The year is nearing its end and the time has come to celebrate Christmas and New Year with your friends, family and loved ones. Earlier this year, we had some big plans. Grow #TeamXALT, release new products and become a well-trusted co-pilot and partner in our customer’s projects.
Like others, we also wanted to recap what we achieved this year and if we accomplished our set goals for 2021.
#TeamXALT grows in numbers
During the year, we welcomed lots of new Teammates. We grew our consulting, marketing, operations and development teams and welcomed Mario, Tobias, Nadine, Ben, Katharina and more.
Growing in numbers allowed us to not only acquire more customers and satisfy the demand for hybrid work solutions like intranets, knowledge bases and DevOps solutions but also improved the way we communicate with our customers and be their co-pilots for their vital projects and growth.
Being able to work side by side with such incredible people is a privilege for the TEAM XALT. Therefore, we wanted to say thank you for all of your input and hard work.
Despite the ongoing pandemic, we also decided to get together for a team event at the beginning of October and went for a hike in the Bavarian Alps for a change of pace and to bond even further as a team. Hopefully, we’ll be able to plan more team events in person next year.
As we continue to grow, we are always searching for new talents that help us to achieve our main goal; Simplifying IT.
Become part of TeamXALT
Be part of our team and work on exciting projects and solutions for pressing IT challenges in the areas of Atlassian, DevOps and Cloud technologies.
Working remotely & hybrid consulting and software development
Due to Covid-19, not all went as planned and lead to unexpected challenges. May it be the fact, that remote and hybrid work solutions needed to be implemented fast or the once bulletproof approach in consulting, being on-premise changed drastically. The shift from on-premise to digital consulting forced us and our customers to shift our approach fast.
Together with our customers, we decided to go boom or bust and pursue our joint projects remotely. And what can we say, we experienced some challenges along the road. But within a few months, everything worked out like a charm and feel more comfortable than ever working remotely. Nonetheless, we also cherish the opportunity to meet our customers in person and look forward to inviting them to our offices in Munich and Leipzig as soon as possible.
Container8 – The all-in-one DevOps as a Service Platform went live
What we are certainly most proud of is the release of the Container8 DevOps as a Service platform, enabling product teams to release software, updates and new features to the market faster than ever before.
When Philipp Göllner founded XALT in 2016 he dedicated himself and XALT to achieving exactly what Container8 is a vital part of. Making IT as simple as possible.
Being able to automate recurring tasks, such as deploying new code to a live system and having a built-in security and compliance system that directly issues a warning of potential hazards frees up resources to be used for important tasks.
Additionally, Container8 not only focuses on releasing new code fast or achieving a high-speed go-to-market. And therefore focusing on the development aspect of digital product development. Our solution also focuses on the IT operations point of view and helps teams to effectively and securely supply needed infrastructure. Overall, the platform integrates itself seamlessly into your organization’s DevOps efforts and also supports your team’s favourite tools.
At heart, our self-service platform includes the CALMS Framework for DevOps. Therefore, your efforts in terms of Culture, Automation, Measurement and Lean working principles can be achieved more easily and is also known as CALMS.
Learn more about Container8 and its capabilities here.
The Advanced Image Gallery is now available for Confluence Data Center
Just a couple of months ago, we released our Advanced Image Gallery for Confluence Data Center. If you’ve been looking for a solution to create beautiful, content savvy pages for your knowledge base and intranet, you can stop looking now. With the latest update, we also introduced photo filters, next to the existing image editing possibilities. These enable you to directly alter the look and feel of your images in confluence without the need for any external tools.
Our Gallery also officially supports our partners‘ products Linchpin, Scroll Viewport and Refined Wiki to bring even more beauty to your confluence pages and space.
You can experience the Advanced Image Gallery in action here.
What coming next?
In 2021, we achieved plenty. We built new tools and solutions, released the Container8 platform, acquired the Atlassian Gold Partnership and became AWS Consulting Partner.
For 2022 we are setting big goals. Here’s what’s next for XALT.
- Further development of the Container8 DevOps as a Service platform and acquire new partners to implement the platform for new customers.
- Further development of our existing apps and development of new approaches. And provision of Jira Sync as a stand-alone 3rd party integration for Jira software.
- Growth in the DACH region and the US with CPI Solutions.
- Expansion of TeamXALT in the areas of infrastructure, DevOps, development, sales and marketing, distributed across our locations in Munich, Leipzig, and remote all over the world.
One more thing
All of our recent growth wouldn’t have been able without the Team and our customers. For that, we wanted to say thank you. At the risk of repeating ourselves, being able to work alongside such incredible people from all over the world means so much to us.
