Presenting Kuopio Health members: Secora Systems is interested in cooperation in data analytics
“I like the interdisciplinary approach, as it usually creates a ground for something new at the points of collision. When we approach things from different angles based on our competence, everyone will have to look at things from slightly outside their comfort zone.”
Secora Systems is interested in cooperation in data analytics
Secora Systems Oy is a software company from Kuopio, Finland, that also offers training and consultation services. Data and SaaS services are the common denominator in the company’s service palette.
The company has two software products of its own: a customer management system for sales and marketing, and a service package that enables measuring conditions and IoT maintenance.
The company was established in 2014 and currently employs three people.
“Our aim is to grow through our own services and products. We have customers all around Finland,” says Jarmo Jalkanen, who is in charge of sales and development at Secora.
Interested in cooperation in data analytics
Secora joined the open Kuopio Health innovation ecosystem soon after its establishment.
“The ecosystem seemed to have great potential in health tech, particularly through business intelligence,” Jarmo Jalkanen says.
The company is mostly interested in collaborating with the other innovation ecosystem members from a data analytics perspective. The company’s goal is to activate its own activities in the innovation ecosystem.
“We want to have a round-up of discussions with the other members with an open mind: what can you bring to the table? What can we? If we have enough in common, we can use that as our starting point,” Jalkanen says.
Although it is not realistic to think that you can build a genuine partnership with everyone, Jalkanen nonetheless believes that the ecosystem has at least some potential partners.
The network has already brought some clear benefits, as it has helped the company discover a new client account.
Interdisciplinary approach generates new things
The Kuopio Health open innovation ecosystem is among the first local networks that Secora has joined. Jarmo Jalkanen wishes that Kuopio Health will help building a creative and good environment for developing services in the area.
“I like the interdisciplinary approach, as it usually creates a ground for something new at the points of collision. When we approach things from different angles based on our competence, everyone will have to look at things from slightly outside their comfort zone.”
Jalkanen also wishes that Kuopio Health will make it easier for companies to attract funding partners. If innovations fail to attract seed funding, you will never get to test their potential.
Jalkanen is satisfied with the fact that there has been a clear change in attitudes compared to previous decades.
“People have a clearly more open mind towards cooperation these days. They will no longer be ridiculously protective when advancing their innovations, thinking that this is something that belongs to me only. They have probably realised that being overly secretive about what you know will never succeed in taking things forward as well as collaboration does.”