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Company Profile:
Visionnaire is a software development company that works with modern technologies for development of systems via the web, integration of complex systems in large companies and supply of its own products. Headquartered in the Curitiba Software Park, an area with tax and other municipal benefits for software development activity, Visionnaire is the representative in Brazil of the Object Management Group (OMG), the world standardization entity.
Business Model:
The company has two business areas:
* Visionnaire Services: Offers development of customized systems and outsourcing of software and consulting/training services.
* Visionnaire Products: Offers its own products developed internally.
Visionnaire offers solutions that permit the reuse of information and applications, without the need for elimination of legacy systems. This enables better utilization of technologies and information and easier transition to the best current technology.
Besides the services for systems development, consulting/mentoring and training, Visionnaire also supplies its own productivity products (with software for service quality management, web publishing, persistence service and security service).
Products and Services Offered:
The company's main products are:
* Visionnaire Pacto: A product for management and monitoring of service level agreement (SLA) indicators.
* Visionnaire Caronte: A product to implement access control, security and single sign-on in corporate environments.
* Visionnaire WebPublication. A product for the creation of distributed portals in corporate environments, without the need for technical knowledge.
The services offered by Visionnaire are:
Software design, support and maintenance, outsourcing, technology transfer and consulting.
Main Customers and Partners:
Customers: HSBC Bank, TecBan, Embratel, Visanet, Telemar, Vivo, Copel Telecomunicações, Brasil Telecom, Unimed, Federação das Indústrias and Petrobras.
Partners: IBM, Sun and Fujitsu.
Synergy with other portfolio companies:
iMusica, Softcorp, NetMovies.
Technology:
Visionnaire has wide experience in carrying out software development projects and in technology transfer, having completed numerous projects using distributed objects technologies, with use of CORBA, Java, C++, Internet/Intranet and integration with legacy systems.
Visionnaire has created its own development process, based on the best practices and internationally recognized standards. Additionally, the company has produced development tools and software components that are used in various applications, reducing the development time and increasing the quality of the system constructed. The development tools satisfy two of the most critical needs of corporate applications: security and persistence. These tools are used in development projects.
With a combination of its development methodology, productivity tools and experience in successfully completing scores of projects, the company has consolidated a corporate applications development model that allows high-quality results in short time frames.
Strategy:
* To consolidate itself in development of software and complete IT solutions in the Brazilian market, and be ready to serve the external market in 2007.
* To consolidate and grow the customer base for its three products (Pacto, WebPublication and Caronte).
* To be the reference company of the Ideiasnet group for specific IT solutions.
Competitive Advantages:
Visionnaire is the most experienced Brazilian company in development with distributed objects and is the only one recommended by the OMG, that has Premium Status in SOFTEX and has been approved by the Prosoft Program of the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development).
* It has been successfully developing solutions for large companies in Brazil for ten years using distributed objects and Java technology.
* Visionnaire is one of the most experienced Brazilian companies in UML, and is currently the official (and exclusive) representative of the OMG for South America.
* Visionnaire was the first company in the state of Paraná, and the seventh in Brazil, to be approved by the BNDES in the Prosoft Program, in 2000
* OMG World Seal.
* It is the only Brazilian company approved by the CORBA Academy and accredited to give training and consulting in the OMG standards (including UML, CORBA, MDA and IDL)
* It is responsible for the largest professional software development events in Brazil and Latin America (Distributed Objects and Corporate Software)
* Visionnaire has a set of products in the areas of wireless, access control, single sign-on, portals and SLA
* It has the Premium ranking by Softex.
Ideiasnet Stake: 40,0% |
