Visma International Blog – technology, business & life at Visma

The Finnish company Weoptit, a company in Visma, has turned the UEFA Euro tournament into math and simulations. Based on a model originally built by their analysts prior to the World Cup 2006, they have played out the tournament 1,000 000 times to find out what results each team can expect from this summer’s football festival.

At Visma | Raet, employees form the backbone of their sustainability policy. By working together with customers, partners and other businesses on social initiatives, they are committed to making a real difference for society.

Losing critical data can be devastating for a company. How can you make sure that your organisation’s data is secure, how should you set a solid backup strategy, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of storing your data on cloud servers versus on-premise servers?

What will the future of finance and the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) role look like in the future? We had a chat with the CFO of Visma, Stian Grindheim about this.

Choosing higher education is a big decision. What do I want to work with, and what is “wise” to choose when thinking about future labour market opportunities? One thing is for sure: to solve the societal challenges we face, we need expertise in technology more than anything else in the years to come.

What is it like to be a UX intern at Visma, and what sorts of projects will you be working on? Matilda from Sweden has written a summary of her experience and what she learned.

We are thrilled to announce that Visma’s Therese Sletten, is named one of Norway’s 50 leading tech women in 2021. We had a chat with Therese about her early interest and enthusiasm for tech, what female role models have meant for her over the course of her career, and why we need a more inclusive workforce.

Pro cycling is a male-dominated sport. Why is it so, and how can we get more women into cycling? We met with the General Manager of Team Jumbo-Visma and one of the riders in the new women’s team of Team Jumbo-Visma to talk about diversity and inclusion within cycling.

As a UX Studio at Visma, we spent last year running remotely all the activities that traditionally require whole team onsite participation such as design sprints, usability tests and problem framing workshops. Here are some of the tools we have used with success.

Working from home combined with social lockdowns has made it challenging to stay active this winter. As title sponsors of Visma Ski Classics, we have been able to do something creative about it.

Several children are replacing screen-time indoors with cross-country skiing in the woods. How? By using our new and motivating app – Visma Ski Classics 4Kids.

Did you know that the right to privacy in the digital world is a human right? Still, many people lack knowledge about how their personal data is being collected, used, and shared. That is the focus of the Data Protection Day that takes place on January 28th.