BThaber Issue 1083 (English)

BThaber 8 - 14 AĞUSTOS 2016

WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER

Being the only comprehensive research in the field of informatics in Turkey; Top 500 ICT Companies Research was held for the 17th time this year. Top 500 ICT Companies Research conducted by M2S Research and Marketing Services on behalf of BThaber Newspaper announced Turkey’s Top 500 ICT companies. The ceremony held in CVK Park Hotel on July 28 and was the hub of the ICT industry.

Informatics 500 Research aims to meet the industrially critical statistical information on issues such as the number of employees, wages, productivity criteria, efficiency ratio and expertise. With this research, companies are being listed according to their turnover and divided into categories of expertise; thus becoming an important reference resource for overseas buyers and investors.

Announced by Berrak Ataşen, the opening speech of 17th Informatics 500 Turkey BThaber award ceremony was given

by BThaber Corporate Group President Murat Göçe and shared the information that the process started six months ago with preparation of themes and graphics belonging this year and submission of the research forms to almost all informatics companies. Murat Göçe also added that the catalog studies began with the collected form assessments placing the top 500 companies in the research and thanked everyone within the group companies sharing details about the tasks undertaken by each.

Innovations in ICT 500 Göçe shared information about the innovations in ICT 500 this year. Accordingly, the theme of last year ‘pearl’ left its place to ‘gear’ merging all the pearls and became the main theme of 17th Informatics 500 Research. Göçe expressed his wish stating: “Let’s hope that the gears would work together in harmony getting stronger together.” Another innovation of this year was the prize giving names being selected among real industry CIOs more than ICT companies. NGO Presidents took part in the ceremony and presented the awards to the outstanding companies in the ranking. Second time this year,

Each year ‘A brand new ICT 500’

awards were presented to seniors worked in the sector for over 35 and as highlighted by Murat Göçe; BThaber Special Awards were remarkable.

He also stated that there are many new companies at this year’s categories and said that the biggest innovation of this year was separation of ‘top 10 informatics companies’ ranking as ‘top 10 informatics’ and ‘top 10 communication companies’ in the light of the studies carried out for several years. Murat Göçe talked about his hopes and reproaches as the following: Better be more interested in ICT “This year, the number of companies filling out the forms almost reached 2 thousand.

We need the support of you all in order to make this research more comprehensive and more beneficial as the participation increases year by year. One of the most frequently asked

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questions is ‘Why don’t you include X category?’ In order to add a category, there should be enough companies working in the category. When the number is adequate, we can absolutely open that category.

Category suggestions are always welcome and we are already updating the categories every year. One other question that is frequently asked is: “My profit is higher; the other company simply has a higher turnover; so these results are unfair.” But no, that is not unfair and the explanation of this system is very simple: Yes, we do not carry out a research on profitability; our research is based only on turnover and we explain this over and over again, everywhere.

Since we receive similar results with TÜBİSAD in the results of these studies we carry out, we take the figures covering the whole sector from them. I’ll try

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to explain my expectations in front of governmental officials’ presence: two components of our industry are information technologies and communication and those are also integral parts of each other, both are complementary. We have a high respect towards communication firms that are highly appreciated by government institutions however we demand a little more attention and interest for information technologies companies, as well.”

Our hearts & souls are with the IT industry...

Participating in the Informatics 500 Awards Ceremony, Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Galip Zerey talked about National e-Government Strategy and Action Plan and also pointed out that the Cyber Security Strategy and Action Plan has been completed.

Speaking at the award ceremony Galip Zerey, underlining that the BTK’s duty area involves the telecommunications industry, stated that: “Telecommunications infrastructure is public infrastructure.” Zerey continued

his words as: “There are special and available arrangements for public telecommunications infrastructure and subscribers using this infrastructure. The aim is to provide subscribers good and quality services. The current regulations do not include any arrangement for the IT industry.

Telecommunications companies have to get authorization from BTK, but IT companies are not required to obtain authorization from BTK or UDHB. According to the present legislation, we do not have a chance to do something about IT companies now. We are only able to perform on issues such as how can we support the sector in cooperation with IT companies, how can we increase domestic production in Turkey and how can we create a national industry. There are existing studies under the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. Our hearts and souls are together with the IT industry.”

Industry seniors also received awards In the ICT 500 Awards Ceremony, awards were presented to IT sector seniors. To the people who worked for IT industry for more than 35 years, “35 years of work in Turkish ICT Sector” plaques and thanks were given. Working in IT industry for many years in various positions, Koç Sistem General Manager Mehmet Nalbantoğlu, Netaş General Manager C. Müjdat Altay, Kora General Manager Betül Onat, Bilser Chairman Zafer Dörter, Turkey Informatics Association Honorary President Prof. Dr. Aydın Köksal and Semor Inc. Chairman Ş. Nezih Kuleyin were presented ‘35th Year’ plaques by BTHABER Corporate Group President Murat Göçe.

BThaber awards found its owners Vitel received the Year’s BThaber Customer Award, HCS Cable received the Year’s Customer Loyalty Award and Osman Coşkunoğlu was presented an appreciation plaque for the contribution he provided for BTHaber Newspaper for many years by BTHaber Editor in Chief, Ayhan Sevgi.

BThaber 8 - 14 AĞUSTOS 2016

Design competency will spread in the Gulf

We are competing with the world in technology-assisted education Enocta continues its path by adapting new technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality to the educational process with a significant knowledge in technology-assisted education in Turkey.

Offering design automation solutions to the organizations and R&D centers that carry out electronic system designs and manufacturing CDT Information Technologies aims to increase the effectiveness in the Gulf region.

CDT Information Technologies provides total solutions to leading global brands offering services such as design, wiring, PCB production, reliability engineering in electronic design automation field. CDT Information Technologies General Manager Alpay Göğüş states that: “Among the global brands that take part in electronic design, production and wiring design processes, there are Mentor Graphics, Downstream Technologies, Logicircuit, Verisense, HiFuture, Eltek, Leading Edge and Concept Engineering.” He also stresses that they provide training and consultancy support that their customers need in the context of supportive service.

Alpay Göğüş; summarizing the solutions they offer in the context of computer-aided design technologies such as design, analysis, simulation, production, PCB, FPGA / ASIC design, wiring design, PCB manufacturing, reliability engineering with the words: “We combine internationally recognized innovations and professional approaches with local service structure and expertise.”, noted that this wide range of solutions brings

beneficial results to many different sectors and added: “In this title, we can list printed circuit boards, design, complementary components with software solutions for the tests and production.

Simulation and analysis solutions for embedded systems, wiring design and support given in order these systems to work together with compatible standards can also be added to that list in this context. This automation is primarily used in real sectors such as aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, telecommunications and IT. We meet the basic needs of electronic design and manufacturing technologies in every sector. However, we have solutions for some sectors’ special areas of interest, as well. For example, for the defense and aerospace sector, we offer solutions in DO-254 and DO-178 standards. For automotive sector, we offer wire designs and embedded systems, in-vehicle networking and communication solutions. For consumer electronics, we also have software solutions for the design and production facilities with advanced technologies.”

Turkey catches the world-class technology in technology-assisted education. Operating in this field, Enocta CEO Ahmet Hançer stated that they recently provided for small and medium-sized enterprises to be included in the e-learning processes in partnership with the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce.

According to the information given by Hançer, Enocta is a company that has come to these days by growing simultaneously with the development of e-learning in Turkey. Thanks to the synergy they created with many companies investing in human resources and education over the years; they have an important knowledge in the field of technology assisted learning. CEO of the company, Ahmet Hançer describes the aim of Enocta’s establishment as meeting the needs of education and information for companies with partners and employees all over Turkey in sectors such as banking, telecommunications, retail, energy, logistics and pharmaceutical sectors. By combining different learning tools and designing an e-learning structure; Enocta offers this content to all employees within a certain standard. Producing solutions in technology-assisted learning

field, the company provides services for more than 500 institutions operating in 34 countries in different sectors.

The number of people benefiting from Enocta trainings reaches 2 million.

Enocta provides services over an online education platform prepared for all shareholders’ education and development including business partners, dealers and company employees. This education platform is also compatible with mobile technology and hosted on a cloud to be accessed by all users 7/24. Providing services by transforming contents created by institutions to technologyassisted education formats, the company can also provide services to the institutions with original content prepared by Enocta’s team. In addition to this, Enocta can only set up the technological infrastructure of education platforms and hand them over to institutions.

First step for the common communication infrastructure Turkey’s telecommunications sector is experiencing a historic turning point. Major actors of the sector: Turkcell Superonline, Vodafone and Türksat along with the member companies of the Association of Competitive Telecommunication Operators via a joint decision announced that they have started negotiations to establish a common infrastructure company.

At a meeting held with the participation of Turkcell General Manager Kaan Terzioğlu, Vodafone CEO Gökhan Öğüt, Türksat General Manager Cenk Şen and TELKODER Chairman Yusuf Ata; it is stated that with this historic step, the sector will achieve significant gains and Turkey’s strength in competition with the world will increase.

In Turkey, the need of

a Joint Infrastructure Corporation (OAŞ) was recently brought up by a large number of operators and NGOs and the parties coming together for this cause give the following statement: “In order to most effectively use and develop the existing telecommunications infrastructure in our country, enabling all companies in the sector to access the infrastructure via the most appropriate conditions and fairly as well as not wasting the resources with repeated investments; studies will start in order to establish a Joint Infrastructure Company with the widest scope of participation of Turkcell Superonline, Vodafone, Türksat companies and other companies in the telecommunications sector. These studies will be carried out in accordance with the Competition Act and any regulations prescribed by the relevant legislation, namely the Electronic Communica-

tions Act along with all the related permits and authorization requirements. In accordance with our prime minister Binali Yıldırım’s purpose which is also located in the Government Program of carrying out our country to the digital future; we have strong faith in the initiation to ensure wider high-speed internet services, accessible to all users at affordable prices and high quality and we have strong faith in this vital initiation which is open to the participation of all sectors to also provide the necessary support for the future of our country in harmony with the public and private sectors. We believe that the support of the broad political and social groups in our society will be next to us. This initiative demonstrates our commitment to our investment and confidence in the future of our country in those difficult times that our country is passing through.”