How to hire top data engineers, the strategies for recruiting and retaining data engineering talent and the benefits of nearshoring and team extension.

Talent Shortage is the biggest growth hindering factor of the Finnish IT services industry. It slows the growth rate yearly by a staggering 25–30%.

On tunnettua, että Suomessa on jopa yli 10 tuhannen koodaajan vaje. Virolainen Allies Digital tuli syksyllä paikkaamaan vajetta baltialaisilla ja puolalaisilla koodareilla. Toimitusjohtaja Priit Pavelsonin mukaan toiminta on lähtenyt lupaavasti käyntiin.

Allies Digital, funded by Finnish venture capital fund Gorilla Capital, aims to solve the dire talent shortage within Finland’s ICT sector by launching an international platform of thousands of coders.

In our continuous exploration of the Finnish IT services market, 6 months ago, we decided to run an experiment. We wanted to know if Baltic & Polish dev houses could stand a realistic chance to be competitive in Finnish public IT tenders.

Allies.digital and Lingonberry Island take a big step into a high value partnership. Companies have agreed about strategic collaboration to develop the best Talent Fulfillment Platform in terms of customer experience, customer value and competitiveness on the market.

ITL is a non-profit association uniting information and communication technology companies and organisations. The combined turnover of the members of ITL is more than 70% of the total turnover of the Estonian ICT sector.

With 1+ month of state of emergency, the crisis has evolved and we are only starting to understand the depth of it. We sat down with Przemek Berendt, Andreas Flodström, Harri Koponen & Kaido Petter, software development industry insiders from Talent Alpha, Beetroot, Nortal & Ignite to discuss the current market situation.

3 days into the state of emergency, Janne Kalliola, Chairman of Code from Finland/CEO of Exove joined Priit Pavelson to discuss software business in times of crisis. They discussed risk management, facing potential effects, adopting new approaches towards sales and recruiting - and much more.

Allies conducted a research among IT consultancy companies in Estonia to understand the early effects of the covid crisis on the industry. The research conclusions were published in Äripäev.