DeFacto has become a sponsor of the Software Marathon, to be organized for the sixth time this year under the Istanbul Technical University IEEE Student Club
DeFacto, one of Türkiye’s leading fashion brands, is supporting the Software Marathon, to be organized for the sixth time this year under the Istanbul Technical University Electrical and Electronics Engineers Student Club, as a Gold category sponsor. At the event to be held on March 3-4 at the ITU Ayazağa Campus, members of the 30 teams that have reached the final will try to answer the questions posed to them correctly by creating new algorithms. Those who place in the competition will be determined by the number of questions they are able to solve. The teams will also attend several workshops, trainings, and seminars as part of the final stage.
CENGİZ GÜRER: “TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IS NOT A SHORT SPRINT, IT IS A LONG MARATHON”
Commenting on the subject, Cengiz Gürer, DeFacto Deputy General Manager for Information Technologies, said, “With the impact of new technologies and digitalization, we are witnessing the ways of doing business change rapidly in all sectors. To be successful in the competitive environment of the future, your technological infrastructure must always be up to date and you must be able to keep pace with change. Digitalization should be seen as a long marathon rather than a short sprint. At DeFacto Technology, we believe that being successful on the digitalization journey comes from having the newest tools and the best infrastructure and working together with the best marathon runners. With this perspective, we decided to support the software marathon, and we are very proud of it. In addition, we continuously support the development of our employees and strive to keep their motivation high and help them achieve their goals with a team spirit. We value and trust our employees. For the core applications that form the backbone of our business services, such as ERP, e-Commerce, and Omnichannel, we decided to develop our own applications with our own team instead of buying ready-made packages from outside. We developed the ERP application covering all of DeFacto’s core processes with our own engineers. This is a sign of the trust we place in our employees. We look forward to meeting new teammates who want to run with us on the digitalization journey.”
About DeFacto Technology
DeFacto Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in 2014 as an affiliate of DeFacto Perakende A.Ş. and continues its operations on the YTU Ikitelli Technopark campus. The company, whose main field of activity is software and technology development, has approximately 100 employees. In addition to software teams specialized by process, it houses sub-organizational units such as system, database, and network operations support, help desk, business intelligence, and business analytics. Thanks to its continuously growing and developing organizational structure, the development opportunities, rotation possibilities, and new career opportunities it offers its employees demonstrate the value placed on them. The company management’s approach of developing solutions for needs, first and foremost the ERP application and the e-commerce site, primarily with its own in-house resources, and its determination to entrust them to its own engineers, stand out as the most concrete indicator of the trust placed in its employees. At DeFacto Technology, the newest technologies are always sought out and followed, and employees’ ideas in this regard are valued. To list the main technologies and concepts used in software development: .NET Framework, C#, MVC, WPF, WCF, .NET Core, AngularJS, MVVM, OOP, Design Patterns, TFS, GIT, JIRA, MSSQL SERVER. The IT infrastructure has been built on a fully redundant structure to ensure business continuity, taking disaster recovery scenarios into account.
One of the most important points that sets DeFacto Technology apart in competition is that it set out with the vision of being an agile company. With the start of the “Agile Transformation” project at the company at the end of 2017, Scrum teams were formed. The “Agile” software development methodology, which has left its mark on 21st-century software development projects around the world and rewritten the rules of the game, has begun to be used.
With its ability to adapt quickly to change, DeFacto Technology is moving with confident steps toward becoming an agile technology company that places customer focus at its center and develops products for the retail sector.
For information:
Şener Aslıbay / İz İletişim
0530 069 70 18 / sener.aslibay@iziletisim.com
Fatma Yazvuzaslan / İz İletişim
0507 000 5133 / fatma.yavuzaslan@iziletisim.com
