Alltermag issue 08

Issue 8June - July 2015

InternalCorporateMagazIne

7 really weird things in the iоТ

hot shotniki asere dimitrov

new kids on the block

the new colleagues around the globe

summerbirthday calendar

sheour HoMe autoMatIon genIe

news

InternalCorporateMagazIne

Issue 8, Year 2 June - July 2015 Hey guys!

this summer issue will tell you all the news happening around allterco worldwide. We will introduce the new col-leagues - those who have chosen to continue their careers in our company. the most important news of course is about the latest project and our absolute rock star: SHe!

the Hot SHot of this issue is a colleague who is distin-guished by his perseverance to jogging - asere.

ahh, and most importantly: the Hot SHot is here to entertain you with some of the weirdest Iot project ideas.

allterMag team wishes you the hottest and wildest sum-mer ever!

introduction

IntroductIon by the edItor In chIef

editor in chief: nikoleta abrasheva

creative director: lucho lalev

this issue was made with the kind suport of:

Bogdan Dimitrov Julian rangelov Koko tumnishki nadezhda nesheva rachel atherton Vladimir tsvetkov Maria Bazleva

The Top-project of the company - SHE was awarded in the IT category

Over 15 companies took up call in the National Competition for b2b Media “The Greenest Companies of Bulgaria”, which was held for the fifth consecutive year. Elitsa Nikolova from the Presidency of the Republic of Bulgaria handed the statuette to Alexander Balkanski, COO in ALLTERCO. The company received the award for “The Greenest Company” in the Energy, Technology and IT Services category for its newest project - SHE - a unique home automation system.

The Minister of Environment and Water Ivelina Vasileva and many other official guests attended the ceremony.

ALLTeRCO TOOk The pRize fOR “ The GReeNesT COmpANy”

Teracomm Macedonia granted the grand prize in the big prize game “Guess and win OPEL CORSA” which started on Match 3rd and ended in May 15th in 2015. Leudita Musa from Skopje is the lucky owner of the ultra modern automobile “OPEL CORSA”.

The participants also received other valuable prizes during the game such as: 5000 MKD every day and Sony ТV 32” every week. For the entire duration of the game Teracomm Macedonia granted a total of 70 daily and 9 weekly prizes.

All ONE customers showed big interest in the game “Guess and win OPEL CORSA”.

Teracomm Macedonia congratulates Leudita for the prize!

GUess AND wiN OpeL CORsA!

Activia

24.06.2015 - 19.08.2015

What is the taste of your summer?http://web.teracomm.bg/promo/2015/activia_1506/

The consumer buys any Activia product. Then they votes for the taste of their summer - Pineapple or Raspberry through one of the two buttons on the home page www.aktivia.bg. They fill in the registration form that appears after the vote as required, enter the sum of purchased Activia products and the code from the receipt

8 bicycles 2 excursions to Florence and Barcelona

smART mARkeTiNG sOLUTiONs

http://web.teracomm.bg/promo/2015/activia_1506/

Nova Brasilia

01.06.2015 - 12.07.2015

Coffee trip with Nova Brasiliahttp://www.novabrasilia.bg/promotion/

Users collect points by registering codes of Nova Brasilia products (each product brings a number of points) at www.novabrasilia.bg or via SMS to 1080

30 trips to Rome, Vienna and Istanbul 3,000 thermoses


http://www.novabrasilia.bg/promotion/

moreni

01 - 31.07.2015

Break the fresh meter with Morenihttps://www.moreni.bg/

The consumer buys 36 grams or 49 grams Moreni in promotional package. They register the code at www.moreni.bg or at www.facebook.com/moreni.bg

62 portable speakers 62 portable chargers 4 mini drones



musli

11.05 - 12.07.2015

Get fit with Muslihttp://www.prestige96.bg/bg/promo

The consumer buys Prestige Musli biscuits. They regis-ter the code from the package through SMS to number 1030 or at www.prestige96.bg/bg/promo

Special training videos for getting the summer body fit 10 Kettler fitness machines



DUReX

01.05 - 25.06.2015

DUREX 2015 TUNE INhttps://www.facebook.com/DurexBG

The consumer purchases any promotional product. They register the code from the receipt via SMS to number 19353 or through the Facebook application on https://www.facebook.com/DurexBG

10 tickets for EXIT PARTY



Dm Bulgaria Ltd.

18.06 - 15.09.2015

Get over the summer with Dove, Rexona, Clear or Signalhttps://www.facebook.com/dmBulgaria

The consumer buys one of the promotional products - Dove, Rexona, Clear or Signal for at least 7 BGN. They register the amount of purchases + the sales slip number + the number of stores through SMS to short number 1511.

60 shopping vouchers worth 100 BGN.



DUReX

01 - 31.07.2015

DUREX 2015 Summer Promohttps://www.facebook.com/DurexBG

The consumer buys Durex products for at least 8 BGN. They register the amount together with the code from the receipt via SMS to 1566 or https://www.facebook.com/DurexBG

5 tickets for Spirit of Burgas



milka

01 - 31.07.2015

Time for Choco Summer moodhttp://summer-milka.bg/

The consumer buys Milka products for at least 6 BGN. They register the amount and the receipt code via SMS to number 1080 or on http://summer-milka.bg/

220 Milka branded poufies



espRiT & Bioderma

22.06.2015 – до изчерпване на подаръците

MY SUMMER BEST FRIENDSThe consumer makes a purchase for more than 100 BGN in the ESPRIT store. They fill in the coupon to register the purchse and receive a gift from Bioderma

500 micellar water bottles from 100 ml Sensibio H2O

500 promotional bags Bioderma Sensibio H2O + sample of micellar water 10 ml Sensibio H2O to each bag


metro Cash & Carry

23 - 30.06.2015

Win 500 BNG giving your emailThe Metro client receives an SMS invitation to participate. The customer returns as an answer their e-mail address

10 shopping vouchers for 500 BGN each


Hot topic

really weird tHings in tHe internet of tHings

The Internet of Things (IoT, sometimes Internet of Everything) is the network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors and con-nectivity to enable it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices based on the infrastructure of International Telecommunication Union’s Global Standards Initiative. Internet of Things connect physically and remotely by individuals, for both public sector and private sector, in the sense of a computer network grid, of a created electrical device that is in place, with economic benefit and potential usefulness. Each thing is unique-ly identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of almost 50 billion objects by 2020.

Hot topic: 7 really weird tHings in tHe internet of tHings

Definitely IoT is the future, but as in all promising sectors, there are ideas that haven’t been thought even from the writers of the wildest fiction movies.


we:eX alert shirt

BrewBit: wireless Brewing

Jerseys that ‘feel what the players feel’

In March, a company called Wearable Experiments introduced the Alert Shirt, which somehow monitors activity during Australian-rules football games on television and vibrates when the players on the field are tackled. The idea is that those wearing the shirt will be able to feel a game while they watch it.

http://wearableexperiments.com/alert-shirt/

Home beer brewing system

An aptly named company called Inebriated Innovations has devel-oped a Wi-Fi-enabled temperature control system for home beer brewing operations, according to a report at Postscapes. Temper-ature probes connected to a Wi-Fi module monitor temperature, and a mobile app allows the user to control heating and cooling devices remotely. The developers came up with the system after finding that better control over temperature during fermentation yielded a better beer.

https://brewbit.com/

http://wearableexperiments.com/alert-shirt/

https://brewbit.com/


icpooch

whistle: activity Monitor

Dog treat dispenser with video chat

For those who travel a lot but don’t want to go without giving their dog a treat every day, the iCPooch is a video chat device that is controlled remotely and dispenses dog treats. The device was invented by a 14-year-old girl who wanted a better way to give her dog attention while her family was out of the house, and raised more than $29,700 against its $20,000 funding goal on Kickstarter.

http://www.icpooch.com/

Dog fitness tracker

If you get carried away with the internet-connected treat dispenser, the Whistle dog fitness tracker can help monitor a dog’s physical activity. It’s sort of a Nike Fuelband for dogs that tracks and stores each dog’s daily activity, so owners can get a sense of how much exercise their dog is actually getting. The Whistle’s founders plan to aggregate all the data on the dogs wearing its devices to create a database that the veterinarians and researchers can access to spot trends in dogs’ health, Gigaom reported.

http://www.whistle.com/

http://www.icpooch.com/

http://www.whistle.com/


amazon dash

egg Minder

Amazon’s grocery tool

As part of its recently announced Amazon Fresh program, the online retailer has released the Dash, a small device that records what us-ers need to buy. The Dash has a voice recorder so users can take notes, as well as a barcode scanner that can scan and record specific products that users need to buy.

https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/

Egg tray

If the Amazon Dash is too much work, and if you happen to buy a lot of eggs, the connected egg tray will constantly monitor how many eggs you have in the refrigerator and display the information on a mobile app.

https://www.quirky.com/

https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/

https://www.quirky.com/invent/243958


newcastle University: Bincam

The trash can that posts to Facebook

Newcastle University researchers conducted an experiment with the BinCam, to see how embedding a camera in per-sonal trash cans would affect recycling habits. The BinCam connects a smartphone to the underside of a trashcan lid, which automatically takes a photo every time the user puts something in it, according to PostScapes. The photos are automatically shared on Facebook, to garner scrutiny from Facebook Friends who would like to see the user recycle more, as well as with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. The latter sends the photos to a judge who assigns a score to the user based on how well they recycle.

https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/bincam/

https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/bincam/

HOT PROJECT

SHE IS OUR ROCK STARBulgarian home automation system

over 400 companies from all over the world are willing to resell a Bulgarian home automation system!

the future of the information technologies was presented at Communicasia 2015 – the biggest technology event in asia, which took place from the 2nd to 5th of June at marina Bay sands, singapore. over 1800 participants from 56 countries presented their smart technology products – 5g, Big Data and Cloud platforms. For the first time this year a Bulgarian com-pany introduced an innovative solution with which our country became one of the most discussed destinations for business and technology developments.

the first Bulgarian product for home automation and control,

SHE IS OUR ROCK STARBulgarian home automation system

called she, is a product by the telecommunication company allterco ltd – long-standing leader in mobile value added services on three continents. the name she is honoring the ladies – all women, wives and mothers all over the world. the women that are taking care of the family and the comfort of the home. the device caught the eyes and hearts of the visi-tors of Communicasia 2015. some of them defined she as one of the most intriguing products of the smart City projects.

so far she has no equivalent in the world and significantly transcends its competitors with many functions and settings. she is the only system that integrates in itself a 3g module, Wi-Fi sensors for temperature, humidity, lights, air purity, ir and rF transmitters. Without any additional accessories she can control any tV, multimedia, aC and any other remote controllable devices.

in addition the windows and doors motion sensors, and the sensors for fire and flooding of she make any home much more secured and give its owner the option of receiving infor-mation for any events anytime from any place on earth.

over 400 companies all over the world including singapore, malaysia, indonesia, thailand and india, have a vast interest in promoting she to their customers. the way in which the system will be sold will also be extremely competitive.

“she is our greatest achievement. a dream that we have only watched in the sci-Fi movies came true based on the hard work, efforts and purposefulness of its entire team”, shares

Dimitar Dimitrov, Ceo of the company.

she will be introduced to the Bulgarian market in June and the first deliveries are expected in the mobile operators’ stores in July.

“Customers shouldn’t change anything in their homes. she is flexible and adaptive and works with all appliances on the market. as a Bulgarian company we are willing to offer special conditions to all Bulgarian users, so that any Bulgarian can enjoy a safer and cozier home, where they could spend more time with their loved ones” – shared from allterco.

additional information about the project can be found at

www.getshe.com

HOT SHOT

Nikolai Dimitrov

asere

Product Manager Strategic Accounts

Asere takes its name from the sacred Efik-language greeting of the Afro-Cuban Abakua religion, meaning literally, “I salute you.” Today, it is a common greeting among Cubans. Meaning friend, buddy, homie, dude, etc.

?Que bola, asere? “How’s it going, buddy?”

Nikolai Dimitrov is a Product Manager Strategic Accounts in Allterco. He has been in the company for 3 years, but his jokes and special humour are still enjoying the colleagues. He loves Cuba, women and constructor-models. Everybody calls him Asere.

Asere is a cool guy and a wonderful person.

It’s even more wonderful to listen to him while he is telling a story.

Asere, you are a huge fan of constructor-models. How many have you con-structed so far and in general isn’t this a very sluggish and stressful job?

Sluggish, yes – but I wouldn’t say stressful. I even found it relaxing. Some people like to read books to be able to travel to a different reality – I do it with models – I enjoy fine-touching every detail until it’s completed and perfect.

Train models are my favourite models. My father was a harbour engineer and later man-aged to travel to places like Nicaragua, Cuba and Latin America, but before all this he was to become a high-ranking ship captain and so one day he came home with a model of a port. This was the first one that stuck in my mind.

In those years we had local stores like “Young Mechanic”, I was probably 6 years old and I have already managed to break a couple of models from this particular store. It was not until first grade when I started driving carting in the Pioneer castle, where they offered airplane and ship modelling classes, but I was not allowed to attend due to age restriction. Nevertheless the corridors in this building were filled with huge glass cases with all kinds of models, which I used to stare at all day.

Then I left for Cuba with my father and it was over. It was not until I started working with Mtel that my brother and I had some work to do on the ceiling of his house and

found two large bags. One with Lego models and one with train models. We managed to easily to come to a deal – I get the trains and he gets the Lego.

Then my childhood was reborn and is still alive to this day. Since then I have made very big models, but I had to dismantle them due to

lack of space. Now I have rare items like grass, telegraph poles, everything, but I am not able to build something big because of my

children and again lack of space.

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What do you dream of the most in modelling?

Мечтата ми е да участвам с един фремомодул.

Фремомодул са зададени параметри, по които строиш и после се събираме и сглобяваме. И става нещо уникално, защото един човек е направил гара от преди втората световна война в есенно време, който фремомоудул се сглобява с друга гара от съвремието с немски бързи влакове, с реклама на Нутела примерно, построен в зимна обстановка. Спомням си, 82-ра година пътувахме с майка ми и баща ми до Франкфурт, където имаше нещо уникално и насиращо - една огромна стъклена витрина с влакови композиции в нея и пускаш стотинки, и можеш да управляваш движението на влаковете вътре във витрината.

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You have a thing for Star Wars...

I think it was in 1979 when my childhood was filled with Jedi, swords and everything that Star Wars presented, and I was lucky enough to be able to share this with my friends. I have a small ritual – every couple of years I watch the entire Star Wars series in a weekend. I still keep all the videotapes. Just a couple of months ago I managed to watch all Star Wars movies with my son and it was great. Oh and did I forget to mention that I own quite a load of Star Wars Lego constructors?.

03

Asere, where does the nickname Asere come from?

After I came back from Cuba, in the beginning I did not go out with my old school mates. I only went out with other fellow Bulgarians that have come back before or after me from Cuba. Therefore, just as we like to use different slangs word like ‘dude’ or ‘bro’, ‘Asere’ translates to “dude” in Cuban. It is one of those words that you keep on repeating and never gets

old or inappropriate. I use to call Asere every-one, every time we go out and they called me Asere.

04

Tell us a little more about your warm and exotic childhood...

I went to Cuba in 1989 because my father told me he would buy me a cassette tape recorder if I went. At this point my parents had already divorced. So I left for Cuba, I imagined the place to be a big 8-lane boulevard; with a river full of

Coca Cola and somewhere on one side of this boulevard should be the most famous beach in Rio and on the other side – New York. What I saw was completely different and is difficult to explain – only someone that has visited the place can understand it – the old cars, ruined houses, huge families living in one small

bedroom and so on. Communism at its finest.

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So what is the big deal about Cuba then?

If you stay for a little longer, you will love the place. It’s the freedom of thought – the unexpressed thought. The freedom you can have on the street without any control, beside the fact that every third man is working for the system/party. You are cruis-ing down the streets, having fun but if you decide to pull out a knife, you will find yourself in a police car 7 seconds later. If you do not want to find yourself in trouble, you need to stay away from the dark circles in the city however. Despite all that,

people are dancing everywhere, they are extremely passionate about it, which inevitably makes them radical. It is the system that is implementing this radicalism in the nation. When you leave this beautiful place you understand that it is like a time capsule – no influence from other countries, no rich and poor, there are only communist politicians and everyone else. Yes, Padre Juan may be a mob guy but he is also living on the street, he might be dealing drugs but you will never guess, because he is leading the same life as you. He is dressed the same way as you are; he is driving the same car as you are. He is, however, spending money outside the country, in a way that you

could not have guessed and most importantly, he is primarily spending them for influence.

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Nikolai Asere DimitrovProduct Manager, Strategic Accounts

I DO NOT HAve ANy fAvOurITeS - lIke All peOple THey Are NIce IN THeIr OwN pArTIculAr wAy

Who are your favourite IT Specialists?

I do not have any favourites – like all people they are nice in their own particu-lar way. I tried to stay unbiased on who is the best Java developer, Web Designer or whatever. Everyone is good in a particular field and all together – they are the best team.

How did you end up working here after ages in Mtel?

Peter Delchev called me one Tuesday and said “Mitko wants to see you tomorrow.”

And the rest is history…

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What do you like about Allterco?

First, we have only one captain. The captain can direct in only two directions at a time – with his left hand and with his right hand. When you have five captains with two hands each the situation is completely different, captains like to do dirty tricks to one another and confuse the crew.

Second, when you have a small team of let’s say no more than a hundred people, the environment is more intimate and friendly. You know everyone and everyone knows you; some of these people even are your friends. It’s harder for people to form groups or do dirty trick to one another.

Third and most important, in a small company like Teracomm which things still happen with voice commands. I realized that in the first 2 days of my arrival, when I started I instantly got security pass, e-mail address, computer, table, chair and a space in the office. If this were Mtel, it would have taken from 2 to 4 months for all of this to happen, with requests, letters, signed and stamped documents and so on. ISO is ISO and taking part in official auctions is profitable for a company and also gives a lot of advantages, but the more procedures we have to follow, the more stressful the work environment is becoming and inevitably the things go wrong more often. That being said, we must not forget that laziness and lack of responsibility and communication call for rules and platforms that one should follow in order to guarantee quality work environment. If we have the strength to do things on our own and have self-control and responsibility, we will not need to follow such systems.

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anniversary

I have many, but one comes to my mind every time. In 2012 I was visiting Sofia, where I had a meeting with Mitko and Deni, in which I told them that we need to make

an award game in Macedonia with One, but we need to think of a different mechanism, it needed to be done differently from the other games. Therefore, we sat down with Mitko in his office and started to discuss different mechanisms but after a while we decided that we will first have lunch and continued the discussion afterwards. After we left his office I sat down and went through all the mechanisms that I considered to be the best. All of a sudden, Mitko comes up and said – “Tome, I think I have a working mechanism!” And so we sat down to discuss his idea, the mechanism he was telling me about was something that I have never heard of and it sounded really weird, but he got a calculator and said: ”Look – daily subscription is this much X that many users X the amount of days = this amount of money.”

I was staring at this simple calculation and I could not believe what I was seeing… I asked him “Are you sure that your calculations are correct?” as I knew that we couldn’t make such a calculation for so many users, and parallel with this I was thinking how we would manage to cover the expenses with this calculation.

We decided to go along with this mechanism and managed to create the game, I continued to have my doubts for the mechanism, as I am a practical person and don’t believe something incredible is going happen unless I see it with my own eyes. So, I started waiting

5 years at aLLterCO

What is the most interesting case that you had for the last 5 years?01

On June 29, 2015 Tome Hadzi-Vasilev, Head of the Macedonian office, had his 5th anniversary as part of the ALLTERCO team.

Here’s what he said for the past five-year period:

for the first period of the game to finish and whether we will meet our target…

In the end, we completed with all financial reports, and I was surprised to see that we had hit our target and what’s more, we had exceeded it. Until this day I’m still pondering on Mitko’s words – “Tome, I think I have a working mechanism!”

I am hoping that one day the same thing will happen again, but I also know that Mitko is hoping for some of us to come with the same brilliant idea.

Do you reckon 5 years have gone fast?02

What do you expect to happen in the next 5 years?03

Yes, in a heartbeat. If I look back at these past 5 years – many things have happened, many things we have learned, many things we have created together as a team. Honestly, 5 years have gone so quickly with all those nice and positive co-workers of mine.

I expect only growth and expansion in positive ways. We all have seen how good Allterco has been going in the last couple of years, so I expected that we continue in this direction for as long as we can. I still remember a managers’ meeting, we were still in the old headquarters in Sofia 4 years ago when Mitko told us all: “How would you like if we go for 3 months this summer to work on a yacht and travel the world?”

Not surprisingly all of us immediately answered – YES – and then he said: “Make 10 million yearly profit for Allterco – buy the yacht and I promise you that we will work every summer for 3 years on a yacht.” I hope that we will achieve this some day!

In conclusion - when you are sitting on your desk working, always listen to cheerful songs, smile always and whenever you feel like you had enough – come to Macedonia for a vacation.

new Colleagues

nirmala MuruganCustomer Support

Before joining Allterco, Nirmala’s humble beginnings took place in a company called iTel Mobile sdn bhd. A technology support firm focused on sim card queries and issues for Maxis.

She started as a Customer Service Executive, and was promoted to Team Leader two years later. The adventure gave her wonderful lessons on professional ethics and interpersonal skills. Besides developing her professional qualities, Nirmala also progressed further in understanding the technical aspects of the telecom industry.

The journey was fun and eventful but the next stage awaits her and that begins in Allerco.

The positive vibes which live within the people in this office was very evident the very first day I stepped into this firm as an interview candidate. All-terco provides me the platform to expand my skills and achieve my career goals. I am very confident that beyond learning technical lessons from my fellow colleagues I would also be able to establish a very good relationship with everyone in this office.

Birthdays June - July - august

2015

22 June - 22 July

22 май - 21 June

CanCer

gemini

rachel atherton6 June

dimitar ivanov10 June

albena Beneva13 June

nickoleta abrasheva8 June

nikolai dimitrov 10 June

todor todorov15 June

Clarissa Choy10 June

denitsa tincheva11 June

Boyana Popova30 June

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23 July - 22 August

22 June - 22 July

leo

CanCer

tsvetomir iliev7 July

Plamen radev28 July

elisaveta stefanova26 July

Velislava dimitrova30 July

may howe27 July

stoian ivanov31 July

23 August - 23 септември

23 July - 22 August

Virgo

leo

gergana ivaniva13 August

teodora mineva20 August

ivo yonchev19 August

nikolai hadjiev20 August

miroslav dimitrov21 August

yulian asparuhoff26 August

irina dicu23 August

that’s all folks! thanx! ;)

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