ASM celebrates its 19th anniversary

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We love to start a new year. For the ASM Web Services team it has a special meaning because in January we celebrate one more year making our clients’ technology projects a reality. This 2023 ASMWS celebrates 19 years as a company and we are very grateful to all those companies that have trusted us during all this time.

2022 has been a year of growth, following the good results of 2021. We have been involved in new projects with innovative technologies, we have grown as a company and our team has been trained to offer better services to our customers every day.

We collaborate in the Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress returned to Barcelona with a format quite similar to the pre-pandemic one and we once again collaborated in the event with the development of a couple of applications to facilitate the management of contacts and parking.

As in any event of this nature, it is important to make new contacts. That’s where the first of our applications comes in: Lead Retrieval by Fira de Barcelona. Thanks to NFC technology and QR codes, it allows you to manage contacts in real time and the contacts are archived for future reference.

The other application used at the MWC in which we have collaborated is used to manage the parking service. It is VIP Drop Off. The parking attendant knows who enters and leaves just by scanning the sticker on each car.

ASM’s first project with VTEX in Spain

At the end of the year the new eCommerce of Embargos a lo Bestia went live. This is ASM’s first project with the digital commerce platform VTEX in Spain, although thanks to the collaboration with our partner Driven our team already had experience implementing VTEX in 12 countries. It is a digital commerce option with the technology in the cloud, which is always up to date, with little technical development compared to other solutions of this type and with great capacity to absorb peaks in demand.

Embargos a lo Bestia needed a platform for their eCommerce that would offer them stability and the possibility of growing without problems and they found in VTEX the perfect match.

Integration of V2M Software in mobile apps division

This year we have definitively integrated V2M Software. We had already been working for two years with the production unit of V2M Software to strengthen our mobile division and this year we have integrated it definitively and we can offer a much broader and competitive service in this area.

Certifications to offer a better service

If there is one thing to highlight from this year, it is how the team has enhanced its capabilities with training to certify us in different technologies and offer a better service to our customers.

We have been certified as an Azure Gold Partner thanks to the 3 Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications we achieved at the beginning of the year and which accredit us as experts in the design of cloud and hybrid solutions running on Microsoft Azure.

Our team has also been certified this year as Silver+ in Quest, Microsoft’s platform migration and management service. This certifies us as experts in data migration to the cloud, something increasingly essential to adapt to the new technological era.

In addition, it should be noted that our colleague Rodrigo País Garay has become the first consultant in Spain to receive the PIM Akeneo version 6 certification.

New additions to the team

We came back from the summer vacations with a new addition to the ASM team. Javier Sanz joined as the new CFO. Javier has a great experience as a financial manager and joined our company with the objective of consolidating the organizational and financial bases.

We received an award

In October we attended an event organized by one of our wholesalers, ADM Cloud and Services in Madrid, to celebrate its anniversary. During the event there was a prize-giving ceremony of which we received the award for the partner with the highest growth potential.

Once again, we would like to thank all the customers who have trusted us during all this time to carry out their most complex digital projects. We are very happy to celebrate 19 years with you. We hope it will be many more.

PIM AKENEO V6: First Business Implementation Specialist Certification

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Rodrigo País Garay is once again on the podium of Akeneo certifications, being the first consultant in Spain to obtain the PIM version 6 certification.

Rodrigo has been in charge of several implementations and support of Akeneo PIM for our customers since the arrival of Akeneo in Spain, reaffirming with this certification the commitment to improve his knowledge and thus offer from ASM Web Services updated and valuable advice on PIM to our customers.

Akeneo PIM is a very easy to manage solution for users, but its implementation is complex due to the amount of information and actors involved.

The success of the PIM implementation is based on the consulting and advice of the functional advisor to adapt the product to the specific needs of each customer and sector.

These certifications follow our strategic line of adopting new technological tools that allow us to improve our clients’ businesses, counting on a team of outstanding professionals with great experience in complex developments and implementations.

Since 2004 we specialize in bringing innovation, intelligence and our expertise to develop and grow digital business. At ASM we offer strategic and business consulting for Digital Business, Systems Integration, Devops Cloud and Software Engineering.

If you want to upgrade your technologies or custom developments, it is important to have a broad vision of the project. Contact us to accompany you and offer you the service of our certified team.

Akeneo changes the eCommerce paradigm

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Akeneo Product Cloud is Akeneo’s new service that comes to change the eCommerce paradigm. As a market leader with its modern PIM offering, this new service aims to provide much more complete product experiences.

Akeneo Product Cloud aims to become the model for companies to consolidate, organize and optimize all the components involved in creating a bold and compelling product experience for any user or customer.

Working hand-in-hand with the customer, the Akeneo team realized that outside of the PIM, customers had complex, expensive, and even manual technologies to manage and activate the entire product registry. It was the complexity their customers faced in managing the various processes that make up the digital lifecycle of their products that motivated the team to launch the Product Cloud.

What Akeneo Product Cloud can do for your business

Akeneo Product Cloud is the only solution that enables companies to manage, organize, activate and optimize the entire history of a product across all channels.

Thanks to this technology, revenue growth is boosted, return rates are reduced and, consequently, customer satisfaction and loyalty are increased. Internally, it also brings major benefits, such as reduced time-to-market, agility to be in new channels, and improved employee productivity and impact.

What does the Akeneo Product Cloud include?

First of all, based on the original Akeneo PIM, with Akeneo Product Cloud you will be able to create and manage all the data that makes up a complete product record. It will have additional studies that will allow for more dynamic product information elements, such as availability, price optimization, user-generated content, and so on.

It will also include a product data platform that will provide performance analytics to optimize commercial strategies and product registration.

Finally, it will incorporate a native app store to facilitate the activation of product data in any commerce channel and provide solutions for its management. There will be applications to facilitate data management, to connect with CMSs, to translate content into more than 50 languages, etc.

 

Akeneo changes the eCommerce paradigm

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Akeneo Product Cloud is Akeneo’s new service that comes to change the eCommerce paradigm. As a market leader with its modern PIM offering, this new service aims to provide much more complete product experiences.

Akeneo Product Cloud aims to become the model for companies to consolidate, organize and optimize all the components involved in creating a bold and compelling product experience for any user or customer.

Working hand-in-hand with the customer, the Akeneo team realized that outside of the PIM, customers had complex, expensive, and even manual technologies to manage and activate the entire product registry. It was the complexity their customers faced in managing the various processes that make up the digital lifecycle of their products that motivated the team to launch the Product Cloud.

What Akeneo Product Cloud can do for your business

Akeneo Product Cloud is the only solution that enables companies to manage, organize, activate and optimize the entire history of a product across all channels.

Thanks to this technology, revenue growth is boosted, return rates are reduced and, consequently, customer satisfaction and loyalty are increased. Internally, it also brings major benefits, such as reduced time-to-market, agility to be in new channels, and improved employee productivity and impact.

What does the Akeneo Product Cloud include?

First of all, based on the original Akeneo PIM, with Akeneo Product Cloud you will be able to create and manage all the data that makes up a complete product record. It will have additional studies that will allow for more dynamic product information elements, such as availability, price optimization, user-generated content, and so on.

It will also include a product data platform that will provide performance analytics to optimize commercial strategies and product registration.

Finally, it will incorporate a native app store to facilitate the activation of product data in any commerce channel and provide solutions for its management. There will be applications to facilitate data management, to connect with CMSs, to translate content into more than 50 languages, etc.

 

Meet Javier Sanz, our new CFO

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After the holidays, we at ASM Web Services have come back with renewed energy and relevant changes. We are pleased to announce that Javier Sanz Arranz has joined our team and will assume the role of CFO of the company.

Javier’s mission will be to consolidate the organizational and financial foundations to drive the future growth of ASM Web Services.

Javier has extensive experience of more than 20 years as financial manager in start-up or high-growth companies in sectors where technology is a key factor. It is worth noting his ability to scale businesses ensuring their financial viability, negotiating with investors and funds.

After sustained growth in recent years, Javier’s experience allows us to strengthen this trend and provide significant differential value.

ASM team is certified as Azure Gold Partner

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The digital sector is evolving faster and faster and we want our company to keep pace. One of the best ways for ASM to grow and evolve is through training.

By expanding the knowledge of our team, we manage to improve results and meet all the needs of our customers. Therefore, we are happy to announce that our team has been certified as an Azure Gold Partner.

Azure and ASM Web Services

Last February we already achieved three Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications, which accredits us as Azure expert solution architects and, therefore, that we have expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions running on Microsoft Azure, including aspects such as process, network, storage and security.

Thanks to these 3 certifications, today we can celebrate being Azure Gold Partners. Our company has been working for years with other companies in their transition to the Cloud. This certification is a great recognition of our experience and expertise in this service.

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform

Azure is a Microsoft platform that consists of more than 200 products and services in the cloud and pay-per-use, where you can compile, run and manage these applications in a global network of Microsoft data centers.

We would like to thank all the customers who have trusted ASM to improve their processes. And welcome all those to come.

Meet the Digital Kit

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In ASM Web Services we have been certified as digitalizing agents to grant the Digital Kit to SMEs and freelancers. But, what is the Digital Kit?

The Digital Kit is a financial aid, up to 12,000 euros, to boost the digitization of those who may find more obstacles in the way of digital transformation: SMEs and freelancers.

This aid is born from the great crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic. The European Union launched the Next Generation European funds, endowed with 750,000 million euros, of which 140,000 were for Spain. This led to the creation of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which includes the Digital Kit for the digitalization and technological promotion of SMEs and the self-employed.

What services can I use it for?

In ASM we offer many digitalization services that your company can benefit from using the Digital Kit:

  • Website and internet presence
  • Customer management
  • Electronic invoicing
  • Cybersecurity
  • E-commerce
  • Business intelligence and analytics
  • Virtual office services and tools
  • Social network management
  • Process management
  • Secure communications

Application deadlines

In March, the program opened for the first segment of beneficiaries: companies with between 10 and 49 workers. As of this July, it is now open for micro-SMEs with between 3 and 10 workers. For the self-employed or small companies with between 1 and 3 workers, the turn will be between September and October (depending on the forecast).

Requirements to benefit from the Digital Kit

In order to benefit from the Digital Kit your company must meet the following conditions:

  1. Be a small company, a micro-company or a self-employed.
  2. Not be considered a company in crisis.
  3. Be up to date with tax and Social Security payments.
  4. Not to incur in any of the prohibitions foreseen in the General Law of Subsidies.
  5. To be registered in the Census of businessmen, professionals and resellers of the State Agency of Tributary Administration or in the equivalent census of the Foral Tax Administration.
  6. Not be subject to a pending recovery order following a previous decision of the European Commission.
  7. Not to exceed the minimum aid limit (€200,000).
  8. Have the Digital Maturity Level assessment according to the diagnostic test on the Acelera Pyme platform.

Want to know more? You can learn more here or contact us to solve all your doubts.

ASM Web Services definitely integrates V2M Software

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Two years ago we explained that ASM Web Services was strengthening its mobile division with the incorporation of the production unit of the company V2M Software. After two years of transition, we integrated it definitively and it will be the mobile apps division of ASM Web Services who will provide this service.

This incorporation allowed us to offer a broader and more competitive service to our customers. The portfolio of services was expanded with specializations such as digital business, systems & cloud computing and software engineering.

The company V2M Software, specialized in the development and programming of mobile applications, had worked for years for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and counted among its clients companies and entities such as Fira de Barcelona, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, Deliberry or Manusa.

More competitive

This integration process allows us to respond with greater capacity and competitiveness to the increasing demand for technological solutions related to mobility. This is a fertile ground for the development of apps to make companies more competitive, increase their sales and offer a better user experience (UX).

In this context, ASM Web Services has spent years developing native iOS and Android mobile applications that work efficiently and save time and money in the long run.

Professional athletes also use Open Trail Races

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The Open Trail Races mobile app allows you to run verified races at any time, competing against your best time or against others. This, added to the possibility of discovering new territories where to train, is one of the reasons why athletes like Silvia Puigarnau or Eduard Hernández use this application. In addition, they have the assurance that the trails that appear in the app are safe and in constant maintenance.

Among the races that you can find in Open Trail Races whether or not you are a professional athlete are those of Tenerife, with an ideal territory for the practice of trail running, and also those that you can find in Terres de l’Ebre that have been incorporated this year. Among them highlights the Cursa dels Biberons or the Cursa OTR Trencacims, all included in the Winter Championship OTR Terres de l’Ebre.

The collaboration of ASM Web Services with OTR

Open Trail Races (OTR) is a project we are especially proud of. The ASM Web Services team developed the Open Trail Races app for the company The Trail Zone. The aim of the app is to boost tourism and promote the practice of sports in the natural environment. The covid-19 restrictions showed the usefulness of this system, when races could not be organized. We are very happy to incorporate new races to the app.

To use it, the user installs it on the device with which he/she will follow the route, registers and downloads the race track. The routes require the help of a GPS device, as they are not specifically marked for environmental, ecological and respectful reasons. The OTR application also allows for competitions between runners comparing times and rankings to encourage participation.

 

Facilitating contact management at the Mobile World Congress 2022

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App Lead Retrieval

App Lead Retrieval

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is an opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the mobile world and, very importantly, a source for making new contacts. And this is where our contribution to this great event comes in: Fira de Barcelona’s Lead Retrieval application. Developed by the mobile apps team of ASM Web Services, last year it already gave great results in contact management.

With NFC technology and QR codes, it allows contacts to be managed in real time. Goodbye to cumbersome business cards that tend to get lost when we look for them after the congress or trade show. The app allows you to scan the QR of the visitor’s pass and the contact is archived with all the data contained in the person’s profile.

The saved contacts can then be filtered and exported to Excel, making it easier to contact potential customers to send more information or schedule a meeting to present our project.

VIP Drop Off App

Also developed for the Mobile World Congress, the mobile apps team at ASM Web Services developed the VIP Drop Off app. It is used to manage the parking area. Thanks to a sticker placed on the front window of the vehicle, the person who manages the parking area has information of each car entering or leaving just by bringing a mobile device with the VIP Drop Off app close to the sticker.