance companies by service providers into an analytical database that can be used for general strategic purposes.

15 Years Netcetera

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:20:39 GMT

To celebrate Netcetera’s anniversary in Macedonia, employees, family members and friends met on 22 September 2011 at Restaurant Marger in City Park in Skopje. At the open-air festival, more than 180 guests enjoyed a delicious barbecue, live performances by great bands and a children's play corner.

Netcetera and the i-engineers forge an Alliance

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The Swiss IT service provider Netcetera and the i-engineers, a specialist in document management for hospitals, have forged an alliance. They are jointly developing software solutions based on the product line of the i-engineers and that are being integrated in the system environments of customers. Their first joint offers for digital health care will be presented at the eHealthCare convention in Nottwil (Switzerland) on 21 to 22 September 2011.

Netcetera wins Award from Swiss Railway for outstanding IT Performance

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:01:00 GMT

At Swiss Railway (SBB) Suppliers’ Day on 7 September 2011, Swiss IT service provider Netcetera was awarded for its outstanding performance in informatics. Decisive factors for the reward were price, service and adherence to delivery dates.

Netcetera Certified as Developer for Payment Card Issuers

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Swiss IT service provider Netcetera has successfully passed audits of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and is certified as a developer and operator of payment systems. This certification guarantees that systems deployed by Netcetera fulfill the worldwide high security requirements of the payment card industry and 3-D Secure.

Real-time Travel Information for Liechtenstein Bus Anstalt

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:00:00 GMT

All Liechtenstein Bus passengers now have reliable information on the exact departure times of their buses at their fingertips. Travelers can view real-time data online or on digital displays at bus stops. They can be sure to be always up-to-date with the real bus operation. This is all made possible thanks to Netcetera’s Wemlin POS.

Netcetera now even closer to the Market

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:57:00 GMT

Swiss IT service provider Netcetera appoints its former CTO Joachim Hagger as Head of Market & Technology. In his new role he is responsible for the company’s strategic technology direction as well as the marketing.

Netcetera sponsored Java Event in Macedonia

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:21:23 GMT

On 20 July, the Java User Group Macedonia (JUGMK) presented the new Java platform at the Skopje Fair Business Hall. Guest speaker and Java Technology Evangelist Simon Ritter from Oracle introduced Java SE 7 to more than 150 interested guests, while Ice Penov, founder of JUGMK, talked about the history of JUGMK.

Vacation Travel with Lowrider Wemlin

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:53:46 GMT

Swiss IT service provider Netcetera has enhanced Wemlin, its popular free iPhone app, and added new functions. Wemlin is the first iApp for local public transport services, providing information on low-floor busses and trams in Switzerland’s largest transportation network, the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). Furthermore, the ZVV summer and fall holiday schedules can now be downloaded.

"Bike to Work" with Bikers’ Lunch at Netcetera

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:37:56 GMT

2011 is a record “bike to work” year for Netcetera: More Netcetera teams than ever joined the Swiss campaign in June and 40 bike fans covered over 5600 kilometers on two wheels. For the launch Netcetera organized a bikers’ lunch at the headquarter in Zürich, where a bike mechanic brought the steel horses up to speed and brand-new bike stands could be tested. By the way, biking to work has no boundaries at Netcetera: Our fit people in Skopje and Liechtenstein ecologically ride their bike to work all year round too.

Netcetera implements ePolice Mobile in Basel and Lucerne

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:45:07 GMT

Swiss IT service provider Netcetera is helping the police forces of Basel and Lucerne communicate with citizens. The ePolice Mobile app for the iPhone allows Basel and Lucerne residents to access current and relevant information.

15 Years Netcetera – The big Party in Zürich

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:04:31 GMT

On 23 June, Netcetera celebrated its 15 year anniversary next to the Hardbrücke in Zürich. More than 700 guests, a delightful mix of customers, partners, alumni and employees with families and friends, created a cheerful mood. The evening offered exceptional bands, food at market stalls and bars, DJs, a fire and circus show with jugglers, stilt walker and a kids corner.

Sponsor Netcetera sends Experts to Jazoon 2011

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:00:44 GMT

Again, Netcetera supported Jazoon this year: About 500 IT experts gathered in the Arena Filmcity in Zürich from 21 to 23 June for the international conference on the modern art of software.

Netcetera develops Swisscanto Website for seven Platforms

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:39:00 GMT

Seven in a row: Netcetera has developed a website for Swisscanto that supports seven different platforms. The new www.swisscanto.ch website appears the same on all desktops, notebooks, tablets and smartphones, independent of the operating system and browser.

Netcetera celebrates Relocation to new Premises in Bern

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:34:37 GMT

On 21 April 2011, Netcetera celebrated its fifteenth anniversary as a corporate group and the relocation of the Bern branch to new, larger premises. The number of local customers and the number of employees have grown steadily since the opening of the Netcetera branch in Bern in 2007, making a relocation to larger premises necessary. On the occasion of the official opening of the new offices, a diverse mix of customers, business partners, current and past employees made for a lively evening.

Netcetera and Mitlinks launch iPhone App for Zürcher Kantonalbank

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:34:00 GMT

The Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is bringing the world of finance, hot off the press, straight to your iPhone. The iApp developed by ZKB, Netcetera and Mitlinks continuously updates share prices and exchange rates. Now you can keep track of your favorite personal investments via your iPhone while out and about and, thanks to the Location function, even find the shortest route to the nearest branch of the bank. The News function provides a constant feed of the latest stock market, corporate and business news. The ZKB App can be downloaded free of charge from the iTunes Store.

Netcetera shines at Best of Swiss Web 2011 with iApp for PostFinance

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:00:00 GMT

The Best of Swiss Web Association awarded the PostFinance iPhone application, engineered by Netcetera with two prizes. At the award night at the Kongresshaus Zürich on 31 March 2011 the iApp won a silver medal for innovation: It is Switzerland’s first mobile application enabling easy and secure payment, account balance look-up and calling card charging directly with the iPhone. Further, the mobile application received the bronze medal in the category Online Marketing.

Netcetera Software Engineer speaks at EclipseCon 2011, USA

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:00:00 GMT

Michael Pellaton, Senior Software Engineer and Eclipse expert at Netcetera, holds a talk on "Getting Eclipse Preferences under Control in Teams" at EclipseCon from 21 to 24 March 2011. EclipseCon is the yearly premier technical and user conference in Santa Clara, USA, focusing on the power of Eclipse technologies.

APGMontagne: Guest Information System for the Mountains

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:34:00 GMT

Netcetera developed the software for APGMontagne. It controls important information for the guests on the slopes and supplies it real time to all connected devices such as tickers, info and panorama boards.

"Verified by Visa" and "MasterCard SecureCode" now also introduced at Swisscard

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:34:00 GMT

With Swisscard, Netcetera introduced the 3-D Secure technology standard yet for another credit card issuer in Switzerland. Swisscard customers are using the security standards for online credit card payments "Verified by Visa" and "MasterCard SecureCode".

Quantum Leap for Planning and Operation

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:34:00 GMT

With the NeTS Software the Swiss Railway (SBB) plans all nationwide passenger and freight traffic. For the railway’s 2011 timetable, Netcetera and its partners upgraded the system for the precise daily planning in Switzerland’s train stations. The planners of routes, nodes (stations) and maintenance now all work with the same timetabling tool. The result is a seamless process from planning up to switching the tracks’ signal towers in operation.

New iPhone Apps by Netcetera: From Healthcare to Flip-Book to “Züri schlaflos”

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:55:00 GMT

Again, Netcetera demonstrates its expertise in developing mobile solutions with the latest iPhone Apps for its customers. With the iApp for the worldwide operating AO Foundation, physicians can quickly classify bone fractures. The iApp for Pfizer with protected access helps Swiss dermatologists to better treat psoriasis patients. MyFlickbooks.com enables iPhone owners to order their personal flip-book. Last but not least, Netcetera presents the new and expanded version of the popular iApp “Züri schlaflos”, the well-known guide to Zürich’s nightlife, for Zurich Public Transport.

Sleepless in Zurich continued...

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:30:00 GMT

VBZ's very successful podcast “Züri schlaflos, a guide for Zürich’s nightlife, was enriched with a new tram line and "shake-the-iPhone" random location tips. Already 20'000 people downloaded the new and free version of the iApp for city dwellers as well as visitors of Zürich.

Netcetera at the i-days – Become a Software Engineer!

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:55:00 GMT

IT drives Switzerland and Netcetera drives IT: The special exhibition i-days from 18 to 20 November in Switzerland's Museum of Transport, showed how the Swiss IT industry moves the country. Netcetera playfully presented to a broad audience that IT is exciting. With the motto “Become a Software Engineer” Netcetera employees showed the young visitors how to create an iPhone application. Further, the visitors learned to program computer games and printed 3D objects with the MakerBot.

Swiss ICT Award 2010

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:55:00 GMT

Netcetera was elected “Champion” at the Swiss ICT Awards 2010 on 18 November. The awards were celebrated at the i-days in the Swiss Museum of Transport. Swiss ICT companies with a distinct and comprehensible performance record can be elected as champions. Swiss ICT evaluates the criteria innovation, potential, location Switzerland and customer focus. Netcetera convinced the jury in all criteria and CEO Andrej Vckovski proudly accepted the award in the name of all Netcetera employees.

Kids Day at Netcetera

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:55:00 GMT

Our employees' children got a taste of an engineer’s job at the Future Day in Switzerland again this year. They visited Netcetera in Zürich to experience information technology. The kids got their hands dirty and programmed their first computer game with the help of our apprentice Rahavy. Netcetera in the United Arab Emirates also joined the Kids Day: the children of Andrej Vckovski, CEO Netcetera Group, happily took over the office.

Netcetera at the Finance Forum Switzerland 2010

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:55:00 GMT

At the jubilee conference in Zürich of 2 and 3 November, Netcetera presented its comprehensive solutions for financial planning, payment technologies and systems integration together with Braingroup. The Finance Forum introduced the touch screen application “Meet n Talk” engineered by Netcetera. With the tip of a finger, visitors and exhibitors playfully found like-minded people with similar business interests or hobbies and information about exhibitors and speakers. A high pulse claimed the Finance Forum sponsors’ run from our six Netcetera runners: To support the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society they covered a total of 90 rounds, light-footed and with a smile.

Netcetera and mitLinks: An extra fine Extranet for Swisscanto

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Netcetera and mitLinks, a specialist in web branding, developed the new extranet for Swisscanto. Swisscanto is a joint venture of the Swiss Cantonal Banks and a leading provider of investment and pension solutions. The new extranet platform enables up-to-date info on Swisscanto's products and markets for their customer relationship managers and resellers – comprehensively and user friendly.

First Swiss iApp with Payment Function

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:55:00 GMT

On 6 September 2010, PostFinance launched a free iApp for the Apple iPhone with payment function. PostFinance is the first financial institution in Switzerland with an app allowing the users to transfer small amounts from one postal account to another. Netcetera developed the high security application that also features a search function to find the nearest Postomats (ATM) and up-to-date stock market information. With the launch of this mobile, personal financial assistant, PostFinance positions itself as an innovative financial institution.

Netcetera automates messages for the Swiss Emergency Operations Centre

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:55:00 GMT

The National Emergency Operations Centre is Switzerland’s center of expertise for exceptional events in the country. For them, Netcetera developed a message center at the heart of their new “Operations Inbox”, managing all arriving messages and helping to easily triage them for further actions. The system substantially helps to quickly assign, categorize and comment all incoming messages about exceptional events. Documenting all processing steps, the exact way of a message is always replicable. The new software immensely helps the Emergency Operations Centre to manage their future message entries and frees up their specialists' time for the real actions, needed in an emergency.

Renato Ulrich is European Champion

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Renato Ulrich flies high: On 22 August 2010, Renato excels in his third and last jump at the aerials’ European Championship at Jumpin in Mettmenstetten, Switzerland. He wows the audience with a perfect triple back flip with five twists (back double full-full-double full) and wins the European Championship. Since 2009, Netcetera supports the Swiss aerialist with his website.

Becoming a Professional with Netcetera

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Netcetera developed two successful IT professionals again. David Elsener and Roger Knecht completed their apprenticeship with excellent grades. On 7 July, the apprentices were honored in the congress center Spirgarten in Zürich. The two software developers stay with Netcetera part time and start their technical college in autumn. Netcetera continues making professionals and already filled two new apprenticeship vacancies.

Bike to Work

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:55:00 GMT

32 Netcetera employees whipped their bicycles into shape and joined the Swiss Bike to Work campaign. In June, they rode their bikes to work for health and the environment. All in all the staff covered phenomenal 3217 kilometers, about the distance from Zürich to Skopje and back again. The bike virus has Netcetera firmly in its grip: some employees now regularly ride the bike to work.

International Java Conference Jazoon

Thu, 27 May 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Jazoon enters the fourth round: The international Java conference takes place in the Arena Filmcity in Zürich, 1 to 3 June 2010. Netcetera, initiator and platinum sponsor of the conference, is again represented by speakers this year. Daniel Eichhorn presents "High Performance File IO: the Perl/Java Battle" and Ognen Ivanovski "iPhone/iPad Development from the Java Perspective". Furthermore, Netcetera developed the iApp Jazoon. With it, the participants access the conference program. Lists with favorites, speakers, and topics, a location overview map and the integrated Twitter function facilitate a participant-friendly conference supporting the guests mobility at the event without paper.

Netcetera brings Danish Public Transportation Schedules to Google Transit

Tue, 25 May 2010 07:55:00 GMT

The Swiss IT service provider Netcetera, Rejseplanen and Google enable the Danish webusers to plan their journey by public transport with Google Transit.

Wemlin now available for Liechtenstein

Tue, 18 May 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Netcetera now integrated the schedules of the Liechtenstein Bus Anstalt into its very popular iPhone application Wemlin. The software works for all means of public transport in and around Zürich, includes night lines and the bus network of the city of Schaffhausen and now also all upcoming departures of public transport means in Liechtenstein. Wemlin can be downloaded in the iTunes Store for free.

Beobachter's Services now on the iPhone by Netcetera

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Netcetera developed the iPhone-App for Beobachter, the renowned Swiss knowledge and consulting consumer magazine. Free practical guides about work, living and family introduce the popular checklists, instruction sheets and letter templates, which iPhone users now can buy on demand.

Netcetera puts cantonal Police on the iPhone

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:00:00 GMT

For the Canton of Bern's Police Netcetera developed the first iApp ever for a cantonal police in Switzerland. The free iApp informs the public about news, shows info about wanted and missing people, and national as well as international emergency numbers.

Netcetera develops iPhone App for Schweizer Illustrierte

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:55:00 GMT

Netcetera developed a multimedia iPhone app for Switzerland’s largest publishing house Ringier for Schweizer Illustrierte (Swiss illustrated magazine). The user receives news about Swiss celebrities, uses the VIP encyclopedia, votes for the most likable VIP in the daily poll, and can even send in snapshots of the stars.

Netcetera implements E-Police for the Canton of Bern Police Department

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:55:00 GMT

Netcetera is building up the e-police solution for the Canton of Bern. E-police is the new service desk of the police, who rely on Netcetera's track record and profit as first customer from Netcetera's new e-government strategy. Following this strategy, Netcetera's subsidiary Metaversum, specialized in e-government solutions, was integrated into Netcetera. Benno Häfliger, the former managing director of Metaversum, is in charge of Netcetera's new e-government division.

D1 Solutions strengthens Management with Dr. Simon Hefti

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:00 GMT

Dr. Simon Hefti has been appointed the new full-time Chairman of the Board of Netcetera's subsidiary D1 Solutions. Together with Managing Director Hans Peter Gränicher, he will further develop the company, which has successfully established itself in the Business Intelligence market. By joining D1 Solutions from Netcetera, Simon Hefti ensures optimal use of synergies to boost future growth.

First Swiss Railway Timetable with Netcetera Software

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:34:00 GMT

Since 13 December 2009, the Swiss Railway is running according to schedule 2010. The timetable was planned with software by Netcetera. With it, SBB plans all journeys of freight and passenger trains. The internationally awarded Swiss software passed the first endurance test well on the day of the timetable change: A derailment at Zürich's main station necessitated the re-scheduling of more than 1,000 trains. The exemplary and close cooperation between customer and the project partners Netcetera, Ergon and NOSE was essential for the successful start of the new planning software.

Netcetera develops iPhone Application for Bilanz "The 300 Wealthiest"

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:34:00 GMT

Once again, Netcetera developed a successful iPhone App. The free application for Bilanz, one of the leading Swiss business magazines, has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its launch in December 2009. It is called "Die 300 Reichsten" (the 300 wealthiest) and enables the mobile access to Bilanz' popular special print edition on the 300 wealthiest people in Switzerland. Background stories, analyses and news about the richest people in the country complement the offer.

Netcetera Survey: Fringe Benefits are a Recruiting Success Factor

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:34:00 GMT

Netcetera analyzed the effect of fringe benefits on employees in a survey. These fringe benefits significantly contribute to employee satisfaction and to the working atmosphere. They also support the recruiting of new employees. Further, the survey shows the effect of benefits can still be optimized and the communication of the benefits to the employees could be improved.

Renowned US Professor supports Netcetera

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:34:00 GMT

Thomas Zurbuchen, Professor and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurial Programs at the University of Michigan, USA, has joined Netcetera as a Researcher in Residence during his sabbatical. Till summer 2010, Zurbuchen is supporting Netcetera in empowering the company's innovation pipeline by researching innovative ideas, novel products and to develop plans for bringing them to life.

Kids Day at Netcetera

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:34:28 GMT

Netcetera cares about equality of opportunities and turns the Swiss daughters day of 12 November into a kids day. Girls and boys could spend a day at Netcetera again this year. This time Netcetera opened her doors not only for the employees’ children, but also for children from surrounding schools. That way, class 6b of the school "Im Birch" learned more about information technology and an engineer’s the daily work.

Züri schlaflos

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:49:59 GMT

With the podcast “Züri schlaflos“ the Zurich Public Transport (VBZ) launch together with the Swiss daily news paper Tages-Anzeiger and Netcetera a guide for Zürich’s nightlife. For city dwellers as well as tourists and visitors of Zürich. Netcetera developed the iPhone application “Züri schlaflos“. It can be downloaded for free in the iTunes App Store.

Generali and Mobiliar rely on Netcetera and Braingroup

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:10:38 GMT

Netcetera and Braingroup, the established manufacturer of financial advisory software and part of the Netcetera Group, win further notable clients with Switzerland's leading insurances Generali and Mobiliar. Braingroup's financial advisory software “Target” is going to provide hands-on support to both companies’ consultants. Netcetera integrates the Target products into the new clients' existing IT systems. «With Generali and Mobiliar we strengthen our position for demanding integration projects yet again», comments Netcetera's CEO Andrej Vckovski.

Netcetera is Technology Partner of the APEX Project by the European Space Agency

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:21:33 GMT

The Swiss IT services provider Netcetera developed the hardware and software for the control and data unit of the APEX (Airborne Prism Experiment) imaging spectrometer. For the first time, the European Space Agency also uses aircrafts for APEX to monitor the earth's surface.

Netcetera builds Web Shop for Wood Pellets

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:30:15 GMT

Netcetera built the online shop for Erdgas Zürich and integrated it into their existing web presence. Erdgas Zürich is Switzerland's largest natural gas provider, investing heavily in renewable energies. Its customers can now order their wood pellets comfortably around the clock. Netcetera built and integrated the online shop into Erdgas Zürich's existing web presence in view of future expansion. It is also hosted by Netcetera.

Swiss Open Source Awards 2009

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:57:07 GMT

The Open Source Awards encourage the use of open source software in Switzerland and aim to raise the public awareness of open source projects. Netcetera sponsored the "Education" category and awarded the representatives of the University of Zurich , Renata Sevcikova and Immo Wille, with the well-deserved prize at the OpenExpo in Winterthur. Their winning project "eLesson Markup Language" is XML based and used to generate structured e-learning content.

Netcetera makes Digital Health Dossier ready for the Swiss Market

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:46:53 GMT

Netcetera developed the digital health dossier "Evita" for the market entry. It enables doctors to access a patient's most important personal health data anywhere and anytime. Evita will be launched in autumn and is a joint project by Swisscom, the University of Bern, the Medical Society of the Canton Luzern, the doctors' cash collection agency, medkey, Arpage, curabill and Netcetera. Together, the partners guarantee Evita's medical quality and the exceptional data security.

New Swiss Health Insurance focuses on Internet

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:49:09 GMT

Sanagate is a new health insurance in Switzerland, advocating low rates by innovative offers. Innovative too is Sanagate's centralized usage of the internet for product distribution and information. Netcetera helped to develop the back-end systems for their web presence. They integrate the business processes directly into Sanagate's website, thus their customers profit from a lean cost structure.

New Payment System by Netcetera

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:56:30 GMT

Netcetera and SIX Card Solutions (former Telekurs Card Solutions) developed a new payment transaction system. Daily, it successfully handles more than a million payments in Switzerland; payments, that are made with credit, debit or prepaid cards. A mixed team of Netcetera's and SIX Card Solutions' engineers invested around 50 man-years for the software.

Development Partner Netcetera

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:07:54 GMT

Avaloq, the Swiss market leader for standardized banking software certified the e-services for Avaloq from finance service provider COMIT. COMIT developed the e-services in collaboration with Netcetera. They cover traditional e-banking, the more complex requirements of private banking, as well as all aspects of external asset management.

Netcetera Skopje

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:14:51 GMT

Netcetera is on the go in Macedonia too and won “The Month of Sport“. Overall, 400 employees of 24 companies competed at table tennis, basketball, volleyball, tennis and billiard. Netcetera's employees reached first to third places in various sports and Netcetera was awarded as overall champion on 5 July.

Airborne Prism Experiment helps to observe Planet Earth: Newton’s Theory goes Airborne

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:10:10 GMT

In a joint Swiss‐Belgian effort, a combined scientific and industrial consortium is building a new class of an airborne imaging spectrometer for environmental monitoring: the Airborne Prism Experiment Airborne imaging spectrometers measure and map the Earth surface in many, contiguous spectral bands, allowing to retrieve relevant spatial information on the state of the environment. Netcetera delivers the necessary hardware and software to collect and safe the scientific data as well as to coordinate the operating information on the airplane.

Successful Jazoon09

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:28:47 GMT

The third Jazoon09 conference has ended very successfully with a record number of 1080 participants. „Netcetera is one of Jazoon’s initiators. We wanted to strengthen Switzerland internationally as an attractive center for software development with the focus on professional education – and we made the breakthrough.” says Vckovski, Netcetera’s CEO. At Netcetera's programming contest "CodeFu" for software engineers Igor Kulev, Bojana Popovska and Vasja Pavlov won the contest and solved the problems with the shortest codes.

Netcetera appoints François Jeannet to the Board of Directors

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:34:33 GMT

Netcetera strengthens its board of directors with the renowned economic expert François Jeannet. Jeannet is partner at "management & advisory services ltd" and one of the leading strategy advisors in Switzerland. At Netcetera, Jeannet supports the board of directors in strategic management.

Wemlin: Travel in and around Zürich with Free iPhone Application

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:44:26 GMT

Netcetera launched its new iPhone application "Wemlin". The software works for all means of public transport in and around Zürich, and also includes night lines and the bus network of the city of Schaffhausen. The application can be downloaded in the iTunes Store for free. Wemlin enables iPhone users to travel without haste and quickly display upcoming departures of any nearby stops within the Zurich Transport Network (Zürcher Verkehrsverbund). Wemlin was formerly known as "Tramdroid", Netcetera's first and very popular mobile application for the public transport in the city of Zurich.

The Swiss "bike to work" Campaign

Tue, 26 May 2009 08:21:08 GMT

Netcetera actively supports the Swiss campaign “bike to work”. During June, five Netcetera teams ride the bike in favor of the environment and to promote their health. Bike to work clearly is inspiring: some Netcetera employees regularly bike to work since last year’s campaign.

Baloise Insurance counts on Netcetera for Training Course Management

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:22:14 GMT

The Swiss Baloise Insurance Company counts on Netcetera's software to manage their training courses entirely online. On the intranet, teachers can easily set up hundreds of training courses and manage the participants' registrations, training centers, needed infrastructure, catering and hotels. The planners of the trainings now have more time for the content of the courses without compromizing on their organizational quality.

Netcetera develops and hosts Website

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:40:43 GMT

Netcetera supports the Swiss aerialist Renato Ulrich with the development and maintenance of his website. The top athlete now uses the built-in content managment system with ease to document his preparations for the Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. The Netcetera partner mitLinks created the attractive design. Renato Ulrich is one of the best Swiss aerialists and already celebrated successes, e.g. the 4th place at the FIS Freestyle World Championship 2009 in Inawashiro, Japan.

Best of Swiss Web 2009

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:54:15 GMT

The Best of Swiss Web Association awarded two solutions by Netcetera and its subsidiary Metaversum. In total, 45 projects received seals of approval in different categories at the award night on 2 April in Zürich. Netcetera’s projects dominated the category Usability. Tramdroid, the timetabling application for the iPhone, got silver. Bronze went to the Canton of Zug's website. Netcetera's subsidiary Metaversum was part of the website's development team.

Netcetera develops multi-site Web Platform for European Space Agency

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:10:05 GMT

Swiss IT service provider Netcetera has been commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) to be the prime contractor for the development of the multi-site web platform "Earth Observation Data and Information Services" (EO DISP). The contract was awarded to Netcetera following a European call for tenders. Netcetera is the first Swiss software company to be appointed prime contractor by the European Space Agency. The project will be implemented from 2009 to 2011.

Netcetera is Finalist at Eclipse Foundation's Community Awards

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:26:41 GMT

With the timetabling software for the Swiss Federal Railways, Netcetera is a finalist at the Eclipse Community Award celebration in Santa Clara, USA. The American Eclipse Foundation shortlisted Netcetera in the category "Best Commercial Rich Client Platform (RCP) Application". Swiss Railways' timetabling software is currently one of the biggest Eclipse RCP projects in Switzerland. "We can all be very proud to be a finalist for the Eclipse Community Award. This nomination proves that we are able to solve even the most complex problems with state-of-the-art technology. With the train timetabling software we stood up to globally renowned companies. To become a finalist is a big success and once again proves the growing importance of Switzerland as a software development site." says Andrej Vckovski, CEO of the Netcetera Group.

TekZone Forum Experts discussed Mobile Applications Trends

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:11:24 GMT

Does the new generation of smartphones cover all wishes of today's mobile society? The all-rounders spread rapidly and offer applications, organizing and enriching our everyday lives. The possibility of always being online everywhere, accessing all data, and even playing games does change the market as well as the users' behavior. At Netcetera’s first TekZone Forum at the end of February 2009, experts discussed the status of development. They all agreed that usability and lean architecture are crucial success factors in the mobile area.

Business Intelligence Specialist D1 Solutions

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:36:21 GMT

D1 Solutions is building up a new business with Predictive Analytics and Data Mining with Dr. Bernhard Brabec (40). The sophisticated analytic methods help decision makers to better understand complex correlations of e.g. business risks or customer behavior and to assess future incidents, risks and business potentials.

Netcetera expands Services for NZZ Online

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:48:53 GMT

The "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", one of Switzerland's leading publishing houses, has expanded the cooperation with Netcetera to continuously enhance their online platform "NZZ Online". The finance portal was redesigned technologically and numerous new services were added. The financial market advertising platform is one of the first approved by Switzerland's Financial Market Authority (FINMA) to publish legally mandatory financial notifications. Additionally, Netcetera implemented an online magazine on interior design and a real estate market place as well as built in videos in NZZ's content management system.

Liechtenstein Bus Anstalt with online Departure Times

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Netcetera developed a dynamic passenger information system for Liechtenstein’s bus operator. The up-to-date departure times for all stops of the public bus network are immediately available online. The service is designed for displays in the public, in companies or retail stores and helps the passengers to get well-timed onto the bus. The timetables can also be accessed by web-enabled mobile phones or easily be integrated into a company website with just a few mouse clicks. „Public transport companies benefit from our tremendous knowhow in developing complex software solutions” commented Netcetera’s CEO Andrej Vckovski, on the successful launch of the online bus timetable in Liechtenstein.

Winners of the Robot Team Challenge visiting the German Aerospace Center

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:09:50 GMT

The winners of the “Robot Team Challenge” redeemed their prize and visited the German Aerospace Center. The robotics laboratory was the day’s highlight for the students from Sargans, Switzerland. They controlled robot arms and were visibly impressed by the machines’ abilities. In 2008 the students experienced hands-on the difficulties of programming a robot, when Netcetera and AdNovum organized the Robot Team Challenge. This robotic contest during Switzerland's year of IT aimed at bringing Swiss grammar school students closer to informatics. The Robot Team Challenge winners proved to be truly talented, one of the schoolteam, Daniel Graf, also won the first round of this year’s Swiss IT Olympics.

.NET User Group in Macedonia Elects Members of the Presidency

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:23:45 GMT

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".

Kids Day at Netcetera

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:32:05 GMT

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.

Netcetera at the Finance Forum Switzerland 2008

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:37:14 GMT

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.

Netcetera Knowhow for Smartphone

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:12:18 GMT

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.

Netcetera with Strategic Shareholding in Brain-Group

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:42 GMT

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.

Tramdroid for the iPhone

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:41:18 GMT

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.

Metaversum

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:58:11 GMT

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.

Award Ceremony of Robot Team Challenge

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:09:40 GMT

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.

The World's most powerful planning Software for Railways

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:04:33 GMT

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.

The Great Final at the Day of IT

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:07 GMT

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.

Committed to Society

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:04:15 GMT

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.

We Make Professionals

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:57 GMT

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.

Fujitsu Services Switzerland and D1 Solutions

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:31:36 GMT

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.

mitLinks and Netcetera Create a New Website for the ZVV

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:49:10 GMT

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.

Successful International Java Technology Conference

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:24:19 GMT

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".

Netcetera on the Administrative Board of mitLinks

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:35:16 GMT

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.

Winners of the Coding Competition in Mazedonia Appointed

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:47:39 GMT

The coding competition 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.

Netcetera Speakers at Jazoon

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:55:47 GMT

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.

Netcetera Develops Software in Vaduz

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:10:57 GMT

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.

Swiss “Bike to Work” Campaign

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:37:00 GMT

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.

JUGS now with Special Interest Group Eclipse RCP

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:48:52 GMT

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.

Java User Group Macedonia Founded

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:02:21 GMT

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.

«Robot Team Challenge» Generates Surprising Projects

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:28:27 GMT

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.

Android Developer Challenge:

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:27:33 GMT

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.

Netcetera Well Positioned in Swiss Professional Associations

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:25:45 GMT

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.

Business Intelligence Survey

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:32:56 GMT

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.

Netcetera Becomes a Strategic Partner of mitLinks AG

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:27 GMT

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.

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:06:18 GMT

New Timetabling Software for Swiss Railway

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:16:47 GMT

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.

Year of Information Technology

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:44:28 GMT

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

Cooperation of Swiss Market Leaders:

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:52:37 GMT

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

From the Netcetera Laboratory:

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:59:00 GMT

For once, our software specialists’ knowledge and knowhow was aimed totally at fun and cooperative rivalry. When Sun Microsystems donated some of their battery-driven micro computers in early summer 2007, Netcetera started a Sun SPOT contest. The Sun SPOT is easily programmable in Java, has a lot of clever sensors and uses radio waves to exchange data with other Sun SPOT and PC.

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:55:00 GMT

Netcetera and Geocom Informatik Have Developed Web-Based Solution

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:59:44 GMT

The exhaustive online data entry system for the management of contaminated sites in the Canton of Zürich is fully functional. With the integrated and forward-looking information platform the building directorate of the Canton of Zürich fulfills the legislation set up by the Swiss Federation. The solution enables the public's insight inside the register of contaminated sites. The software engineering company Netcetera implemented this project in co-operation with Geocom Informatik, specialized in geoinformatics.

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:31:18 GMT