From patrick.schouller@inria.fr Thu Jan  7 17:20 MET 1999
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:11:22 +0100 (CET)
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From: Patrick Schouller 
Subject: SINGULAR SA, SOCIETE GRECQUE DE LOGICIELS CHERCHE PARTENAIRES
  POUR IST Systems and services for the citizen 	Development of new,
  user-friendly and interoperable services and solutions in the fields
  of health, administrations, environment, transport and tourism. New
  methods of work and electronic commerce 	Application of new practices
  and methods affecting the way people trade and work, based on
  technologies that SINGULAR is already deploying: Business process
  modelling, enterprise management, electronic and internet data
  interchange. Multimedia contents and tools 	Development of innovative
  solutions in the areas of human language technologies, content
  management, access and digital preservation of Cultural Heritage.
  Essential Technologies and Infrastructures	Development, deployment and
  operation of platforms supporting component-based software engineering
  and knowledge-based methods and tools.

MEFI-SEI-DiGITIP-STSI-SDPP-PS-1999-007

SINGULAR S.A is the leading company in Greece in the area of design,
development, implementation and support of  integrated  business software
packages and the leading Greek provider of integrated solutions  in the IT
market.
SINGULAR was established in 1984 having as its initial objective to produce
and market  business software packages, in order to cover the increasing
needs for automated transactional processing solutions, especially in the
areas of accounting and finance.
Today, SINGULAR is established in three locations in Greece (Athens,
Thessaloniki and Patras) as well as in Sofia, Bulgaria and Bucarest,
Romania.  More than 350 employees generate an annual turnover of more than
15 million USD.
SINGULAR is currently the leading Greek software producer with a solid base
of 30,000 clients, serviced by the widest and most efficient network of
qualified representatives throughout Greece and the Balkans.
The company offers wide range of software solutions, from business packages
(Financial, Enterprise Resource Planning, Retail, Payroll) to large scale
integrated solutions, taking advantage of the most recent developments in
IT. Furthermore, SINGULAR is committed to the development of advanced
software solutions: multi-tier, distributed, object-oriented,
internet-enabled systems form the company's portfolio.
What we can offer
The R&D departments in SINGULAR group span their projects over a wide
spectrum of research areas, covering software technologies, data and
knowledge bases, advanced internet technologies and specific application
domains.
SINGULAR specialises and provides innovative R&D services in the following
areas:
m Highly complex Transactional Software Systems in the areas of Industry,
Business, Finance, Insurance, Health and Public Administration.
m Innovative communication technologies supporting Business Applications
(EDI, Electronic Commerce, Internet, Intranet, Extranet) in commerce and
tourism.
m New software methodologies and tools in the areas of object-oriented
software, enterprise modelling, requirements specification.
m Exploration of new application domains for high-end IT solutions.
m Consulting in the fields of international cooperation, know-how transfer
and deployment of IT solutions worldwide.
What is our Experience
SINGULAR has accumulated significant experience in Information Technology
through three main activities:
m Implementation of innovative solutions in real-life projects for the Greek
Public and Private sector - from transactional and data mining applications
for massive data handling to E-commerce and web-based applications.
m Internal R&D projects, exploring the edge of software development
practices and tools (distributed OO technologies, CASE and meta-CASE
environments, modelling methodologies, knowledge management and reuse in
software)
m European Commission co-funded R&D and consulting projects (ESPRIT, ESSI,
INCO, NOW, YOUTHSTART,  PHARE, among them) as well as Greek Government
regulated R&D projects.
What are our R&D Interests within IST
The Information Society Technologies (IST) programme, offers the best
opportunity for strengthening the collaboration of research institutes,
universities, IT&C companies and final users.  Under the framework of IST,
SINGULAR is determined to develop innovative products and services and
undertake leading-edge technology and consulting projects.  More
specifically SINGULAR focuses at the following IST actions and topics:

Systems and services for the citizen
	Development of new, user-friendly and interoperable services and solutions
in the fields of health, administrations, environment, transport and tourism.
New methods of work and electronic commerce
	Application of new practices and methods affecting the way people trade and
work, based on technologies that SINGULAR is already deploying: Business
process modelling, enterprise management, electronic and internet data
interchange.
Multimedia contents and tools
	Development of innovative solutions in the areas of human language
technologies, content management, access and digital preservation of
Cultural Heritage.
Essential Technologies and Infrastructures	Development, deployment and
operation of platforms supporting component-based software engineering and
knowledge-based methods and tools.

SINGULAR is eager to share its R&D efforts with partners from other EU and
Non-member countries, forming powerful consortia with a vision to success.
How you can contact us

The European R&D and Commercial Projects division of SINGULAR can be reached
at the following points shown below. Also, by visiting www.singular.gr.
 Dr. Yannis Charalabidis,
Singular S.A.
Alexandras Av. 29, 11473 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-6479600   Fax: +30-1-6457319  E-mail: yannisx@singular.gr

Ms. Effie Vlahopoulou,
Singular Northern Greece S.A.
Dodekanissou Str. 10a, 54626 Thessaloniki Tel: +30-31-253160   Fax: +30-31-
518296
E-mail: effie@thessal.singular.gr


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                        Patrick SCHOULLER
      MINISTERE DE L'ECONOMIE, DES FINANCES ET DE L'INDUSTRIE
                SECRETARIAT D'ETAT A L'INDUSTRIE
Direction Generale de l'Industrie, des Technologies de l'Information et des
Postes
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