Entelec's 2022 lookback

2022 has indeed been a year of success within Entelec. There has been a milestone, a new product feature, some inspiring new projects and a bunch of super-qualified new team members. Sit back and enjoy with us this recap of this exciting year.

Entelec’s 30th-anniversary celebration

If Entelec was a human being, you would start seeing some wrinkles by now. But that is not the case. Thanks to outstanding R&D activities that lead to world-class product development, Entelec is still in its vibrant years. And we tend to keep it that way. Our 30th-anniversary celebration to Malaga will undoubtedly have given our team members the wind to keep providing the best of themselves.

This anniversary and its Vacation Celebration to Malaga were both a celebration and the start of a new era. Our newest Sky-Walker product feature the Incident Manager Web Application set the tone for what will be an era of changes in the world of safety and security management.

As discussed above, we set the tone in this new era with a new product feature of our Open Integration Software Sky-Walker. The Incident Manager is still a prototype in development, but it already has the capacity to change your control room in a way you could never have imagined. A control room usually radiates stress because of its major responsibility. But also because of the chaotic situations when major incidents occur. When a big fire is detected in a shopping centre or a suspicious visitor at the airport, many bells start to ring. And that should be! There is a lot to do: view the cameras of the incident location, stay in contact with on-field security members, call emergency services, start evacuation procedures,…

All these actions rely on different tools and software. A big man capacity is needed to make sure every safety and security issue can be handled and therefore these employees should have been trained to work with all the different software tools. With Sky-Walker, this problem has been reduced dramatically. Only one interface, only one software education, fewer employees and faster safety management. What more could a control room operator ask for? World-class incident management! Thanks to our Incident Manager Web App, pre-designed automated workflows will be triggered when an event occurs. That way, a safety manager can handle every safety or security incident in no time. Your safety level increases once more and your control room is at ease. This provides them with an opportunity to do their work fully focused on the solution for the specific incident instead of the cooperation between different software tools with many team members.

Jumbo

Back in 2018, we signed a contract with the Dutch retail chain Jumbo. As one of the Netherlands’ largest supermarket chains, acquiring this customer was a major win in the Benelux market. This year, Jumbo decided to integrate Sky-Walker in all their processes.

The main extension in this cooperation is the implementation of Jumbo’s inbound and outbound processes in our Open Integration Software Sky-Walker. By automating order picking in their warehouses, the supermarket chain will be able to optimise the quality of the logistic processes. But it is not a simple task to achieve. New systems will be acquired and that needs to be monitored altogether with the already existing workflow. Sky-Walker will be the supervision software that will make sure all of the sub-systems are integrated into one interface in order to enable a central approach to the monitoring of the Jumbo supply chain.

This proves Jumbo’s trust in our software and our company and provides an opportunity to enforce this long-term relationship with focus on the improvement of Jumbo’s processes as well as Sky-Walker’s scope. As one of our biggest customer projects, our development team welcomes this implementation as a chance to learn and optimise our software.

For Jumbo, this does not only mean that their internal processes will improve. This integration improves Jumbo’s entire supply chain and will lead to huge cost reductions, optimized supply chain management, increased customer satisfaction, and so much more.

Follow our blog page and do not miss the Jumbo case soon to come!

And not only for our team members, since she has been awarded for the third time in her career. She was privileged to achieve two Livia awards in her career. It is a prestigious award for women who had an impact on business and tend to be a leading example for other women trying to start their own businesses. This year though, Miet Loix was awarded by InspiringFifty, a company that awards the 50 most inspiring women in tech in a specific country. This year, we are proud to announce that Entelec’s CEO has been awarded one of those 50 women that lead tech businesses, a branch mostly dominated by men. 

To start this new era prepared for the big impact we want to have in this branch, qualified personnel is a big must! From engineers and developers to sales and marketing profiles, this year has been such a year in which you can look back to some major wins regarding the new team members. 

• Dorian Onkelinx - Our newest System Engineer
• Frank Demuynck - R&D's SCRUM Master
• Laurence Gazotti - France's Project Manager
• Anthony Martinez - Our specialist in Marketing
• Ben Hendrickx - Back-Office Sales for The Netherlands
• Arthur Huijskens - The Netherlands' newest Sales Solution Manager

It is widely known that refreshing your staff and adding skilful profiles to it can and will enforce your business. But that is not only the case with experienced profiles. To make sure there is some fresh wind from unexpected corners, young potentials are a must. Therefore, we provided two internships to some very promising students. While they can bring the freshness we sometimes desire, we teach them the tricks of the trade.

• Anaïs Ziane - Internship Marketing in France
• Mursel Koseer - Internship Product Development in Belgium

To be able to keep providing the best hypervision software throughout the years, it is a must to be present at events that matter. Expoprotection 2022 Exhibition in Paris, the biggest safety exhibition in France, was such an event. Three days of meeting potential customers and providing them with Sky-Walker demos of the highest standard, networking and making contacts to ensure the best partnerships possible and so on; this event was a major success for Entelec. A big load of leads have been obtained and are being approached by our sales team to make sure the best of projects come to life out of these prospects.

Also in 2023, we will be present at huge and smaller exhibitions internationally. Make sure you will be there to stay informed on the latest updates and new features to come.