When individual companies began merging under Aricoma years ago, they had one clear purpose: to grow stronger together, enhance one another, provide more complex services, and support larger and international clients. And this is one of them. PFNonwovens, a Czech manufacturer of nonwoven textiles and one of the world's top three producers in the industry, is gradually handing over the global management of its IT systems to Aricoma specialists.
9. 4. 2026
Until recently, quantum computers sounded like distant science from laboratories. Today, however, they are becoming a serious tool. IBM alone operates several dozen quantum computers in the cloud, and more will rapidly emerge from other vendors. The decisions being made right now will determine who manages to adopt the new technology and who gets left behind. Europe is trying. But will it be enough?
2. 7. 2025
What AI tools do you use? Do you know what tools your colleagues use? Do you know where the data you put into them ends up? Let's be clear, this article is not meant to scare you. But we also know that when managers are asked the previous three questions, many of them become uncertain. And because the use of artificial intelligence will only continue to grow, now is the right time to set boundaries so that a great tool does not become a security threat.
11. 2. 2025
David Sibřina has something at work that I'm sure none of you have. It's a 3D print of a liver with all its protrusions and projections, and it's a bit of a symbol. The researcher, who works at IKEM as head of the augmented and virtual reality surgery planning group, actually started working on incorporating virtual reality tools into the surgical process the moment it became clear that even modern planning techniques using just 3D prints weren't enough.
7. 1. 2025
The need to adapt, to deal with server and database capacity, to scale. When you say charity, you don't associate any of those words with it. But David Procházka, the founder of Donio, the largest and well-known donation platform in the Czech Republic, doesn't tend to think that way. On the contrary, he talks about Donio as a technological tool that facilitates help. In the interview, he explains what it entails and what has made it so popular. He and his team have managed to solve old problems much more efficiently using new tools.
30. 12. 2024
It is pretty hard to imagine a job, a school day or life in general without computers, phones and technology in general. But daily exposure to them has an impact on people and contributes to shaping their lives. How can we make the most of them, the positive side, and not be influenced by the negative side? This is what psychologist David Šmahel has been researching at Masaryk University (MU) for years. In contrast to others, you will not hear apocalyptic scenarios from him. Instead, he speaks engagingly about all the consequences of the digitalisation of life that we are still unaware of.
17. 12. 2024
Aricoma has been involved in cybersecurity since it started its business in the first half of the 1990s. It actively examines clients' information security levels and the resilience of their technology. Clients often need to find out how secure their business perimeter is and what they need to work on. This is aided by a community of experienced penetration testers who simulate a cyber attack on a client's system. At both the network and application level, they can test the ability to withstand real-world cyberattacks from the external environment. But that's not all.
22. 11. 2024
Chances are, you're already familiar with it and are no stranger to the word "prompt". The use of generative AI tools has massively increased in recent months, but they can't be used everywhere. Sensitive corporate data doesn't belong in the public domain. So people are looking for ways to create protected systems that allow analysis and generation of information without data leaks. Aricoma's specialised team is working on this and has therefore also teamed up with the mathematics institute of the Brno University of Technology.
17. 9. 2024
"We've been carrying chip debt since the 1970s, Europe was happy to get rid of chip production because it's water and electricity-intensive. And now we're slowly and painfully catching up. At the same time, we will need more and more chips, and even more sophisticated ones than today," says Tomáš Pitner, professor at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University and head of the research centre, about the situation in which the Czech Republic and Europe find themselves. But in exactly which way?
31. 7. 2024
The number of cyberattacks will not decrease. Let's face it and defend ourselves. This is how one could sum up the words of Paula Januszkiewicz, a Polish cybersecurity expert who spoke this spring at Security 2024, Aricoma's annual conference about IT security trends. Januszkiewicz, whose company CQURE has four offices around the world, spoke about why companies and institutions can't resist attacks, how to get more experts, and where the industry is headed.
17. 6. 2024
I can think of three major technological innovations I've seen in my career: the internet (connecting everything), mobile (connecting all the time), and big language models (LLM, generative AI). The penetration of the first two has been relatively slow (within years). AI, on the other hand, has swept in like a hurricane.
13. 12. 2023
New technology has arrived and with it a lot of new questions. How many times have you experienced this? Lawyer Petra Dolejšová has done it many times, and right now she is dealing with almost nothing but the legal aspects of using artificial intelligence. "We revolve around questions of who owns the output from AI, whether it is possible to generate images of specific people and whether you can use styles such as of the painter Mucha or heroes from Marvel movies. All of this is legally quite clear, but it turns out that people are still grasping the essence of copyright law," muses the expert, who believes we have much bigger thinking to do - who do we "pin" responsibility to for any potential transgressions of technology.