About us

We are a company operating in the Information & Communication Technology sector. For us, transition to digital means analysis, design, development, technological innovation and creative IT solutions.

We devote constant attention to technological evolution and offer our customers a highly professional highly professional consulting service through customised solutions. We distinguish ourselves through the excellence of our multidisciplinary skills in the realisation of web and mobile applications, system integration, the implementation of resilient architectures and the use of the most mature and reliable and reliable Open-Source technologies.

We offer services in different modes:

  • projects with package contracts;
  • projects with time-and-material contracts;
  • customised consultancy.

We work mainly on customer projects, although we do have some of our own products.


Vision & Mission

Our vision is to guide companies towards an efficient, secure and reliable digital transition. Our mission is to help companies develop their business and solve complex problems through customised digital consulting, fuelled by a relentless pursuit of optimal solutions based mainly on cutting-edge Open-Source technologies.


The Group

With all the clients we have worked for, we have always established ourselves as a point of reference, and this is only thanks to the people who work at Akera, who have always been carefully selected and trained internally before each task, so that we can identify and make the most of each person's talents. At Akera, there are no employees, but colleagues; one could define it as a firm of associated professionals.

We strongly believe in the strength of the team as the sum of skills, experience and ideas.
We invest in people and processes every day because we are convinced that this is a value.


The Method

Being a small company, we focus on:

  • high technology: close attention must be paid to cutting-edge technologies and how they evolve and to concepts such as service continuity, high reliability, use of cloud solutions, etc;
  • high competence: the level of competence must be up-to-date with the latest technologies and this requires continuous training in various disciplines;
  • effective collaboration with the customer: customers are often strong players in the ICT market and demand efficiency and expertise. Akera supports its customers by adopting the most effective methodologies and without ever applying barriers or lock-ins. We offer our customers a customised consultancy with innovative, quality- and security-conscious solutions.

We strongly believe in the Open-Source movement:

  • we are constantly investing in open technologies and have built and developed significant expertise on these issues;
  • the stack on which we develop our projects is always based on the most reliable Open-Source technologies;
  • we contribute directly to supporting the Open-Source movement.

Akera has obtained ISO-9001 certification attesting to the conformity of the company's quality management system levels for the following points:

  • software engineering;
  • software development;
  • software maintenance;
  • support;
  • provision of ICT consulting services.

The Work

We develop software methodically, using the most mature and suitable Open-Source technologies, to solve problems where effective analysis and design is required, with attention both to the customer's requirements, as well as unspoken needs (e.g. stability, scalability, etc.), regulations (e.g. GDPR, etc.), security and application context.
In more than 15 years of experience, we have developed expertise in accompanying clients in the process of digital transformation, we have established ourselves as a reliable IT partner in realising effective solutions effective solutions to complex problems.
Thanks to this approach, we have always been called upon to play leading roles in projects, always receiving confirmation of satisfaction from customers. happened thanks to word of mouth from satisfied customers who recommended us to others.


The Story

Akera started its activity more than 15 years ago, in January 2008. It was born from the union of professionals who had already gained experience in different areas of of IT, people who, after a university course, had worked for years in large retail large retail, web portals and telecommunications companies. The partners were united by a passion for Open-Source and an interest in the possibilities offered by the web (remoteisation, online services, etc.).

The name ‘Akera’ (akèra) originates from the sound of a Japanese word 開ける (akèru) meaning ‘open’ and from the assonance with the Italianised English verb ‘to hack’, obviously in its positive sense: ‘àkera’, i.e. to go deep into information technology in order to understand how it works and to master it.

Projects and Technologies

Our expertise allows us to cover the entire software life cycle, thus being able to offer a complete solution to our customers.
In more than 15 years of activity, we have worked on dozens of projects, to name the most relevant or the ones we have historically been following the longest:

  • large retail organisations (Java, Adobe flex, DB Oracle);
  • central and local public administration (Java, JSP, NodeJS, Angular, PostgresSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Gitlab con CI-CD, Docker, Openshift, Elasticsearch);
  • gaming on-line (Java, Angular, RabbitMQ);
  • industrial automation (Java, NodeJS, Angular, InfluxDB, PostgresSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, D3js, Docker);
  • mobile app: apps for all mobile device operating systems (for Android, iOS, and Windows phone);
  • akCMS product: custom CMS, with multi-tenant back-office, for building websites, e-commerce, authenticated private areas, ecc. (PHP, Angular, NodeJS, MongoDB);
  • artificial intelligence: use of generative and embedding models for the realisation of virtual assistants and semantic search services (LLM technologies, sentence transformers, RAG architectures, Langchain frameworks, vector stores)


Mobile
  • ・Java per Android
  • ・Swift per iOS
  • ・C# per Windows Phone
Web
  • ・HTML5, CSS3
  • ・Angular
  • ・React
Application Server
  • ・Java Enterprise Edition
  • ・Node.js
  • ・.NET
Framework
  • ・Spring Framework
  • ・Hibernate
  • ・Apache CXF
  • ・Hapi.js
Languages
  • ・HTML5, CSS3
  • ・Angular
  • ・React
Machine Learning
  • ・Rasa
  • ・ScalaNLP Breeze
Relational Engines
  • ・PostgreSQL
  • ・MySQL
  • ・Oracle
  • ・MS SQL Server
Nosql Engines
  • ・MongoDB,
  • ・Redis
Full-text Indexing Engines
  • ・Elasticsearch
  • ・Apache Solr
Object Store
  • ・OpenStack Swift
  • ・Ceph
Container Orchestrator
  • ・Docker Engine
  • ・Docker Swarm
  • ・Kubernetes
  • ・OpenShift