Novasoft: Innovation for life

Friday, 11 April 2008 00:00

The company, first in Andalusia to win this award in the category of Industrial Quality, was supported during the awards ceremony by the Mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, and the director of the Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, Felipe Romera


MADRID 19/06/2008.- The CEO of Novasoft, Francisco J. Barrionuevo Canto, has received today an award from his Royal Highness Prince Felipe of Spain with regard to Business Excellence. On this note, Novasoft is now the first Andalusian company to obtain this award in the category of Industrial Quality and to enters the ‘Olympus’ of Spanish companies that have been recognized with this important prize, fruit of a exhaustive audit undertook by outsourced experts and valued by an independent jury. This award can be obtained by companies with a majority of private capital, that operate in Spain, and that are looking to achieve or have achieved high quality standards in its performance that results in management excellence and a competitive edge. The other Spanish companies that competed in this category along with Novasoft, and that reached the final, were Siemens, S.A., TNT y Valeo Iluminación, S.A.


The awards ceremony, held in the Municipal Conference Centre of Madrid, was presided over by the Princes of Asturias and the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Miguel Sebastián, who insisted on the high level and compromise with excellence that this year’s participants had shown. Novasoft won this award after having taken part in this competition for eight years in a row and reached the final in two of the editions. Along with the delegation of the company that travelled to Madrid in order to collect the award, the CEO of Novasoft, Francisco Barrionuevo, was accompanied by the Mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, director of the Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, Felipe Romera, and the director of BIC Euronova (incubator in which Novasoft was born 15 years ago), Álvaro Simón.


The Industrial Quality category is one of the most competitive of the competition, as it entails a detailed and thorough test of the company, from its account statement to its business strategy, its policies and its social responsibility. This award means that Novasoft is, at the present time, the company that best complies with these objectives throughout the Spanish territory. The company considers that each and everyone of its collaborators is responsible for this merit, also applicable to all the Malaguenian and Andalusian companies that work daily to show the potential of the region, particularly in the Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, a role model and a worldwide reference.


About Novasoft


Novasoft is a Andalusian technology-based company, which business areas are oriented toward projects that combine Innovation and Knowledge. The company has headquarters in Málaga (Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía), Sevilla (Parque Tecnológico Cartuja 93), and Tenerife, with an ongoing project to establish a new headquarters in Jaén. With fifteen years of experience, Novasoft currently works in sectors like Strategic and Technological Consulting, Quality and Environment, Information Technologies, Geomarketing, Security, Communications and Capacity Building. Since its start-up, Novasoft has been particularly focused on Social Responsibility, and on that note it is one of the head founders of the Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (Andalousian Technological Corporation), and it works with the CITIC foundation and the Raitec network, amongst others. It is also one of the head founders of the Foundation Manuel Alcántara, as well as a new sponsoring partner of the Picasso Museum, Málaga.

Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:00

The locality cordobesa of Adamuz will be the first one that releases this free service for the citizens of experimental form, in the frame of the most wide initiative named Portal of Simulation of Companies

Adamuz's municipality will be placed to the Andalusian and national forefront in investigation(research), development and innovation (I+D+i) by the putting in march of a pioneering system that will allow to know all that citizen determined to mount a company if this one will be or not profitably before it(he,she) begins any administrative or commercial step. Novasoft has been adjudicataria of a contest across which it(he,she) will develop a project based on artificial intelligence capable of realizing diverse calculations on the basis of the situation of the market and the commercial decisions that the future businessman takes to guess if it(he,she) will succeed or not with the constitution of a new company.

This project places inside a more wide initiative, named Portal of Simulation of Companies, which will develop to the complete one in the locality cordobesa and which carries other actions(shares) of improvement in the infrastructures of technological networks(nets) of the municipality to improve this way the communication of the Council with his(her,your) citizens. The initiative carries an investment of more than 190.000 Euros and is subsidized in 85 % by the Council of Innovation, Science and Company of the Meeting of Andalusia.

The most showy project of the set of actions(shares) that carries this program is the Managerial Malingerer, who works on a base of artificial intelligence and who will help himself the businessman to familiarize with the characteristics of his(her,your) business and to defining a plan of virtual business to short, average(half) and long term, but with variables extracted from the real world of the company. With the use of this tool, the citizen will take his(her,your) own(proper) decisions and will adopt his(her,your) commercial strategies to verify the viability of his(her,your) project, whereas the malingerer will be giving him(her) the guidelines of how to do it and of which they are the consequences of the above mentioned strategies, so much if he(she) is wrong as if it(he,she) succeeds. On having stopped exposing his(her,your) project, the businessman will be able to know with a high degree of reliability what probabilities of success and failure it(he,she) has.

To the margin of this tool, the Portal of Simulation of Companies possesses(relies on) several resources more of support and helps the businessman of the municipality. Between(among) them one finds a Virtual Community, where the businessmen will be able to exchange experiences and trends on the labour and economic situation; a Virtual Market, from which to expose his(her,your) products across Internet, and a Platform of Formation, from which, the businessmen will have access to information to create a plan of viable business and to all kinds of courses(years) online, for entrepreneurs and for citizens in general, that serve the world of the company to bring them over. Between(Among) the equipment(equipping) that carries the Portal it is necessary to emphasize the creation of a Virtual Classroom, which carries the installation of 10 fixed computers and portable two the connected ones to two servants, and that will be able to be used by the users of the Portal of of Simulation of Companies.

Close to these resources, the Portal also will put at the disposal of the businessmen IT solutions for the business management based on free software, with what they will have more freedom to modify them and adapt them to his(her,your) specific needs. Between(among) these solutions they find the ERP Openbravo and the software of planning dotProjet. In addition, and as one of the most useful innovations for the citizen of afoot(by foot), he(she) will have a service of sending(parcel) of messages of mobile (SMS) to facilitate the communication between(among) the neighbors of the municipality and the own(proper) Town hall, which will be able to communicate all the innovations, emergencies or events, across this system.




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Monday, 17 December 2007 00:00

- The President of the Foundation Picasso Museum Málaga, Rosa Torres, and the President of Novasoft, Francisco Barrionuevo, signed last Monday December 17th a collaboration agreement between both institutions. With this agreement, Novasoft went on to become a partner of the museum’s group of sponsors.

- By this agreement, Novasoft commits to provide 180,000 euro per annum for five years, an amount that will contribute to the museum’s good operation and the developing of cultural activities.


With this agreement, Novasoft becomes the eighth institution to form part of the Picasso Museum’s Council of Sponsors. The company thus commits to the promotion of Picasso’s work and the programming of cultural activities in the museum. In this regard, Novasoft will provide an annual amount of 180,000 euro until 2012, 35,000 in cash and 145,000 for the implementation and maintenance of new technologies in the museum.


The President of the Foundation Picasso Museum Málaga, Rosa Torres, and the President of Novasoft, Francisco Barrionuevo, signed this agreement during a ceremony attended by the President of the museum’s Executive Board, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso; Unicaja’s President, Braulio Medel; and the Director of the museum, Bernardo Laniado-Romero. With this agreement Novasoft joins Unicaja, RTVA, Fundación Aena, Diputación de Málaga, Grupo Joly, Cervezas San Miguel y Vocento as sponsoring partners of the museum.


Founded in 1993 in Málaga, Novasoft offers Strategic and Technological consulting, as well as consulting services on Quality and Environment, Information Technologies, Geomarketing, Security, Communications and Capacity Building. Throughout these years, Novasoft’s hard work and social commitment have been awarded several recognitions such as the Premio Andaluz a la Excelencia Empresarial (Andalusian Award on Business Excellence) granted by the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Governing Board); the Premio al Compromiso Social y de Creación de Empleo (Social Commitment and Employment Creation Award), granted by the Confederación Española de Jóvenes Empresarios (Spanish Association of Young Entrepeneurs); and the Premio Trajano a la Mejor Iniciativa Empresarial Andaluza (Trajano Award to the best business enterprise) in 2002, awarded by the newspaper El Mundo and the Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía (Andalusian Businessmen's Association). Likewise, the company has reached the final in two editions of the Príncipe Felipe awards on Business Excellence. With its entrance in the Picasso Museum’s Council of Sponsors, Novasoft advances in its Corporate Social Responsibility policy, reinvesting part of its revenues in order to improve the environment and quality of life for everybody.











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Francisco Prieto
Novasoft’s Communication and Marketing Area
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:00

The project has a cost of 911,020 euros and it is expected to be completed in three years.


NOVASOFT and SOITSA have been awarded the tender announced by Aena for the maintenance and technical support of the invoicing and check-in desks computer system of the Airport of Barcelona.


Both companies have created a Temporary Companies Association, having NOVASOFT and SOITSA a participation of the 50%, for the tender and the subsequent development of the project which costs 911,020 euros and an implementation period of three years.


UTE NOVASOFT-SOITSA will be involved in the maintenance of both the physical and logical equipment that Aena offers the different airlines and handling agents for invoicing and boarding. The project includes the technical support of the Aena invoicing and boarding information system (U.C.A), the equipment and consumables of that system and the support and training of users. All these services will be channelled through a Help Desk or Single Point of Contact (PUC), that will ensure the best quality in the care and help of the user. It will also guarantee the continuity of the service through the 365 days of the year.


The task force will consist of a project manager and a team of microcomputer engineers that will be increased during the busiest periods. Also, every engineer will have PDAs and an IP telephone system to improve the communication of incidents in the system from any point of the airport, using the WiFi network that Aena has in Barcelona.




NOVASOFT:


NOVASOFT is a Spanish company specialised in offering Information and Communications Technologies products and services. Novasoft is characterised by its own business model, which is based on business excellence and social responsibility. NOVASOFT invoiced 22,3 millions euros in 2004 and it comprises 306 co-workers.

NOVASOFT is increasing its presence in the public administrations and businesses in 2005. The company has a wide portfolio of clients from the public sector such as the Government of Andalusia (Chairmanship, Justice and Public Administration, Economy and the Treasury Offices…), the health services of Castilla La Mancha and the Balearic Islands, the Health Department of the Valencia Generalitat, Aena Tenerife South, and others. It is also increasing the projects of digital towns such as “Mijas Digital” in the local administrations.

SOITSA:


SOITSA, Selective Outsourcing of Information Technologies Ltd, is a Spanish public limited company specialised in providing professional services and selective outsourcing in Information Technologies and Communications.


The company, which is developing in Spain and Portugal, consists of 160 employees and invoiced more than 6,5 millions euros in 2004. SOITSA’s main clients include HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Barclays, AS newspaper, Lottery Technical Systems, SCH, Jazztel, etc.

Monday, 17 October 2005 00:00

Signing this contract guarantees the growth strategy undertaken by Novasoft in the non health care market after selling its subsidiary specialised in health.

Last 26 September 2005, Novasoft was awarded an important tender organised by the Canary Island Employment Service of the Canary Island Government. The project involves the “Holistic Service of the maintenance and new developments of the Canary Island Employment Public Service Information System (SISPECAN)”. The project has a cost of 2,7 millions euros and an expected duration of 18 months; the contracted service started last 3rd October .


To develop the project Novasoft will provide a team of 30 engineers specialised in software development. The premises where they will be based at in the Canary Island will have broadband communication with the Canary Island Employment Service.


The tool that will be developed during the duration of the contract represents the Information System of the Employment Public Service, which includes the Mediation, Training, Orientation, Certification, Subventions and Statistics subsystems.


The project includes in situ and online training about SISPECAN for users and the Canary Island Employment Service technicians, and specific in situ training for engineers and technicians.


With regard to the Information security, Novasoft will have services such as intruders test, internal audit, processes analysis and risk analysis.

Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:00

Doctors will be able to access the medical history of their patients from anywhere.



Novasoft, having been selected by IBSalut after public tender, has been responsible for the establishment and centralisation of the primary care information system, e-SIAP, in the Balearic Community. Novasoft has also been responsible for funding the technological infrastructures of the Health Centres that are dependent on the Hospital Son Llàtzer in Palma de Mallorca.

The project, that was started in March 2003 and was finished in June 2005, has enabled the creation, using the e-SIAP Information System, of a tailored made application for the Primary Care sector in the Balearic Isles as a technological transfer. Currently, the unique electronic medical history is a reality in this community. The centralisation of the information system provides, amongst other functions, the booking of appointments in any medical diary, the production of a joint medication sheet for primary or specialised care, the setting up of the medical history by sections including nursing reports, the management of integrated health programmes such as cervical cancer or healthy child, the monitoring of interactions and allergies to any medication, the creation and management of the paediatric medical history and the diagnostic encoding which allows doctors to provide a diagnosis using codes accepted by the international medical community.

With regard to security, the system complies with the Data Protection Organic Law (LOPD), which guarantees the confidentiality of the medical histories. The IBSalut communication network guarantees the security of the communications thanks to the access to information through users' profiles.

Other important landmarks of this project are the establishment of the first electronic recipe system in a self governing community, the incorporation of the information system with the Balearic health care card in 2003 and the establishment of the pre appointment booking module in the call-centre, connected to all the health centres in the Balearic Isles and aimed at facilitating the administration of booking appointments with doctors and improving the service that the call-centre provides for the user of the Balearic health system.

Consequently, every Balearic Primary Care centre is completely computerised and connected to a centralised database that enables the consultation of medical histories from any location of the service network. The IB- Salut alongside Novasoft, the concessionaire company of the competition announced to apply the e-SIAP (Primary Care Medical History) project, have also worked in this project, which is included in the Systems Plan 2004-2007 and that has meant an investment of 3.7 millions euros, in co-ordination with the Communication and Technology Head Office of the Economy Ministry, the Treasury and the Innovation Department.

The development of the Primary Care Information System e-SIAP is based on its incorporation in the speciality area and in the laboratories; it is also based on the development of functions such as the centralised management of temporary disability or sick leaves, and prescriptions with visa cards.

This computerisation enables a monitoring of the assistance activity of the centre and of the care provided to patients in any circumstance or location. Regardless of where the information is produced, where the user is, and where the user is treated, you will be able to access the patient’s details in a unified way, which means an improvement in the accessibility and in the quality of the care provided.

The project developed in the Primary Care of the Balearic Isles Health Service is a comprehensive one, as it has considered all the technology, organisation and training aspects. It also considers the medical and administration processes and programmes such as booking appointments for patients and drawing up the diaries. The project includes other computer tools for Specialised Care, 061 and personalised health care card.

There are 145 health care centres that have been computerised. 1715 PCs have been installed, 1465 local printers and 97 printers have been linked to a network. Also,

- 613 General Practitioners and 115 Paediatricians

- 710 nurses, midwifes and nurse assistants

- 129 administrative and orderlies

- 20 social workers

- Casualty and 061 staff

- ESAD (Home Assistance Support Team)

have been trained and are using the new computer tool.

On the other hand, the actions planned from July 2005 to December are:
- Setting up the e-SIAP in hospitals: Casualties, Outpatients and patients in hospital.

- Setting up the e-SIAP in the Support Units of the health centres: Mental Health, Women Care.

- Setting up the appointment system for hospital specialists from the Primary Care centres.

- Appointment reminder using SMS.

- Setting up the health programmes: diabetes, obesity, nicotine poisoning, health child, early detection of a pregnancy, early detection of a cervix cancer, senior people at risk, asthma and EPOC.

Novasoft, Spanish company specialised in offering technology solutions for the management of knowledge, has 12 years of experience in the health sector and 306 professionals. During this time, Novasoft has worked alongside public and private health care organisations such as the Castilla La-Mancha (SESCAM), Andalusia (SAS) and Murcia, Adeslas, and Essaude in Portugal, amongst other Health Care Services. In 2004, the company earned almost 24 millions euros (added data), and reached 4,7millions euros of EBITDA.

Monday, 04 July 2005 00:00
The project will take wireless Internet to the rural areas, it will create telecentres, it will open a citizen portal and will facilitate the training of the neighbours so that the town does not miss the new technologies.

The Mijas Digital project is designed for everyone to go into the world of the new technologies (actions for digital literacy teaching); for everyone to communicate and interact with the different local services (citizen portal); for business people, neighbours and the administration itself to enjoy a support that takes them to new expectations (the local telematic network that will expand to urban and rural areas). Mijas Digital is also the public use of Internet in the street (the telecentres).

The Mayor, Agustín Moreno, the Chairman of the Council, Salvador Pendón and the Innovation Area Director, María Gámez, have presented today this initiative that has an initial investment of 1.4 millions euros provided by the town council, European Union, Council, Junta de Andalusia, the Ministry of Industry, and soon other institutions and companies will join them. Novasoft will participate as a technology partner, alongside Red.es, Todos.es, Sopde and Mijas Communication. It is expected that the University of Malaga, Unicaja, Cetecom, Ingenia, Alvarion, Andalusia Technology Park, Spain Telephone company, Telefonica Moviles, Spantel, Vodafone, Endesa, Tao, Junta de Andalusia Tourist Department, Public Administrations Ministry,… will be also soon incorporated as technology partners.

As far as Novasoft is concerned, it will advise the Mijas town council and will work with the Sopde company in the development of the digital administrative strategy and the generation of telecommunication infrastructures, with the aim of lessening the digital gap.

Mijas will fully enter the society of the information with a programme that will have an impact on culture, leisure, tourism, business, employment, health, education, environment, … Mijas will have to assimilate the changes already noticed in the daily life of the town and the way they will develop and how citizens will take them in on a very short term. This is a complete revolution and will tremendously affect Mijas, not leaving the town behind. The period of establishment of the project is expected to be between 2005 and 2006.

The Digital Local Strategic Plan presented today, draws the lines to be followed in the establishment of four main areas of action, and complemented with a communication plan to get the citizens familiarised with the Mijas Digital project. The participation of citizens will be essential.

Digital literacy teaching

From next September a training programme and digital literacy teaching will be developed to promote the use of new technologies at all levels: neighbours, companies, groups,… The aim is not to leave somebody behind, lessening the “digital gap”. Experts agree that those societies not assimilating this change will be in a very difficult situation with regard to those which are more advanced; they compare this situation to the unbalance existing between countries that boosted the Industrial Revolution and those that did not.

Communications basic infrastructures

Firstly, an optical fiber wiring network will be built to link the municipal buildings, and it will be completed with a powerful main wireless network Wimax, which has a broadband of 100 megabytes a second and in a first stage it will interconnect Mijas Town, Las Lagunas, Las Cala, Osunillas, Entrerrios and Valtocado.

For the Internet to be able to reach out to the rural areas there will be WiFi networks that will be used in this first stage by groups from Valtocado, Osunillas and Entrerrios. Then, thanks to agreements with some operators, Internet without cable connection will enter the houses of the locals and the Mijas companies.

Citizen’s portal

The local administration, as a service provider for citizens, should have all its services available to the public and they should speed up processes. For this reason, a citizen portal will be started; amongst other facilities it will allow to generalise the use of the electronic signature, to issue documents, the deposit of original documents, notifications or the Register in telematic format, the payment of taxes, reception of applications…
Telecentres

The Town Council is going to build telecentres with public access to the local network and Internet. They will also be used as training centres for the locals. In the first stage there will be four telecentres, (in the cultural centres of the three groups and in the tourist office). They will then be extended to the area where they are needed. The telecentres will be included within the Junta de Andalusia Guadalinfo network; for this reason they will have a free software and all the training options provided by this platform.

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Novasoft, through its Information Security Section, led the project that has concluded with the Information Security Management System certificate of ETICOM (Andalusia Communication and Information Technologies Entrepreneurs Association) according to the AENOR UNE 71502:2004 regulation. Thus, ETICOM becomes the first organisation in Andalusia to receive this security certification and the eighth in Spain.

Novasoft led the project which has considered several stages in its development: the risk assessment, following the MAGERIT methodology, the assessment in the establishment of the safeguards, the design of the security policy and formalising and implementing the ISMS following the security good practice code, ISO 17799 regulation.

Finally, the project considered the execution of an internal audit of the system; that included a complete security assessment to establish the response when facing possible internal and external attacks. The project adopted the security recommendations that arose from the audit.

Thanks to the achievement of this certificate, ETICOM will be able to efficiently manage the information security and protect its own data and its associates’ data when facing the existing risks within and outside the association. It will also be able to improve its relationships with associate companies, the public administration and the suppliers, thus guaranteeing the security of the communications.

About the UNE 71502 security certification

The new Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) AENOR certification according to the INE 71502:2004 Regulation, includes one hundred and twenty seven controls developed in the 17799 ISO. These controls are grouped by different aspects with reference to the management of the information security, such as: security policy, security organisation, classification and monitoring of information assets, management of the information and personnel security, physical and environment safety, management of communications and transactions, access monitoring, maintenance and development of systems and management of the business continuity.

Novasoft, with more that 12 years of experience in the ICT sector, is part of the “Information Technologies” AENOR JTC1/SC27 Subcommittee where it has participated in the development group of the UNE 17799 and UNE 71502. The Novasoft Security Section comprises a team of qualified security consultants and engineers with a wide experience in the establishment of Information Security Management Systems, in the Protection of Data and for drawing up Security Leading Programmes.

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