Our CEO Ahmet Toprakçı joined the ST Endüstri Radio Reel Piyasalar / İşte Gündem (Reel Markets) Program presented by Çetin Ünsalan as a guest. We talked about us being in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 3 years in a row, sustainability in technology, and strategies to follow.
Local cloud computing company PEAKUP exports technology to the world with a 60-person team from Turkey. The new goal of the company that opened an office in London is to open up to the USA.
Founded in 2012 to provide end-to-end solutions and products from IT infrastructure services to software development activities, the Turkish technology company PEAKUP has switched 600 thousand end users to cloud computing technologies since the day they went into action. The company, which develops high-tech products with a team of 60 people, delivers these products to 650 corporate customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa regions and reaches a growth rate of 150 percent every year.
AN OFFICE IN LONDON
“The best way to contribute to Turkey’s economic development is through developing and exporting high-tech products,” said Peakup CEO Ahmet Toprakçı and continued: “We will bring our software to the EU through the office we have opened in London. Another target is the USA. With these new markets that we will open up to, 40 percent of our turnover will come from abroad within 3 years. ”
PRODUCTIVITY OF BUSINESSES INCREASE
PEAKUP facilitates the daily life of businesses and provides efficiency with the software it develops. The software named PassGate, developed by the company, takes the user password reset requests from IT departments and enables users to resolve the issue with an SMS-based autonomous system. With PassGate, companies save 10 million TL a year. Velocity, which strengthens in-house communication for HR departments, and Sign & Go, which transforms billions of e-mails in circulation every day into digital traceable marketing items with banner images that can be added via a web console, are two other important products developed by the company.
THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WILL BE INCREASED BY 20 PERCENT
Peakup that has Turkey’s 867th R&D center works on internet of objects, artificial intelligence, machine learning, micro-processor circuits, image and natural language processing technologies in this center. Pointing out that the most important investment areas in the 2020 budget will be human resources, Toprakçı added that they will increase the number of employees by 15-20% next year.
To this date, an administrative fine of approximately 9 million TL has been imposed within the scope of the Law of Protection of Personal Data. Companies need to transform in all areas within the scope of Law of Protection of Personal Data. Otherwise, the risk of penalty is high.
The fact that a large part of business and daily life has now been transferred to digital environments, the increase in data collection and processing capacity has brought along the need to protect personal data.
Law of Protection of Personal Data that entered into force in 2016 in Turkey but it was not fully implemented by companies.
The Law of Protection of Personal Data, which includes critical changes for companies, has brought many concepts and obligations such as data controller, data processor, and personal data not being processed with explicit consent. Companies are also required to register with the Data Controllers Registry Information System (VER-BİS).
THERE IS A PENAL SANCTION
An administrative penalty from 15 thousand TL to 1 million TL can be imposed on those who do not fulfill their obligations regarding data security. In 2020, the upper amount will increase to 1.5 million TL.
WHAT SHOULD INSTITUTIONS CONSIDER WHEN PREPARING?
PEAKUP, which provides consultancy services to institutions, has prepared a list of nine items to work in accordance with the Law of Protection of Personal Data.
1- It should be shared with the candidate in detail for how long the resume containing the personal information of the candidate applying for a job will be kept in the company database and who it will be shared with, and when they will be destroyed or anonymized.
2- The storage conditions of resumes should be protected against any office accident or cyber-attack.
3- In resumes with reference information, the candidate should be reminded that he/she must also get the consent of the person of reference.
4- The protection conditions of health information or criminal record that are in the cope of special personal data must comply with the Law of Protection of Personal Data processes.
5- Law of Protection of Personal Data clause should be added to employee contracts to inform them about their rights.
6- Consent of the employees must be obtained before sharing their photographs.
7- The angles of security cameras should be positioned in a way that they do not interfere with the private life of the employee.
8- Fingerprints or retinal scanning should not be preferred in security solutions.
9- Risk analysis should be done in IT departments in order to avoid internal and external cyber-attacks.
[mk_page_section][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][mk_fancy_title color=”#000000″ size=”20″ font_family=”none”]As part of Fast 50 program, the fastest growing 50 technology companies of Turkey are determined each year since 2006. This year, the 14th “2019 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey Program” was held and we are happy to be among the 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies of Turkey for the 3rd year in a row.
Every year since 2006, “2019 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Turkey Program” is organized. Within the scope of the program, the fastest growing 50 technology companies are determined. PEAKUP that was in the list for 3 years in a row is among the fastest growing technology companies of Turkey.
The fastest growing 50 technology companies in the program implemented in 18 countries and Central Europe apart from America are entitled to participate in Deloitte’s international “Technology Fast 500” program. The fastest growing technology companies in the last 4 years are eligible to participate in Fast 500 EMEA. PEAKUP, who got to be among the 50 companies for 3 years in a row, proved once again that it is growing constantly ever since they day it got established.[/mk_fancy_title][mk_image heading_title=”Deloitte Technology Fast 50″ src=”https://peakup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/peakup_deloitte_odul.jpg” image_size=”large” align=”center”][mk_fancy_title size=”20″ font_family=”none”]PEAKUP CEO Ahmet Toprakçı told that Deloitte Technology 2019 Fast 50 offers a chance for the values born and raised in Turkey to come up and he said: “We are extremely happy to be among the fastest growing technology companies of Turkey once again. It is very important for us to make the growth momentum we have achieved as PEAKUP sustainable. The fact that we have been on this list for the third time proves that the studies and strategies we have implemented have achieved their goals. We will work for the continuation of these successes we have achieved in the upcoming period. Our aim, as a Turkish company with 100% domestic capital and exporting technology to abroad, is to be aware of our society and the environment and to be permanent in this list by producing value with sustainable growth. ” about the success momentum they have achieved in this program.[/mk_fancy_title][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/mk_page_section]
The function that allows you to detect all cells that contain special data like comments, formula, space, and data validation in your Excel list is the Go To Special function.
With this formula, you can select the cells with formulas at once and encrypt them with a formula; select the blank cells at once and highlight them; select the cells that contain numbers, text, or conditional formatting all together and execute the action you need.
This function is located in the Find&Select button in the Editing group in Home tab.
You can also press F5 (you might need to press the fn key as well) and choose Go To Special in the window that pops up.
Let’s think about a scenario where we will fill the blanks in the Satış Bölgesi (Sales Region) column with the correct data like shown above.
First, we need to select the blank cells and then fill in the correct the quickest way possible!
How can we fill these cells easily without having to type into each of them one-by-one?
We will execute this action by using two features together.
Then, we get the look below
You will see that the selected cells are gray and the cell on top is white. You can write into this cell directly. Which means that you don’t have to click to cell to be able to write. The reason why we focus on this is because the areas you want to work on are already selected, so no mouse click is needed. When you click a selected area with the mouse, it cancels the selection so you should be careful about it.
Take a look at this article to detect and encrypt the cells with formula by using the Go To Special window. And take a look at this article to learn which action to take to convert Blank Cells to a fixed text.
The Concatenate function concatenates texts in different cells and allows you to write them in one single cell. Texts can be edited in a very flexible way with the Concatenate formula.
In this manner, you can freely change any field you want in the formula and get the desired result.
The arguments of the formula consist of successive textual expressions.
=Concatenate(text1, text2,…)
You can select the texts to be concatenated from the related cells one-by-one.
In the example bellow, the address is created by concatenating the Strict, Street and Number. When the A2, B2, and C2 cells are concatenated directly, it created the MerkezAyazma37 result.
To see a more familiar result like Merkez Strict Ayazma Street Number:37 (this is the Turkish way of writing an address), what can we do?
You can write textual expressions like “Street”, “Strict” into the formula with the long method.
*When you need to write a text with the keyboard into the formula, you need to write it into a double-quote (“ ”). Using texts in ” ” in Excel is pretty strict.
A more efficient method for it to be reusable, editable and controlled centrally is to write strict, street, number information into a cell and use that cell as a reference.
Click here to take a look the the details of the Concatenate formula.
In addition, it to possible to concatenate without using a function. You can use the & symbol as a concatenation operator. It works similar to the concatenate function and allows you to concatenate the texts directly.
We have learned how to concatenate texts above. In addition to this, we might want to separate concatenated texts as well.
You can separate texts written in one cell into separate cells with the Convert Text to Columns function. So, it works the opposite way of the Concatenate function. Click here to read our article about Convert Text to Columns.
The concept of Human Resources, which has emerged with the Industrial Revolution, has reached an important point for the existence of companies with the development of the industry and economic life. Human Resources management is an approach that focuses on the creation, development and maintenance of employee resources and maximizing the productivity of both employees and companies. We can briefly summarize the reason for the existence of the human resources department of the companies as follows:
It increases the quality of the working environment by regulating the relationship that employees establish with the working environment. Maximizes productivity and profits. Helps employees to easily adapt to changes. Helps to motivate employees and achieve company goals. Defines the value of the employee and contributes to this value. Creates and nurtures team spirit and corporate loyalty. Contributes to the resolution of internal conflicts by working as an advisory body. Contributes to strengthening the image of companies in the market. [1]
This model is derived from the approaches that emerged in the 90s and 2000s. This model starts with business strategy and ends with improving financial performance through HR processes. For this model to be effective, the HR strategy must be in line with the business strategy. Hence, the HR strategy is derived from the overall strategy. This model focuses on improving internal performance. It focuses on efficiency, innovation and quality, which in turn constitute financial performance. Some HR practices directly lead to improved performance. For example, a good education can directly lead to a better performance.
This model shows the internal and external factors that determine the effectiveness of HR activities. For example, if there are some skills deficiencies in the sector, this affects our human resource creation and recruitment processes. These conditions also affect the legislation, and the working principles of HR.
In this model, the history of the company, its culture, the technology it uses and its workforce form the structure of the company. This structure is the factors that determine the communication established with HR, the goal to be achieved and the effectiveness of HR policies.
This model is one of the best-known models. According to this model, everything done in HR can be divided into two categories: HR activities and HR outputs. HR activities are daily activities such as recruitment, compensation, training and are usually measured using HR metrics. HR outputs are the goals to be achieved through HR activities. These outputs are employee satisfaction, motivation etc.
RESOURCES
https://www.businesstopia.net/human-resource/importance-human-resource-management
Communication with your employees and customers, and tracking and analyzing it play an important role in determining your strategies. You can quickly prepare and share e-form with MS Form while digitalizing. You can take a look at this article to read business scenarios with MS Forms and practical examples in detail.
Your forms that you work on by logging it with your user information are stored in a secure environment. Since you keep your forms in a digital environment, every action you take is saved immediately. For this reasons, your forms don’t get lost or deleted.
10 Outstanding Skills of MS Forms:
You can start creating your own form by click the New Form button here. The forms shared with you or group forms can be viewed in this screen.
We can divide a created form into 6 main topic.
We can start by naming the Form first. You can add your company’s logo or an image suitable for you company’s concept through the add image button right next to the name of your Form.
Add Form Elements
The questions type you will add to your poll with the Add new button look like this:
You can view more question types by clicking the arrow button on the right corner. These are other question types like Ranking, and Likert.
You can add an image for the form element you have added.
The buttons in the upper right corner are:
In the lower right corner:
If you think that you have completed the form when you are done adding the questions, you are ready to share it.
It is enough for you to click the Share button on top right and copy your form’s link and then send this link to the people you want.
Even if you share your form, any change you make is active all the time. People who you shared it with always see the latest version of your Form.
Last you on August 29, two new important functions were announced: XLOOKUP and XMATCH. In this article, we will be talking about what the XLOOKUP function is, when and how to use it. When you start using this function, you will just not be able to let it go.
I want to mention a few things about VLOOKUP first: as you know, the VLOOKUP function was indispensable for many users, even those who didn’t know wanted to learn it. And even in the 7 Most Used Excel Functions presentation Microsoft prepared, the first function is VLOOKUP.
As dispensable as it is for some users, it was useless for some others. Because VLOOKUP required some conditions to run and the function returned us the first match it found. On top of that, it decreased Excel’s performance since it could cause unnecessary calculation in the stated table range. It is the function for those who have unique data, but in a table with duplicate data -i.e. recurring data- it wasn’t very useful since it didn’t give us all the records. Of course, there are some methods to list all the records, but you either had to solve the issue by using auxiliary columns or list all the records with the Array Formula.
Fortunately, in September 25, 2018 the new dynamic array functions were announced and we got to breathe a sigh of relief. After waiting for such a long time, now the new function will be able to return a whole array instead of returning just one single result.
Instead of writing an Array Formula that was known as “MULTIPLE VLOOKUP” by everyone, we can list all the records of a data with the FILTER function easily. *We will be talking about the details in its own article. (Here are the article links of Microsoft, you can take a look.)
With the release of the XLOOKUP function, old functions like VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP are not needed anymore. And also, as they get into more detail and design what they can do, it seems like we will not need these functions:
VLOOKUP > HLOOKUP > INDEX > MATCH > OFFSET > IFERROR(VLOOKUP).. what else do you want?!👏🏻
Just one formula can:
Enough with all the details, let’s see what this function does. 👍🏻
=XLOOKUP(lookup_value, lookup_array, return_array, [if_not_found], [match_mode], [search_mode])
There are 6 arguments in this function.
The first 3 are required, the last 3 are optional.
Now let’s take a look at what these arguments mean, i.e. what the function wants from us and what we will give it.
|
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
| lookup_value
Required |
The lookup value |
| lookup_array
Required |
The array or range to search |
| return_array
Required |
The array or range to return |
| [if_not_found]
Optional |
Where a valid match is not found, return the [if_not_found] text you supply.
If a valid match is not found, and [if_not_found] is missing, #N/A will be returned. |
| [match_mode]
Optional |
Specify the match type:
0 – Exact match. If none found, return #N/A. This is the default. -1 – Exact match. If none found, return the next smaller item. 1 – Exact match. If none found, return the next larger item. 2 – A wildcard match where *, ?, and ~ have special meaning. |
| [search_mode]
Optional |
Specify the search mode to use:
1 – Perform a search starting at the first item. This is the default. -1 – Perform a reverse search starting at the last item. 2 – Perform a binary search that relies on lookup_array being sorted in ascending order. If not sorted, invalid results will be returned. -2 – Perform a binary search that relies on lookup_array being sorted in descending order. If not sorted, invalid results will be returned. |
In the few examples below, you can see what you need to write when there is the first record and last record is not found of the looked up data and how to use it when looking up with wildcard characters.
Let’s have an example of the Match Mode argument with exact match or highest and lowest options.
So far we got the data from the column we wanted by looking up in the column just like in VLOOKUP. Now, let’s use this function like HLOOKUP.
Now, let’s have a 2 dimension look up. Let’s match based on both the Product name and Month, and find the data in the intersecting cell. Users who know how to use the INDEX and MATCH functions usually do the matching we are about to the with the INDEX + MATCH + MATCH formulas. Now, let’s see how it is done with XLOOKUP.
Lastly, let’s compare the VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP function while finding the same data. At first, you will see that you get the same result, but when we add or delete a column, the VLOOKUP function will give us an incorrect result. But the result will not change in the XLOOKUP function. The reason is this: Since we write the column number that we want to get manually in VLOOKUP, the col_index_num stays stable but the column of the data changes and it returns an incorrect result. And in XLOOKUP, it doesn’t matter how many columns you add or delete, since we stated the column we want, that column changes dynamically and returns the correct result without producing any errors.
You can see the result in this example.
I hope this was helpful.. 👍🏻
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It is possible for you to get to your destination the fastest way when you use shortcuts. But when you get support from the Navigation, it is probable that you will taking the fastest and traffic-free way.
We, as Office lecturers, offer you the most special and functional Excel shortcuts below for you to get to the result you want faster and in an optimum way.
Ctrl + 1 Shortcut :
Opens the Format Cells window.
It is the window that allows you to execute formatting actions like font type, cell color, cell borders in detail.
Ctrl + Y Shortcut:
As often the Undo (Ctrl Z) shortcut is used, this shortcuts that does the opposite exists as well. With Ctrl Y, you can do the actions that you have undone with Ctrl Z.
Ctrl & Shift & L Shortcut:
To filter your list quickly, you can use the Ctrl & Shift & L shortcut.
Ctrl & P Shortcut:
You can use the Ctrl and P shortcut the print your page.
*This is a general shortcut. You can use it to print a file, document or image on your device.
Ctrl & M Shortcut:
Would you like to write the =Sum() formula the fastest way possible? You can create your formula instantly with the Ctrl & M shortcut.
Ctrl & Shift & 1 Shortcut:
You can show the decimal points of numbers quickly.
F12 Shortcut :
When you ned to save a copy of the document or need to save it in a different format, you usually go to File Tab –> Save As. This action takes a while, you can access the Save As window directly by pressing F12.
F5 Shortcut:
We use the Go To Special Window to detect the cells that contain special values like Conditional Formatting, Data Validation, Formulas… The shortcut to open this window is F5.
Ctrl N Shortcut :
Allows you to open a new Excel document.
*This is a general shortcut. Allows you to open a new one of the same tab of a file, document or browser.
Shift F2 Shortcut:
Allows you to add a comment to the active cell.
Shift F11 Shortcut:
You can add a new page to Excel with this shortcut.
Ctrl H Shortcut :
You use the Fin&Replace screen to replace a text completely.
The Replace window is opened with the Ctrl & H shortcut.
*Note: You might need to use the fn key (depending on your computer) to use the function keys with F like F1 and F2.
A combination of little clicks and keys can accomplish great things!