In December, we shared the good news that TIS TIDE—a project we are developing in collaboration with scientists from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin—has secured seven-figure non-repayable funding through the IRI3 program. Last week, the official kick-off took place in Varaždin.

The core team gathered on-site. If you’ve ever battled an endless sea of forms, templates, documents, and other nerve-wracking add-ons—biting your nails in the hope that you won’t be the one facing that nightmare of a single, BUT crucial document lost somewhere in the labyrinth of a project as demanding as IRI3—then you know that every opportunity to come together and celebrate a hard-won victory is more than welcome.

Especially when it marks the beginning of a three-year research and development project valued at €2.16 million. Enough to set the chessboard and once again position TIS as one of the leading innovators in the domestic IT sandbox? Hell yeah.

Vjekoslav Majsec, one of our department heads and the captain of the project ship whose launch we are witnessing, introduces the story:

This project represents an important collaboration between a scientific institution and its research community, and a recognized company developing innovative solutions for digital transformation, based on machine learning and AI.

In other words, our AIs are already hard at work—fingers on the starting line, brains fully engaged—ready to prove their superiority in the field once again.

We are entering the project from a well-researched and informed premise: slow decision-making remains a key challenge for today’s companies. As many as 86% of managers feel overwhelmed by data, and only 20% of companies believe they make decisions quickly and efficiently.

And this is where TIS TIDE steps in.

Further details are provided by the project lead and official coordinator of our partner institution, Dr. Nina Begicevic Ređep, Project Manager for the Faculty of Organization and Informatics:

The main goal of the project is to develop a cognitive and distributed digital platform for multimodal and integrated strategic collection, analysis, visualization, and environmentally sustainable optimization of business-critical information.

Behind this complex name lies an advanced technological architecture designed to solve a modern-day problem: how to extract valuable insights from vast amounts of unstructured data—insights that are essential for high-quality decision-making—while minimizing energy consumption.

It is an AI platform that will not only collect data but, as envisioned, use processed information to support management in making better, more informed decisions—commonly referred to as informed decision-making, aimed at improving organizational agility.

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Anyone who has ever applied for IRI S3 calls knows how long it takes for how many people in radio silence, while administrative storms rage beneath the surface. That’s exactly why it’s so rewarding to finally see the results and find your own project among those awarded seven-figure, non-refundable grants. As of last Friday, officially, TIS TIDE is one of them.

TIS TIDE starts from a simple fact: today’s organizations have too much data and too few clear decisions made on time. Instead of yet another tool, an AI platform is being developed that connects information in real time, turns it into actionable insights, and accelerates decision-making, process automation, and embedded ESG logic. For users, this means faster decisions, adaptable processes, and more efficient IT systems. For TIS, TIDE is a strategic leap toward another proprietary product—one that doesn’t just support business operations, but changes the way decisions are made.

But TIS TIDE is much more than that. For our small company, this project is a unique opportunity to further expand and deepen cooperation with the academic community—specifically with the Faculty of Organization and Informatics (FOI).

FOI emerged as the natural choice as a scientific partner because it brings together exactly what this project requires: a deep understanding of decision-making, business processes, and digital transformation, combined with significant experience in research, development, and EU-funded projects. Their research teams and laboratories focus on real problems of agile planning, analytics, and process optimization—not theory for theory’s sake. Combined with TIS GRUPA’s development, AI, and production capacities, this creates a team that knows how to turn scientific models into solutions that work in practice and withstand real business conditions.

The collaboration is structured clearly and functionally: TIS leads platform development and the implementation of advanced AI solutions, while FOI – led by Prof. Dr. Sc. Nina Begicevic Ređep – provides scientific validation, a methodological framework, and measurement systems that give the entire project depth and credibility. A joint team of more than 20 experts and scientists is entering this adventure through an interconnected structure of sub-teams, with clear leadership and continuous coordination. FOI takes the lead in defining decision-making metrics, evaluating effectiveness, and disseminating results, while our AI unit will set in motion all the smart gears needed to turn theory into what we hope will be another revolutionary AI solution on the horizon of the domestic high-tech sandbox.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the colleagues who patiently spent months in the trenches, quietly and meticulously knitting this monumental project together. Bravo – and now, on to new victories!

The official confirmation of this joint success was accepted on Friday by Dzenan Lojo on behalf of the project team. We would also like to congratulate all the other applicants who successfully secured their funding.

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