It is now time to wrap up the year of 2024, and what a year it has been… It’s been a year filled with challenges and obstacles but at the same time filled with amazing moments and projects.

We started of the year by planning and then later in april launch a complete rebrand of the company. Goodbye Raksystems - Welcome Sustera!

Doing this in a very short time from an IT perspective was no small challenge. We went from decision to execution in a matter of a couple of months. I wouldn’t say that this was easy but everyone in our IT-Teams pulled trough and made it happen.

During the rebrand kick-off I also made my big-stage debut as a speaker when presenting an internal web-app for a competition, also developed in-house by our Development team during this short timeframe. Not sure if the competition was a success (it was a battle between Sweden and Finland - Sweden got crushed) But the application held up and did its thing.

After the rebranding came the work of renaming things. Everything from changing email-addresses to logos to signatures etc. It is still a work in progress and I think we will be finding things with the old name for years to come.

One may think that a re-branding project may be enough for one year, but there you are wrong. We also decided it was a good idea to switch to a new ERP-system…

A project that started at the end of June and carried on during the summer and fall with a lot of planning for the final implementation. This included writing about 20.000 lines of code to be able to export and import projects from our old systems.

The second of December we launched the new ERP system for one of our smaller companies with great success, and as of writing this I have just completed and import of 1600 projects and is now as ready as we can get for going live with about 100 new users on the second of January.

But this year would not have been possible without the Sustera IT-Team.

Yohanna and Sara keeping the Swedish Servicedesk que under control, Mats for battling with HR systems so that I don’t have to. Satu, Joonas for doing an amazing job at the Finnish Servicedesk and of course Erno for enduring printer and network issues, once again so that I don’t have to

A big thanks to Mikko for being my partner in crime in all of this, we have created an amazing team together across the country borders. I could not have done this without you.

Also a big thanks to Jukka and the dev-team (Junnu, Anttii, Jan, Niko) for your amazing work. I know I have been tied up in a lot of things during the last months of this year, but I promise to give you more attention 2025.

Looking forward I have high hopes for 2025, I think it will be a great but still challenging year. But hey, who does not love a good challenge!