Dream Platform must be the fastest growing learning platform technology in Finland. Developed by Haltu Oy

1. FINLAND’S FASTEST GROWING
LEARNING PLATFORM
photo: Lappeenranta Lakeland, visitfinland.com

2. W H O A R E W E ?
● Haltu Oy is founded 04/2010
○ Owned by Ilkka Hakkari (CTO) and Mikko Sävilahti (CEO)
○ Both owners work fulltime in the company
○ Extensive professional in Mobile, Web, eCommerce and embedded software
● We have currently 12 employees
○ 9 very experienced software professionals and 3 junior developers
● We think ourselves as enablers of digital world
○ Digitalization, IoT, Big Data, Platform Thinking and superior User Experience is built to our DNA.
● We have been developing Dream Platform for public and b2b use since 2011
● We are actively working with the future of Finnish edutech
○ e.g. Educloud Alliance

3. D R E A M A R C H I T E C T U R E

4. USERS
PERSONALIZED DESKTOP
COURSE MANAGEMENT MESSAGING
TOOLS
APPS

5. H O W D I D W E G E T T H I S F A R ?

6. H O W T O D R E A M ?
● Dream Platform was implemented in Private-Public-Academic Partnership
○ Together with different stakeholders to solve everyday problems at schools
○ Project started with a publicly funded project but the customer wanted us to continue with our
own RnD and funding (partly with Tekes)
● Open Source - APIs - Integrations
○ We think that publicly funded projects should be available for everyone
○ We want the competition to be open
○ We want to prevent vendor locks and let the users decide
■ Bad services can’t exists on today’s work or educational life

7. A N D N O W ?
● Haltu has invested almost 1M€ to the development during last 5 years
● Dream Platform derived services are used by over 100 000 Finnish people
● All maintained and supported by Haltu
○ Technology’s maturity is excellent - very little maintenance and support for needed
● Dream Platform was implemented in Private-Public-Academic Partnership
○ Together with different stakeholders to solve every day problems at schools
○ Project started with a publicly funded project but the customer wanted us to continue with our
own RnD and funding (partly with Tekes)
● Most significant projects:
○ Dreamschool.fi (all started here 2011)
○ Edison learning environment by Kuntien Tiera (2013 ->, over 70k users)
○ Haltu’s own Seepra.fi project management tool (2011 ->)

8. C O N T A C T
Mikko Sävilahti, founder, co-owner
+358-50-3506464
mikko@haltu.fi
twitter.com/savilmik
linkedin.com/in/savilahti
Ilkka Hakkari, founder, co-owner
+358-40-8463677
ilkka@haltu.fi
twitter.com/derega
github.com/derega