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There must be a casus bibendi so be it, let’s call it “Welcoming Autumn” Party. We all ditched work on a fine Friday afternoon and went back to the venue of the last year-end party. The place is getting more cosy month by month and we did our best to take its advantages.
We are proudly wearing the new branded T-shirts in the garden of DGITAL’s new office
Yakitori on the grill
Some rooster balls added to the stew / Spareribs made ready in the smoker
Side dishes: salads, grilled aubergine and chapati
Our new office space is under construction, but we could have a sneak peek and it’s promising, we’ll love it
We are happy to announce that we are fully PCI-ready in Microsoft Azure. Azure Services has undergone a major change in recent years. The gap between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, the two leading cloud providers is closing at an increasing speed. In addition, Azure has always offered strong PaaS-based solutions and still has a little lead in it. We have always kept a close eye how these services have matured, especially in terms of e-commerce. Until recently, card payment industry focused solely on conventional hosting environments with physical/virtualized hardware. They were cautious and slow migrating into the cloud. As the competition between e-commerce providers became more fierce, especially in the low-cost airline sector, cost-effective scalable and flexible infrastructure has become a principal requirement now. At the same time regulations, security requirements and GDPR put a great responsibility on the providers. Add geo-redundancy and disaster recovery to the equation, and conventional providers are having a hard time fulfilling these needs. Cloud providers have put much focus on these areas in the last couple of years, offering very good solutions for logging, monitoring and security in a scalable manner at a smaller price, than their heavy-weight on-premise counterparts. DGITAL put a lot of effort in finding a way to cover all these requirements in Azure Cloud. We carried out a PCI-DSS gap analysis successfully with a licensed auditor collaborating with Microsoft. We believe that cloud-first is the right approach for all our customers, especially e-commerce providers.
Azure DevOps services is used in DGITAL for all build and release related operation. Our quality pipeline is fully implemented there. Cloud version provides features, which makes Microsoft as a leader in this area, especially for .NET projects. We are happy, that we chose this over AppVeyor or TeamCity. They are both great products, but Azure DevOps provides more features at a smaller price. There is still some room for improvement, but they have reached an important milestone, having all .NET core related project pipelines running there. We are committed to using it in the future as well.
DGITAL has hired 3 new colleagues latterly - two developers and a devops specialist - and plans to employ more professionals in the coming months for the projects we finalised recently.
DGITAL held the annual spring off-site on May 31st. This year we spent the day in Plus52, Etyek. It became a tradition that we prepare our own meal on most company events. This time we made gulash, grilled chicken tighs and pork’s spare ribs. We are happy to share some moments of the happening to give a taste of the fun we had:
Preparation:
Teeter Challenge #1
Goulash In The Making
Chillin'
By the Grill
Teeter Challenge #2
All Staff (Missing Berci)
Serving
Some More Chillin'
We are proud to announce that JetSMART has won the price in the Travel&Tourism sector with the e-commerce solution developed by DGITAL.
The eCommerce Institute announced the Chilean winners of the eCommerce Awards Chile 2019, the highest recognition given to companies in the sector.
A select Jury of International Experts decided which were the most outstanding companies in development and contribution to Electronic Commerce and Internet Businesses in Chile. The delivery ceremony of the eCommerce Awards Chile 2019 held on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 6:00 p.m., organized by the eCommerce Institute and the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago CCS.
The Latin American Institute of Electronic Commerce, eCommerce Institute, together with its local chapters in Latin America, established these awards with the objective of recognizing companies that comply with good practices and with their constant work they make possible the development of the Digital Economy in Chile and the Region.
In a partnership with one of the Big Four accounting firms DGITAL has successfully completed an e-commerce back-office project on 31st of March.
It allows for hundreds of non EU and overseas e-commerce companies to process VAT and tax return after online sales within EU.
The delivery is part of a 2 years development frame contract and completed as the first stage of an agreement about 6 e-commerce development projects in 2019.
DGITAL has developed the JetSMART website in 2017 and managing it ever since. The developer team of DGITAL played and will continue to play a key role in the realisation of JetSMARTs vision in South America.
Our co-operation has just passed a milestone when JetSMART Airlines Argentina started commercial operations with its first route linking Buenos Aires (SADP/EPA)—Mendoza. JetSMART will compete in the low cost segment with Flybondi Líneas Aéreas and Norwegian Air Argentina.
With a first flight from El Palomar Airport to Mendoza, the low cost airline JetSmart will start its cabotage operations on Wednesday 10 April 2019, in Argentina. During the presentation were also the Minister of Transportation Guillermo Dietrich and the Secretary of Tourism of the Nation, Gustavo Santos.
On Thursday 11 April 2019, JetSmart Airlines Argentina will add the first flight to Neuquén and Friday 12 April 2019 to Córdoba. Then the operations will arrive in Salta and Tucumán (April), Bariloche (May) and Puerto Iguazú (June). In a span of two months, the airline will open 17 routes, 10 of them without going through Buenos Aires.
The base of operations is, in principle, El Palomar Airport, since JetSmart Airlines did not rule out using Aeroparque as well. Flybondi Líneas Aéreas has its operations from El Palomar, another low cost, Norwegian Air Argentina, operates from Aeroparque.
Since the beginning of the sale of tickets, acceptance in the market has been important: “We have had a great acceptance since the beginning of our ticket sales and we are currently above the 70% average occupancy in the announced routes”, Gonzalo said. Pérez Corral, General Manager of the company, who added that they seek to replicate, in Argentina, the model of Chile: in 2018 they transported 2.5 million passengers, with a growth of 25% over the previous year. The interesting thing is that most are new passengers who join the traditional market.
The airline will be focused on the domestic market for the following years. With regard to the international market could study open routes from 2020 on to identify the most profitable markets, said Estuardo Ortiz, CEO of the low cost airline. The company is immersed in a change of air culture: “We must break the perception that low cost is low quality”.
