Atlas World Magazine - SPRING 2022
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Welcome you’re holding this right now, we hope Editors word Highlights you enjoy that traditional print feel. Welcome to the Atlas World Atlas has grown so much since Magazine. This is the brainchild of Word from Martin 3 inception, not just in terms of the team Katerina Mouliadou with design and which is now over twenty strong, but in layouts by Michael Santiago-Griggs terms of scope, ambition, and delivery. and words by me, Alex Matheson. Atlas by numbers 4 Our humble goal is to produce the best It began with a chat between Kat and SaaS products in the world, and with myself, deciding how to do an Atlas Brand statements and 6 A Word from the team we’ve put together we believe quarterly update. We’ve all skimmed core values that’s not just an empty promise, but a thousand update emails in our time Martin an end point we’re working towards. and we wanted to avoid this being That being said, one of our core values more of the same. Getting to Know 10 I want to take this opportunity to is never letting perfect be the enemy of Atlas Play welcome you all to this first edition of progress. So it’s an end goal that we’ll At the time, Mike and I were wrapping the Atlas World Magazine. This is the keep moving further away as we find up our first Atlas ebook, educating first of four we want to produce each new and better ways to improve on the the manufacturing world about The road ahead for Atlas 12 year, and as the Spring edition we want day before. supply chains and digital threads, the focus to be on new beginnings and which seemed a good format to the growth Atlas has gone through and In the following pages you’ll read about carry over. Darren Hull - Part 14 is aiming for as the year progresses. how we’ve redefined ourselves as a Machine, Part Man company and the process of creating We looped Mike in and plans were We’ve collected stories around what a brand identity. You’ll hear about how set for the Atlas World Magazine to we produce, why we produce it, and one of our employees is out to take be designed, delivered, and enjoyed How Atlas is Enabling 22 the people who make it happen. on the world in the Ironman World digitally. the 5G Enabled Championship. You will also get to Manufacturing Project We refer to Atlas as the innovation know the team as a whole and what Enjoy this spring edition of the Atlas core of ATS Global and we hope this Atlas Play, our core platform, is and World Magazine, and we’ll be back in magazine reflects that. We’re delivering can do. summer for the next one! Key contributors: it digitally so it can be as sustainable as possible, but we’re also considering Those are just some of the highlights Kat, Mike, Alex Alex Matheson | Content Editor producing a limited run of print copies, and we’ve stuffed the rest of the pages Katerina Mouliadou | UK Innovation Lead because there’s nothing like a good old with information that will engage and Mike Santiago-Griggs | Web Strategist fashioned magazine in your hands. If enlighten. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Most importantly though, we want At a glance to hear from you. You’ll find a page towards the back that details all the SINCE 2018 ways you can give us your feedback, and ask the questions you need answered. One of the main reasons we wanted to produce this magazine Atlas by 1.9M was so that partners, collaborators and customers as a whole can be Euros of public involved in our little corner of the numbers funding world. So, talk to us and we’ll listen. For now though, enjoy this glimpse into Atlas and we’ll be back in summer for another edition of the Atlas World Magazine. Yours sincerely, 4 Martin Kelman AWARDS Chief Digital Officer of NEW ATS Global and Atlas ‘C2I 2020 Readers Choice’ - THE ENGINEER AWARDS 3PRODUCTS ‘Best Research Team of the Year’ - 2019 3D PRINTING INDUSTRY AWARDS ‘Excellent Innovation’ Highlight ‘Best Innovation Award’ TEAM GREW TO - 11th Annual Netherlands Department for International Trade (DIT) Investment Awards 20 Partners collaborated BRILLIANT MINDS with since 2018 ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Our Brand team as a whole led to productive and software that helps any business constructive criticism, as well as one of Our Purpose be better. The technologies and the most scathing pieces of feedback Statement methodologies we use and promote any of us had ever seen! all lean right into the idea of improved What is Atlas and collaboration, greater efficiency, and continuous improvement. Our purpose why do we do statement needed to reflect that and after much back and forthing, we what we do? landed on: We exist to create software One thing we set out to do this year that empowers any business was to define who we are and why to effectively collaborate and transform we do what we do. These endeavours usually come wrapped in marketing As a single statement we believe this speak and talk about ‘brands’ and gets to the core of what we discussed ‘identities’ and ‘values’. They’re above. It wraps up our ultimate goal decided on behind closed doors and in a clear, direct manner that the Atlas pushed out to confused faces with Team felt best reflected why they do little relevance to people’s day to day what they do each day. understanding of what a business is. This is not what we wanted. From the Our Mission start, we set out to involve everyone who’s helped Atlas grow to this point, Statement and will continue to help it grow in the future. With that in mind we began Similar to our purpose but subtly crafting various statements and laying different our mission statement out core values, constantly looking to describes the ‘what’ of what we do. the Atlas Team for feedback and input What is it you produce? What is the as we went. We’ll get into that later because it’s well Our purpose statement describes the end result? What’s at the end of a This resulted in a set of brand worth revisiting as it was right on the ‘why’ of what we do. Why do we get up productive day for the company as a statements and core values that not money and gave us all a good laugh. in the morning? Why do we work the whole? only reflect what the few believe Atlas For the time being though, let’s look hours we work? Why do we want to For that we looked at what sets Atlas is, but what the whole feels it is. This at what our efforts have produced. produce the products we produce? software apart. One of our main constant back and forth between the As a company we want to create focuses from day one has been ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
creating incredible products that The vision statement we decided came up with four pillars that are our public, was met with almost work for everyone. Usability is a real on had to be about the journey and company values. universal contempt. watch word for us, but we never want why we’re on it. From the inception And finally, the best feedback we We’ll sign off here with our favourite to dumb things down. of Atlas through to delivering a received during this whole process. note on an earlier version of these Instead, we want to create offerings product and finding success, our that open the door to transformation vision statement had to reflect the regardless of whether your expertise innovation we’ve embraced along the lies in complex and technical niches way. To that end we put together: or anywhere else. Focusing on that, We help companies grow and Do Things Right Always Be Better we decided on: become invincible by embracing Doing the right thing means We are rigorous in our We want to create software that bright minds and innovative tech doing things sustainably and approach and never let makes the complex simple, is We feel this reflects the methods enabling sustainability for perfect be the enemy of dependable, and easy to love we’ve chosen to help companies our customers progress If our software can meet up to that along the same road we’re on. We lofty goal, we know we’ve done want to be innovative, to support something right. Everyone who bright minds and status quo ‘What If?’ Works Be Invincible engages with an Atlas product smashing ideas. We want to help We ask the question ‘what We are strong, resilient, enterprises around the world be as if?’ so our customers can and invincible, just like should be able to use it easily to forward thinking and invincible as find the answer the water bear create something impactful, to solve we are. problems with it, and be able to share those solutions with their friends and colleagues. Our Core Values As mentioned above, these projects core values, which showed us that Our Vision While the above three statements can often happen behind closed sometimes the best ideas really are can often be outward facing, our core doors and end up with collections of the most simple. Statement values are really inward messages. words that have no relevance to the “What absolute nonsense. Is this They’re there to help the team people they’re supposed to reflect! some sort of marketing speak Our vision statement looks to the understand what the company is Working on our core values, we normal people aren’t supposed to future. It’s a statement that describes and why it exists. As such we had discovered why it was so important understand? Lacquering behind not just who we are, but who we free reign to be a little more thought to reach out to the whole team cabinets like invincible forward want to be. It should reflect more provoking in what we put down. After as one set of suggestions we put thinking water bears? What a load of than just what we do and why we do much discussion in small groups and forward, having discussed them rubbish” - Anonymous, 2022 it, but what our aspirations are, as a with the company as a whole, we furtively behind closed doors before company. thrusting them on an unsuspecting ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Knowledgebase behind business process mapping Atlas Play has two faces, one for processes. Tasks can be completed and notation (BPMN and BPMN2.0). those mapping processes and one on any device, with notifications It combines them with powerful for those completing tasks. These going out to the most appropriate automation capabilities, artificial aren’t mutually exclusive though, and user, or users, when they’re ready to Getting to Know intelligence, and machine learning to there’s no reason why a user couldn’t be completed. provide what we believe is the world’s be mapping processes one minute best intelligent business process and ticking off their to-dos in the And when we talk about users, management (iBPM) software form of tasks the next. Atlas Play allows peak efficiency by not tying task readiness to a single Mapping a process is simple, but has person, but instead to roles within an a depth of complexity that allows for organisation. That way, anyone with real transformation. Each element the applicable skills can jump in and in the BPMN2.0 tool box is realised complete tasks with minimal wait within Atlas Play and given depth by time or fuss. the underlying workflow engine. The main goal of the Atlas World Mappers can string together user magazine is to get everyone up to tasks and other BPMN2.0 elements speed and regularly updated with that enable all sorts of inputs and what’s going on in the world of Atlas. displays, each one capable of From the innovation projects to the collecting and delivering data that people who make them happen, can be organised and turned into Atlas is a lively beast. At the core of it insight, allowing for ever improving all is our software though, and at the We believe that businesses too core of our software is Atlas Play. often have offline systems that fail business process efficiency. to reflect what really happens in Each process mapped within Atlas While the full suite includes data their company. That’s why Atlas Play Obviously we’ve only scratched the crunching powerhouses like Atlas is designed to help any business Play can be as simple as a point-to- surface of what Atlas Play can do Boost, resource management intelligently map out all processes point checklist or as intricate as a here. What we really want is for you revolutionaries like Atlas Optimise, in their business, helping them more spiderweb, with multiple branching to jump in and give it a whirl yourself! and the edge computing enabler effectively collaborate and transform. paths, loops, and divergent end Register now and try it out now. The Atlas Edge; Atlas Play is the central points. Atlas Support Team is ready and pillar around which everything we do From simple point to point For users, the approachable, easy to waiting to answer any questions you sits. processes that enable repeatability love interface removes any barrier might have, so if you’re stuck just hit and improvement to fully of entry from engaging directly in a the Intercom icon in the bottom left Atlas Play is built on the long running automated manufacturing company’s ever improving business hand corner of Atlas Play and ask and provably effective methods processes; Atlas Play can do it all. away. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Atlas Roadmap forming partnerships with third party service providers we can help them transform using our software, and The road ahead also amplify our own voice through them. for Atlas There are two big concepts that we will be working on over the next Rodrigo and Rae, Innovating quarter - resources are becoming in a workshop at Bristol, Our guiding principle when we more scarce, and supply chains are England started Atlas was to create the becoming more collaborative. As a world’s best SaaS products. A lofty result of this we have been working goal, but why not aim for the stars? with a partner called BennitAI. As you’ve read elsewhere in the The seekers are those companies that outreach and reaching the right people magazine, we evolved that simple are looking for expert resources to every time. concept into a set of values and supplement their teamsor as domain Every time we reach someone who can principles that will help guide us to knowledge experts to offer advice benefit from all the hard work the Atlas achieving that. And with the greatest or guidance. This concept opens up team has put in, it’s a win. Every time SaaS offerings on the market, we a whole new way for business to we reach a company that can then obviously want them to reach as collaborate and to operate, creating reach a hundred more companies in many people as possible. flexible supply chains for human the same way, it’s an even bigger win. If we achieve our mission of ‘creating knowledge. As the Atlas Platform grows and With that in mind, our goal this year software that makes the complex is not just to reach customers, but simple, is dependable and easy to BennitAI’s idea is to link seekers develops, so do our methods of also service providers and integrators. love’, then that’s a product every with solvers, helping solvers through showing it off. Our next steps on the We’ll be shouting about our successes business should have access to. To the use of opportunities. Solvers journey are about reaching more from the rooftops, and enabling other make that a reality, we have many can be your freelancer, a small people in new and interesting ways, enterprises to push our products routes we can take. That’s where we consultancy group or an established getting Atlas into the hands of the out to a wider market. As the year start to see the road ahead more System Integrator (SI) like FZ or people and enterprises who can best progresses, we’re expanding our reach clearly. ATS Global. In the future this could use it to transform their world. by integrating with major players and One major new approach we’re also be the manufacturers with their Part of this is by continuing to refine utilising their reach as well, all while we focusing on is helping other actors own internal “smart manufacturing the way we put our message across. help them use Atlas to revolutionise in the technology world get Atlas team” that want to promote their Doing everything we do already but their own business processes. into the hands of their audience. By knowledge on a marketplace. better. Being more refined in our APRIL JULY OCTOBER Complete Atlas Play reboot Podcast relaunch Atlas Edge/Boost Demo Atlas Optimise Resource Models Atlas Universe Marketplace ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Invincible people Beyond that he’s a family man, an athlete and an all round fascinating person to chat to. With that in mind, we sat down with him to discuss his Darren Hull - time with Atlas and his upcoming adventures, namely the Ironman Part Machine, World Championship, which at the time Darren had been preparing for. Part Man Atlas: You’ve been with Atlas since the early days, Darren. What’s your role within the team? @chan_rex888 Darren: My current position within Daz can u give other Atlas is a Cloud Architect, but I also people a chance! have a Technical Architecture role. As a cloud Architect I am responsible for creating a clear overall cloud architecture vision and ensuring A: How did you find your way into send out into the big wide world. that our environments are safe and this career? secure. As a Technical Architect I A: You’re about to head off to the design solutions to solve problems, D: That’s a good question. In college, IronMan World Championship, how ensuring that these solutions meet many years ago now, I was planning long have you been an Iron Man and our quality expectations and cloud to study Hardware Engineering but I what made you participate? principles. enjoyed the programming side of the course more than the hardware side, D: I was always into cycling, but back A: And how long have you been with so I decided to swap courses and in early 2017 one of my friends asked Atlas for? haven’t looked back since. me if I wanted to do an “Ironman”. Having no idea what one was I did Darren is one of Atlas’ longest D: I have been working for Atlas for A: What would you say is your most an initial investigation and jumped standing employees. He’s been 4 years now and was the very first proud moment during your time with at the chance to get involved! How instrumental in bringing our world official Atlas employee. I was hired by Atlas? hard could it be? I then realised I beating software to market, both in Martin Kelman and Marco Cereghino would need to learn how to swim and practical terms as a developer as (former CTO) and helped onboard D: It sounds a bit cliche but I am actually start running, so we decided well as shaping the vision of what other technical team members. proud of Atlas every day! I feel like a that we would enter the Majorca 70.3 Atlas software can be. parent nurturing their child to grow (half distance) Ironman in May 2018. into something they are proud to ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
A: And what does your training D: I have a really supporting and honest with people regarding D: Atlas is taking a really exciting regime look like for something like family and work for a flexible and what stresses I am currently going direction this year, we are aiming for that? supportive company. However, I find through in my work and home life. Atlas Play to enter the commercial this area the most difficult to manage world and for Atlas Optimise to D: I generally have off periods move from a prototype into a harded where I’m building a strong base, solution. Bring on the Customers not training specifically, but I am and the feedback and growth that out socially exercising with friends will be driven from it. and family. Calculated from my main yearly goal I have a plan which A: Fantastic, thank you Darren and consists of building phases that have good luck for the Ironman World unique 4 week cycles that increase in Championship! time and effort, except the last week which is a reduced effort week. Using Editor’s Note: Whilst we couldn’t be this approach my body and more more proud of our colleague Darren importantly my mind can gradually and the epic amounts of work he put learn to deal with the extra load and into preparing for the Ironman World stress. Championship, fate unfortunately intervened before he could challenge A: Given it’s such a big undertaking, for the world title and Darren caught we imagine it can influence you COVID! throughout your life. Are there any skills you take from your exercise While he’s totally recovered, he was and use in your work and vice-versa? unfortunately holed up in a hotel in Utah, isolating while the event ran, D: I think they are very alike really. swam, and cycled on without him. They are both solving seemingly All we can say is poor luck Darren, impossible challenges and by Darren’s race kit, all ready and back to training for the next one! breaking down the problem into and organised for May smaller iterative chunks we can develop an iterative solution that allows us to progress towards our really. If you spend too much time on end goals. one then the others start to suffer. A: Thank you Darren, this has been A: How do you balance contending I have learned through my previous fascinating! Looking to the future, for the world championship, work, mistakes that I need to be very open what’s exciting you about Atlas and family life? and honest with people regarding world this year? ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Our membership Atlas Innovation Membership Centres Atlas World extends beyond just its employees. We’re fortunate enough to work with some of the most innovative organisations throughout the country and around the world. Here are just some of the incredible partners and members we’re proud and privileged to call friends of Atlas. Centre | Manufacturing Technology Centre Members since | 2013 Read more | www.the-mtc.org/what-we-do/ technologies Centre | University of Sheffield, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Members since | 2018 Read more | www.www.amrc.co.uk/capabilities Centre | National Manufacturing Institute Scotland Members since | 2022 Read more | www.nmis.scot/nmis-group/digital- factory ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
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Innovation Projects Welding is one of the most The real next gen aspect of this Project Budget commonly used processes for the is allowing the operator to action £3.9m production of electric powertrains these services using augmented and whilst the welding talent pool reality equipment, namely Microsoft (Government £1.9m) is significantly limited in the sector, Hololens, to visualise instructions, How Atlas is ATS Budget £414k the increase in EV production has and enable OEM remote technicians accelerated the need of automated to ensure onsite repair and Enabling the Timeline April 2020 - March 2022 and reliable welding outputs. maintenance is done right. 5G Enabled The welding process creates Atlas provided a digital platform Manufacturing terabytes of data extremely fast so for the collection, analysis and it’s important to have a network and communication of massive amounts Project system connectivity able to process of near-real-time, large file data at this data as quickly as it’s being Ford’s E:PrimE facility in Dunton, produced. AI algorithms can then be Essex. By now, we all know what 5G is. deployed and monitor the quality of Faster, better, stronger (as the six What was the goal of the the welds and consequently adjust Why is Edge important? million dollar man might say). In our 5GEM Project? the welding machine parameters to personal lives it makes our access ensure a quality output. With 5G, retrofitted 5G enabled to information and entertainment sensors are able to collect and instantaneous, but how are we The automotive industry is in the Further to this, remote machine transmit data at near real-time using it to make the world of process of total transformation, maintenance can be triggered when speeds. It’s possible to process manufacturing better? striving to provide fully electric data from a laser welding process is information about individual and hybrid plug-in electric vehicles showing there is excessive heat build As part of our innovation projects, globally. Ford in Europe is rapidly up in the laser lenses. That means Atlas has been involved in the 5G re-deploying their assets to meet that the lenses require replacing and Enabled Manufacturing (5GEM) production of low carbon vehicles by operators can connect with OEM Project: a joint effort by Ford, HSSMI, 2030. The Electrictrified Powertrain suppliers and contractors through Lancaster University, TM Forum, TWI, (E:PrimE) facility is one of their private 5G networks to share process VFE, and Vodafone, aimed at proving ‘factory of the future’ testbeds data and servicing instructions the efficacy of private 5G networking where 5G is an enabling technology securely. in manufacturing. for capturing and managing vast amounts of data. ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
welds every 20 msec. That means Project Achievements: quality assurance can happen during a weld rather than as a post process Collected requirements, activity. developed and deployed Information about the welds is Atlas Edge in Ford’s EPRIME passed to edge computing devices (Electrified Powertrain Pilot where an initial ordering and Line) facility as well as in understanding of the data happens TWI on-site. This information can be Demonstrated Atlas passed back directly to the welding performance for data equipment with detailed data being collection, processing and sent to cloud servers for further data visualisation through a 5G processing and for future analysis. This makes it difficult and time VFE to explore commercial network consuming to map individual data partnership and further innovation What was the outcome? fields from the customer’s data collaborations that will enable them Demonstrated OPC-UA and model into Atlas’ data model. to digitise their equipment and MQTT protocols in Atlas With the 5GEM Project there was improve their customer satisfaction edge an opportunity to demonstrate how Organisations like TMForum attempt through data insights. 5G networking can produce a new to create a standard, but if this is not Enabled MQTT message level of efficiency in manufacturing. followed by the end-users it’s only We also supported Ford to showcase transfer and upload of files With low-latency data collection adding a 3rd standard in the middle. the outcomes of this project in their up to 256Mb on the edge and combined with data processing at This highlights a general issue of lack publicity event on 6th of May. cloud the edge, backed up by larger scale of industry standards/compliance. data modelling and analytics in the Mapped Ford data model into cloud, we were able to create an What’s next? Atlas data model environment where quality assurance Atlas delivered connectivity and data management for is a part of the manufacturing We are continuing discussions with the following demonstrators Developed methodologies process rather than apart from it. for deploying 3rd party AI Use case Atlas products deployed Comms protocol Data collection devices algorithms in Atlas Cloud Key learning: and Edge Laser welding of Beckhoff ‘Common Data Models’ are not battery tabs and MQTT PLC Sensors Developed ability to start stator motor hairpins industry-generic as every company processes triggered by is using their own data models. Connectivity to Siemens action on the edge Vacuum furnace OPC-UA PLC Sensors machine ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
All this great work wouldn’t have Katerina Mouliadou for gaining Andrew Evans for his development Ford’s EPRIME Facility been possible without bright minds the funding, managing the project work in Atlas’ back end and excellent teamwork so credits reporting and budgeting in addition go to: to managing key stakeholders to Mark Foster for allocating significant ensure the project meets external time to support the project delivery and internal objectives team whilst also developing the Project delivery team brand-new Atlas Edge Daniel Storer for mapping an enormous amount of very dull data Darren Hull for acting as cloud lead for the Ford use case to enable developer and ensuring the creation communication between Atlas’ of a robust flexible Atlas cloud and Ford’s data models as well as architecture assisting with the edge deployment and connectivity testing. Ashish Pradhan for developing and improving the UI of Atlas Product development team Special thanks to the project sponsor Mark Boulton from ATS-UK and (non-exhaustive) Clare Forsyth (and her team) for Rae Comben for acting as a managing all the complexities of business analyst mapping all project financial backing and reporting. processes and engaging with various project partners to collect and manage product requirements David Hacking for acting as technical lead as well as delivering the system architectures, defining list Neal Clark for acting as data lead, Explore our Edge setup in the of materials and managing the sprint his expertise in data handling; and EPRIME 3D facility tour project planning significant development of Atlas Boost Gulsah Kose for proactively managing queries for handling Paul Davies for his thorough testing data through Atlas Boost and making sure no bugs are running on implementing the project dashboards Atlas’ windows! and how data is visualised ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Atlas Staff Highlights Paul Oostindie Currently, we’re all working towards the first few successes. I think it’s a threshold we must Location: Haarlem, Netherlands overcome, similar to any salesperson starting a Role: Atlas Sales Manager new position and landing his or her first big deal. I Started: September 2021 feel like this is getting close and is a really exciting phase we’re in. What were you doing before you joined Atlas? In terms of the product itself, I’m excited to see Atlas mature into a more standardised product that I was working as a sales-manager at a company meets high usability standards and doesn’t demand that offered a scalable PaaS (Platform as a much tailoring. I’m a bit more patient for this to service) solution for Magento and other PHP based happen. We wanted to take the e-commerce shops. This company in the west of opportunity in these magazines Amsterdam, was located in an old water pumping What non-Atlas piece of tech excites you most to shine a light on some of the station that supplied water through a 23km cast- right now? bright minds that make Atlas the iron pipe to where I work now - Haarlem! I’m not interested in a piece of tech in particular, bubbling cauldron of innovation What’s the most exciting part of your role? but about two months after I started working here that it is. Two such employees someone (probably Martin!) shared news around are Gülşah Köse and Paul I’m the first person in this commercial position of Rolls Royce’s claim of breaking multiple new world Oostindie. Atlas which still needs to reach a more ‘mature’ speed records. I’m interested to see how this phase. This puts me in a privileged position where technology develops because this new record is Gülşah has been with ATS Global I can help develop the commercial aspect of Atlas already a leap forward and will presumably give for some time and worked as from the start and get to experience the growth. innovation in the EV manufacturing space a good part of the Atlas team for almost push forward. two years now, whilst Paul is a What I also appreciate from my role as a sales- relatively new member of the manager at Atlas is the abundance of knowledge If you were going to make a signature Atlas family. They represent two very from within ATS and Atlas that’s readily available cocktail, what ingredients would you include in it? distinct but vital parts of the Atlas for me to obtain and put to use. I’ve learnt a great world, so we asked them a few deal in my first few months by just having informal Good question, Alex, this depends on the day and questions each so you could get conversations with colleagues who are passionate time asking me. At the time of writing this answer, to know them a bit better. about what they do. Tuesday 17:17, I would mix spicy and smooth rum with some cheap whiskey, add lime and mint leaves, shake it with some ice and put it in the fridge where What excites you most about Atlas, now and in the I take out a Hertog Jan and just drink that instead! future? ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
Gülşah Köse Location: Istanbul, Turkey Role: Data Analyst edit: tawatchai07 Started: August 2020 Cr What were you doing before you joined? Before I joined the Atlas team, I was working as customer support engineer What’s the most exciting part of your role? I’ve always loved working with data. As part of the Atlas team, I get to help customers visualise the information they collect and display it in a way that’s meaningful for them What excites you most about Atlas, now and in the future? The fact that we are growing very fast, with the Atlas platform growing and changing on an almost daily basis. With that growth, it’s exciting that we get to work with many different customers from all kinds of sectors. What non-Atlas piece of tech excites you most right now? I would have to say my phone, I love taking pictures so I am always I get to help customers using it! visualise the information If you were going to make a signature Atlas cocktail, what ingredients would you include in it? they collect and display it Well I like tropical drinks, so I would definitely include mango and in a way that’s meaningful passion fruit! ATLAS WORLD MAGAZINE SPRING, 2022
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