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May 18 2023 Firebird Conf 2023 conference took place in Moscow. Leading Firebird DBMS developers met with users at the Radisson Blu Olympiyskiy Hotel.

Speakers include DBMS and application software developers, database administrators and users. Our company shared the experience accumulated in recent years and presented the report “Writing UDR in C++ and Pascal”.

In the presentation of our specialist, such issues as external triggers, using UDR in packages, working with BLOBs, forced setting of types, writing procedures, connection and transaction contexts, outer trigger factories in different languages and many other features of external modules integration were covered in details.

September 14 – 17, 2022 The exhibition SALES of vacancies JOB-EXPO 2022 was held in Moscow. This is a new original format for the recruitment event, primarily for small and medium-sized businesses. The specialized theme of the exhibition covered the most demanded professions that determine the success of a business and a company's place in a competitive market.

This event presented unique technologies used in our on-line BestTest service for testing candidates and employees of enterprises. Participants of the exhibition were able to get acquainted with them in the following reports: “Competitive selection of sales managers. Rapid formation of a sales team”, “How to reduce staffing errors in the selection of employees. The practice of using the personnel estimate service BestTest”.

March 14, 2022 The state registration of the software product "ETNI 2 platform for building applications" has been completed. The program is designed for operating systems of the Windows 2000/XP/7/8/10/11 family. Work on the development of the platform has been carried out for 20 years. Its first implementation at enterprises began in 2004, and continues to this day.

The ETNI platform is a tool for applications creating that are designed for a wide range of corporate clients working with various databases. The platform allows to conveniently enter information, to integrate with other accounting systems, to connect to equipment, to extract statistical samples, prepare reports, build interactive charts , perform multidimensional OLAP analysis

The product also allows to conduct joint planning of work by different services of an enterprise. The system has built-in mechanisms for self-diagnosis, full documentation of its settings and much more. Through the use of ETNI2, our customers get a quick start to projects and a significant return from the technologies used in it.

21 february 2022 г. The information portal of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution of Horse Breeding was launched. The idea of a new site for the Institute of Horse Breeding of the Russian Federation has been forming for a long time among breeders, researchers and the management. It had to be coordinated with all specialists, to prepare and approve the terms of reference before the start of development.

The volume of information that needs to be structured and entered turned out to be so extensive that efforts to fill the portal are ongoing to this day. These are legislative acts, guidelines, competitions results for horses, multimedia and much more.

The advantage of this development is the differentiation of access rights, tracking changes, phased publication of materials, involvement of all departments of the organization in filling the resource, full-text search, connection of external scientific libraries, multilingualism and the possibility of its further development.

May 5, 2021 A new web service BestTest.info has been launched for testing personnel of organizations, as well as for the quick selection of candidates for vacant positions. The required set of professional tests is sent to candidates as a limited time link.

All answers are saved in the database and come to HR-hunter as a ready-made document with a detailed graphical analysis of the test-taker's profile.

BestTest.info allows to determine quickly the propensity of an employee to work in different areas, to identify a set of innate inclinations and acquired abilities that increase productivity, as for candidates as for working employees. This service is designed for managers, personnel services of organizations and specialists of recruiting firms.

The test results help to make a forecast of a candidate's suitability for a certain position, to identify employees with managerial potential, to assign correctly tasks and responsibilities, to conduct an audit of personnel, to form a personnel reserve, to develop an individual development plan.

The system assesses the employee's productivity, behavior style, strengths and areas of delegation, the level of empathy, tactics of behavior in conflict situations and the employee's motivators.

Work on this project has been going on since 2018, and has gone through a number of stages with the gradual launch of all new functions. Today the service operates in a fully automatic mode, including accepting electronic payments and providing fast services in format 24/7.

26 November 2020. A year earlier than planned, a group of enthusiasts released the eighth version of the popular programming language PHP. This version contains many fixes, useful functions and optimizations. The most significant change in PHP 8 is the use of a JIT compiler.

Silentium developers also took an active part in the development of this innovative product. Our specialists have improved the PDO driver for Firebird SQL Server. Its behavior is extremely important for web systems that are designed for our clients.

That is why the “execute block” function was ensured when working with parameters. It includes creating of stored procedures, functions, views and other active constructions. A bug was fixed when commenting out parameterized code.

In addition we have previously made the following improvements to the Firebird access driver. Namely these are Boolean type working, memory leaks fixing when using Blob fields, providing support for the 1st dialect of the SQL language.

From March 30 to May, 11 2020. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree declaring holidays in the Russian Federation from March 30 to May 11. Silentium Company office will not function during this period. Our employees will continue to work from home remotely.

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