At this years Booster conference in Bergen, Instech had the privilege to be both participants and presenters. Booster is a software conference for the hole team. It offers talks and workshops for anyone involved in software development from developers to project managers. To be able to engage in knowledge sharing with other technology enthusiasts is something we value high here at Instech. First day of the conference, our Tech lead developer, Ami Ahalpara, gave her inspiring 10 minutes lightning talk about “Effective communication in Hybrid teams”. At Instech, we are well acquainted with work ..read more

This autumn we headed out to Sotra, Panorama for Instech workshop and team building excursion ..read more

This autumn we have welcomed new employees, both full time and consultants to Instech. We are thrilled to have so many joining us at the same time. Big Welcome to Ola Smaaberg (Instech), Eirik Sander-Fjeld (Instech), Sindre Braaten (Savvy), Torstein Winjum (Savvy), Beate Helen Thunes (Dfind Consulting) and Borche Ivanov (K Resourcing). We are very happy to have you all onboard! The last two weeks they have joined introduction courses on different topics to learn about our products; INS+ and Etuity, the technology we use, how we test and the basics of the marine insurance industry.  This w ..read more

The 13th to 14th of June Instech held its annual INS+ user meeting at Scandic Flesland. Customers from 9 different companies attended and made this year’s user meeting a great success. Our presentations focused on giving the users tips and tricks and showing INS+ functionality that can make their everyday business easier. How we work with support and the importance of testing was also highlighted. At the end of our first day, we had a session with different workshops that our users benefited greatly from. We would like to thank all participants for joining and contributing with interesting que ..read more

One of our product teams has worked hard with their mustaches to mark the Movember month for men's health. The team represents one of the integrated teams we have at Instech with both inhouse developers, consultants and representatives from the customer. The Movember ended up in a great fund raising for Kreftforeningen – for men’s health. Great work ..read more

Os Kodeklubb works voluntary to promote coding and software development from design, front and back end and security. They invite both beginners and experienced developers. Through our sponsorship we hope to inspire those that are curious to begin with coding, and those that are experienced to share their knowledge and stay in the game. Os Kodeklubb - Et samlested for kodeentusiaster i Bjørnefjorden ..read more

Instech Solutions, a software house delivering solutions to the insurance industry, today announced it will integrate ACORD Solutions Group’s ADEPT platform to facilitate efficient data exchange for its clients in the energy and marine insurance sectors. ADEPT (ACORD Data Exchange Platform and Translator) enables real-time data exchange, translation, and transformation, and connects trading partners throughout the global insurance industry. Instech Solutions, an ACORD member and Licensed Integrator Partner of ACORD Solutions Group, will leverage ADEPT to support its INS+ solution, a comprehens ..read more

Instech held our annual INS+ meeting the 15th and 16th of June in Bergen at the Scandic Hotel Flesland. We had a great turnout! Nearly all of our customers were able to attend. We addressed how to utilize INS+ for automatic data exchange to work more intelligently and effectively. We explained the vast variety of export and import functions, discussed the future of Etuity HUB and finally presented INS+ data using Power BI. We would like to thank all participants for actively contributing to discussions and giving important input to future developments. Only together can we improve the way mari ..read more

We had an amazing time at "fagdag" with Kraftlauget which was a great forum for knowledge sharing! Our friends at Kraftlauget held a session on Svelte and also arranged an interactive competition to see which team could best optimize a DevOps pipeline using GitHub actions. Our team members Stein Børre and Eugene contributed to the learning seminar too.   Stein Børre Granmar talked about our experience pilot testing Virtuoso, a test automation tool with self-healing capabilities. Test automation is the practice of automatically reviewing and validating a software product, such as a web app ..read more

Wednesday March 23rd our very own Stig Nielsen presented a lightning talk at Bergen’s Booster Conference. This conference offers talks and workshops for anyone involved in software development from developers to project managers. Stig is a solution architect and backend developer at Instech. In his 10 minute lightning talk he discusses how to create new solutions to support everyday business operations when your master data is a legacy database. Stig discusses a possible solution for what to do if your business depends on a legacy database for everything, but querying it is slow and error pron ..read more