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Greetings from Switzerland! 🇨🇭 Today, January 17th, marks the launch of TNG Technology Consulting Switzerland AG, our newest addition to the family. The new subsidiary is based in Prilly in the canton of Vaud, near the picturesque Lake Geneva. We are thrilled to expand our presence to Switzerland, complementing our existing subsidiaries in Melbourne (Australia) and Oxford (United Kingdom), and further affirming our commitment to solving the hard IT problems of clients around the world.

Good news for all Confluence Cloud users! Our Atlassian apps team recently released the popular app "Table Enhancer for Confluence" as a Cloud version. It allows you to customize your Confluence tables. Features include improved sorting and row numbering, sticky rows and columns, and summing up the total value of cells. To ensure a smooth transition from the Server or Data Center versions to the Cloud, we provide a detailed explanation of the migration path for the app. Soon, we will also release a semi-automated migration tool that will be integrated directly into the Cloud version of our app.

For more information and a free trial, check out the Atlassian Marketplace.
 

TNG wishes you all the best for a happy, healthy and successful 2024!

For the cover of this year's Christmas cards we wanted to create something special: a short animated video featuring festive scenes from the TNG locations Munich, Budapest, Oxford, Melbourne, and Tallinn. To accomplish this, we made use of several innovative AI tools. As a first step we asked ChatGPT to come up with a text-to-image prompt. The output is then used to generate a series of beautiful images in Midjourney. To animate the static pictures and incorporate the typical Christmas bustle in the cities we worked with the video AI RunwayML. In a final step, we edited and combined the different scenes and added our Christmas greetings. This resulted in the following short video:

If you want to learn more, please check out our making-of.

After exhibiting our Dark Tales at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn on Halloween, our Innovation Hacking team has now come up with something new: For the holiday season, we have dusted ai-slides.com with snow and glitter and converted it into a Christmas story generator. In addition to slide decks and spooky horror stories, ai-slides.com will now also feature joyful Christmas short stories generated by just a few prompts. These are narrated by the voice of one of our colleagues. The AI was trained with only one minute of voice recording. Although the training material was exclusively in German, English stories are also possible. The images generated by DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion XL further contribute to the festive atmosphere. You can find a collection of our Christmas stories here. 
 

Our brand-new cloud app, "Rock Your Sprint Review for Jira" 🎸, is now available for download on the Atlassian Marketplace. The app automates the often tedious and time-consuming task for developers of preparing sprint review presentations. With just one click, you can now let ChatGPT analyze your tickets of a completed sprint and automatically generate visually appealing slides about the most important results. To further enhance the presentation, you can customize the slide content by including or excluding specific tickets and even incorporating AI-generated images. For this innovative idea, we recently received the "Responsible AI" award by Atlassian in the Codegeist Unleashed 2023 hackathon. The app was also very well-received by our guests at our AI Showcase Expo in Melbourne during the Australian AI Month. For more information and to try the app for free, click here. 

Today marks the start of this year's Advent of Code, which TNG is proud to sponsor once again. So, pull out your keyboard and solve your way through a Christmas story with this coding-based Advent calendar. Enjoy, and good luck!

Last week, our colleagues Vanda Balogh, Benjamin Balogh, Balász Göntér and Áron Erdélyi attended Informatikai Szakmai Nap in Szeged, Hungary. At the job fair annually organized by the computer science department of the University of Szeged, we talked to many students from different IT backgrounds. It was a pleasure getting to know new talents and introducing them to TNG, as our Hungarian branch is growing. We are always looking for new software consultants to join our team in Hungary. If you're interested, don't hesitate to apply here.

Our Atlassian apps team participated in the 'Codegeist Unleashed 2023' hackathon hosted by Atlassian and achieved success by winning an award in the 'Responsible AI' category for our new cloud app, 'Rock Your Sprint Review’. Our app leverages ChatGPT to assess all relevant tickets in a Sprint and present key results in a visually appealing format. This allows developers to largely automate this often tedious task. Throughout the app's development, we prioritized data protection, transparent use of AI, and adherence to common best practices in IT security. This approach impressed the jury, and we prevailed among 138 projects from over 80 countries.

You can find more information about our brand-new app here. 'Rock Your Sprint Review' will soon be available to download on the Atlassian Marketplace. 

TNG is now also a Silver Solution Partner for Atlassian in the Asia-Pacific (APAC). As a Gold Solution Partner since 2018, we are happy that our Australian subsidiary is now also listed in Atlassian’s APAC partner directory. We offer a wide range of services including initial setup, administration and migration of Atlassian products such as Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. We also develop custom apps, both for clients and for internal use. Some of them are available on the Atlassian Marketplace: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/114/tng-technology-consulting-gmbh

For more information, please reach out to our Atlassian Consulting Team at atlassian@tngtech.com or atlassian-anz@tngtech.com for the APAC region.