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09/01/2025

Ten Years with Antura – the Engine Behind Init’s Efficient Project Management

Init Sweden is a leading player in industrial IT and automation, offering services ranging from advanced infrastructure control to smart AI-based property management solutions. When Init began using Antura nearly ten years ago, the goal was to bring order and structure to their project methodology. The company had expanded rapidly, and the need for a unified and structured way of working became increasingly urgent. Antura became the solution that delivered control and consistency in project management.

Over the years, Antura’s role has evolved in line with Init’s changing needs. Today, resource management, especially resource planning, is at the heart of the company’s project management processes. Every Monday, project owners and business leaders hold resource meetings where workloads are reviewed, and plans refined. What was once managed centrally by one person has become a well-established local routine within each business area. This has decentralized responsibility and strengthened ownership of resourcing — with Antura as the central hub.

Weekly resource meetings have become a natural part of the business and enable us to monitor utilization and ensure the right resources are in the right place, says Mats Hagberg, Senior Project Manager and Quality Manager at Init.

The number of Antura users at Init has more than doubled during this period—from around 60 to over 130. In addition to resource management, document management has proven invaluable, allowing developers to quickly locate and reuse important documents. A significant change is that many more external users have now been granted access to the projects. This has created a new level of transparency and collaboration, enabling customers and partners to follow issues and receive real-time updates directly in Antura.

In several of our major projects, Antura is used as a shared platform to record action points and follow up on decisions. It replaces traditional meeting minutes, helping to minimize the risk of misunderstandings, Mats adds.

For Init, Antura has become more than just a system—it has become the way they work. Resource planning may be the most important success factor, but the benefits extend further. With Antura, the company has gained a new level of transparency, both internally and in client relationships, where clear follow-up and open case handling fosters trust. Efficiency has also improved thanks to the powerful search capabilities of the document management feature, enabling employees to reuse and share documents with ease. Moreover, the system ensures precision in governance, with clear decision support and ongoing risk management enhancing delivery reliability. The result is an organization that has better control over their projects, uses their resources more effectively, and delivers higher quality to meet customer demands.

Partnership with Antura and the Road Ahead
 
Init’s relationship with Antura reflects both longevity and flexibility. Init has received valuable support with configurations and new features, while also building confidence that enables them to work independently. Looking ahead, Init sees opportunities to further expand their usage of Antura through integration with other systems and an increased focus on data-driven decision-making. The ambition is to continue developing and refining their working methods to meet future demands for efficiency and digitalization.

It is a great pleasure to work with Mats. He is both knowledgeable and experienced, with a deep understanding of Antura from implementing the system at several previous workplaces, says Anna Lindström, Business Consultant and Customer Manager for Init at Antura.

Advice to Others
 
For Init, the combination of a clear methodology and a powerful tool has proven essential for building a culture of transparency, control, and efficiency. Drawing on his extensive implementation experience, Mats Hagberg offers a key piece of advice to other organizations starting out with Antura:

My advice is to start with the methodology. Ensure that processes are defined and clear from the outset. If that’s not possible, work in parallel on establishing the methodology while introducing the system. The most important thing is to have a foundation—without a clear methodology, you will never realize the full value of Antura, Mats concludes.

Init was founded in January 2022 with the ambition of bringing together the best companies – and people – in industrial IT and automation. Today, its approximately 800 employees work collaboratively across 35 offices in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, North Macedonia, Spain, Germany, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Mats Hagberg, Senior Project Manager and Quality Manager at Init