Meet our new CTO: T. Alexander Lystad
“I’m thrilled to take on the role as CTO of Visma”, says Alex, who started his Visma career as a software developer. Read on and get to know him, his journey thus far, and his plans for the future.
Technology
Can a robot be sustainable?
By making a robot or digital assistant do the most repetitive and boring tasks, companies can focus on more meaningful and value-adding work – benefiting both business and society. So, can the effect of a robot also support companies in being more sustainable?
Software for a longer and healthier life
Usability in technology can make all the difference when nurses distribute their time on patients. Read on to learn more about how user-friendly software affects the healthcare industry.
Are software products sustainable?
How do software products affect sustainability? And what is actually better for the climate – reading a printed book or streaming a movie? Read on to find out.
European Cyber Security Month 2022
October is European Cyber Security Month. This year’s topics are phishing and ransomware. Read on to learn how Visma contributes to a safer digital environment.
Meet our employees: New Managing Director in Portugal
Eva Martins has been appointed as Managing Director for the newly established Visma Tech Portugal. Read on and watch the video to learn about the tech talent’s goals and ambitions for the tech centre.
Democratising Machine Learning through Hugging Face
🤗 Hugging Face is a company that democratises AI by making models available to everyone. Find out how Visma’s Machine Learning Assets team is contributing to the cause by giving back to the community, in the field of Document AI.
How Visma implemented a chatbot that nearly doubled the goal
Robotic AI is vital for good customer experiences. Hear from Digital Learning project owner Oliver Sogn on how Visma is building robotic AI chatbots that help customers, while avoiding pitfalls along the way.
A new and promising generation of IT professionals
Is your child interested in gaming and technology? Read on to find out about a recent Visma collaboration offering kids a fun and social way to develop their technological skills and interests, and turn it into something that could benefit them in the future.
Ensuring innovativity and an entrepreneurial mindset
The 21st of August marks World Entrepreneurs’ Day. As a software provider, being entrepreneurial is one of Visma’s main values. To celebrate this day, we gathered some interesting takes on innovativity and collected advice from some of our many entrepreneurial colleagues.
How the Visma way of working benefits our customers
How do we deliver cloud software that is secure, reliable, and responsive to our customers’ needs? In this article, we’ll show how our way of working and technology are aligned with those goals.
How Visma migrated to Google Analytics 4 – and how you can too
In 2023, Google will retire their current version of Google Analytics – called Universal Analytics (UA) – and replace it with Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Visma has many websites that currently use UA, and we’ve been working hard on transitioning to GA4. Find out how we did it in this handy overview.
Garbage in, Gospel Out – The Unrealistic Expectations of AI
AI has been a buzzword for quite some time. And as a professional in the field, you may have gotten the question: “Can’t we just use some AI?” In this article, you’ll get the needed support to explain why AI is or is not a good solution, through a framework to anchor your arguments. We call it the AI Evaluation Loop.
Planning work schedules gets even easier with automated shift design
Shift planning has never been easier. With shift generation, Visma Resolve’s newest extension to the Automatic Rostering module, you can automatically get optimal shifts designed for your departments’ needs. As always, the module also assigns employees to the created shifts to ensure an efficient and fair schedule.
Introducing Machine Learning as a Service – a scalable, automatic way of delivering AI to customers
The software industry is moving forward at an exponentially increasing pace. We have gone from on-prem to cloud, introduced mobile extensions, and enabled users to automate repetitive tasks using robotics. However, there is something that moves even quicker than technology, and that is customer expectations.
Facilitate your organisation’s climate efforts with Sustion
Climate change is a wicked problem. Likewise, the carbon footprint of companies has been wickedly difficult to calculate. Sustion helps organisations to get the data they need to make meaningful, valuable improvements to their climate impact.
What is product insights and why you should care about it
Innovation is the heartbeat of any technology company out there and in the midst of it, large-scale experimentation. Companies who do not succeed with experimenting at scale will not innovate. And those who do not innovate will die.
Working with AI is working with people
In-house AI product development has become feasible for most software companies due to developments within available talent, scalable infrastructure and increased data quality. But how ready are software companies on the one hand, and customers on the other, to deliver and consume AI products, respectively?