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January 2014

Choose Portugal

InvestPortugal is graced with unique competitive advantages,

such as its strategic location, global language, great

logistic infrastructures and talented people.

Above all, Portugal is a resilient country that has developed

and modernized over time, simultaneously still creating the

best conditions for companies that wish to take advantage

of those assets.

Portugal is experiencing extensive transformations towards

a brighter future and to create a friendlier economic

environment.

Companies that have trusted us with their investments

keep investing more and are satisfied with the results.

Portugal makes businesses grow.

BuyPortugal delivers high-quality products and services within

a wide range of sectors.

We are experts in moving people, delivering automotive

and aeronautical components for leading global brands.

We shape the future with sophisticated technologies

that are critical for the performance of world-class

companies and projects.

We change people’s lives by investigating and

developing groundbreaking medicinal products and medical

devices.

We bring to life complex engineering projects with

state-of-the-art building materials.

We connect people and businesses with our qualified,

multilingual workforce, cost-competitive and modern

telecommunications network creating the best conditions

for shared services centres.

We cherish sustainability and work towards a brighter

future by developing eco-friendly ways of generating

wind, wave and solar energy.

We are ahead of our time in so many ways, but we are

also proud of our traditional products such as Port and

table wines, fashion and footwear and cork.

In Portugal, tradition meets Innovation.

Howaicep Portugal Global is your reliable partner to help you

to invest or do business with Portuguese companies.

Our Mission

To increase Portugal’s competitiveness and reputation by

boosting structural investment and making companies

international in scope with special emphasis on small and

medium-sized companies.

Our Vision

To be a benchmark agency that breeds a competitive

business environment and contributes to the international

expansion of Portuguese companies.

Our Promise

To do whatever we can to help your business succeed.

Key Drivers

Highly sophisticated market and high levels of investment in

R&D .

Highly entrepreneurial and creative sector.

Diversity, complementarities and a wide scope of

competencies.

Portugal makes businesses grow.

Choose Portugal

ict sectorIncubator for new products and services

Portugal is a great incubator for testing and developing

new products and services within the ICT and Electronics

sector.

The country shows high levels of sophistication in this

field, with a good network, considerable levels of

investment in R&D, as well as high levels of accessibility

and connectivity.

With a population of just over 10 million people, the

country is known for easily adopting new Technologies

and for having a highly qualified and competitive

workforce.

With a population of just over 10 million people, the

country is known for easily adopting new Technologies

and for having a highly qualified and competitive

workforce.

This “laboratory” is supported by multiple internationally

renowned educational institutions which have nurtured

many successful business entrepreneurs.

Some of the most internationally renowned Portuguese

companies, are from this sector.

The ICT sector covers a wide range of industrial activities

and services such as IT equipment, IT services, software,

consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment and

services.

Novabase

Olisipo

PT Telecom - PT Inovação

Simplex Program

Siscog

Take the Wind

Tekever

Uavision

Via Verde

Vision-box

Wedo Technologies

Wit-Software

Ydreams

Choose Portugal

ict sector our players

Active Space Technologies

Alert

Altitude

Aptoide

Covii

Critical Software

Edigma

E-xample

Igov2u

It People

J. P. Sá Couto

Master Guardian

Ndrive

Active Space Technologies offers high added-value services and products

across the whole supply chain through synergies and integrated

competences of an ever-growing network of partnerships.

Active Space Technologies has experience in the fields of

electro-mechanic systems: thermo-mechanical engineering (thermal and

structural analysis, fluid dynamics, design, high precision manufacturing

and testing) and electronics engineering (embedded systems, digital

control).

A continuous and sustained investment in innovation and R&D is a critical

part of our long-term vision, ensuring our permanent aptitude to

exceed our customers and partners’ expectations. Following this vision,

we have been working for the European Space Agency, the European

South Observatory, Agusta Westland, EADS, ESA, Thales Alenia Space,

Galileo Avionica, among others, promoting a professional relationship

with the customer by working in close cooperation.

ManagementBruno CarvalhoADMINISTRATOR

HeadquartersRua Coronel Júlio Veiga Simão,3025-307 CoimbraT. 351 304 505 505

[email protected]

www.activespacetech.com


Portugal makes businesses grow

ALERT® is the most international EHR,

deployed in nationwide, statewide, region-wide

and enterprise-wide projects, in both public

and private sectors, in 13 countries. Web and

cloud enabled, ALERT® solutions are

configuration variants of a single product, with

only one code development line characterized

by its capacity to be locally configured in each

market.

ALERT® includes a complete EHR, HIE, PHR,

Planning System and PDMS solution. ALERT®

has different country/market based

certifications and it follows International clinical

standards and interoperability directives.

ManagementJorge GuimarãesCEO

HeadquartersEdifício Lake TowersRua Daciano Baptista Marques, nº 245T. 351 228 328 980

[email protected]

www.alert-online.com



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Altitude Software is a global leader in customer

center solutions.

The company delivers a complete suite of

modular solutions that enable companies to

automatically respond to changing business

needs, showing how important key role can

have a fully integrated contact center on the

overall enterprise information value chain.

ManagementAlfredo RedondoCEO

HeadquartersAlameda Fernão Lopes, 161495-136 AlgésT. 351 214 129 800

[email protected]

www.altitude.com



ManagementPaulo Trezentos CEO

T. 351 966 171 [email protected]

HeadquartersRua Soeiro Pereia Gomes, Lt1, 3D1649-031 Lisboa

www.aptoide.com


Aptoide is an Android marketplace for applications with multiple stores

managed by the partners and the clients.

Aptoide offers, since 2010, after have been launched in the Bazaar

Android Site, the possibility for partners to create and manage their own

store, choosing the content and the format that suits their targets.

This unique approach to the apps marketplace ecosystem allows rapid

grouwth founded on users collaborative work.


ManagementAcácio CoelhoADMINISTRATOR

HeadquartersRua Marquês Sá da Bandeira, 384, 2º trás4400 217 Vila Nova de GaiaT. 351 227 825 719

[email protected]

www.covii.org


CoVII is a computer vision software company

that privileges the human-machine

interaction.

COVII develops software, libraries and 3D

sensors applications. Its interactive

systems can be used in different surfaces –

walls, floors, screens or storefronts – with

innovative characteristics as the gesture

recognition or the immersion in a virtual world.

The company operates in the ITC sector, more

specifically in the computer vision area.


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ManagementMarco CostaCEO

HeadquartersParque Industrial de Taveiro, Lote 493045-504 CoimbraT. 351 239 989 100

[email protected]

www.criticalsoftware.com


Critical Software is an international company which specialises in the

delivery of reliable solutions, services and technologies for business critical

information systems, providing software tools that protect individuals,

monitor equipment safety and guarantee business critical processes are

carried out in a secure and efficient way. Critical Software’s solutions help

companies control their costs and improve performance by providing the

real-time feedback needed to quickly identify and resolve issues that

inhibit process, product and services improvements.

Founded in Portugal in 1998, Critical Software currently has offices in

Coimbra, Lisbon and Oporto, and subsidiaries in the UK (with offices in

Southampton and Yeovil), the USA (Chicago), Brazil (São Paulo), Mozambique

(Maputo) Angola (Luanda) and Germany (Frankfurt).

The company operates a quality management system certified to CMMI®

Level5, ISO 9001:2008 Tick-IT, EN 9100, AQAP 2110 and 2210 (NATO)

and also implements the standards ISO 12207 and ISO 15504 (SPICE).


ManagementMiguel OliveiraCEO

HeadquartersParque Industrial de AdaúfeRua Soldado Manuel Pinheiro Guimarães, 684710-167 BragaT. 351 253 265 506

[email protected]

www.edigma.com


EDIGMA is a technology company specialized in the development of

hardware, software and interactive systems based on multitouch

and gesture recognition.

With projects in over 80 countries in the areas of tourism, culture, retail,

public sector, events and showrooms, EDIGMA is among the 200 most

innovative companies in the world.


ManagementJosé Manuel Graça Bau CHAIRMAN

Headquarters Av. António dos Santos, 34 – 4º Esq.2000-074 SantarémT. 351 218 088 557

[email protected]

www.e-xample.com


E-xample is a consortium offering innovative solutions to the school of

the future, starting with the digital classroom with student and teacher

laptops, interactive whiteboards, local networks, servers, teaching

platforms and digital content, to complete school management and

control systems.

E–xample develops integrated education ecosystems combining the

know-how, technologies and products of 26 Portuguese education

technologies companies. E-xample companies are present in over 50

countries, working together with governments and local partners to help

develop, implement and manage education ecosystems suited to each

countries needs.


Management Anabela PedrosoCEO

[email protected]

Headquarters Bom Sucesso Trade Center, Praça Bom Sucesso61 – Piso 114150-146 PortoT. 351 210 422 500

www.igov2u.com


IGov2u is a group of companies in electronic government products and

services that work for the public sector in the coordination and manage-

ment of transformation processes, leveraged on information technology.

The IGov2u enterprise cluster provides tools to make public services more

efficient and brings improved quality of life for citizens and

competitiveness for companies.



Management Eduardo VieitasCEO

T. 351 218 230 [email protected]

HeadquartersRua Central Park, nº 6 – 3º C2795-242 Linda-a VelhaT. 351 218 230 579

[email protected]

www.itpeople.pt


IT people Consulting is a technology company specialized in the areas of

application, development, systems administration, databases and integra-

tion of technologies. Created the first application in the world that helps

color blind people to identify the colors and a platform that offer services

through the augmented reality technology.

IT People also created the Movie Shirt technology to provide a personal

experience of contact with augmented reality.



Management Jorge Sá Couto CHAIRMAN

HeadquartersRua da Guarda, 6754455-466 Perafita T. 351 229 993 999

[email protected]

www.mymagalhaes.com


J. P. Sá Couto is a company dedicated to the design, development and

distribution of technological solutions and leader of a pioneering

reference initiative for IT-based education. The company created Magalhães,

a laptop especially developed for the use in all Portuguese public schools.


J. P. Sá Couto is one of the largest original equipment manufacturers

worldwide to deploy Intel Classmate based educational netbooks.

Management António Fonseca CEO [email protected]

HeadquartersRua Heróis de Mucaba, 324470-056 MaiaT. 351 229 023 868

[email protected]

www.masterguardian.com


Almost 28 years ago, MasterGuardian

introduced in the international market the first

worldwide microprocessor-based car alarm

which has changed the concept of vehicle

protection for ever. After that, the first

fingerprint alarm system and the innovative

MGC WEB alarm incorporating a web server,

used by over a million users, were the

strongest help to became Portugal the world

leader in biometric identification solutions.


Management João NetoADMINISTRATOR

HeadquartersCentro Empresarial da Lionesa 4250-151 PortoT. 351 229 059 300

[email protected]

www.ndrive.com


NDrive is a worldwide provider of navigation services to mobile platforms.

NDrive`s navigation software is running on Android, iOS and WinCE

platforms. The company created the world`s first GPS navigation system

with aerial photographs.

Two very successful projects of NDrive with French Yellow Pages and with

Portuguese Telecom, Mappy GPSFree and TMN Drive, are remarkable

solutions, which combined the common features of navigation software

with premium content.


Management Luís Paulo SalvadoPRESIDENT

HeadquartersAv. D. João II, Lote 1.03.2.3 Parque das Nações1998-031 LisboaT. 351 213 836 300

[email protected]

www.novabase.pt


Novabase is the Portuguese leader in IT services.

It boasts more than 2,000 talented and

dedicated employees of 17 different nationalities.

Novabase’s vision is to make life simpler and

happier for people and businesses, through

technology. In the past 3 years, it has invested

more than €25 million in research & development

for specialized products and services in the

Telecoms & Media, Financial Services, Government,

Healthcare & Transportation, Energy & Utilities

and Manufacturing & Services sectors. Its

current business lines are Business Solutions,

Infrastructures & Managed Services and

Venture Capital.



Management

José Serra

CHAIRMAN

HeadquartersOlisipo Formação e Consultoria em T ecnologias de Informação S.A. Av. 5 de Outubro, 293, 4º1600-035 LisboaT. 351 217 983 103

[email protected]

www.olisipo.pt


Olisipo is a Portuguese company specialized in the outsourcing of

information technology and communications specialists. As well as the

outsourcing of specialists, its wide range of nearshore services includes,

managed services, software testing, persistent penetration security

testing and M2M solutions.

Olisipo has also an ambitious I&D program that has given rise to various

disruptive services, among which stand out the True-Kare

(www.true-kare.com), Keep-It-Secure24

(www.keepitsecure24.com) and EyeSee (www.eyesee.pt). Olisipo is the

only Portuguese company on the IT sector to be distinguished for two

consecutive years in the top of the “500 Growth Companies in Europe”,

ranked 63 in the ranking of 500 European companies that generated

sustainable growth and contributed to most job creation on the 29

European countries. The company received the “Best Human Resources

Provider 2012” award, promoted by the Portuguese Association of

Human Resources Managers and Specialists.



Management Zeinal BavaCEO

HeadquartersRua Engº Jose Ferreira Pinto Basto3810-106 AveiroT. 351 234 403 200

[email protected]

www.ptinovacao.pt


Portugal Telecom is a global telecommunications operator with 100

million clients worldwide. In Portugal, where it holds a leading position,

has a diversified business portfolio in which quality and innovation are

decisive aspects, alongside the most advanced international companies in

this sector. The company’s activity covers every segment of the

telecommunications sector: fixed, mobile, multimedia, data and corporate

solutions. These telecommunications and multimedia services are

available in Portugal, Brazil and Africa.

The company’s growth has been consolidating through the development

of new business in areas of rapid growth, for example mobile voice, data

and cloud services, multimedia and broadband internet access. With this,

Portugal Telecom has contributed to the development of the Information

Society which is a priority for the company in terms of developing


innovative solutions and successfully dealing with the challenges from

both enterprises and citizens.

It has one of the largest, most efficient, and most ecological data centres

in the world in Covilhã, that allows Portugal Telecom to expand its global

positioning in the cloud and data centre services market, leveraging the

group’s international footprint in four continents and its ecosystem of

leading edge partners to also capture business in other geographies.

Portugal Telecom is listed on the Euronext and New York Stock Exchange,

through a full listing of its ADR program, and is present in the reference

Portuguese index and in the benchmark sustainability indexes, DJ

Sustainability and FTSE4GOOD.

Simplex Program is a non stop process since 2006. Is the central policy

programme in Portugal to boost the public services reform. Its core

objective is to facilitate the relationship between citizens and enterprises

with public administration services. In the last years, the Simplex

programme concluded about 800 simplification measures of

administrative and legislative simplification or e-Government measures.

Main technological products of Simplex

Citizen Card - It`s the portuguese electronic identity card that provides

visual identity authentication with increased security and electronic

identity authentication using biometrics and electronic signatures.

Portuguese electronic passport (PEP) - The PEP represents the

beginning of a new generation of electronic documents and adheres to

the most rigorous security patterns. It preserves the features of the

current passport in the identification of its holder, but integrates

innovative devices ranging from facial recognition to the incorporation of

a contactless chip.

Online startup a company - The initiative “Empresa na Hora” became

possible the incorporation of several public services to startup a company

in a single electronic counter.

Taxes Portal - The Portuguese Taxes Portal is probably one of the most

visited public websites at the national level. In the portal, and as a result

of several years of improvements, the citizen or enterprise can develop

electronically all services related to taxes.

Social Security Portal - Allows the consultation of plenty of information

about the diversity of issues covered by social security services and is

equipped with several transactional services.

Zero Licensing Programme - The Portuguese “Zero Licensing”

Programme is one of the most representative initiatives of the

eGovernment agenda. Its main objective is to considerably simplify the

licensing procedures necessary to carry out several economic activities by

reducing red tape through an electronic point of single contact.



Management João Pavão Martins CHAIRMAN

Headquarters

Campo Grande, 378 – 3º1700-097 LisboaT. 351 217 529 100

[email protected]

www.siscog.pt


SISCOG develops software for resource planning and management in

transportation companies, namely for staff, timetables (track&time) and

equipment.

Systems developed by SISCOG offer different levels of decision support

and are in daily use in companies such as the London Underground and

the national railways of Denmark, Finland, Norway and The Netherlands.


Management Pedro PintoCEO

HeadquartersInstituto Pedro NunesRua Pedro Nunes3030-199 CoimbraT. 351 239 700 322

[email protected]

www.takethewind.com


Take the Wind provides scientific technology enabled solutions and

services to drive programs for well-being, active healthcare or problem

prevention.

The high-tech solutions health platforms of Take The Wind actively help

the prevention of disease, particularly cardiovascular conditions and

diabetes or to support and monitor the pregnancy.



Management Pedro SinogasCHAIRMAN

HeadquartersRua das Musas, 3.301990-113 LisboaT. 351 213 304 300

[email protected]

www.tekever.com


Tekever Group develops innovative technologies for the aerospace,

defense and security markets. The Group`s activities are organized in the

information technology and aerospace, defense and security divisions.

The focus of Tekever is improve the way organizations work and people

live providing products that combine mobile technologies, wireless

communications, location awareness, distributed computing and artificial

intelligence.


Management João Noéme CEO

[email protected]

HeadquartersParque Empresarial de Torres VedrasLote nº A1, Armazém 12560-383 Torres VedrasT. 351 261 311 552

[email protected]

www.uavision.com


UAVision creates innovative solutions to

aeronautics, earthscience and industrial sectors.

The focus of aeronautics division is the

development of small unmanned aerial

vehicles and UAV/UAS systems for civilian

usage.

In earthscience, UAVision is specialized in

monitoring system (soil moisture water content

probes, weather station, water quality probes)

and automation (electro-valves control)

integrated in a web-based software to monitor

and control the field in real time. The industrial

sector is focused in the development of

engineering and integration projects according

to customer needs, in the fields of electronics,

aeronautics and mechanics. UAVision has the

capability to develop from scratch to the final

prototype, and to include the production and/

or production processes.



Management António Nunes de Sousa CHAIRMAN

HeadquartersQuinta da Torre da Aguilha2785-599 S. Domingos de RanaT. 351 707 500 900

[email protected]

www.viaverde.pt


Via Verde is a pioneering system created by Brisa, which enables tolls to

be paid without stopping, vehicles to be refuelled and car parks to be

used without having to waste time paying.

The Via Verde system was the first to be universally applied to all the tolls

in a country and is already used in Brazil and United States.


Management Bento Correia CEO

[email protected]

HeadquartersRua Casal do Canas, 2Zona Industrial de Alfragide2790-204 AlfragideT. 351 211 543 900

[email protected]

www.vision-box.com


Founded in 2001, Vision-Box® is the leading provider of and electronic

identity solutions and automated border control systems that use ICAO

compliant standards.

Covering the entire ID management life cycle, Vision-Box delivers for

governments and issuing authorities solutions ranging from live

biometric enrolment stations, document verification kiosks, digital

document dispensers and personalization systems.

The border control portfolio aimed at airports, airlines and Immigration

authorities, includes solutions addressing different business scenarios,

namely security check-points, self-boarding and automated border

control smart biometric eGates.

From the enrolment process, through the life cycle process of a biometric

document and finally to the verification and identification process, all

products are linked together through a powerful IT-platform, vb i-shield®.

Vision-Box’s vb i-shield®, which enables the implementation of an

advanced border management system, also integrates with advanced

digital video management solutions, intelligent biometric and biographic

search engines and danger management functionalities.

Vision-Box® operates automated borders in more than 30 international

airports and over 3.000 electronic identity systems across the globe.



Management Sérgio SilvestreCEO

[email protected]

HeadquartersEdifício Picoas PlazaRua do Viriato, 13 E Núcleo 6 – 4º andar1050-233 LisboaT. 351 210 111 400

www.wedotechnologies.com


WeDo Technologies is a worldwide leader in revenue and business

assurance, providing software and expert consultancy, to intelligently

analyze large quantities of data from across an organization helping

to negate or minimize operational or business inefficiencies and

allowing businesses to achieve significant return on investment via

revenue protection and cost savings.

WeDo Technologies works with some of the world`s leading blue chip

companies from retail, energy and finance industries.



Management Luís SilvaCEO

HeadquartersCentro de Empresas de TaveiroEstrada de Condeixa3045 – 508 TaveiroT. 351 239 801 030

[email protected]

www.wit-software.com


WIT is a software development company specialized in rich and unified

communications for Mobile Operators and Mobile Internet companies.

WIT was established in 2001, and has customers in over 15 countries,

including major operators such as Vodafone, Telefónica, Orange,

Deutsche Telekom and TeliaSonera.


Management António CâmaraCHAIRMAN

[email protected] HeadquartersMadan Parque-Sul, Quinta da TorreEdifício Ydreams2825-149 CaparicaT. 351 210 314 000

www.ydreams.com


Ydreams is an interactive technology company which combines art,

design and technology to create immersive experiences, interactive

architecture and innovative solutions that are helping people to redefine

the way to interact with information and contents.

The main activity of Ydreams, over the past decade, is the development

of full-scale interactive environments with a special focus on augmented

reality.


Rua Júlio Dinis, nº 748, 8º Dtº 4050-012 Porto - PORTUGAL

T. 351 217 909 500 T. 351 226 055 300

[email protected]

www.portugalglobal.pt

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