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5th Venture Forum (Rio de Janeiro)
22 - 23 October 2001
CHOICE TECHNOLOGIES
S.A.
Entrepreneur: Denis Maciel Maia
Choice operates in the business intelligence sector offering products and solutions for corporations that have substantial data equity, transforming them in strategic information to support the decision making process and in structured know-how to be disseminated by the organization. The company works with two main products : Data Intelligence software, which collects, stores and crosses data by logging all elements of a company's computer infrastructure, and provides the user with the relevant information by web; and Decision Portal software, responsible for concentrating and disseminating the information of the company through a single access point through the web. Its main customers are : Telemar, MCI-Embratel, Telefonica, Xerox, Ibest, GlaxoSmithKline, Federal Justice Council, etc.
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CONCEPTION
Entrepreneur: Richard Gunther Sutherland
Conception is a company that develops computer systems to attend customers who need corporate solutions involving data transmission, handling and/or storage in intranets and extranets, synchronous and asynchronous networks for data transmission by satellite, mobile or conventional telephony. The company offers its two products : the market relations accelerator system (SIS-ARM) software; and PDV-MOL, a computerized system for credit card transactions.
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ELEVA MÍDIA DIGITAL
Entrepreneur: José Sanches Neto
Elevadigital works on developing technologies that provide space for advertising and real time news and information in alternative places inside office buildings, such as elevators and washrooms, for example. Elevadigital - Elevamidia, Flymidia and Wcmidia products provide alternative media for advertising any size of company and market in which they operate. The benefits of this new kind of advertising increases visibility, impact, efficiency and low cost of the medium used.
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GEOMÁTICA
- TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇAO
Entrepreneur: Paulo Eurico de Melo Tavares
Geomática provides geoprocessing services through georeference application and information systems for corporate environments and networks, also providing the digital map for locating and direction. This is an added value product/service for distribution, information and management. Its principal customers are logistics firms, telecommunication, gas and water and sewage concessionaires, banking systems, oil companies, etc.
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GUBERMAN
INFORMÁTICA LTDA.
Entrepreneur: Sergio Guberman
"Software house" specializing in developing transport systems. It operates in 12 Brazilian states, with emphasis on the northeast and southeast regions. Leaders in the corporate fleet segment, they have business partners with major transport companies, such as Polinet, Mira Transportes, etc. Its flagship software is the FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, but also designs and retails other software for haulage or passenger transport companies. Its principal customers are – Itapemirim group, Prosegur do Brasil, DHL Worldwide Express, Leão Group, Itautec S/A, Tess S/A, Eletronorte, Mira OTM Transportes, Brasil Fleet Services, etc.
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PASSO
A PASSO TECNOLOGIA EM EDUCAÇÃO
E TREINAMENTO [Step by step technology in
education and training]
Entrepreneur: Raul Hernández Tabares
Passo a Passo is a technology company focusing on developing software and interactive simulation projects in both the academic and corporate segments. In the corporate area, Passo a Passo has designed customized interactive multimedia projects and training systems, and its main customers are companies such as, for example, Furnas, Oracle, Webb, Xerox, Embratel, Intelig, Souza Cruz and Fiat. In the academic area, it designs educational software projects through strategic partners with the teaching industry and generators/distributors of teaching content and training (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio), UFJF, UFES, Laborciência, etc.).
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S&A
- SISTEMAS E AUTOMAÇÃO LTDA
Entrepreneur: Bartholomeu Amaral
The company develops software for the corporate market, either meeting specific customer requirements or offering products for a broader market. S&A Sistemas work basically in two segments : industrial automation and logistics systems. The company focus is currently on new logistics solutions and presents software products such as SAGA WMS (for large deposits, SAGA EADI (for customs stations) and SAGA TMS (for transport systems). Some of its main customers are Nestlé, Martins, Wella and Weg. Future opportunities lies in expanding technological resources by introducing the operation into a web environment for the family of SAGA software for logistics systems, and so being open to new business possibilities and models for the company.
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VSURG
PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO LTDA
Entrepreneur: Marco Túlio Baccarini Pires
In first place, the company develops its own state-of-the-art technology for internal heart surgery, without using extra-corporal circulation. In the second stage of the project, this technology will be coupled to a second generation surgical robot and 3-D viewing system based on virtual reality, reducing surgical trauma to a minimum and for safer procedures. This is, therefore, a high-tech company with a market niche in the biotechnology field and has its highly skilled staff as its main resource. In fact, its team of medical researchers has developed innovative worldwide technology for the making of a special intra-heart surgical device for without requiring extra-corporal circulation equipment and, therefore, without stopping and opening the heart.
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