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Qentinel Ltd receive the acknowledgement awarded by Aalto-university (9.03.2010)

Mari Lättilä and Marjo Sjöberg from Qentinel Ltd were rewarded at the international women's' day 8.3.2010 the "Women and technology" (Naiset ja tekniikka) -acknowledgement from the fund of Marja-Terttu Tanttinen. The meaning of the acknowledgement awarded by the Aalto University's School of Science and Technology is to enhance women to promote to apply in technology studies. Now the acknowledgement is awarded fifth time and the objective is to raise the interest in and support women in the ICT-field, which is still very male-dominated.

The acknowledment strives for introduction the role of woman in the human-technology interaction and in the development of research and services. In the justification of the selection of the winner is told, that Mari Lättilä and Marjo Sjöberg represent outstanding entrepreneurship, determination and expertise in the traditionally very male-dominated ICT-technology field. Both are very happy about the acknowledgement awarded to Qentinel Ltd.

- The acknowledgement shows, that we are on the right track in our actions. It is important to notice, that it is not only a reward to us but an acknowledgement to the whole company Qentinel Ltd. Of course it is inspiring to think of, that we can show an example to all future technology heroes - hopefully still more and more of them are female, states Lättilä.

IT Governance & Portfolio Management -conference 9.2.2010 (22.02.2010)

Qentinel was as a partner on 9.2.2010 in Management Events' IT Governance & Portfolio Management -conference. Qentinel's CEO Esko Hannula had a presentation titled "Quality of Information Systems is visible in income statement".

Qentinel's representatives had about fifty meetings with different organization's management regarding themes

- Ensuring the business benefits of software acquisition by means ofquality assurance

- Result-based service option to quality assurance and testing

- Ensuring the success of IT-projects with means of quality assurance.

Qentinel received many thanks in the event for being able to concretize the effect of information system's quality to company profit. When your company is interested in assuring IT systems quality and about quality's impact to profit, contact us.

Qentinel's Successful Software Acquisition - Breakfast seminar 29.1.2010 (22.12.2009)

Welcome to Qentinel's Breakfast seminar on 29.1.2010!

SUCCESSFUL ACQUISITION - QUALITY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IS QUALITY OF LIFE

In this seminar we are delving into the quality assurance and testing of a Succesful acquisition in IT-project's managements point of view. Topics are taking quality assurance into consideration from the beginning of the project, and organizing and designing the quality assurance of project. Also risk management methods and defining quality information for decision making are helping in assuring the success.

As the customer speaker Pipsa Ylä-Mononen from Itella shares experiences of quality assurance in large projects.

This seminar is useful to everyone preparing and managing IT projects, and to those leading the projects or being in charge of testing and quality assurance.

Date and time: 29.1.2010 at 8:30 am - 11:00 am

Location: Restaurant Pääposti, Auditorio, Mannerheiminaukio 1 C, Helsinki

The seminar is held in Finnish (more information).

Qentinel in RWSUG seminar on 27.1.2010 (22.12.2009)

Rational- and WebSphere - User Group organizes their annual RWSUG seminar on Wednesday 27.1.2010 at IBM's headquarters in Helsinki. This years theme in the seminar is "Added Value in High Quality - Mission Impossible?"

During the afternoon the top names in the industry are sharing there views on how quality can be produced and developed cost-efficiently in software projects. Key-Note speaker is Jean-Lois Vignaud (Product Management Lead for Rational CCM products). In addition the programme includes e.g. example case of an electric medical report archiving, novelties in Jazz-technology, electronic trade, and the From Business requirements to Testing - pilot project of RWSUG.

Qentinel's CEO Esko Hannula will give a presentation "How quality assurance is done in buyer-supplier interface?" in the seminar.

More information: http://www.rwsug.fi/default.asp?path=1;39;584

Qentinel in TalentIT-event at 5.11.2009 in Dipoli (16.12.2009)

Qentinel participated once again, for the seventh time, to the TalentIT recruitment event on November 5. organized in Dipoli. Also this year Qentinel had many interested visitors at it's standand and made new contacts to future professionals. This year there were altogether 44 companies as exhibitors, of which Qentinel was the only company specialized in professional testing and quality assurance services.

Qentinel's fiscal year 1.7.2008-30.6.2009 (5.11.2009)

Qentinel's fiscal year 2008-2009 (1.7.2008 - 30.6.2009) was challenging. Autumn 2008 brought along a global finance crisis that very rapidly manifested itself as a serious recession in Finnish industries. Effects were soon seen also in Qentinel's business. When investments into information systems and product development decreased, also the demand for quality assurance services was declined rapidly. Large projects were rare but demand for the professional QA services remained steady. Qentinel's turnover on the fiscal period 2008 - 2009 was 5.3 million Euros and profit after taxes was 0.34 million Euros. These numbers were clearly behind our targets, but taking the market conditions into consideration they can be considered reasonable. The outlook in the global economy turned somewhat more optimistic in summer 2009. This change has been visible also in the beginning of the new fiscal year. We are predicting moderate growth and improvement of profitability for the fiscal period 2009 - 2010.

Qentinel received certificate of credit Rating classification AAA® (23.09.2009)

Soliditet Finland has again this year acknowledged Qentinel with a certificate for the highest credit Rating classification AAA®. Only 4,3 % of all companies in Finland achieve the same rating. Out of seven different ratings, AAA® is the highest.

Qentinel's Successful Software Acquisition - Breakfast seminar 16.10.2009 (18.09.2009)

Welcome to Qentinel's Breakfast seminar on 16.10.2009

SUCCESSFUL ACQUISITION - QUALITY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IS QUALITY OF LIFE

In this seminar we are delving into quality assurance and testing operations related to the deployment and maintenance of software packages.

We are focusing on topics that are important in succeeding, such as requirements analysis and testing of package software, and quality assurance of upgrades.

This seminar is useful to anyone taking part in package software and package system acquisitions, those responsible of deployment and maintenance projects, and people taking part in project's testing and quality assurance.

Date and time: 16.10.2009 at 8:30 am - 11:00 am

Location: Restaurant Pääposti, Auditorio, Mannerheiminaukio 1 C, Helsinki

The seminar is held (mainly) in Finnish (more information).

Qentinel speaking at HITA's fall seminar (12.08.2009)

The Helsinki IT Association's (HITA) AKVA Club (active decision-makers) organizes as continuation to last fall a seminar with new views and experiences, on the cruise route Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki on 30.9. - 2.10.2009. The topic of the fall seminar is "Does Agile help, testing produce, scrum save?" Qentinel is participating with Esko Hannula's presentation "How can you insure the success of IT acquisition?". Other companies speaking in this seminar focusing on agile projects and tools are Asianajotoimisto Hannes Snellman, IBM, Microsoft, Sininen Meteoriitti and Talent Partners.

A performance testing workshop at Qentinel together with Sytyke 3.9. at 9:00-14:00 (11.08.2009)

The special interest group of testing operating in Sytyke, a Finnish association for persons working in various system design tasks, is organizing together with Qentinel a workshop concentrating in performance testing. The workshop will be held 3.9. at 9:00 - 14:00. The workshop is in Finnish.

The program and additional information of Sytyke here.