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

HiQ was the only company which received a full score in the Swedish Tax Agency’s procurement for services within IT Applications and is one of the four companies chosen to sign a frame agreement. “I’m really stoked about this win and that such an important public function as the Tax Agency can benefit from our vast competence within digitalization. A great win for us and a great value for Sweden”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President of HiQ.

The procurement includes services within IT Applications and can be utilised by the Swedish Tax Agency, the Enforcement Authority, the Election Authority, the Swedish E-Identification Board, the Council on Advanced Tax Rulings, and the Taxation of Research Workers Board.

In the contract award decision HiQ has received the highest possible score within all areas by the Swedish Tax Agency. The areas are; Assignment Organization, Analysis and investigation, Agile Teams, Development assignment and Agile Team Java Development. The procurement was appealed by a competing consulting companies to the Administrative Court and then to the Administrative Court of Appeal and finally to the Supreme Administrative Court. All instances have now decided to reject the appeal. 

“The Swedish Tax Agency, together with the other authorities, is one of HiQ’s most important clients. It has been a long process since we won the procurement in September 2019 – and now we are looking forward to continuing assit the Tax Agency become even more efficient and to develop even smarter services. This is a win for both Sweden and all its taxpayers”, says Erik Ridman, Director of Communications at HiQ.

When turkey producer Ingelsta Kalkon chose the marketing platform APSIS One to automate its digital communication, HiQ was the natural choice to integrate the platform. HiQ will develop and administrate the APSIS One integrations using its own Frends integration platform. “This is a very exciting collaboration in which APSIS and HiQ tie their offers together to create a simple yet valuable solution for our mutual client Ingelsta Kalkon,” says Peter Sognefur, Sales Manager at HiQ Skåne.

Ingelsta Kalkon, which is part of the Blenta Group with its other well-known brands, is one client that chose to use Frends to integrate with APSIS One. In this project, HiQ, APSIS and Ingelsta Kalkon will work closely together to automate digital marketing communication between Ingelsta Kalkon’s internal systems and APSIS One.

“HiQ has shown that they can quickly and easily develop cloud-based integrations with APSIS One and its API. That HiQ and APSIS already have a good working relationship also convinced us and was decisive in our choice of supplier,” says Johanna Nilsson at Ingelsta Kalkon.

“Integration is crucial to our clients being able to easily get a general picture of their customer data and to personalise their communication. Our partnership with HiQ and their Frends platform are very important and help us simplify and automate the creation of these integrations,” says Timo Sepp, Sales Team Manager at APSIS and responsible for partner collaborations.

HiQ continues to gain ground with Frends, and the number of clients using it is growing steadily in Sweden. Frends is an integration platform that is developed, operated and marketed by HiQ. The software is a subscription service known as an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS). Together with the integration consulting services that HiQ offers, Frends has become an important component of HiQ’s service portfolio for digitalisation and IT architecture.

“Frends offers fantastic possibilities that support the entire DevOps process. Due to Frends’ scalable architecture, we can now help our clients with automation, RPA, ML and ETL processes. Frends is a modern platform that can be customised to the client’s specific needs,” says Peter Sognefur at HiQ.