BThaber Issue 1086 (English)

WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER

Had been planned for many years by the most treacherous terrorist organization witnessed by the Republic of Turkey, the military coup attempt was tried out by this terrorist organization in July. Threats placed in the state’s most crucial locations such as the armed forces, the police, the justice system and education attempted a military coup in order to overthrow the Republic of Turkey by using the facilities of the state. Working on this plan for nearly half a century, there was a very important thing the traitors did not consider; it is the fact that the Turkish nation would not give in to this treacherous plan and resist to it until the last drop of blood would fall to the ground.

The Turkish nation defeated those terrorists with a great resistance which the entire world watched amazed.

The day of the coup attempt, the Information and Communication Technologies companies and their employees played a major role in the prevention of this coup

July 15, 2016...

at the expense of their lives.

The entire communication system (despite the death threats of the traitors for

stopping the communication even though the threats were fulfilled) continued to work non-stop that day.

It’s our duty of loyalty to thank all our citizens who succeed in stopping this treacherous coup attempt,

to wish God have mercy on those became martyrs and the wounded to have a quick recovery.

Don’t let cyber-attacks turn into business losses

Turkey is one of the top five countries which suffer the most cyber-attacks. Cyber-attacks cause an annual loss of 114 billion USD in the USA. The figures show billion dollars in Turkey and are growing rapidly.

Being a first in Turkey and offering disaster recovery and business continuity services against all disasters in the digital environment especially cyberattacks, Clonera is developing solutions that eliminate the loss of business.

Pointing out that in recent years, Turkey experienced a lot of cyber-attacks; Clonera IT Services Chairman Evren Ballı gave the following statement: “Recently, mainly the hospitals and state institutions experienced cyberattacks and many institutions were exposed to business losses.

Apart from people’s private information being collected; everyone became a victim of the system failure and interruption of business continuity. Now

even the terrorist organizations harm the state through cyberattacks; thus it makes disaster recovery and business continuity investments a must. Considering that the digitalization increases every day, ensuring business continuity and being able to instantly access the system in an outage must become an indispensable part of the activities of public and private organizations.”

Ballı highlighted that in the last 5 years, one out of three

companies in the world faced by a digital disaster and 93% of them disappeared in 5 years and added: “Actually, the emerging financial losses reach much larger numbers when considering the time the companies are not being able to work and have a business downtime. Against such illegal activities, it is inevitable for companies in Turkey to invest in disaster recovery and business continuity.”

Ballı continued: “Institutions’ digital capitals are clearly at great risks. Business continuity has become quite important with cyber-attacks. When developing a product for disaster recovery and business continuity, we aim to provide Clonera customers continuing their work without information, business, prestige, and time & money loss. We provide companies which suffer a digital breakdown to continue giving services by putting them to work again within the minutes.”

Basistek has global objectives Since 2009, offering added value services a wide range of customer segments with its staff consisting of computer and software engineers, Basistek remains the leader in Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s large-scale software partner status in Turkey. The company was founded in 1979 and based in Saudi Arabia. Basistek and Nesma Holding which operates in China, Turkey, Egypt, South Korea, England, the United Arab Emirates and the United States merged in 2012 and they take serious steps towards sustainable growth with multinational projects in progress.

HP Software Platinum Partner Basistek has the

highest partnership level that can be achieved in Turkey and performs consulting services for many brands in Turkey and neighboring countries in the IT field. Among the service areas of Basistek, there are HPE Software Product Consultancy, Identity Management (IDM), Data Center Infrastructure Management, Software Development and Technology Consultancy.

Oracle Gold Partner Basistek has the solutions for IDM - identity and access management systems, the application security performing implementation policies and Commscope iTracs solutions for data center infrastructure management field.

Istanbul’s connection turmoil TELKODER announced that Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) terminates fiber cabling permits of companies which offer internet and phone services because of subway, metrobus and funicular routes and there will not be a renewal in 2017 as well. This situation may create troubles in the relevant region of the communications services and many people in Istanbul could be affected. On the other hand, IBB demanded companies to collect the large number of cable and equipment and if not possible, the infrastructure elements made by major investments to be transferred to the municipality.

Recently, TELKODER stated that officials of IBB desired the members of the TELKODER to buy the electronic communications infrastructure services from ISTTELKOM Istanbul Electronic Communications Infrastructure Services Inc. established by IBB and TELKODER stated that this company has an understanding of monopolize the city’s infrastructure. The monopolistic structure trying to be created through ISTTELKOM established by IBB is against the state’s programs, aims and legal regulations according to TELKODER and they stressed that the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, BTK and Competition Authority to react to this situation and resolve.

TELKODER stated that the transit rights that are being retrieved from the member companies

would be transferred to ISTTELKOM by IBB and this process would be repeated for other routes as well. If this took place, Istanbul’s electronic infrastructure would be harmed and cause problems in the future.

TELKODER Chairman Yusuf Ata Arıak shared the following information on the subject: “The negative and illegal moves taken by IBB through with İSTTELKOM will lead to losses for the communications sector. Municipalities and their affiliate companies cannot eliminate companies which have been investing in this sector for many years in order to create income for themselves. Steps in this direction and the desired structure of the market are not appropriate according to the state programs and regulations.

Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, BTK and the Competition Authority must intervene in this application and avoid these negative movements towards Istanbul’s electronic communications infrastructure taken by the IBB. All local governments in the world are supporting the investors in establishing fiber infrastructure.

Municipalities in Turkey should understand the value of installed fiber infrastructure and support or even lead the implementation laws and regulations in this regard. On this occasion, we once again saw how appropriate the decision was to establish a Common Infrastructure Company by Turkcell Superonline, Vodafone, Turksat and TELKODER member operators.”

Another investment in Borsa Istanbul Private Market Another investment were carried out in Borsa Istanbul’s Private Market which is a web-based and membership-based platform bringing together investors and companies which would like to share trading without opening to the public. Aktif Bank’s investment made by the Echo Pos company was the 8th Borsa Istanbul Private Market of 2016.

Established in cooperation with Aktif Bank and Robotpos in order to become a solution partner of the companies in the retail sector for payment systems; Echo Pos went into operation on August 17 via Gong Ceremony held in Borsa Istanbul.

Aiming to be the solution partner for organized retail sector and SMEs Echo Post will provide front and back office payment systems and automation solutions in the retail chain establishments. Echo POS also will provide fast and efficient processes such as inventory tracking, sales, order tracking and profitability tracking as

well as payment systems to its customers. With Echo Pos which uses Windows for organized retail chains and Android-based systems for SMEs; companies will be able to deliver services to customers via tablets.

The system also provides users the opportunity to track campaigns and turnovers. In the event, Borsa Istanbul Private Market Manager Recep Bildik stated that: “Private Market was established in 2014 by Borsa Istanbul bringing entrepreneurs and investors as a web and membership-based platform. Private Market is not only a trading platform, it provides entrepreneurs the needed mentoring and relationship network and it also offers the possibility of exit from investors’ portfolio. Today, we have reached 357 members in Private Market in a short time and 221 entrepreneur companies’ 45% is in the IT sector.

65 of our 108 investors, including individual investors, are qualified angel investors and 32

of them are institutional investors, in Turkey and abroad. Private Market, so far, has 11 investment agreements and provided close to 10 million USD as equity finance.”

Aktif Bank CEO Dr. Serdar Sümer stressed that they produce another value adding service for the retail sector and SMEs with Echo Pos and stated that: “Echo Pos went into practice as a system for SMEs and retail sector companies in order to assist them to create a profitable business model and increase customer satisfaction.”

Robotpos General Manager Burhan Yıldız also shared the following details: “We produce value-adding solutions to companies’ and SMEs’ business processes with ‘Personalization, Facilitation, Saving’ keywords. We are excited to be a part of innovative and highly valueadding Echo Pos project established in order to keep our retailer customers one step ahead in our changing and evolving market conditions.”

Application deadline is August 31 Companies operating in the technology sector and having growth objectives should apply for Deloitte Turkey’s 11th “Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey Program” until August 31. The program details are at the http://fast50. deloitte.com.tr/nominationform-entry.aspx website and the program not only confirm technology companies which grew the fastest in the last 4 years and increased the turnover globally. The Turkey’s fastest growing 50 technology companies are being identified and qualify to join Deloitte’s international “Technology Fast 500” program.

Thus, Turkish companies of all sizes can have the

opportunity to achieve global success.

“Companies which would like to participate in “Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey Program” and has at least 4 years of activity should be producing its own technology and earn the majority of its income from that technology, using advanced technology for solving problems and making R&D investments in technology. Those stand out as important criteria.

In order to apply for the program, companies should be Turkeybased and have headquarters in

Turkey. They should also have at least 50 thousand EUR as their operating income in 2012; while in 2015 this figure should at least be 800 thousand EUR.”