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Smart Tech Advisor Hanna Pikkusaari discusses leadership in the Operational Technology environment.

How is OT being led in your organization? OT expert Hanna Pikkusaari discusses the need for brave changemakers in the OT field.

The acronyms in the IT field can sometimes be confusing. How do I even explain with I need help with? What if I sound stupid?In this blog we discuss acronyms and what they mean at Osaango.

Digitalization of the built environment opens a whole new world of possibilities to utilize technology, data and machine learning solutions. It’s becoming commonly known that the hidden diamonds are waiting to be discovered. And the race has already started.

What are the benefits of productizing your APIs? Read more here!

The two API gurus Marjukka Niinioja and Claire Barrett discuss the role and expectations of an API product manager and share their knowledge on how to successfully manage API products.

The national audiovisual institute KAVI stores huge amounts of data every year and is, among other things, responsible for the preservation of domestic films as well as television and radio programs. Artificial intelligence is a critical part of KAVI's operations. Marjukka Niinioja and Tessa Viitanen from Osaango Ltd sparred KAVI regarding their extensive operational and technological case, and the conversations tapped on e.g. artificial intelligence based solutions, innovative procurement procedures, software development processes and architecture.

Operational technology in the built environment has evolved in the shades. The automated processes are not a new thing, but in this context the integrated environment is. And especially when you integrate the silos of operational technology with the silos of information technology. That’s when you get an interesting combination of problems to solve.

Operational technology is everywhere - from Earth to Mars and beyond. It’s a superpower that keeps the industrial processes going and lights lit at the office. It’s the technology beyond IT. It detects and causes change in the invisible technological environment. It runs the air conditioning, heating and cooling. It sends and receives alarms and it ensures that the conditions in the server room are optimal for all the transactions and data flow.

Osaango Oy has started a key partnership with Laurea University of Applied Sciences – the cooperation has started with the planning of a joint data management course. One of the reasons for the key partnership with Laurea is that we have been collaborating with universities for a long time and building online courses and training programs related to API economics and data.

Learn in a few hours what API economy is! Join the free academic online course by Osaango and Tampere University now.

The definition of an open API is not easy to create, let alone to update. In Finland, we have a thing called "sisu" - the spirit that drives us through rock. So this spring we collected the API and open source and open data folks and started the work.

Developer Experience is not just User Experience, it’s also Customer Experience, again for that specific segment.

The first chapter of the API Economy 101 book is available for everyone to read. The first chapter explains why business models are in transition and what is causing the change. We’ll use examples to shed some light on how Application Programming Interfaces, or a lack of them, influence business models. In addition, we justify why interfaces[i] should also be on the agendas of businesses' decision-makers, not just on the IT departments’.

Technical architecture is not just a way to move information, but it should be an integral part of business strategy.

API category cheat sheet helps you pick the right audience, business model and security for your API

Practical examples on how to get more customers and developers to find and use your API and convert into paying customers.

API can be any one of these things: Important feature of a tangible product, productized service, part of a digital or real-world service, customer-specific service, interface to resources, interface to platform (boundary resource), part of an integration. Did we forget something?