Navigating through the rough seas: a reflection on the year 2023
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Navigating through the rough seas: a reflection on the year 2023

The year 2023 brought disruptions to the global software industry, and consulting businesses found themselves sailing against the wind. The last time such shockwaves were experienced was in the spring of 2020 when COVID-19 hit the world. Markets soon realized that the world was not going to end but that we had to change faster…

Infobip Shift 2023 developer conference visited by Software Sauna
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Infobip Shift 2023 developer conference visited by Software Sauna

“This is not another developer event. This is an experience that brings together the global tech community for two days of learning, networking, and creating new memories. This is a gathering of professionals, founders, leaders, disruptors, and dreamers. This is Shift. And we want to Shift Your World.” That is how Infobip Shift, a 2-day multistage…

Conference chronicles: fun and learning at WeAreDevelopers World Congress
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Conference chronicles: fun and learning at WeAreDevelopers World Congress

We, the curious team of Software Sauna developers (and our friends), went to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in July this year. The main conference schedule was on Thursday & Friday, with Wednesday scheduled for pre-schedule events & workshops, which we also attended. The event was held at Berlin’s Citycube. The program was huge and varied. The…

From start-up to standout: Software Sauna’s first five years
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From start-up to standout: Software Sauna’s first five years

Five years. I have been building my Croatian dream since April 2018. The idea was initially born in my best man’s sauna in Espoo, Finland, in 2017. Therefore the dream got naturally named Software Sauna. It hasn’t been only a beautiful dream filled with marshmallows, great Croatian wines, and smooth sailing by the Adriatic coastline….

Employee interview – Marko Bjelac | 5th anniversary special

Employee interview – Marko Bjelac | 5th anniversary special

This weekend we celebrated a significant milestone – Software Sauna’s 5th birthday! To fully understand what Software Sauna is all about, there is only one way – to go back 5 years in the past. Luckily for us, we don’t need a time machine for that; interviewing our Lead Developer Marko Bjelac will do the trick….

Heating up the marketing – Welcome, Ville Kauppi!
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Heating up the marketing – Welcome, Ville Kauppi!

After Sauna turned four years the last spring, we made our first move outside of Croatia by starting operations in Skopje, North Macedonia. In August, we finally entered our founders’ homeland and landed in Helsinki, Finland: our Commercial Director, Joona Komulainen, was the first employee at the Helsinki office. But as we know – the…

Patient satisfaction comes from collaboration
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Patient satisfaction comes from collaboration

When three Finns are meeting in Zagreb, Croatia, the first thing that doesn’t come to mind is that this is about a project to develop a remote healthcare consultation service. How digitalization helps patient satisfaction? Marko Lähteenmäki, Managing Director of RemoTest Lausuntopalvelut, explains what it’s all about: “RemoTest offers remote consultation services for the healthcare…

First Sauna employee in Finland – Joona Komulainen
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First Sauna employee in Finland – Joona Komulainen

Summer months usually mean the slowest time of the year when it comes to business. We couldn’t disagree more about this, because this summer Sauna has been heating up big time! A few important things marked the summer of 2022 and one of them is scaling up our presence in Finland. Joona Komulainen joined our ranks as…