Following the signing of the corporate membership agreement between IAS and Project Management Institute (PMI TR) the first meeting was held. Speaking at the digital meeting, IAS Project Manager Fatih Gorgulu said, “IAS is a very experienced company in the area of project management methodologies. Because of this, I believe that this agreement will benefit both parties.”

Reis Makina’s General Manager Basar Demircan said they have an advantage by managing their business processes with caniasERP and added “Especially during the global Covid-19 outbreak, caniasERP has enabled us to work remotely. During this process, the importance of ERP foftware was proven once again.

Terms such as sustainability, new markets, manufacturing on demand, global networking, trade wars, digitization and automation, service-oriented and complementary business models, localization - or, if you look at the very latest, the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) - all these have a significant impact on global trade.

Isitkamet Casting IT Manager Nurullah Bardakçı stated that a silent revolution was experienced within their companies with the transition to ERP system. Mr Bardakçı also added, “We have found solutions to many issues, especially our problems related to integration and reporting with caniasERP. caniasERP's standard software has responded to our needs.”

We spoke with IAS General Manager Mert Poyraz who confirmed that there was no disruption at work during the pandemic. Regarding accounting and remote working systems in caniasERP Poyraz said, “We quickly adapted to new conditions. We did not suspend the development of new projects or maintenance services that we provide. Our customers gained a competitive advantage over companies without an ERP system since our customers were able to manage their business remotely.”

IAS has signed an institutional membership cooperation protocol with the PMI Turkey Chapter, with over 800 members and volunteers, which actively operates in project management studies and methodologies, and whose mission is to raise awareness of the importance of project management and to develop and expand it as a profession. The two institutions held their kick-off meeting online to discuss the goals they hope to accomplish.

IAS has started a new Digital Transformation project with Imak Ofset. Founded in 1997, Imak Ofset is an important leader in the printing industry managing its core operations from their offices located in Bursa and İstanbul in Turkey, with additional representation in Russia and Kazakhstan. 

Starting in 2020 with a new vision and structure, IAS Business Academy(IBA) has become more effective with each passing day. IBA General Manager Cigdem Donmez spoke about IBA’s new projects which are now offered online as a result of social isolation due to this global pandemic. Cigdem explained, “There is now a great from participants who are using this time to focus on professional and personal development”  

IAS Business Academy(IBA) is expanding the number of training opportunities by collaboration with Udemy, a global learning platform with the largest selection of online training courses. As a result of this partnership, IBA training is available to thousands of people via Udemy. IBA General Manager Cigdem Donmez that similar partnership is now planned.

Explaining the company's journey in the ERP market and the 2020 targets, IAS General Manager Ahmet Oturgan said, “We achieved  significant momentum in 2019. With our Industry 4.0 vision, we continue our work without slowing down. We will double our operations in 2021 if things go as planned.”

The IoT and Automation solution offered by IAS has achieved success in its pilot project. Preparations for the next project are moving forward. Explaining these IoT and Automation solutions, IAS General Manager İlker Er said “caniasERP can now communicate and speak the language with any machines, sensors, meters, and devices used in production sites. The data is transferred directly to the system, saving our customers time and costs involved with integrations  because the system is already fully integrated with caniasERP, and the error share is minimum.”

Following the official directives to self-quarantine and to work remotely from home, our IAS Business Academy trainings will continue as scheduled from our online platform. We offer this special training to all our IAS partners, customers, employees and anyone else with an interest in learning more about ERP, technology, software, and digitalization. We highly recommend these trainings to take advantage of the opportunity while working from your home.

İzmir Energy Summit was held at Ege University Prof Dr Yusuf Vardar MÖTBE Cultural Center. Participating as a panelist in the summit Solimpeks Turkey General Manager Gazi Çelebi, told university students in renewable energy systems and make recommendations relating to digital conversion. “The work that took time at the desk before is now done very quickly in digital environment. Engineers need to change their classic perspective, and students need to improve themselves in this direction by following new methodologies. ” Çelebi advised to the students. 

IAS continues to expand its borders with its product caniasERP, the enterprise resource planning software. In addition to its 11 offices located in different parts of the world, IAS, which has launched caniasERP with its business partners around the world, also achieved success in its operations in Lithuania. IAS Lithuanian partner "digitouch!" has brought three new companies into the caniasERP ecosystem by signing agreements.

IAS Business Academy General Manager Çiğdem Dönmez was the guest of the 'Family Companies with Dr Ebru Karpuzoğlu' program at Business Channel Türk. Dönmez and Karpuzoğlu spoke about the developments regarding the Corporate Risk Management and Personal Data Protection Law. Dönmez said, “As a global company, we support our customers in compliance with legal regulations and technological solutions. Our customers can manage their corporate processes via caniasERP and perform corporate risk analysis regardless of location, sector, country and legislation. ”

Hakan Çelebi, IAS Software Management Applications Unit Manager, answered the questions about business intelligence, one of the most important agenda items of the last period. Saying “Business intelligence applications will be a part of daily life,” Çelebi also explained the advantages of business intelligence application canias IQ offered in caniasERP to companies.

IAS Business Academy (IBA) instructors came together with students from Sakarya University Industrial Engineering Department. IBA instructors, who organize a three-day workshop within the scope of the career days of the university, aim to reinforce the students' theoretical knowledge with practical work carried out on caniasERP.

Supporting education through collaborations with universities, IAS continues its work without slowing down. With the protocol signed with Bakirçay University, caniasERP trainings are starting in Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Business and Management Information Systems departments!

Explaining the company's caniasERP journey, Lider Petfood General Manager Murat Tarhan said, “caniasERP is a software that is open to development, forward thinking and flexible. With us on this journey as we grow up. We invested in the future with caniasERP. ” 

We spoke with IAS General Manager Gozde Erdinc about the advantages of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for companies and the benefits that ERP brings to businesses of all sizes. Erdinc described the progress of the ERP industry in Turkey and the growing awareness of this issue among businesses leaders  and how Caniaserp continues to expand it’s footprint globally.

IAS Chairman Yaşar Hakan Karabiber and Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan came together at the ISO Headquarters. In the meeting, which focused on the future of the Turkish industry and the digital transformation process, future visions were discussed.

The new year has started fast for the IAS family! Our teams have set a record with 59 new projects successfully going live in January 2020, and have no plans in slowing down.

   New members of the consultancy team of IAS Inc., the newly established company of IAS in the United States, came to Istanbul to receive caniasERP trainings organized by IAS Business Academy (IBA).

IAS General Manager Mr. İlker Er was the guest of  “Family Companies with Dr. Ebru Karpuzoğlu” at Business Channel Türk. During the program, Mr. Er and Ms. Karpuzoğlu talked about the developments about IoT and automation. Giving suggestions to companies, Mr. Er said, “IoT and automation systems have an important role for guiding companies. If you cannot foresee the future, you cannot shape a vision."