Research and development is at the heart of the technologies that tomorrow's generations will use every day. At OpenSky, we actively collaborate with leading institutions on some of the EU's largest research programs. Here's how we're playing our part in building the systems and world of tomorrow.
Without research, none of the tech we take for granted today would exist. From the internet and IoT technologies to the blockchain, cloud-based tech, and edge computing — research, development and time are the difference between experimental ideas and everyday essential business tools. At OpenSky, it’s one of our core beliefs that Research is among the most important facets of delivering high-quality technologies and tools on the global business stage; every year, we invest at least 10% of our revenue into new research programs.
From Electronic Vaccination Registries and biomimicry machine learning projects, to using AI and blockchain to improve access to quality public healthcare, our research division is engaged in some of the largest research programs in Europe. Here’s how research is driving everything we do at OpenSky, and how it directly leads to better and faster cutting-edge tech solutions for our partners.
At the heart of our Research efforts is our passionate and talented research lead, Dr Tudor Pitulac. He brings more than 20 years’ experience with European funding programs to his efforts in spearheading multiple million-euro research funding programs with partners from across the globe.
“Technology is about discovery and mastery. For us in our industry, we need to be out in front of our clients and competitors, and that means we need to be at the front of technology research and development,” he explained.
“If we are engaged in important research, and using tools to solve the latest, hardest problems, it means we are learning what we need to offer better solutions and technologies to our government and public sector partners.”
To ensure that the technologies we are building are future-thinking and using cutting-edge discoveries and research techniques, we’re engaged in some of the EU’s largest research programs, including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe (where OpenSky are members of numerous consortia that prepare project proposals), and more. Here are just a few of them:
“We try to be a be a part of as many project proposals as possible, so that we can gain experience and be able to generate/initiate projects. Our goal is to have research projects aligned to our commercial ones – cutting-edge tech on the research and academic level which drives real system change in corporate and government organisations.”
Dr Tudor Pitulac
Here are 4 ways our research participation is directly improving our professional tech solutions.
Our involvement in so many research programs allows us to get a lot of experience and experimentation across a broad range of industries, tools, and technical applications. This lets us master brand-new and popular tech stacks alike, so that whatever technologies we build, we’re building them well.
Whether it’s AI, the blockchain, machine learning, or experimental cloud tools, our participation in cutting-edge EU research programs allows us to pioneer and master tomorrow’s essential technologies before they become a must-have.
With every research project we join, we get a golden opportunity to refine and perfect our techniques and approaches with the most popular and widespread essential tech stacks, frameworks, and languages that underpin the digital landscape. This creates more efficient, lower-investment technologies for businesses that need them to be competitive.
Our research findings and discoveries aren’t just for us but are made in the public sphere for some of the EU’s largest research organisations. The discoveries, efficiencies, and advances that we make in new and old technologies inform and advance standard uses and practices, producing a tech space that is better for all.
Since 2004, OpenSky has been using its in-depth research and development efforts to deliver new tools, methods, and solutions that bring value to our partners’ operations. Our work in Horizon EU and other large research programs give us time and unparalleled experience in mastering tomorrow's tools, as well as today's.
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