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Summer 2011
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Dear friends,
I would like to say a few words about Charisma, since I care a lot about both
what we have managed to build so far, and especially what we are going to
achieve from now on.
I foresee an explosion of applications developed for mobile devices and atendency to simplify the software interfaces. I see an unprecedented change
of the information display – it should be very intuitive to support the need
for quick information and mobility of modern companies.
If we take a look at our solutions, they will prove us that in 10 years we have
gained a great maturity and experience to serve our customers. Charisma
has been definitely supporting any type of business, regardless of its
complexity and size. I also believe it is the right time to focus on usability,
mobility and a unique user experience. These are the directions that we will
be addressing on the medium term, especially to current customers, who are
the real beneficiaries.
We plan to build in Charisma a unique working environment, able to address
all daily activities, to increase the ease of operation and information
retrieval. We will launch in Charisma a search engine, similar to Google, a
Task List module and new types of reports on iPhone. We will integrate in
Charisma Analyzer, the platform Tableau Software which is the world’s
leader in advanced data analysis. We will increase the role and authority of
the product management in the design of intuitive and easy-to-use
interfaces. These are just a few steps to be taken for a “user-oriented”
Charisma.
Liviu
Change of Direction
in Charisma
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things
you [might] not be aware of The first half of the year was a
great success. With over 11M
euro as consolidated turnover,
we maintain our goal for 2011: 25%
growth compared to 2010. The most
important projects and customers, newdeveloped technologies and a (small)
part of the colleagues that make
possible all these beautiful results will
be presented in this issue of the
magazine.
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We are about to start a major
project, whose results will be
shared with you in the next
InFocus edition: the company’s mid-
term evolution. Our aim is to set
profitability objectives and turnover on
each division of the company, for the
next 3 to 5 years. Moreover, we areplanning to evaluate the most profitable
verticals and the fastest international
development market channels. Of
course, we will take into consideration
all investments necessary for the
consolidation of such teams such as
market researches, IT tools for fast,
better and appraised reactions to
market changes or customers.
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3 And because we are always thoughtful about
future, we have started another major project,
which is aimed at improving the most valuable
asset of our company – you. The HR department
together with external consultants is
currently collaboratingfor the development of
career plans that will
take into consideration
the development of
managerial
competencies or
attitudes. Meanwhile,
the development of asystem aimed at
correlating the financial
benefits with individual
performances is in
progress. This plan will
be definitely established
in the second half of the
year, so that, starting
with 2012, the company can
use this process in order to
sustain its ambitious goals.
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TotalSoft managed to advance in
the Oracle partner ecosystem.
We are now a Platinum partner,
with specializations in five
distinct skills: Oracle Database,Oracle BI, Oracle Golden Gate,
Oracle Enterprise Manager and
Oracle Primavera. We managed
to enter this elite club as a result
of a series of technical
examinations with high degree of
difficulty, which will allow us to
expand our product offeringsand services on Oracle
technologies. The colleagues
that greatly contributed to our
success are: Tudor Voina, Andra
Lupoaie, Andrei Maciuca, Silvia
Nicolescu, Alexandru Petrencu
and the entire Primavera team.
Finally, it’s good to know that we
are the only Oracle Platinum
Partner in Romania, who is
specialized in Primavera project
management system.
OraclePlatinum Partner
Certifications
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Strategic Partnerships
We signed a strategic partnership with the world’s
leader in data analysis, Tableau Software. The
partnership allows us to use its technology as platform
for our business intelligence system, Charisma Analyzer.
Why Tableau Software? Because we want to provide
our clients with the most powerful BI solution in the
world, which definitely exceeds others through its data
processing speed, the display mode and the ease of
configuration. Because we want to reduce the
application’s implementation and adaptation time
according to customer requirements. Because we want
to set the highest data display and analysis standard in
the world’s software industry. Because we want to
transform Charisma Analyzer into a real easy-to-use
tool that can be managed by any user, regardless of
his/her previous IT background.
Tableau SoftwareOur partnership with Lugera& Makler addresses
Charisma HCM. Thus, we managed to conclude the
first commercial strategic partnership, according to
which Lugera & Makler will provide BPO (Business
Process Outsourcing) services based on Charisma
HCM in Romania, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine and the
Czech Republic.
For this negotiation, TotalSoft brought a mature
software product, able to quickly meet the various
legislative requirements of potential customers. Lugera
will help us locate and update the legislative part of the
software platform; the company will also give us a
percentage of the income resulted from the BPO
services offered. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a
long series of commercial partnerships concluded
overseas.
Lugera & Makler
Eficientizare.ro software
TotalSoft expands its strategic partnership area by including a GPS Tracking
Software component, namely Eficientizare.ro, in Charisma Fleet Management
solution.
We are now providing a complete fleet management solution, able to cover both
location services and GPS monitoring. Fleet managers will have access to real-
time location of vehicles on Romanian or world’s maps, standardized
consumption, number of kilometers traveled, as well as indicators related to the
driver’s behavior in traffic.
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New Products
HR Document ManagementCharisma Facility Management
In case you didn’t know, a proper planning and
controlled maintenance of contracted services may lead
to a reduction of 20% of a company’s total cost of
operating. Based on this, in Q2 2011, TotalSoft
managed to enter the CAFM (Computer Aided Facility
Management) solutions market by Charisma FacilityManagement.
The new solution enables planning and distribution of
spaces, allocation of costs afferent to the area used,
expenditure and re-invoicing management, as well as
the management of contracts with customers and
suppliers.
By increasing profitability and reducing internal costs,the solution addresses construction, real-estate,
building services and facility management companies.
They will use spaces more efficiently by managing and
linking contracts with suppliers and customers with
each afferent square meter; also, the companies will
streamline their properties’ rental and sale potential. So,
in case your friends ask, the answer is:Yes, we do have
such solution!
We have gained a new competence in the Human
Resource area: document management. Our solution,
HR Document Management, ensures the automation of
business flows and documents, document history and
archiving. The product can be perfectly integrated with
the existent business flow of any company.
The solution works based on the permission granted by
the system administrator or according to internal
approval flows.
Document management becomes thus a simple and
fast activity, which allows HR departments to focus
much more on developing competences and
capitalizing on human capital.
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Since all companies deal with water, gas, security, leasing and insurance invoices or other similar
expenditures, we came up with a solution dedicated to contract and repetitive invoice
management, Charisma Utility Management.
The solution helps companies to control and manage utilities contracts and notifies them on
payment deadlines in order to avoid penalties; it also allocates and re-invoices costs of utilities
towards subsidiaries or tenants. We are covering, thus, a new business requirement through a
flexible utility expense management solution!
Charisma Utility Expense Management
Charisma Medical Software includes a module dedicated to
companies having contracts with the National House of Health
Insurances. The module can be integrated with the electronic
medical record, becoming thus the only Romanian medical
product designed for family doctors and completely integrated
with an ERP system.In order to successfully develop the module, numerous laws,
orders and information, belonging to accredited sources of
information, have been carefully studied; in addition, the working
methods and environment of several medical institutions have
been analyzed. Anima Medical Center played a major role by
permanently supporting and documenting this complex
process.
The Family Medicine module enables the import of product
lists, customization of files, monitoring of responses from the
Insurance House, changes of business flows, export of
electronic reports, as well as printable versions of all
documents of interest or digital certifications.
now
Family Medicine
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We are living in a century of speed. Time
seems insufficient in most cases. Because,
complying with duties is equally important in
our personal lives, we’ve launched Tasky – a
daily activity planner, be they personal or
professional, which can run on any smartphone or PC tablet compatible with iOS.
Tasky is a stand-alone application that can be
easily synchronized with other professional
planning solutions (like MS Outlook).
Conceived as a collaborative application,
Tasky simplifies the tracking of these activities,
grouping them into categories, assigning and
replanning them according to priority alerts or
exceeded deadlines.
A major advantage of the application is the
fact that users who have the application
installed on their smart phones have the
possibility to collaborate. Tasky automatically
synchronizes with a web service available
throughout the world (www.toodledo.com),allowing, for example, a family that is at the
mall to view the real-time completion of its
shopping list.
The product is available through AppStore, at
the address
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tasky/id43437
5523?mt=8#
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Tasky personal andbusinessactivitiesplanner
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Kittner Anlagen-und Maschinenbau was founded
in 1994, as an Engineering company in the area
of Hygiene, Food Industry, Pharmacy and
Manufacturing. In 1997, the company entered
the Bulgarian market by opening a modernproduction unit, with a local team of 100
employees.
In order to sustain the increase of customer
requests, Kittner decided to acquire a complex
system that would streamline the manufacturing
and order processing activities.
Kittner chose TotalSoft for the implementation of Primavera Portfolio Management P6 due to our
company’s 16 year expertise in the field. Among
the benefits of the solution implemented, the
following can be distinguished: human capital
streamlining, real-time monitoring of
manufacturing flows, reduction of product
delivery deadlines, as well as increase of price
competitiveness.
Primavera implementationin Bulgaria
TotalSoft Hellas added to its customer portfolio the
largest local car-rental provider, namely AVIS.
The company has $132 million turnover, 340
employees, 75 rental offices, 16.500 cars fleet and has
been active on the Greek market since 1960.
The project, which will be completed in maximum 4
months, involves the implementation of a CRM system
and the provision of support in conducting several
business processes such as:
Implementation of Collection and Legal modules
for a proper collection of receivables generated by
the company's monthly contracts, for planning
stages of the recovery activity and for supporting
the legal proceedings of the recovery activity;
Implementation of Credit Scoring, in order to assist
the sales department in the financial evaluation of
potential customers, by means of an algorithm
able to compute the company’s creditworthiness
and recommended credit limit;
Service scheduling for the company’s vehicles in 6
repair and maintenance centers. The application
will provide complex reports on technical
personnel’s availability, costs and time related to
each repair.
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CRM Implementation in Greece
International Projects
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Reference Projects in Q2
One of the most interesting projects deployed by
Charisma HCM, namely Dona Pharmacies, had a real
challenging character: over 1500 employees, 185 sites
and high personnel dynamic – multiple organization
chart changes, daily/ cost center/ monthly timesheet
solution and a unique system of bonuses for wellperforming employees.
All issues raised by the old application were solved: too
much time needed for payroll calculation, lack of control
over personnel dynamic, difficult submission and
management of reports.
For the 500th+ time, Charisma HCM proved its
superiority in HR process management and itsperformance in managing such a complex activity as
the pharmaceutical one is.
Dona Pharmacies
The list of international projects continues with BNP
Paribas Lease Group, Vienna.
Based on excellent recommendations made by the
project team in Romania, thanks to a rapid ROI and the
recommendations of Deutsche Leasing Austria,
TotalSoft was chosen for the implementation of Charisma Leasing Management solution. Damon
O’Neill, Vlad Cristuţiu and Laurențiu Mavrodin proved to
the Viennese management team that we definitely had
the right solution.
In addition to the implementation of the leasing solution
in 3 companies of the Viennese subsidiary, our
colleagues will face the challenge to interface thesolution with the SAP application, responsible for the
front-office activity, as well as with a local service that
provides critical information on Austrian companies.
We wish our colleagues and Charisma
ERP department a successful
implementation! We are waiting for really
good news from such an interestingproject that involves multinational teams.
BNP Paribas
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One of the largest and modern refineries in the world is
being built in the Middle East – the refinery will be a “full
conversion” unit that will deploy extremely complex oil
processing by means of highly efficient manufacturing
processes. The investment, which is supposed to reach
$10 million, will be managed by SATORP, a joint venturebetween a French company and an Arabian one. For
the planning, analysis and performance, risk and
reporting components both at subproject and entire
refinery levels, an international auction was organized.
TotalSoft won the project in front of two distributors of
Primavera in Australia and Europe, achieving the best
score.
“We were extremely content with TotalSoft’s staff. We
needed 10 specialists and hired the first 10 that we
TotalSoft specialists,
planners of the world’s largest project
SATORP Team
interviewed. In less than 2 weeks, they were already at
SATORP’s headquarters ready to take on their tasks”
“Risk analysis plays a
crucial role, and TotalSoft’s planners are very good at it”
,
states Adel A. Naji, Project Planning and Optimization
Manager, SATORP.
Planners track attentively the activities deployed by
subcontractors, in order to ensure they are reportedappropriately. The final scope of the project is to ensure
that all activities deployed by subcontractors be in
accordance with the initial planning and at the same
time, avoid risks that may arise.
,
added Adel A. Naji.
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Events
Leasing Event, Ukraine
In May we participated as official sponsor in the largest
leasing event, “Leasing in Ukraine 2011: New
Opportunities”, organized by Leaseurope. Damon
O’Neill, Director International Operations at TotalSoft,
delivered a speech regarding the increase of efficiencyincurred by Charisma Leasing Management solution.
The audience comprised over 120 participants from
Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia.
The event was also attended by Raiffeisen Leasing –
the group has already 3 projects deployed by TotalSoft
in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Ukrainian leasing market is still young, but has aconsiderable potential for growth in the upcoming
years. The leasing penetration rate in the local economy
is well below the EU average (4% vs. 16%).
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Credit Risk Management
Event, Romania
TotalSoft sponsored the 9th edition of Credit Risk
Management Conference, organized by ICAP
Romania and Cycle European in the beginning of
July.
The audience of 250 persons active in the financial
services and credit sectors, benefited from the
expertise of Dun & Bradstreet, Moody’s Central
European, Bain & CO and Atradius specialists.
Costin Baicu, CFO TotalSoft, participated in the
debate regarding the commercial risk management.
Another discussion focused on best practices for
risk prevention in the factoring industry.
TotalSoft presented its solution dedicated to the
credit risk minimization – Charisma Financial Risk
Management, developed in collaboration with ICAP
Romania. The system links competencies of the two
partners – the cutting-edge technology and real-time
information – in order to automate the analysis of
business partners, according to risk politics of the
company.
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At the end of May, we joined AIESEC students in their initiative
to pull the alarm among the inhabitants of Bucharest. We
wanted to remind the inhabitants of the most polluted city in
the country that a responsible behavior is the key towards a
healthier life and less polluted planet.
Together with a few hundreds of volunteers, we started ourmarch from Unirii Square to Tineretului Park, where we
donated blood, planted over 100 trees and participated in
a fair organized by NGOs active in the social responsibility
field.
Our main goal was other than computing statistics. We
wanted to help people change their individual
mentalities. We are perfectly aware that such a processrequires a lot of time, patience and perseverance – this
is why we promise you’ll hear about us very soon.
Bucharest whistles Foul!
Social Responsibility
TotalSoft,
a green companyIn the same spirit, we also launched an internal
campaign for environmental protection: we started to
recycle waste paper, cardboard and plastic.
Join the eco movement as much as possible by using
the electronic environment!
p.s: Do you know the waste top in largest cities of theworld? Paper (55%), used water (30%) and food waste
(14%).
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Microsoft Silverlight for web application development
Innovation in TotalSoft
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Latest trends address the migration of software applications in the
online environment, due to accessibility and availability advantages
it brings. Microsoft Silverlight is one of the emerging trends that are
rapidly gaining ground. This technology has reached a level similar
to the one provided by Adobe through Flash or Flex proprietary
technologies.
Microsoft Silverlight enables the creation of applications that are
able to run on any type of browser or operating system. This
technology ensures the creation of a user-friendly interface, which
comprises animations, transparencies or reflections. Combining the
ease of interfaces development with the programming support
provided by C# language, or with the advanced streaming options,Microsoft Silverlight will dominate the web in the upcoming years.
Microsoft Silverlight is a free browser plug-in, which can be installed
at the first visit on the website. It requires little memory (around 2
MB) and its role is to interpret the XALM.
One of the applications developed by TotalSoft on this platform,
namely a photo albums editor, won the gold medal in the “Best of Swiss Silverlight 2010” competition. The application, which is used
by over 4 million users, enables updating or editing images at high
standards, photo albums, postcards or presents.
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Man of the Quarter in TotalSoft
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Bogdănel Budeanu
Bogdănel has been a team member of the company for over 13 years. For
more than 8 years, he has been managing Primavera division. For those of
you who do not know, this department is synonymous with the company’s
inception, Primavera being the first new product imported and sold in
Romania. Throughout his career within TotalSoft, Bogdănel has over passed many
challenges. One of the challenges he talks about whenever the occasion
arises, relates to his employment at TotalSoft. He already attended several
meetings with Liviu, who had clearly expressed his interest in having
Bogdănel as a team member. This fact made him enthusiastic and
determined him to resign from the position of engineer he was occupying at
Energomontaj (he barely knew what his job at TotalSoft would imply, but he
really liked both the company and its people). When he finally announced
Liviu that he had resigned, the answer quickly frightened him: “And…what
do you want me to do about it?” He froze immediately and eventually
recovered only after hearing Liviu saying: “Welcome to our team!”.
Since then, he has been dealing with all sorts of challenges, each time
coming out victorious. He imposed on the Romanian market a concept
unknown during the ‘90s - project management. He persuaded more than
650 companies about the benefits of using Primavera and imposed TotalSoft in the exclusive club of Primavera performers. He exceeded
systematically for 11 years the target required by the software house. He
earned TotalSoft’s right to represent the software in Bulgaria, Hungary and
Serbia and set in the market, together with his team, standards of
excellence in project management.
We declare him the man of the quarter due to his latest success – the
consultancy contract for the world’s largest project, Jubail Refinery, Saudi
Arabia. This is a great success that Bogdănel Budeanu computed as
simple as that: 10 (people) x 2 (years) = 4.200.000 (USD).
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TotalSoft Newcomers
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Florian Ivan Sales Director
competences and abilities, while providing me with a
real challenge. I found all these ingredients in the
opportunity to be part of successful team and story”
“Due to a close collaboration with TotalSoft, I have
always admired its achievements, its technical and
human capital. I stated it publicly, on many occasions.
Now I have the chance to contribute directly to an
extraordinary organizational change.”
states Florian.
Florian will be occupying the Sales Director position, a
position according to which he will be responsible forthe entire sales activity of the company.
4 things that you might not know about him:
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He is extremely interested in project management. Not because it is trendy,
but because he is convinced by the benefits it brings to any organization. He
is a board member of the Project Management Institute, being responsible for
training and certifications;
In his spare time, he enjoys running and frequently participates in marathons.
He has even launched a website dedicated to this hobby, www.cityrun.ro;
Before joining Microsoft, he used to work in France – a country he remained
very attached to, especially its literature (his Kindle is full of French novels);
He has quitted wearing watches, but is very keen on punctuality.
During the 5 years spent at Microsoft Romania, in the
position of Partner Strategy Manager, Florian has been
responsible for Microsoft’s partner network, which
exceeds 4,000 companies. According to his position,
he had sales and marketing responsibilities, Microsoft’s
business model being an indirect one, focused onpartners. Over the last year, he has conducted a
marathon – he has trained more than 3,700 partners.
When he finally decided it was the
right time to find new career
challenges, he had to choose one
of the partners he had been
collaborating with. “I wanted to
work for a partner that would let
me capitalize on my
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Cristian Afilipoaie started his activity as a Software
Developer in Charisma ERP department. He has 8
years expertise in the field, gained in companies
such as ECSO & EXO where he occupied the Team
lead/ Project Manager position.
When he's not writing programming code, you can
find Cristian in the middle of nature. He devotes his
spare time to hiking in places with spectacular
scenery. But most of all, as a family man, Cristian
proudly talks about the quiet evenings spent with his
wife and baby Mara (only 7 months old).
Teodora LefterovaMarketing Assistant
In the summer of 2011, Teodora joined TotalSoft
Bulgaria, a team “with positive and friendly spirit”.
After less than one month since her employment,
Teodora firmly expresses her willingness to gain
experience from a remarkable team, with excellent
competences she founds fruitful for her personal
and professional development.
3 things you might not know about
her:
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She has a Statistics and Econometrics degree
at Varna University of Economics;
She is passionate about reading (her favorite is
Jorge Bucai);
She is also passionate about music and
painting. Moreover, you can admire some of her
sketches on her Facebook page: Teodora
Lefterova.
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Cristian Afilipoaie Software Developer
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TotalSoft ProfileLet’s meet the colleagues from our subsidiaries
Radoslav YankovSenior Country Sales Manager
TotalSoft Bulgaria
Rado has been a TotalSoft member since
January 2011. With an experience of over 10
years in IT field, he has worked as Mid-Market
Team Leader at IBM and as Sales Director at
LLP Bulgaria (IT consultancy, ERP systems).
Rado is an engineer, with a Masters Degree inIndustrial Management, from the Technical
University, Sofia. He has great management
and sales skills, as well as communication
and presentation competences. He sees
himself as a loyal, responsible and good team
player.
As for his hobbies, he points out fishing,cycling and paragliding.
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"The biggest challenge on the Bulgarian market rightnow is the strong stagnation caused by the financial
crisis, along with the powerful copmetition of local and
international companies in our branch. Only companies
with vast and long experience, good solutions and
know how like TotalSoft can be successful in this
difficult moment for the Bulgarian Economics. "
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TotalSoft People Aurelia Antonescu
Account Manager
"You know, I wouldn’t have made it here without the
unconditional support of three persons. I took over from
Adriana the energetic spirit, from Viorica the importance of
meeting client requirements and, from Florentina, the keen
spirit and the business perspective that infuses all you do."
“It is crucial to understand when it’s the
case to remain relaxed or when to struggle, while trying to
solve issues for the people who count on you.”
Aurelia can be defined as Woman on a mission. Whethershe is talking about the special relationship she has with all
colleagues in the implementation departments (ERP, HR or
BizApps) or about the pressure that exists in the sales
department, which is extremely hard to notice, Aurelia
remains optimistic.
Aurelia is that kind of person who permanently surprises
you by exceeding your expectations. The confidence in the
people she is collaborating with and the satisfaction she
gets from helping others, determine her to go on, “always
go on”.
Among her hobbies, Aurelia points out her passion for
sports (volleyball and handball in particular), thecommunication courses she holds as a fitness and
aerobics instructors for the Federation “Sports for all”, as
well as about her pleasure to travel in Romania.
4 things you might not know about
her:
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She is the Romanian representative of the
International Olympics Committee;
She is a volleyball and handball coach in
competitions organized by the Federation
“Sports for all”;
She is a volunteer in an environmental and
animal protection association;
She was editor at “Romania Libera” (local
newspaper)
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Adrian Bilăucă Team Leader, Software Development
He joined TotalSoft team in December 2007 as a Senior
Developer for the IPSOS project. He arrived just in time
for the annual Christmas party – thus, he managed to
quickly get along with the company. He really liked what
he saw there. And this definitely shows in his results. 6
months after his employment, he became the Team
Leader of the same project. The project and Adrian
grew together – now he is responsible for a team
ranging from 10 to 20 members.He declares himself an IT addict, as well as a
passionate about history.
3 things you might not know about
him:
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Next year he won’t be a bachelor anymore;
He is a little star among his friends – he is
always ready with a joke;
He enjoys going to boxing and football
matches, as well as to Formula 1 races.
3 things you might not know about
him:
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He is proud of the Credits module he
developed in Charisma;
He Wants to start a business a business on
his own in the consultancy area;
He is a big fan of city breaks.20
Laurenţiu MavrodinProject Manager, Charisma ERP
After 6 years in TotalSoft, out of which 3 years spent in
the implementation department, Laurentiu keeps on
surprising his managers, colleagues and clients with his
performances.
What’s his secret? He feels “free to decide” and uses its
creativity at maximum potential. He never gets bored.
However, there is no way he could. Laurentiu is now
occupying the Charisma ERP Project Manager position
focusing on the financial services vertical. His portfolioincludes large international and local clients.
He dislikes routines and strictness, he is open to new
challenges, appreciates very much the atmosphere and
people at the working place. He spends his leisure time
in the middle of nature, generally cycling or playing
tennis, walking or climbing the mountains.
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Ana Maria Grigoraş (AMG)Quality Assurance Team Leader, Charisma Medical Software
“It’s been 5 years since I joined TotalSoft. I
am responsible for the product delivery
standard, functionality and usability. We sell
quality. And for that I must always be
extremely careful, therefore hard to please. I
believe we are that kind of people that havethe power to push things forward, even on
the short run.”
“At a certain point, one
colleague of mine called me AMG. I thought
it was a funny invention, but had no idea it
was about a sport version of Mercedes AMG
– he told me I was exactly like that: always
looking for extreme performance.”
“All of them are
conscientious people, who are passionate
about their jobs – my role is to cultivate the
concept of being proactive.”
Hence the code name given by the
department: AMG.
The coordination of her team is her no. 1
priority, as well as the integration and training
of new colleagues.
AMG spends her leisure time mainly cycling.
She usually goes 2 times a week at the
theatre or to the movies, being convinced
she can pick up good ideas from the most
unexpected places.
4 things you might not know about her:
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She is sure she can win 1st prize in a competition in
the “most original holiday idea” category – a cruise in
the interior passage of Alaska;
She has a good plan in order to obtain a top positionin our photo contest;
She has started a painting course;
She has a new bicycle she plans to use in a ride
from Bucharest to Doftana Valley.
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4 things you might not know
about him:
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He used to have long hair until 8 years
ago; As a child, he used to read PC Report
– he won a BBS soft after participating
in a contest and later on, he
collaborated with the magazine’s editor
for his graduation paper “He was a
true tester, the best I have ever met, a
great artist”;
He has been a freelancer for 12 years;
30 years ago his father was developing
applications of 1MB RAM for the
payroll calculation of 6.000 people.
Bogdan is now working with similar
payroll calculation programs that
compute 20.000 wages with 64GB.
Should we talk about scalability? Technology is definitely not fair.
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Bogdan Luca Grigorescu Team Leader, Charisma HCM Development
The activity team is quite intense from Bogdan’s point of
view: each day he splits himself between providing support
to implementation teams and developing software
according to customer requirements. He is proud of his
team and feels a great satisfaction to work with such
passionate and dedicated people.
The greatest satisfaction comes when all projects are
functional: “It is a great pleasure to look behind and
remember the meetings during the sales, analysis and
implementations stages and the point where employees
receive their salaries. You practically witness the project’s
excellent growth”
This is what keeps Bogdan motivated.
Next to his passion for the latest IT
technology (particularly reminiscent of
artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms and
prediction methods) are prominently: the
portrait photography and cross-country
cycling.
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Bogdan TituProject Manager, Embedded Software Division(Novero)
his colleagues. He is a very social person,
who enjoys hanging out with friends – he is
a trustworthy source of recommendations
when it comes to places to have fun. Let his
colleagues speak about him:
states Georgia Vasilache.
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Emilian Calin.
Andrei Mihalca.
Camelia Petcu
“I mostly appreciate his communication skillsand respect towards promises made. We
can always joke together, even in stressful
moments”,
“Bogdan is always a great, cheerful and
optimistic person, who can easily relate to
people outside the office. I appreciate his
calm and logical way of addressingproblems, as well as his openness towards
the solutions he is trying to find.“,
“If you want a successfully completed task,
then you surely must resort to Bogdan.
Those repetitive tasks perceived by others
as being extremely boring, are seen byBogdan as a development opportunity. He is
a selfless person and a friend for all. He is
that kind of leader everybody would
support.”,
“Bogdan relies very much on his instinct. He
knows how to interact with people and is a
very calm and good-hearted person.”,
He is one of the department’s pioneers! He
joined TotalSoft as QA Team Leader, when
the division had only 5 members (in case you
are not aware, the department has now 50
members). Now, as a Project Manager,
he is responsible for the planning,
development, testing and
communication of projects,
coordinating 17 people.
He would never refuse a
drink with
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Teambuilding 2011
The summer edition could not miss the most eagerly
awaited event of the season, the team building. During
June 24-26, we gathered in Poiana Brasov. The event
was a true challenge for the organizers (our HR
colleagues) considering the large number of participants
(over 240). The weather was not on our side. Itconstantly rained; we also saw hail and some snow at
the hotel entrance. But it did not matter, because we
shifted to indoor extreme sports. We really had a great
time, plenty of drinks (400 shots of whiskey just the first
night? Wow). Games, dancing, a motivational speech
delivered by Liviu - well seasoned with examples where
we all found ourselves - dancing, socializing, swimming
and dancing all over again... "a true ordeal".
In short, those who missed it have a lot to regret.
Our congratulations go to Oana, Simona, Raluca and
Gabi.
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In Focus
CelebrationsLet's meet the
youngest winners of
the team, our
representatives in
kindergartencelebrations.
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Agnes Topală Amalia Despa
Bianca Maria Eftimie
Tudor Negoiţă Ana Negoiţă
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Seasonal Sports Trends
Mountain tripsIt seems Iulian Nitescu’s initiative has been a great
success. There have already been organized 3
mountain trips since his announcement: Ciucaş, Cozia
and Bucegi. Though they say “the journey is the
reward”, I will give you some statistics:
Maximum number of participants – 15;Extreme weather events – 0;
Maximum height – 2507 m (Omu Peak);
Number of bears met on our route – 0;
Total number of pictures – 800. We selected some
of them for you. Next trip will be organized on July 22-
24, in Fagaras Mountains.
Everybody who wants to join this group can send a
message to Iulian at the address:
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Cycling
We are pleased to let you know about a race we
participated in, Skoda Velo Challenge. The event
gathered 140 teams of 4 members, from companiessuch as Orange, Adevarul (newspaper), RCB,
Heineken, KPMG, GSK or OMV-Petrom.
TotalSoft had 2 mixed team: (Nicolescu
Silvia, Olariu Casian-Ioan, Stroie Dragos-Cristian,
Dragan Ioan-Alexandru and the
((Timohi Alexandru-Stefan, Luca Elisabeth-Catalina,
Popescu Andrei,Vornicescu George-Marian).
The eight cycling fans prepared themselves for the race
by polishing their bikes and, when the time came, they
cycled in the forest, on paved and unpaved alleys, on
off-road portions, for 10 km. The results?
2:35:27 – 6th place/ 60 teams in the
Mixed Teams Category and 9th place/ 28 teams in the
Industries – IT category.
: 2:35:36 – 7th place in the Mixed
TOTALBIKERS
PINK PANTHERS
TOTALBIKERS:
THE PINK PANTHERS
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Teams Category and 10th place in the category
Industries – IT category.
At the end of the competition, the 4 pink panthers were
rewarded for their performance with an Ideal Freeder
bicycle and a ... chainsaw?!
We do not know if the new owners of the chainsaws dohave skills in their use or plan a team building activity
taking them as the central theme, but certainly promise
to keep you informed.
– Elisabeth Luca
“I wasn’t even aware that we were participating in a
ruffle when I was told our team had won the large prize.
I couldn’t believe. However, I was very happy for
George, who did not have a bicycle even though hewas our team member in the competition. The prize just
suited perfectly! ;)”
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by Radu Chiran
Instead of conclusion…we propose a bit of relaxation!
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A Transylvanian, established in America, decided to
spend his vacation back in his the village. He asks his
father to gather everyone on Saturday to buy them a
drink…
On Saturday, at the end of the party, the “American”
gives 100 dollars to each villager. The next year, the “American” spends again his
vacation in the village and gives 100 dollars to each
villager.
The next year, however, the “American” returns for
vacation in his village, throws the party, but at the end
of it, he gives only 50 dollars to the villagers. Then,
Vasile and Gheorghe ask him about the reduction of the
“donation”.
The American explains them he has 2 kids in college,
there’s a global crisis going on … and he cannot afford
to spend so much money anymore.
Vasile turns then to Gheorghe: - Let’s go Gheo, this
bastard keeps his kids in college on our expense …
Two nuns go shopping in a grocery store.
One asks the other:
- Should we buy some beer?
- It doesn’t sound bad, but I’m embarrassed to buy it.
- No problem, I’ll do it.
The noun picks up a box of six bottles of beer and goes
to the cashier. The cashier looks very surprised at them.
Then, one of the nouns says:
- This is for hair care.
The cashier, without hesitation, bends under the
counter and puts a bag of pretzels near their beer and
says:
- In this case, here’s a bonus on my behalf - somecurlers.
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