DevOps is a culture. The DNA of this culture is founded on collaboration, communication between teams and agility in software development. It is, therefore, the culture that allows for a perfect symbiosis between Devs’ work and the Operations team’s work.
Xpand IT becomes the first Portuguese company to pledge 1% of profit. The company intends to integrate corporate philanthropy into its business model officially and will donate 1% of its product and profit to non-profit organisations every year through Pledge 1% movement.
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As an Atlassian Expert since 2004, Xpand IT delivers top IT services and products to meet Application Lifecycle Management and Software Development Lifecycle requirements. In this playbook, we unveil ten of the coolest must have Jira add-ons that you can easily find in Atlassian Marketplace. We believe that Jira Software is an excellent tool, not only due to its issue and project-tracking capabilities, but also because you can tune it with amazing add-ons to make it an even better platform.
Xpand IT’s CEO, Paulo Lopes, believes the company will achieve a growth of 75% in the next three years, through a strategy built on nearshoring and product development.
With a 7,5 million euros income in the last year, Xpand IT will achieve a 30% margin profit in 2017. These are the CEO’s expectations, genuinely optimistic when it comes to the business evolution on the international marketplaces.
Working in partnership with Red Hat for more than five years, Xpand IT acts as a Red Hat/JBoss Premium Business Partner and a specialist in the Application Middleware area in Portugal. In a moment of growth for the open source technologies, Nuno Santos – Enterprise Solution Manager from Xpand IT, sets the path for a prosperous future between the two companies.
Pentaho & Big Data Ecosystem – Live Seminar was held on 29th March at Conrad London St. James, London. This event had a total of 109 registrations and 33 participants, who represented some of the largest companies in interest areas such as Banking, Insurance, Transportation, Consulting Services, Education, etc.
