Bitport asked Zoltán Komáromi, head of IDC, Tamás Laufer, president of IVSZ (ICT Association of Hungary) and our partner Zsolt Nagy on Hungarian IT market trends in 2012. All the three experts are cautious in their expectations for this year; the facilitation of using EU funds and the state taking a stronger role were mentioned as possible sources of market invigoration. Zsolt Nagy highlighted the opportunity of building state-provided financial and telecommunication services. The provision of such services in a cost-effective way and at the necessary service level constitute high IT-intensity tasks, creating a point of upswing for the IT industry. The full article is available (in Hungarian) on Bitport.

Leading mobile device manufacturers have started to release handsets capable of near-field communication (NFC) technology offering contactless payment, making credit cards or even cash unnecessary. According to technology market analysts, NFC may become the next field of competition in the wireless communication market. In an interview with Computerworld, our managing partner, Péter Béndek named technology proliferation, the willingness of market players (mobile operations and financial service providers)  to co-operate and local payment culture as critical success factors of NFC growth. The interview (in Hungarian) is available here.

Leading Hungarian business-IT news portal Bitport recently interviewed our managing partner, Péter Béndek on the domestic and EU practice of applying cost-benefit analysis to public administration projects and tasks. The calculation of TCO for governmental IT projects would most probably not lead to reduced public IT spend, but better allocated and more efficiently used budgets - said Péter Béndek. The interview (in Hungarian) is available on Bitport.

A practice-oriented postgraduate programme titled ‘IT Manager (Infoman)’ was launched again in the 2011/12 academic year at Budapest Corvinus University. The aim of the programme is to introduce the principles of successful IT management to graduate students (who already have work experience).

Miklós Juhász, partner was invited as guest lecturer for the fourth time to teach a course on IT management at large enterprises.

Stratis proudly sponsors the cup organized by Kereked Sailing Club for the class 30 skerry cruisers for the fifth time this year. The legacy cruisers, built in 1925-44, weathered by the storms of 20th century events meet young racers at the Cup. We proudly support the tradition of Balaton yachting and the class 30.