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Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, January 16, 2024 – ORTEC, a global provider of decision support software and data science capabilities, is pleased to announce a partnership with investment firm Battery Ventures to accelerate its growth ambitions. This strategic partnership, including a significant investment by Battery, marks a key moment in ORTEC’s existence and positions the company to increase its impact on customers and in core markets globally. With this partnership, ORTEC will be able to further strengthen its leadership position in the US and Europe in the field of supply chain, workforce-management and data science & consulting.
August 2023
We have all seen the tremendous value of data analytics on the success of commercial organizations. Now, how about humanitarian and societal challenges? As one of the founders of the Analytics for a Better World Institute, ORTEC believes that analytics can also contribute to solving major challenges facing humanity - from hunger to deforestation and the extinction of flora and fauna, among others. For this edition from our ‘Jointly for Social Impact’ series, we sat down with Amref Health Africa, a leading health organization in Africa, to hear from them how data contributes to their mission to create lasting health change in Africa.
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Jointly for Social Impact
This article is part of the ‘Jointly for social impact’ series. Every article highlights another impact story based on collaborations and partnerships with Analytics for a Better World - an institute co-founded by ORTEC.
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands: A new release of ORTEC Routing and Dispatch is now available. The new release will deliver feature enhancements for improved planning, optimization, and data analytics.
Support for Windows 2022, an improved Carrier Portal and cloud maps support make this an exciting release.
It will be news to no one that we are living in turbulent times, with multiple consecutive and simultaneous crises testing our defences. The combination of the global pandemic, extreme weather events, inflation, war and an energy crisis that has sparked unprecedented energy poverty and the possible loss of (European) industrial competitiveness has consequences, Stephan Segbers concludes. "We have to realize that energy will never again be as cheap as it used to be."
Interview with Stephan Segbers. Segbers has now been Chief Operations Officer at Essent Netherlands for nearly three years. On October 1, he will continue his career as Chief Sales Officer at RheinEnergie.
ORTEC introduces the fourth issue of the valued Data and AI in the Boardroom magazine. An ORTEC magazine to support senior executives to cope with the challenges, opportunities and risks of data and artificial intelligence, enhancing decision-making to secure long-term, sustainable growth in today's fast-changing world.
Many companies are dealing with the challenge to pack and load their outbound logistics efficiently, which they do by optimizing separate silo’s. But that is about to change: the Finished Goods Logistics solution package offers an integrated system to handle Packing, Loading and Routing at the same time. "At once, our customers can improve these processes and gain more visibility over their end-to-end operations. Which also means we can reduce CO2 emissions and improve supply chain resilience," says Valerie van de Kamp, Business consultant and Industry expert at ORTEC.
April 15, 2023 - Zoetermeer - Today, the Dutch Puzzle and Sudoku Championship took place at the headquarters of ORTEC in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. After a challenging qualification round, the event welcomed the best 41 puzzle enthusiasts competing for the title of Dutch 2023 champion in Sudoku and logical puzzles. For both, the championship title was prolonged and renewed by previous winners.
April 4, 2023
Today, we celebrated in two-fold: the sixth anniversary of ORTEC’s Education Factory, while kicking-off another learning season. As we believe learning is a never-ending journey, we offer ORTEC employees continuous learning opportunities. Through The Education Factory, ORTEC’s internal academy, we offer trainings to our global workforce. From soft skills to data science and for starters to senior professionals: there are learning possibilities for everyone. This year, the curriculum has expanded again, now offering 113 different courses.
Innovation is essential to stay competitive and grow. However, many businesses fall into common innovation mistakes. Over 90% of innovation projects end in failure.* How come? The Innovation Practice Team at ORTEC lists five common mistakes organizations make when pursuing innovation, and how to avoid them.
*Source: CIO
April 2024
At ORTEC we are dedicated to protecting the privacy and security of our customers by handling their data securely. Through yearly independent audits we test our information security management. At the end of 2023, the auditors approved our processes again. As a result, our current ISO 27001, NEN 7510, and SOC 2 certificates are reaffirmed, indicating that we comply with the (international) standards for information security until December 2024.