Company profile - Softeco Sismat SpA

Profile
Established in 1979, Softeco
Sismat S.p.A. is a leading
Company in the Information and
Communication Technology
market.
Thanks to its specific applicative
and technological competence,
Softeco Sismat is present on the
market as a supplier of
innovative solutions allowing its
customers to exploit the potential
offered by Information
Technology and Internet.
Softeco Sismat carries out
important IT and industrial
projects by integrating systems,
networks, products and
technologies, supplementing its
offer with the supply of technical
and management consulting, as
well as specialized services and
training.
Our Company addresses the
whole enterprise market
concerning industry, finance,
services
and
telecommunications, and it
counts some of the most
important Italian and international
enterprises and agencies among
its customers.
“ To provide, with technology support
and starting from a deep and
consolidated knowledge of processes
and business models, services,
products and strategic solutions to
create value for Enterprise
Customers”
Our mission
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Profile
About 200 people are employed in
the Genoa, Milan and Naples
offices, more than 50% of whom
have a degree in technicalscientific
branches.
The awareness that the most
important value of an IT company
consists in its human resources
implies constant attention to
training. At Softeco Sismat this
continuous development involves
the whole staff (managers,
technicians and administration
personnel as well) by means of
programmes focused on
technologies, methodologies,
quality and management skills.
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Offer
Softeco Sismat's offer segments
into three sectors:
1. Industrial Solutions &
Services(ISS):
Implementation of software
development and system
integration projects for the
following reference markets:
o industry
o defense
o telecommunication
o transport
o finance
o utilities
o government
2. Information Technology
Services(ITS): Supply of
integrated solutions for IT
centers, Enterprise Storage,
Portals and WEB, ERP
Infrastructures, as well as
Knowledge Management
Systems.
3. Utilities: Supply of
software products and
solutions for the following
markets:
o
o
InfoMobility
Electrical Energy &
Gas Trading
Our offer is supplemented by
consulting and specialistic
training activities.
The large number of technical
certifications (EMC, HP,
Microsoft, SUN Microsystems,
Oracle), together with our
methodology towards
approaching problems, are
significant indicators of the
quality of our services.
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Products & Services
Softeco Sismat provides a range
of products and services aimed
at solving its customer's
problems.
Softeco Sismat is qualified to
accept such challenges thanks
to:
• A proven capability to
understand, formalize and
sum up the customer's
technical and business
requirements
• A constantly updated
knowledge of the world
technology market,
consolidated by a solid
partnership network with
the main international IT
players
• The availability of
application products and
platforms in its own
Development center,
together with a solid
capability to develop inhouse
projects
The quality of Softeco Sismat's
solution offer is supplemented
by a flexible organizational
structure, a proven capability
of activating service units
specialized in specific
missions, as well as by a solid
and consistent enterprise
structure.
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Quality
Softeco Sismat has concrete
experience using methodologies
and tools aimed at software
development, steadily acquired
thanks to its direct participation
in important and highly
innovative national and
international projects.
The formalization of
organizational and procedural
aspects led to the first draft of
the Quality Manual as early as
1993, ultimately concluding in
the complete definition and
application of the whole
Company Quality System.
This experience makes implicit
the awareness that Quality is an
essential value in the process of
IT Solutions production.
Quality is therefore an integral
part of Softeco Sismat's
enterprise concept; as a
matter of fact, our Company
has always taken into high
consideration the needs of its
Customers, continuously
improving standards by
devoting particular attention to
the training and professional
updating of our Technicians.
The Company Quality System is
UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 certified by CSQ for
” Design and Production of Software
Solutions for Industry and Services ”
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Products & Services
Industrial Solutions & Services
Softeco Sismat S.p.A. is a qualified partner for important organizations aiming at implementing
complex systems with a considerable IT component in various application fields (e. g. postal
automation, rail and heavy rail traffic control devices, remote control systems, automotive and
telecommunications).
For over twenty years collaboration with Softeco Sismat has allowed our Customers to
concentrate on their real core-business activities by entrusting our professionals with the
management of problems related to the software development process.
Information Technology Services (ITS)
Softeco Sismat, with its acknowledged know-how as an IT Integrator, designs together with its
customers the required IT Solutions, implements them and makes them work.
Softeco Sismat supplies a global offer to the customers' requirements by means of solutions
that integrate the best software, hardware and networking technologies. Vast experience in
design and implementation of IT applications, progressively acquired through an approach
constantly aimed at technological innovation, and many years of experience in the field of
Internet/Intranet Technologies are the basis for our offer of IT Solutions, aimed at the
development of Extended Company and E-Business Applications.
The Solutions developed by Softeco Sismat in the various application fields are aimed at
integrating traditional IT Systems, i. e. the heart of the Companies' information resources, with
new Technological Channels on web platform. Softeco Sismat supports innovative tendencies,
with the aim to create added value in legacy Systems, which are often the result of remarkable
investments, by integrating them into new infrastructures.
We are currently engaged in project development in the following sectors:
Banking and Finance: On-line trading ,Bond & Loan Management , Treasury management.
Executive Instruments : Company Panel, Report Systems dedicated to management control,
Project Management.
Company Systems : Integration between legacy and ERP/PDM Systems , Supplier Register
management , Access card supply.
Distributed Systems: European Air Crash Information Portal , Ship Certification System,
Acquisition and Distribution of Geo-Referential Data, Service Portals for Public bodies.
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Products & Services
Web & Portal Infrastructure
The implementation of web infrastructures and portals for enterprise customers is an
important sphere of activity for Softeco Sismat. The strategic alliances, and the corresponding
certifications, with HP, SUN Microsystems, Microsoft, Oracle and Checkpoint allow Softeco
Sismat to play a key role both in the implementation of Web Portals and Infrastructures and in
the specialized consulting for different technological and organiztional aspects.
• Infrastructures such as those mentioned below are the normal supplement to the
aforementioned applications; they allow users content fruition as well:
• Business Portals integrating pieces of information from specific internal applications as well
as administrative and project management ones;
• Knowledge Management and Team Working Portals, where utilities are implemented to
place a Company's know-how at the disposal of all employees;
• Portals aimed at the distribution of videoarchive contents managed through Content
Management Systems.
Enterprise Storage
In close partnership with EMC², Softeco Sismat supplies the most reliable, flexible and tested
storage infrastructure for information management. Storage systems, software, storage
networking solutions and the services offered ensure quick and uninterrupted access to
company information, allowing customers to get a real return on their investment and a
competitive advantage. Softeco Sismat has been able to strengthen its Enterprise Storage offer
by means of fully integrated Backup Solutions.
The combination of vast experience, proven competence and alliances with the main world
leaders in this sector makes Softeco Sismat the reference partner.
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Products & Services
InfoMobility
An intelligent management of mobility processes and of relative information are nowadays key
factors for the expansion, economic growth and service improvement of the society we live in.
The implementation and management of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), of intelligent
infrastructures and vehicles, of InfoMobility devices and systems, are the core of this important
technology and services development area.
Thanks to its systematic participation in international research and partnership projects, Softeco
Sismat has developed remarkable experience in this strategic business sector. The carrying out
of many pilot projects in various European cities has made it possible to develop, test and
validate technological solutions and innovative patterns in the field, and to subsequently
transform well-established prototypes and know-how into final products or basic platforms for
application development.
Softeco Sismat is nowadays a point of reference in Italy as well as in Europe in the Transport
Information Technology sector. Our offer includes products and integrated solutions for various
key areas of this field:
• Planning and Management Systems for 'Flexible or Demand Responsive Public
Transport Services' (Demand Responsive Transport, DRT).
• Terminals for in-vehicle applications as well as goods or special flexible transport.
• Platforms for integrated management of information and control strategies in traffic network
supervision and control.
• Support platforms for mobility knowledge management.
• Multi-tier platforms for Internet information access and distribution.
• Platforms for Urban Solid Waste Planning and Management
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Products & Services
Energy & Gas Trading
In response to specific new requirements generated by the growth of the energy market,
Softeco Sismat has developed for trading and multiutility companies, Energy&Gas Retail, the
complete solution for the management of the process of sale in the free market of Electric
power and gas. It is a vertical solution, complete and integrated, offering answers to the specific
requirements of this specialized field.
The product allows, with an elevated degree of flexibility and modularity, the possibility to
manage the process of sale and purchase of Electric power in the free market, integrating all
the Back-Office activities. The great flexibility and configurability of the product also allow the
users to correctly manage the legislative implementations dictated by the current and future
norms.
Energy & Gas Retail offers answers to all the requirements for sophisticated technological
support for the business activities of Back Office and allows users to: integrate data provided by
other company systems collect and manage the growing consumption data from Customers
manage a system of invoicing by covering different contractual typologies and dealing with the
continuous changes of the norm supply a complete set of statistics tools to offer company
management the necessary instruments to control, plan and define a business strategy.
Energy Retail is finalized to:
support the activities of negotiating, opening, managing and invoicing of contracts of electric
power supply and gas adapt itself easily to the changes in terms of norms guarantee high
levels of security for data guarantee a great level of expandability of the system to support all
future developments both in terms of architecture and the volume of data
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Some of our Customers
•
• Registro Italiano Navale
• Tecnosistemi
• Università Bocconi
• WebAppalti
Retail
• AGIP Petroli
• Colorificio Boero
• COOP Liguria
• ERG Petroli
• Henkel
Finance
• ABN Amro Informatica
• Banca Carige
• Banca Passadore e C.
• Banco di Lugano
• Cedacrinord
• Compass
• Gruppo Generali
• Gruppo Montepaschi
• SAI
Infomobility
• ACFT - Ferrara
• AMI Pesaro - Urbino
• AMT - Genova
• ANM - Napoli
• ATAF - Firenze
• ATL - Livorno
• TRAMBUS -Roma
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Partnership
For many years Softeco Sismat has pursued a technological and
commercial partnership policy with the main players on the
international IT market, with the aim to strengthen its own image as a
supplier of highly innovative solutions for its Enterprise Customers.
Today Softeco Sismat enjoys partnerships with:
Channel Business Partner
Preferred Partner
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Business Partner
Autorized Reseller
Partner
Business Partner
Partner
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Partnership
Softeco Sismat is morover in partnership with the following international Companies that
supply development and integration software products:
MKS - Reference company in the field of integration between
UNIX/Linux and Windows environments. The product suite includes
solutions aimed at the interoperability between the two
environments, as well as at the porting of mission critical
applications from Unix to Windows.
Zero G - The award-winning InstallAnywhere deploys any kind of
software onto any platform, and configures those applications for
optimal performance. Whether you're creating applications written
in Java, C++, PERL, or C#, or deploying EJBs or complex software
stacks, InstallAnywhere handles all of the installation details
automatically. InstallAnywhere supports the platforms that run the
enterprise, including the latest editions of Windows, Mac OS X,
Solaris, Linux, NetWare, HP-UX, AIX, and many more.
ICS - World leader in the implementation of products aimed at the
development of GUI applications in X/Motif and multiplatform
environments.
IONA - The producer of ORBIX, the tool allowing to develop
distributed applications by means of the CORBA technologies to
assemble new applications starting from existing subsystems and
components.
Checkpoint - World leader in the safety field; its products are the
point of reference for the Web infrastructure of every Web project.
Tarantella - The innovative solution for organizations aiming at
introducing the Network Computing Paradigm into their Legacy
Applications. As a matter of fact, Tarantella makes it possible to
carry out the deployment of every application on every client by
means of the Web interface.
StorageTek - StorageTek is a leading storage technology vendor
with a holistic product portfolio, including tape libraries, disk storage
systems, storage software and services.
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Research & Development
We consider innovation and technological leadership key factors in
ensuring success and competitive growth of our potential in the
marketplace. Clear evidence of this is the investment of 10% of
Company's resources and yearly turnover in Innovation and
Research.
The participation in EU Research and Technology Development
(RTD) Projects and a number of international scientific and
technological collaborations are pivotal in the development of High-
Tech products and preliminary conditions for turning innovation into
business.
Thanks to a collaboration network of more than 100 partners among
European Companies and Research Centres, we are taking part,
sometimes as Project Coordinator, in various projects funded by the
European Commission. These include several initiatives in the 6th,
5th, 4th and 3rd Framework Programs and other CEC initiatives
such as, e.g., IST, ESPRIT, eContent, eTEN, Telematics
Applications, Industrial Materials & Technologies, Transport
Research, Thermie.
Furthermore, at the national level, we are a member of the National
Research Register held by the Italian Ministry of Education and
Research (MIUR) and participate in industrial strategic research
initiatives.
The technologies developed and the application areas involved are
strongly related to the Company's core business , as a strategic
condition to ensure the direct transfer of innovation into products and
projects for our customers.
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Research & Development
Our main European Partners
Universita’
Degli Studi
Di Genova
EMIC – European Microsoft
Innovation Centre

Research & Development
Recent Projects
EUOrphan (eTen), validation of a Web service for the dissemination of information on “orphan drugs”: medicines for
rare disease.
K-Wf Grid (FP6, IST, Priority: Grid Technologies), a knowledge based environment for the orchestration and
execution of grid applications.
EurEauWeb (FP5, IST): development of innovative products and technologies supporting the commercial viability of
Europe's waterways and leisure related businesses.
CARAVEL(FP6, CIVITAS II Initiative): a pilot project aiming at the implementation of innovative measures supporting
sustainable and clean mobility in European cities.
DIRECT-INFO (FP6, IST, Semantic-based knowledge systems ) an innovative system for semi-automatic extraction
of consistent and meaningful semantic information from multimedia content.
CONNECT (FP6, Transport Research and Technology Development Program) Coordination of CONcepts for
New Collective Transport: a Coordination Action on Flexible Collective Transport Services.
COSTE (DG-INFSO, eContent, AL-1: Improving Access to and Expanding Use of Public Sector Information),
Combining Spatial and Traffic Contents for Regions in Europe: use of integrated digital geographic and traffic
contents to support web-based value added services.
eDRUL (DG-INFSO, IST, Key Action I "Systems and Services for the Citizens"), infrastructures for e-commerce and
logistics projects integration.
IDRO (Financed by the Italian State - MIUR).Development of a prototype software to support the sustainable
management of water resources. Tested in the Liguria basins.
PELLUCID (DG-INFSO, IST, AL-I.3.1: Intelligent Environment for Public Sectors Employees at all levels) a system to
support the capitalisation and reuse of expertise accumulated by employees during their day to day activity.
FAMS DG-INFSO, IST, Key Action I "Systems and Services for the Citizens"), trial and best practice development of
the Agency for Collective, Demand Responsive Mobility Services in Florence and the Angus Region (Scotland).
WORKSAFE (DG-INFSO, eContent, AL-1: Improving Access to and Expanding Use of Public Sector Information)
web service for the pubblication and exploitation of information and data on cancer prevention in the workplace.
ECCAIRS (JRC Ispra; DGVII), distributed architecture for storage and management of data on air crashes.
SAMPO / SAMPLUS DGXIII, Telematics Applications / Transport), development and validation of a reservation
centre for the management of Demand Responsive Public Transport.
INVETE (DG-INFSO, IST, Key Action I "Systems and Services for the Citizens"), implementation of a flexibile and
intelligent multifunctional terminal for vehicle fleets.
MOTION (DG-INFSO, IST, New Methods of Work and eCommerce Key Action), infrastructure aimed at the
management of distributed and structure-variable working groups applied to device design.
ISM Hessen (WAYflow, BMBF - German Federal Ministry of Education and Research): implementation of an
Intermodal Strategy Manager for the transport network in Hessen.
HISCORE (DG-INFSO, IST, Key Action IV "Essential Technologies and Infrastructures"), integration of
application simulators for telecommunications, transport and implementation of complex devices.
ASIA (DGIII, ESPRIT), integration of application simulators for telecommunications, transport and implementation of
complex devices.
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Offices
Via De Marini, 1 - Torre WTC
16149 GENOA
tel: +39 - 010 - 60261
fax: +39 - 010 - 6026.350
Via Piolti de Bianchi, 20
20129 MILAN
tel: +39 - 02 - 70100493/70104788
fax: +39 - 02 – 7380156
Via Gianturco 113,
80143 – NAPLES
tel: +39 - 081 - 284973
fax: +39 - 081 - 284973
www.softeco.it
info@softeco.it