Businesses hoping to harmonise and streamline their operations often look into adopting an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and its associated software. But nightmare stories abound, about how complex, expensive, and frustrating such installations can be.

In every business setting, there are several dreaded, time-consuming and repetitive activities which we must carry out to keep the wheels spinning. Somebody has to do them regardless of the very low fun factor. We are a software company, though – we simplify and automate complicated things for a living, so why not do it for the boring part of our jobs, too?

We did it! Netguru has made it to the list of 1000 fastest growing companies in Europe. With the 644-percent revenue growth between 2012 and 2015 (65 percent year on year on average), our company was ranked 188, outperforming such big tech players as Skyscanner and Spotify. We would not have been recognised but for the hard work of our team. We also believe that our mindset and business strategy laid the foundation for this success. We promote our values internally and externally, which helps us achieve our business goals. Today, we would like to share the seven core qualities of our company we preach and practice on a daily basis. All of them made it possible for us to grow exponentially over just a few years.

Recently, the trend for “serverless” started gaining a lot of traction both among developers and business people. As you’re reading this, you might be wondering, what on Earth does the new buzzword, serverless, even mean.

Campsited is a Dublin based startup that provides an easy way for campers and holiday seekers to find and book campsites, touring parks, and holiday parks. The app was designed with passion for camping, but hindered by a lack of an experienced, scalable development team. Campsited covers campsites in Ireland and the UK, and has just started it's expansion into continental Europe.

Property Detective (PD) is a “big data” application that provides comprehensive information on the current and predictive quality of life in areas in which people consider living or investing. The London based startup gives customers answers to important questions about the area they want to live in: can I commute to work on a train? How high are the noise levels in the area? What kind of food is available at nearby grocery stores? What are the political demographics in this area? Are there plans for future development? And many answers to other questions.

Since 2007 Lemonfrog AG specializes in building and running online marketplaces for services. Lemonfrog started with Babysitting24, a site matching babysitters with parents, and soon expanded to other marketplaces with websites: Petsitting24, Homeservice24, Tutor24, Seniorservice24, and more. Lemonfrog platforms operate in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

The business landscape is packed with visionary startups looking to change the world and make it a better place. Life is not so rosy, though. Plenty of promising startups are destined to misfire, and one of the reasons is the fact that they fail at successfully pitching their businesses to investors. Their ideas can be amazing, but if they can't convince lenders to trust them and share the risk their ventures involve, they might not even get a chance to make it to the market.

Hi folks! I’m Darek, a leader and senior RoR developer at Netguru. I joined Netguru when it had 30 members, now we’ve grown to more than 210! Recently, I’ve had a very interesting problem to solve. We wanted to have better knowledge about what skills our people have, what they want to get better at and, last but not least, improve how we assign people to projects. That’s why we introduced “Skills”, a feature in “People”, one of our open-source projects. You can try it out yourself if you want. Let me walk you through the new features!

We’re growing fast. Over the last few years, we doubled in size, expanding our services into highly competitive markets. We’ve already been distinguished with Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe Awards twice, and now we’ve been included in another prestigious ranking: FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies!