Bring Frigo, one of the leading specialists of temperate logistic services in the Nordics, selects HiQ and its integration platform Frends. The aim with the partnership is to simplify and improve the automation of incoming and outgoing customer and supplier orders, both for temperate warehouses and transport logistics. "We are incredibly proud that Bring Frigo selects HiQ’s Frends as partner to streamline services and provide increased customer value. It is truly fun, and great work of our team in Malmö who have made this a reality," says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO of HiQ. 

As one of the leading suppliers of temperate food transports in the Nordic region, Bring Frigo wants to offer its customers smooth management for transport orders. HiQ’s hybrid integration platform Frends enables Bring Frigo to better meet each client’s unique demand for orders through a seamless integration between their and their clients’ own systems. As part of the service, HiQ will be able to operate the whole process between integration and automation. 

“Through Frends and a dedicated fulltime service we are able to create a better flow between Bring Frigo’s and their client’s internal systems. The course of action is both more efficient and easier to maintain. Our ability to scale up and manage a complete solution for our client’s most business-critical processes and systems is a fundamental part of our offer. That’s why we are especially proud of the trust that Bring Frigo puts in us,” says Jukka Rautio, Head of Frends at HiQ.

The agreement is founded on a collaboration within Business Process Outsourcing. This means that Bring Frigo not only buys the platform but also that they allow HiQ to manage the whole integration process and the contact with customers. This includes everything from initial requirements to development, maintenance and monitoring. As part of the service HiQ will in addition also manage the API management for other business areas at Bring Frigo. Frends iPaaS offers the possibility of a modern integration in a scalable solution. In addition to the external integration service, HiQ has been trusted with replacing the current integration solution, BizTalk, with Frends.

“We picked HiQ and Frends as they could offer a fast and complete service for integration that we can grow long-term with,” concludes Robert Schuman, CIO at Bring Frigo.

HiQ aims to become the leading tech consulting company in Northern Europe. An important step to achieve that goal is to enter the German market with the acquisition of the Munich, Augsburg and Berlin-based digitalization consultancy Scandio. “This is a big step for us and an important moment in HiQ’s history. We are now entering Germany in an awesome manner. Scandio is a digitization powerhouse and has outstanding competencies in IT-consulting, IoT, AI, cloud transformation, and agile software development. Scandio shares the same values in building a business based on strong company culture. I truly welcome the amazing team of Scandio to HiQ – together we will create magic”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO of HiQ.

Scandio, headquartered in Munich, is a digitalization consulting company focused on IT-consulting, agile software development, and cloud technology. Scandio is a partner for Amazon Web Services and an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner and was appointed partner of the year several times. Scandio has a strong growth track-record driven by the digitalization boost, it’s smart people and unique culture. Since March 2021 the company is a certified Great Place to Work. Scandio will be HiQ’s first step in the DACH region and will be an important part of the HiQ group going forward. 

“We are thrilled about joining HiQ group. We have built an amazing team of coders, creatives and tech-nerds who are passionate transformers and modernizers over the last 18 years. We see a strong cultural and strategic fit in HiQ and by joining the HiQ group we’re building an incredibly strong offering in Germany, the DACH region and the Nordics”, says Christoph Köberle and Christian Koch, founders of Scandio GmbH. 

Scandio was founded in 2003 and employs more than 100 highly skilled tech experts. The company is based on self-organization with Scandio’s founders, Christoph Köberle and Christian Koch, being servant leaders.  

“I am really excited to welcome Scandio to the HiQ group. Scandio has a track record of rapid growth with a modern and agile way of working. The competitive edge that Scandio manifests in the DACH region in combination with HiQ’s deep technical know-how and strong offerings in research and technology, business critical IT, integration, innovation, design and communication – will be truly powerful. This is a significant step in our journey of building the Northern European leading tech consultant”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO of HiQ.

More on Scandio:
www.scandio.de

As digitalization rapidly swoops over all companies and organizations, the need for frameworks for agile development becomes critically important. The step-change in capability however, when those principles are scaled, is mind-blowing! At HiQ we are a trusted partner to a vast majority of the large cap companies in the Nordics and we constantly strive to sharpen and develop our expertise in this area. Accordingly, HiQ has partnered up with the godfather of software engineering – Dr Ivar Jacobson – and his great team at Ivar Jacobson International. “This is an important step in our development. Ivar Jacobson International is truly the epicenter of knowledge and experience in scalable agile development. To cross that with our vast competence in embedded development, digitalization and transformation, will make our offering within Research & Technology and Business Critical IT significantly stronger”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President of HiQ.

Established in 2004, Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company providing high quality consulting, coaching and training solutions for customers implementing enterprise-scale agile software development. Through the provision of high caliber people, innovative practices, and proven solutions they improve the performance of software development teams by introducing new practices and removing barriers to their wider adoption. Ivar Jacobson International is one of the foremost companies in the world when it comes to experience within scaled agile development.

“I’m really glad that we’ve finally announced this collaboration. HiQ has an impressive reputation and an unrivalled track record of dealing with complex technologies and solutions development. They are leaders in the Nordics with leading-edge technology competence and the ability to deliver from idea to finished solution. I am truly looking forward to this”, says Ivar Jacobson, CEO of Ivar Jacobson International.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a computer scientist and software engineer, known as the creator of use cases, Objectory, Rational Unified Process and a co-creator of UML and Essence. Ivar has an impressive career in both academia and business. He has authored ten books, published more than a hundred papers and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world.

“Agile frameworks with rapid feedback loops that support a “fail fast, learn and succeed faster” workflow is more or less the key to success in this fast-changing technological world we’re living in. To be able to scale it, the ‘holy grail’ in system development. To partner with Ivar Jacobson and his team is really great! We will start the collaboration by offering joint SAFe online training courses to our clients. From there we will expand. Great for us and great value to the competitiveness of the Nordic companies”, says Erik Ridman, CMO of HiQ

Are you interested in SAFe training courses? Are you a developer and want to work with agile development in epic projects or a CTO that wants to power up your dev team lean and fast? Do you have any other interest in this? Just hit contact >

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As a part of its aim for the position as the Northern European leading tech consultant company HiQ has now acquired the IT specialist Headlight Group with the two companies Headlight and Relight. The companies are based in Västerås, Örebro and Borlänge and the close to 100-person team will be a strong addition to HiQ’s offer of services within Busines Crititcal IT. ”I am exceptionally glad to welcome everybody in Headlight and Relight to HiQ. Together we have an amazing competence, strong company cultures and an impressive client list. This is a perfect match, and by combining our two teams we will strengthen our position as the leading consultancy in Sweden when it comes to digitalization, innovation, IT and system development. Super fun and yey us”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President at HiQ.

Headlight AB was founded in 2001 and is an IT consultancy. Through rapid growth, the company has established itself as an IT-partner to both successful private companies and public institutions. Within its three main areas of competence; organizational development, leadership and system development, Headlight offers a full stack concept for digitalization by assisting its clients all the way from strategy to development and SLA management.

”By focusing on improvement, change and simplicity we strive to make our clients succeed in a digital world. We’re good at what we do, we like to think innovatively and always focus on the client’s needs, goals and real situation. HiQ truly share our believes, and I’m really looking forward to joining forces. Our value driven company culture is a perfect match with HiQ’s own values, and together we will form an incredibly strong team, says Per-Olof Rosén, CEO Headlight.

Headlight will join HiQ Sweden East with offices in Stockholm, Linköping, Norrköping, Västerås and Örebro – and, in line with the acquisition, also in Borlänge. 

Headlight Group also encapsulates the independent company Relight, which with low code solutions and with the help of the platforms K2, UiPath and Outsystems works on creating platforms for modern application development and digitalization of organizations. Relight’s operation has clear synergies with HiQ’s offering in system integration and process automation – as well as the integration platform Frends. Frends currently has over 500 clients with representation in basically all segments, from municipalities to business-critical systems within the industry. 

”This is a major step in the development of Relight. Our position in application development and platform solutions is a perfect addition to the iPaaS platform Frends as well as to HiQ’s vast knowledge of API development. Frends is a modern and flexible integration platform that fits straight into our portfolio of products for building stable and smooth applications. We will be incredibly strong together”, says Marit Wester, CEO of Relight. 

”Headlight and Relight’s strong competence will be a very important piece of HiQ’s development in Sweden. We are a strong partner to all companies need to digitalize and the employer-of-choice for anyone who wishes to work with leading edge technology, IT, integration, design and communication. Now we strengthen this position even further”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President, HiQ.

More on:
Headligt: www.headlight.se
Relight: www.relight.se
Frends: www.frends.com