People & projects

Our specialist for international project coordination and IT support

Barbara Buber is the person responsible for all the new tasks no one else is yet responsible for. Wherever there are issues that cannot be clearly defined or classified into a specific department, she’s the one who springs into action. Whenever things get difficult, Barbara can be relied upon to sure-footedly step up to the plate, even in the international arena. In this interview, she talks to Michaela Alker about her career with us and what her position of responsibility involves.

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How a new form of cooperation makes the impossible possible

What can you do if given less time than you really need to deal with a task – but no additional resources? Our technical architect, Gerold Glaser, was presented precisely with this problem. In order to solve it, he wasted no time at all in restructuring the development process. His method, based on automation and very close cooperation with the customer, is so successful that it has since become our new standard. He explains here in an interview with Michaela Alker how exactly this came to pass and what challenges await application developers in the future.

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Valuable outcomes from bachelor’s project

As part of his bachelor’s project on test automation, Dominik Vereno worked on many millions of lines of code. The Salzburg University of Applied Sciences student, who started out at Porsche Informatik with a part-time position in customer support, has now made the transition to software developer. He explains what his bachelor’s project involved, and why IT sometimes feels like climbing a mountain … More

Expressing corporate values through art

“In interaction and collaboration, people need guiding principles and values, preferably a collective self-image, rather like corporate DNA”, were the opening words of CEOs Rainer Trischak and Manfred Immitzer in their eulogy. This is the second time that our guiding principles – the Porsche Informatik DNA – have been cleverly visualised by a team of creative artists from the company. When the outcomes from the second art workshop were presented at the company Christmas event they prompted loud applause, and they now grace our office building. A third workshop is currently in the planning phase.

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International Management Trainee at Porsche Informatik

Klaus Griesebner studied Information Technology & Systems Management in Salzburg and Sweden. He is now completing a training programme at Porsche Holding Salzburg as an International Management Trainee – IT. In an interview with Michaela Alker, he explains how he is finding it, what he is working on in the final placement stage at Porsche Informatik, and what his plans are for the future.

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Self-initiative, lots of responsibility and fun on the way: That’s what to expect from practical experience at Porsche Informatik.

Hana Salihodzic studied IT in Salzburg and is currently taking a Master’s degree in Media Informatics in Vienna. As part of the High Potential Programme at TU Wien, the Technical University of Vienna, she completed a two-month internship at Porsche Informatik – and instantly won over our colleagues with her openness, eagerness to learn and straightforward manner. Here Michaela Alker interviews her “best intern in the world”.

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Better solutions more quickly with artificial intelligence

As a software developer, we don’t work for ourselves but for our clients, of course. To find out how they are getting on with our applications and what problems they are encountering, we use a smart and modern monitoring tool. Artificial intelligence saves Dynatrace an enormous amount of time and resources, and it also helps us make our applications more efficient and powerful on a continuous basis. In this interview, Anna Buchwinkler (Team Leader Smart Dealership & Solutions) and Alexander Kaml (Product Manager Dynatrace) tell us exactly how this works.

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Omid Delawar migrated from Iran and joined us here in the company via an integration programme run by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. He and his mentor, Anton Spitzer, have since become more than merely colleagues. In the following interview, the two of them share their experiences. More