News from COOLProfs

TNT receives Agility Award 2010

TNT Express, the European leader in global express and courier services for the business market, received the OutSystems Agility Award 2010. TNT won the award because they, developed, together with their IT services partner COOLProfs, a new platform using the Agile methodology. With the new platform, the Global Account Management division of TNT Express, can operate more efficiently and more focused. Contract Managers can now proactively respond to customer needs and management has access to better information management.

Global Account Management Solutions & Commercial is the division of TNT Express engaged in developing new products and services tailored to the needs of the top 130 large international clients.

According to Hugo Koppelaars, Director Solutions & Commercial Global Account Management, TNT Express, the contract managers worked isolation from each other. "For the department to operate more efficiently and proactively to the needs of clients into play, it is necessary that contract managers share their knowledge, experience and solutions. Another point for improvement was that the management had little insight into the value of solutions and insufficient overview of what contract managers were doing. Management had insufficient information to properly manage, "said Koppelaars.

TNT smoothens out logistics bumps with Gard

Hugo Koppelaars, Director Solutions & Commercial Global Account Management of TNT Express: "Because of the Agile methodology TNT has the platform they want.”

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TNT Express is the European leader in global express and courier services. The company's mission is to exceed the expectations of its customers in the transfer of their goods and documents around the world. That this is not just an empty phrase is backed up by the following story, as written up from an interview with Hugo Koppelaars, Director Solutions & Commercial Global Account Management of TNT Express. He talks about the new system GARD developed by COOLProfs according to their Agile methodology. With this system, the department responsible for serving large clients is able to operate more efficiently and with far more agility. This enables the contract managers of TNT Express to quickly deploy its "smart solutions" to more customers and proactively respond to customer needs and expectations.

The full story is only available in Dutch, temporarily.

 

Annemarie Sonnenberg, new Senior Consultant at COOLProfs

Oude Wetering, 28 February 2010 - COOLProfs, development and hosting specialist of custom software to facilitate core business processes, has employed Annemarie Sonnenberg (40) as a senior consultant.

Sonnenberg has already built a substantial career in the IT world. She comes from OutSystems, provider of the outsystems agile platform and partner to COOLProfs, where she was project manager. Before that, at Nuon, she fulfilled a similar role. Her career as a software developer was begun at AT&T. A career which she continued at Lucent Technologies, which was spun off from AT&T, now Alcatel-Lucent. Here she worked as a senior software developer and technical manager, at a later stage.

 

COOLProfs assigns CTO

COOLProfs, specialist in building and managing customized mission-critical systems, announces that the role of Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in the creation. The experienced Dick van der Reijden (45), former director of Tri-IT, the new role will advise the company on the technological direction to follow.

COOLProfs develops mainly administrative systems at the core processes of companies and organizations. The activities include software developer for clients such as Schuitema, ABN AMRO and TNT. A software developer must at all times be aware of the latest developments in technology. To achieve this, and based at the way technology direction of the organization to determine COOLProfs has decided the role of CTO in structural fashion.
Eric at Harkel, COOLProfs director, puts it: "First follow developments in display technology today quickly and second, the spectrum of technical applications COOLProfs yield widening. To find an organization in a good way to handle it, was the appointment of a CTO desirable. That way we can profile our company responsibly develop and shape the future. "
Van der Reijden will engage in the interpretation of technological developments in general and advise on the technical strategy and vision for COOLProfs. He will end the management of solicited and unsolicited advice. To fully benefit from the technological expertise that exists within COOLProfs and good in this track, he will next year expert development team for the three streets that the company knows, CA Gen, Microsoft. Net and OutSystems. Will also Van der Reijden, Harkel In addition, COOLProfs represented at seminars and in contacts with the press.

Seasons greetings

Kadaster Migrates to HP-UX Platform

The Netherlands, November 5, 2009 – After large ICT service providers phased out development and support of Kadaster’s existing platform, the company, which registers property in the Netherlands, has migrated to an entirely new platform. This new HP-UX platform can handle the SAP environment and all the applications. HP carried out the project and Gen-specialist COOLProfs was enlisted to handle the Gen-application work.

Kadaster’s system is unique; it is the only one in the Netherlands that allows for large-scale geodetic or surveying information to be coupled with administrative information. With this unique attribute in mind, Kadaster has made sure its knowledge and experience remains at a level that makes it balanced and able to react adequately and quickly when necessary to deal with external parties if support is required to better prevent and solve problems. 

This became necessary when Kadaster decided to migrate its existing Tru64-platform to a new one. A migration became more necessary as talk of software providers such as Oracle, HP, SAP, BEA Systems and CA phasing out the support of Kadaster’s platform became louder.

The solution was found in a direct migration to a new platform, HP-UX, the SAP environment and all applications. HP received the assignment to carry out the migration. After HP had implemented the new hardware line and carried out the SAP migration, Kadaster began with the application migration. A portion of the applications were composed, more or less, from Gen. The fact that Gen for the new platform was available in a 32-bit version while Kadaster ran everything on 64-bits created problems.  

In order to solve these problems, COOLProfs, a true Gen-specialist was called on to help.  Despite the fact that Kadaster had been forced by outside circumstances to move to a new platform, and despite the Gen-problem, the project was recently finished with good results.

Hans van Oijen, project manager at Kadaster, reflects on the project: “I am happy that COOLProfs solved the 32-bits problem. If we look back at the Gen project, in the end it all came out well. The project was completed and delivered within the new time frame and budget.”

An expanded article with all the ‘in’s and out’s” about Kadaster’s migration will appear in the Novermber issue of AppWorks magazine; The industry magazine that covers the world of applications.

Workshop ‘Agile in a Day’ on 9 december

While the advantages of Agile projects are becoming more known, the knowledge to actually implement it is often lacking. Therefore COOLProfs will be giving the workshop 'Agile in a Day' on the 9th of December. During this workshop participants will experience how Business and IT can really work together, to successfully complete Agile projects, using the Outsystems Agile method. A representative Agile project will be simulated, from start till finish, in which the participants will be given key roles that will influence the end result.

The workshop is intended for Business-managers and IT-managers who are interested in Agile projects. They will be given some insight into the way IT and Business should work together to build software applications using Agile.

Date: Wednesday 9 December
Time: 9.00 - 13.00
Location: COOLProfs, Meerkreuk 62, Oude Wetering
Rate: Free of charge
Target audience: Business- and IT-managers
Registration: Registration is closed.

Mario Lof latest addition to the COOLProfs salesteam

Oude Wetering, 7 September 2009 - COOLProfs, development and hosting specialist of custom software to facilitate core business processes, has hired Mario Lof (44), who will be starting at september the 1st as senior sales consultant.

Lof began his career at Moore-Business Forms, working in the field of Intelligent Imaging and Business Communication Services, After which he switched to General Electric (GE). At GE Information Services (The current GXS), a worldwide supplier of e-commerce applications for business to business, he worked seven years as accountmanager for diverse Fortune500 companies. The following two years, he forfilled the role as accountmanager  for PinkRoccade Local Government,  with clients like the city of Rotterdam and the province of Noord-Holland. He was key-accountmanager at Yacht, during the past four years, doing work for the strategic ICT-accounts Shell, KPN and others.

He will be reinforcing the COOLProfs salesteam, where his main focus will be attracting new business. He will also be expanding current customer relations.

"Applying to COOLProfs was a choice that I've put some thought in", says Lof, "I wanted to work for a company that will always put in extra effort to ensure high service quality and forfillment of customer interest. This is clearly the case at COOLProfs. Developing systems is not the main goal. Realisation of solutions that truly add value is what COOLProfs aims for.

Lof is happy to be able to fully focus on the things he feels that matter; "At a relatively small company like COOLProfs, you're more able to go about things your own way. I believe that with my broad experience I can contribute to expanding the success of COOLProfs."

EDGE EMEA 2009, 11-13 october in Amsterdam

After the holiday season, it is time to focus on work again. Or maybe have a look at your next vacation. What about Amsterdam? We would like to bring to your attention the EDGE EMEA event that will take place from October 11th till 13th in Amsterdam. This event is the way to meet other Gen users and stay informed about all new developments. And of course enjoy all events and the city of Amsterdam. COOLProfs is one of the main sponsors of this event. You will find us there with a booth, a presentation and a very special “Lab”.

You can subscribe and/or get more information via the links below. 

Join Us for EDGE EMEA 2009 The EDGE EMEA 2009 Conference in Amsterdam (October 11-13) is taking shape and the programme of presentations is now live to view on the EDGE website. Take a look at some of the exciting topics that will be covered by speakers from across the EMEA region, and also the hands-on technical labs, including CA Gen R8, that you will be able to participate in. SOA, asp.net, Replatforming, Model management and User Experiences will all be covered during the 2 days, plus the “meet friends and exchange experiences” opening reception on Sunday evening. Can you afford NOT to be there?? You will also have the opportunity to meet with our vendor partners who will be participating in the event – COOLProfs, Canam, IET and Response Systems, our Gold sponsors, and Silver sponsors Educagen and Arikan. Register NOW online and take advantage of the special discounted Early Bird rate while there are still places remaining. Standard registration fee is €875 but Early Birds can get a discount of 15% and pay just €745! (Applicable to the first 30 registrants) See you in Amsterdam! Kind regards, EDGE EMEA Conference team EMEA Conference Office Tel: +44 1342 811678 Email: edge-emea@edgeusergroup.org

Technical Computer Scientist Van der Zalm To COOLProfs

After graduating from Technical Computer Science at TH-Rijswijk, Evert had to start looking for a suitable job. He had allready done his traineeship at COOLProfs, which he enjoyed. This resulted, after several meetings, in Evert being hired as Junior Consultant at COOLProfs. His focus will be the Outsystems Agile platform.