SE Sistemas (Argos Tecnologia
em Informática Ltda) is an ARTech Solution Partner Brazilian
company that has chosen GeneXus twice during its sixteen hears of
history. The company has the ISO9001 certification since year 2000 and is
in the process of implementing CMMI to be certified to level 2 in year 2006. The
company has customers operating in several industrial activity fields, such
as Micronal, Laticínios Morrinhos (Leitbom), Halex Istar (main whey
manufacturer in Latin America) and Aeroeletrônica.
Décio Marcellino, Director of SE Sistemas, told us
that the first version of the company system was written in Clipper, and that in
1993 they started using GeneXus. "In 1997 we stopped using GeneXus since we
exceeded two capacities of the tool; one of them was the number of subtypes in
the same attribute. Therefore, we started using Power Builder, although we
continued maintaining half of our systems with GeneXus. We went back to GeneXus
in year 2003, after an exhaustive market research searching for CASE tools that
would give us swiftness, absence of errors and independence from languages while
following the market trends
The company is currently using GeneXus 9.0 and
generating Java Web while oldest programs are gradually converted, although they
operate called by the same Menu and using the same database, said
Marcellino.
Systems: SE-Gestão and Argos
Project
The systems developed and
marketed by SE Sistemas are SE-Gestão (Business Management Integrated Systems)
and Argos Project. SE-Gestão is intended for industries according to ERP/CRM
philosophies and is composed of 30 modules. Argos Project is a Project
Management System that was built to meet a company requirement.
"We understand that high performance tools in
systems development, such as GeneXus, should be used together with project
management tools. When we started implementing CMMI in our company, we verified
that we needed a tool that would make our project management operations easier.
We develop this tool and we are now commercializing it for other software
houses and development teams. The product is called Argos Project and is one of
our business units, explained SE Sistemas
Director.
Commercialization with OEM
partners
The news is that, in
January 2006, the company started offering its systems in OEM modality.
According to this modality, SE Sistemas provides modules -or the entire system-
to an OEM partner who, in turn, commercializes them under its own trademark, its
own rules and its own responsibility.
"We are the first Brazilian company that provides
Business Management Integrated Systems under this modality. Our trademark may
not be well-known among end users since our systems are commercialized by other
companies with their own trademarks", announced Marcellino.
Regarding the reason for this decision, he explained that "our
objective is transforming SE into a unique company. Neither the greatest one nor
the first one, but the only one in what we do. We are attempting to live the
prosperity cycle and it implies cooperation, risk and innovation. In our case,
OEM is not just one more business modality; it is our main business
modality."
"We count on GeneXus for the generation of
different systems from the same knowledge base and also to meet partners in
Latin America, stated Marcellino. As regards the generation of different
systems, Patterns is integrated as a strong element in this business strategy.
Besides, as long as the search for partners in other countries is concerned, he
stated that "with this partnership we expect to position our systems and
commercialize them through our OEM partners that will be responsible for the
sale and the implementation". He also stated that the search will be initially
focused on Latin America.
A vision for the future
We ask Marcellino to give us an idea for
the future of his business and he left us speechless: "We are a Metanoia
company (*) and our actions are growingly reflecting the understanding that our
business activities mean real people. Our objective is creating an ethical, fair
and human company. This way of thinking has a great impact on the products we
are offering, since we consider that the product itself is limited and
changeable. We take advantage of technological trends according to this line of
reasoning that always makes us search for what would generate our customers
growth."
(*) Metanoia is the journey from the survival
cycle, where most companies are still living, towards the prosperity cycle,
explained Marcellino.
SE Sistemas
www.seportal.com.br