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A bad plan is better than no plan

Practice makes you less bad My grandfather taught me how to play chess when I was around 7 years old. He started with the basics : allowed moves, win conditions and some strategy to improve board presence and pretty much stopped there. He was not an expert chess player, but he had great patience and […]

The future is open (source)

The period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 marks a turning point in history. The entire world as it was known changed so drastically that today it is seen as the biggest leap forward taken by humanity. Day to day life, communication between individuals and society evolved in a few decades more […]

How to make the brave move from commercial to open source

Thursday, January 09, 2014 by Mihai Guiman I work for a private ISV and consultancy company focused on delivering software products for financial institutions. Three years ago my company decided to share our achievements and knowledge by publishing our application, FinTP, for processing financial transactions under an open source license. Here, I will explore the changes a […]

Letter to Santa

We thought of you when we wrote this letter to Santa. Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!   By: Ioana Guiman

Allevo re-architects the organization and appoints new management

  In the second half of 2011 Allevo management of the time initiated simultaneously two major projects: reconsider the business model to meet the shared knowledge course the company committed to (more precisely a requirement of openly publishing the source code of its financial transaction processing application – FinTP), and apply the executives’ succession plan […]

Allevo re-architects the organization and appoints new management

As a result of a two years analysis and decision process, Allevo has opted for a two layered management structure. The supervisory board committed to redesign the company’s management process and its control mechanism, while concentrating on attracting new financing sources for the company’s projects. The most experienced members, who over 15 years have been […]

One more month of coding

As hackathonists took their job very seriously and need a little bit more time to go in depth with the FinTP code, Allevo decided to grant them another month of coding, until January 24th, 2014. Why until then? Because on that date, as the rumor spreads already, Allevo will celebrate the official publishing of the […]

Ready for SEPA with support from Allevo

Successful Proof of Concept, contract signed and “go live”   On October 31st 2013, Allevo and Amsterdam Trade Bank (ATB) have signed the contract for the acquisition and implementation of Allevo’s qPayIntegrator-based SEPA compliance solution, which will ensure handling of SCT (SEPA Credit Transfer) messages. The contract signing came after a successful Proof of Concept […]