The increase in revenue was fueled by both strong organic growth and the acquisitions of Riada from Sweden, Beecom from Switzerland and Contribyte from Finland. Now the majority of the income and customer base resides outside Finland. Eficode now has more than 1000 customers, with a number of significant new customers including McLaren, Deutsche Telekom, and Sandvik.

Companies continue to look for competitive advantages from software development and from more agile workplaces. This means businesses across Europe need more advice, training and help transforming and adopting an Agile and DevOps culture in their software development. Eficode has signed multiple agreements, especially with the customers in the finance industry, to adopt the Jira Alignsolution, often in association with The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).

Eficode ROOT DevOps Platform was selected by one of the world’s biggest online gaming companies, alongside numerous other businesses across Continental Europe and the Nordics. Eficode CEO, Ilari Nurmi, said:

“Businesses keep adopting Agile and DevOps. That takes know-how from a wide range of areas: people, processes, and tools. We are honoured that so many businesses turn to us for guidance and advice on this. And I am proud of our now more than 450 Eficodeans for their exceptional work every day.”

The EU Website Accessibility Directive continued to fuel our accessibility projects, reinforcing our position as the recognized provider of accessibility and UX research. Eficode also continued to expand the software modernization and cloud transformation projects internationally.

As cellular networks move from 3G and 4G to the faster 5G networks, it is crucial for them to launch their services as soon as possible in order to justify the billions of dollars of investments they have made in buying the 5G spectrums, infrastructure and equipment, said Ofir Zemer, the CEO of the 8-year-old company.

“5G is a big issue in mobile networks. Everyone wants to accelerate their 5G deployment because mobile carriers believe that 5G will have a great impact on their consumers and enterprise customers, and will allow them to generate new revenue streams.”

Cellwize software allows mobile operators to automatically launch the 5G networks with very little manual intervention.

“Deploying a mobile network is a very complex process, predominantly manual process, where someone needs to configure the network elements in a way that the network will now work. We are equipment agnostic. That is the beauty.”

The company initially provided software to deploy previous-generation networks. It has now transitioned its technology to cater for 5G networks. Competitors who have developed similar software to help deploy 5G networks include Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei, he said. But their software works only with their own 5G infrastructure equipment, and most carriers generally use equipment from a variety of vendors, Zemer said.

5G networks are very complex networks to operate – with tens of thousands of towers that need to be deployed to provide stable communications coverage. Intel is a very large provider of chipsets for mobile networks, said Zemer.

“With Cellwize’s platform, which contains AI capabilities, on top of Intel’s chipsets, the mobile operator can deploy and manage their 5G faster and better.”

A chipset is a set of electronic components in an integrated circuit. The accord will enable Intel’s chipsets to be “powered by Cellwize,” he added. The contract with Intel is for “potentially millions of dollars,” he said. There is no exclusivity, and Cellwize is also selling its software to 30 companies including Dell, Verizon, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom and Israel’s Partner Communications, he added.

The collaboration with Intel will allow operators to deploy their 5G networks “more quickly, with a fully automated process, up to 90% reduction in associated costs, improved quality of services through automation, reduced operating expenses to configure and activate cell sites, and overall enhanced customer satisfaction through AI-driven and predictive decision making,” Cellwize said in a statement.