YODA is a combination of:
- an ISD (Davidson’s, which manages around 50 in-house applications, including this magnificent website and bot)
- an innovation unit that prototypes ahead of the market (providing we don’t fall by the wayside), currently focused on issues in DevOps, Right Tech , machine & deep learning
- a support team for our digital agency Colorz A multi-region agile/Devops service centre (execution and third-party application maintenance) dedicated to customers that want to outsource to us or jointly develop all or part of a project with us
The YODA team has state-of-the-art skills and technical means to work with you on projects such as:
- agile and DevOps coaching and implementation within a team or a project
- IS architecture and data processing
- complete digitisation of a business process
- implementation of a group intranet
- development of an E-commerce website, a Marketplace (with Colorz)
Focus on Right Tech
For several years, Davidson has been transitioning towards a more environmentally responsible approach by embracing Right Tech practices (we prefer this term to Green IT, as IT inherently contributes to resource depletion and generates CO₂ emissions).
Our ambition is to help build solutions that reduce unnecessary functionality and rely on more resource-efficient technologies. To achieve this, YODA:
- Maintains an Eco-design framework (Davidson EcoCode) as well as a project trade-off checklist to encourage more sustainable design choices;
- Conducts audits and consulting assignments to help organizations reduce the environmental impact of their digital services;
- Develops numerous R&D projects aimed at creating tools that support environmental impact assessment and digital eco-design, in collaboration with partners such as the Green Code Initiative, INRIA, Orange, OVHcloud, and others.
Examples include:
- In collaboration with the GreenIT.fr collective, Davidson contributes to the development of ecoCode, an open-source SonarQube plugin that promotes eco-coding best practices;
- Distiller, a wrapper around the GreenIT-Analysis Chrome extension, which measures a website’s EcoIndex and provides improvement recommendations for each page;
- Diff-XJoules, a tool that measures the energy regression of an application’s unit tests. Integrated into a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, it can automatically prevent an application from being deployed if its energy consumption increases significantly.
