The lows

This year we had the impression that many projects were delayed. These included, in particular, decision-making processes for new acquisitions – i.e. tenders or direct procurement. Sometimes the entire tender was delayed, sometimes it took a long time before a decision was made after the tender. But it’s always said: it’s all a question of perspective. We have established in perspective: “Patience is a virtue” – if you stay on the ball, the decision will be positive for you.

We said goodbye to a long-time employee who, after years of loyal project work, wanted to try something different. That’s also part of work-life. Fortunately, we have a very low fluctuation in our team – it hurts all the more when someone leaves the team. We keep our fingers crossed that he has fun and success in his new job.

cimoio user meeting 2022

For the first time in two years again as a face-to-face event! A huge relief for our customers. Since the company was founded in 2003, the annual user meetings have been a highlight in both our customers’ and ours’ calendars. Two days in which we present the innovations in cimoio and our customers also report on their projects. This year again at the Sparkassenakademie Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart (German only!), whose premises, service and catering we always appreciate very much.

This year’s keynote was held by Steffi Kirchberger from the JARO Academy. It addressed sustainability in procurement with a focus on the training environment and IT. In a year in which “Fridays for Future” initially took a back seat and then moved back into focus through activities of the “Letzte Generation” movement, this was a particular concern for us. We would also like to show that with cimoio, STL GmbH also takes into account topics that at first glance seem to have less to do with us as a software company.

Another new activity at our user meeting was that Mathias Weitbrecht from the Visual Facilitators graphically documented the event in real time. The great overview picture of the user meeting is attached.

Since the demand for places this year exceeded the capacities of the conference room, we held another afternoon in September with a summary of the event. Here the customers who – for whatever reason – could not attend the face-to-face event could get a compact overview. This shows us that we can definitely plan even bigger at the user meeting and that the demand for information is unbroken. An important feature of the cooperation between STL GmbH and our customers is that our customers benefit from all developments. In order for this to succeed, however, it is important that everyone receives information about the new functions and modules that have been added over time. Because in day-to-day project work, this information distribution is sometimes simply neglected.

Releases

At the beginning of 2022 we published release 3.9.3, in which we also included solutions for the problems with log4j (German only!) that became known in the previous month.

And in the middle of the year – just in time for the user meeting – came the major release 3.9.4. B. can now also be delivered with free text tasks in the E-Test module, including the associated test process. The learning plans have also received further additions. We are gradually developing the modules of our LMS cimoio.