This year, we celebrated our 15th anniversary. The filling of our birthday cake? Customer tailored technological innovation, a recipe we've been refining year after year since our inception. “And we're only just getting started”, says our Managing Partner Erlend Schenkels. From humble beginnings to a story involving over 200 protagonists, here's a sketch of our journey so far.
Wed, 6 December 2023
The rapidly changing characteristics and landscape of IT needs no introduction. Yet, for over 15 years, we at Arxus have been vigorously navigating this terrain. From adopting the public cloud to integrating Azure and our Microsoft-first approach: innovation has always been our guide.
"We've never stopped adapting to technological evolution and customer needs. As a result, we’restronger and more prominent in the market than ever before," Erlend explains. "However, as a first mover, we're not naive. We only promote new technologies to clients when they’re sufficiently mature. For example, we only began investing significantly in Azure after an extensive testing period."
Our ongoing investments have not only expanded our services portfolio, but also led to a closer partnership and even the creation of other entities, such as SecWise and Cloudfuel.
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"Sustainable relationships with clients are essential for our success, but we also invest in our employees with the same long-term approach”, Erlend continues. “Many people who were here 10 years ago, or even witnessedArxus' first steps, are still with us today. That's something we can be proud of. Especially since it's always been a challenge to place the right person in the right role."
Despite this year’s challenges, we’ve grown into a group with over 200 employees. A growth we aim to continue over the next 15 years.
“We're able to scale up because we can integrate everyone's expertise into a new service”, Erlend emphasizes. “Our focus on targeted solutions to create added value and our ability to adapt are the biggest keys to success. That's why we've been investing in AI for some time and were even part of Microsoft Copilot's early adopter program. For this, we initially provided some of our colleagues with the right training, and also hired a few extra heads with specific knowledge and know-how.'
Proud but not satisfied, because we’re aiming even higher in the next 15 years by literally and figuratively pushing our boundaries. “While we've come far today, we're really just getting started, as the major shifts to the cloud are yet to come in many sectors”, Erlend points out. “In the autumn of 2023, we opened
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