Portugal Global Magazine nº20  

The European market is our main target market. However, we have been developing face-to-face contacts in order to be present in the U.S. in 2010.

Our services and products are focused on optimizing the information and knowledge management of organizations. We can provide a solution to small sized companies needing a document storing or a correspondence management system, to medium sized companies looking for a document intranet to share and disseminate information, and to large sized companies seeking a knowledge management system in order to relate scattered information, becoming thereby more efficient and more competitive.

On the 19th November 2009, IDC Portugal organized one more event about Enterprise Content Management, in Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon. This year’s theme was   "How to ensure compliance and accelerate “time to market" in a demanding context?”

MAISIS was present in the event as a Silver Sponsor. The collaborative area, namely the use of enterprise content management tools is, per si, a key area that enables companies to retain knowledge and thus, to be competitive in the increasingly global market.

The greatest secret of competitive companies comes from the business process knowledge, the quality and the relationship between internal data and the suitable sharing of information – it’s the intellectual capital merged with the human capital.

MAISIS has been working in this perspective, developing ECM intern products, preparing soon to represent a well-known ECM platform. Beyond the traditional view of these systems, the strategic interest is focused on the integration with the knowledge management product OOBIAN and on its capacity to provide companies with extra competences that will increase the business knowledge and improve decision support.

MAISIS – Information Systems, participated as an exhibitor in a Knowledge Management event – KMWORLD 2009 - from November 17 to November 20, in San Jose, California.It was the only Portuguese company present as a sponsor in the exhibition (Silver Sponsor), among many American companies and few European companies.

Maisis’s new product successfully presented, OOBIAN (see product presentation and movie in www.oobian.com), will be launched in the European Market in January 2010. The software platform is the result of more than 4 years of intern research and development effort, supported by Portuguese universities and institutes. OOBIAN is a management tool based on an intelligent navigation interface developed in Microsoft Silverlight, able to link structured and unstructured data wherever they are -  in or outside organizations.

Related to some semantic interpretation capacity based on ontologies, the usability and ease of viewing and linking contents dynamically through drillUp & drilldown, geo-referencing, reporting, etc, was worthy of great accolades, not only from visitants but also from competitors.  

It is expected that, in the first quarter of 2010, the general public gets a free demo version of an OOBIAN sub-product - "New Interface Desktop Search" - for local use.

Invited by AICEP and TICE.PT, MAISIS attended, last 14^th October in Salamanca (Spain), the event “Portugal Inovador, o Mercado Ibérico – TICE” (Innovative Portugal, The Iberian Market – TICE”) sponsored by Caixa Geral de Depósitos, having the opportunity to present its knowledge management product – OOBIAN.

t is a result of AICEP and CGD Group partnership and the main goal is to promote and enhance cross-border relationships and boost Iberian competences in IT sector, through a cycle of business meetings.

This initiative was launched in Merida, in November 2009, and after the  aeronautics meeting in Aerospace Technology Park of Andalusia, in May 2010, Portugal had now the chance to reaffirm their skills in IT sector.

Portugal is a very competitive player in the global technology market and pioneered countless solutions that facilitate companies and citizens daily operations worldwide.