Çubuk Animation that has a great scale from speaking English in job interviews to plastic bag awareness, from the dreams of a movie-lover teen to the coolness of not watching soap operas was our Friday Talks guest.
One of the important names of the sector, the NextGen CEO, technology Consultant, Presenter and Producer Dinçer Karaca was our Friday Talks guest. We talked about “Digital Trends” and “The Silicon Valley” with Dinçer Karaca who produces programs in channels like ATV, Fox, and Show TV.
With technology entering every area of our lives, the traditional methods have been insufficient. Digitalization affects the human resources processes just like it affects all our lives.
Data and resource management is in the digital environment in a more accessible and systematic way. With the number om workers increasing, the importance of digital transformation increases as well.
Digital Human Resources is basically tracking the Human Resources functions in digital. Digital Human Resources represent a total change in technology and business processes. If we do not sustain all these transformations parallelly, the digital transformation will not be efficient.
Business processes are always redesigned in order to increase the sustainability in human resources functions as the speed and development of technology increase. During this process, it is necessary for the companies that want to keep the skilled new generation and that aim to build a transparent connection between managers and employees to build their processes digitally. Digitalization increases productivity in human resources just like in all the other areas.
Businesses need to analyze both their processes and their employees’ abilities in details during this period.
Bettered processes with new technologies in Human Resources processes play an important role in employee satisfaction. And it is a must for the authorities and employees who will play a role in these projects to have a certain experience in order to manage the process in a healthy way in the company.
Business life is in a re-construction in accordance with our day. Digitalization is necessary to keep up with today’s conditions. Even though our applications are digitalizing, humans always should be in the focus in the management philosophy.
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.
During these days that we take the digital workplace concept to the center of our lives because of the pandemic, the corporate communication processes have been moved to digital as well. Now it is more critical to transmit notions like corporate culture, motivation, team, and unity to the employees working from home. The importance of digital platforms have increase within this scope. When the digital communication and unity applications are successful, so are the communication of employees between themselves and also with the corporation. And on top of that, the efficiency and productivity increase as well. Researches show that companies that invested in intranet communication by using the digital platforms efficiently and correctly are happier and more successful compared to their rivals.
We had to adapt to remote working quickly with the pandemic. The fact that corporations didn’t want to put their employees’ health in danger but also had to maintain their business processes increased the attention to digital platforms. Researches show that companies that use applications which aim to increase the corporate’s success by developing emotional intelligence make their workers happier compared to the other.
According to the research conducted by the Gallup Group, employees who are committed to their work and corporation are employees that are ambitious to work and that love their work environments. The income of companies that increase employee loyalty with the effects of the managers and skill management increase about 147% compared to their rivals. Likewise, the research conducted by Aberdeen Group shows that there is an increase of around 233% in customer loyalty and 26% in income in the companies with high employee loyalty. The main reason of this success is the intranet being run successfully and using digital platforms effectively for this.
Effective communication is the most basic element of employee loyally. More than 70% of employees become more loyal to the company in work environments where company goals, values, objectives, and how the company works are clearly transmitted. 64% of the internal communication experts participating in the Newsweaver research say that the most difficult issue is managing the communication within the organization. Companies that prefer intranet platforms to centralize communication and strengthen internal communication are more successful in effective communication. The research reveals that employees are not only focused on making money in their workplaces, but also tend to be “happy” with their work.
Ahmet Toprakçı, CEO of the technology company PEAKUP, underlined that the concept of happiness will be discussed much more in the business world in the new period. According to Toprakçı, employees who were unhappy with the pandemic sought happiness in the institution where they work. Toprakçı said: “With the pandemic, digitalization got out of its routine speed and became widespread and effective in every field. One of these areas was keeping alive the commitment and motivation of company employees, who had to work from home due to the epidemic, to their jobs and institutions, i.e. internal communication. During this period, Human Resources Experts and Information Technology professionals worked more closely than ever before. And intranet platforms were developed. While the productivity of companies that make fast and accurate investments in this field increased significantly, the researchers showed the concept of happy employees as the reason.”
This shows that the most important issue of the future in the business world will be “employee happiness in the digital world”. While Companies that invest in making their employees happy will get a lot of rewards, customers who buy services or products from these companies will also be happy.
100% local capital PEAKUP that managed to be in the Deloitte Technology 2019 Fast 50 list for the 3rd time with its successful performance now got awarded with the Great Place to Work® certificate with the investments in HR and innovative applications.
PEAKUP that has a young and highly professional team that can make quick decisions, act flexible, learn and apply quickly, and follow the developments in the world carefully -As being in the technology sector requires, has been awarded the Great Place to Work Certificate as a result of the survey evaluated by its employees.
The Great Place to Work Certificate is given to companies that have strengthened the culture of trust within the company and are deemed successful by their employees. Taking important steps in increasing the motivation and confidence in the company, PEAKUP implements many different projects for its employees. PEAKUP, which prioritizes its employees in every office, also started working in its new office from the working environment; In the office, there are entertaining game machines, different resting areas, specially decorated areas separated according to colors, a conversation and conversation area and a music area consisting of various instruments.
The career development opportunities offered to employees along with personal development trainings on employee satisfaction and loyalty, flexible rights, in-house motivation and confidence-enhancing practices are among PEAKUP’s investments in human resources.
PEAKUP CEO Ahmet Toprakçı stated that behind the rapid growth of PEAKUP in a short time is a great teamwork and said: “The happiness of the team that formed PEAKUP, the peace of our working environment and our sense of trust in each other have always been at the forefront. We have managed to internalize the corporate and team culture we built together. Every decision we make for our team, every work we do, has returned to us as a sustainable growth and success. The certificate we received shows that we are on the right track, as a result of the surveys and researches conducted by the independent and respected Great Place To Work Institute. PEAKUP is now a Great Place to Work certified workplace. Our effort to create the perfect workplace for each of our employees will continue with an even greater desire and passion. Happy employee means successful company for us. I would like to thank our wonderful team for their efforts, which led us to this certification. ”
We have been waiting for the work flow product we knew as Ms Flow to get the Power title like Power BI and Power Apps for a long time. It recently joined the Power Platform family with the name of Power Automate (Flow) as expected.
Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) is a team that increases efficiency and speeds up the work right from the beginning. While end users are working on their Power Apps mobile apps, Power Automate quietly sustains the work flow and verification process in the background.
You can click here for the articles about Power Automate.
If you have any type of Office365 license, yes!
The increase of Premium connectors and features was foreshadowing the licensing changes that would happen in Flow.
With the Flow joining the Power family, Power Apps & Power Automate came to the top of the agenda.
Licensing is separated into two ways: based on the number of users or based on the number of applications you will use.
It is priced as 56 TLs (in Turkey) per user and the costs increase as the application number increases.
It is priced as 224,20 TLs (in Turkey) per user and there are no extra costs.
Take a look at here for details.
Take a look at here for the document about licensing.
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.
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.
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.