06/02/2007

AlmavivA, Microsoft and UniCredit Banca d’Impresa develop together a new range of services and technological resources for Italian SMEs 

 

 

A press conference was held at the Spazio Sironi venue at Piazza Cavour, Milan, to present ImpresaDinamica, the new range of services for Businesses developed by AlmavivA – The Italian Innovation Company, in partnership with Microsoft® and UniCredit Banca d’Impresa.

 

The conference was attended by Alberto Tripi (Chairman, AlmavivA), Gianni Camisa (CEO, AlmavivA), Marco Comastri (CEO, Microsoft Italia), Mario Aramini (General Manager, UniCredit Banca d’Impresa), Francesco Bellotti (Chairman, Confindustria’s  SME Credit Committee).

 

The AlmavivA Group, highly committed to developing a new approach to the SME market, has entered into a partnership with Microsoft and UniCredit Banca d’Impresa to launch the new ImpresaDinamica range, with the aim of becoming partners in innovation and enhancing the competitive edge of their Customers.

 

The three companies have identified interesting opportunities in the business market and, in particular, with respect to the supply of ASP (Application Service Providing) based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, spanning the principal management needs of businesses and targeting Italian SMEs in particular, which range goes under the name of Axeleration and will be available, through the Web, at the www.impresadinamica.it website.

 

Accounting, Finance, Governance, Production, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources, Business Intelligence and integration with corporate banking: these are the fields that ImpresaDinamica Axeleration has been designed to automate and integrate with business process tools.

 

Axeleration combines the dependability and functional completeness of the Microsoft Dynamics AX™ solution and AlmavivA’s applications outsourcing and business process expertise. The service includes integration with UniCredit Banca d’Impresa’s cutting-edge UNIWEB corporate banking solution at no extra cost.

 

The service is very cost-effective because it is based on a pay-per-use system, already adopted for Application Service Providing (ASP), under which the Customer does not purchase the applications but hires them, as part of a package, for a fixed monthly fee. By switching over to the AlmavivA ASP, which acts as a go-between with the software/hardware manufacturer, Customers can also phase out their internal IT system and cut down on the costs involved in technological upgrading.

 

Axeleration is a modular solution that businesses can use to build up the system’s user functionalities rapidly and easily, over time, based on their needs and dimensions. The service comes complete with suitable security measures for the applications, thanks to the assistance and training offered by ImpresaDinamica and the Partner network, which provides the local resources for project implementation (Customer requirement analysis, parameterizing, data migration, local assistance, integration with previous software, local hardware).

 

From a technological perspective, Businesses may access more sophisticated, cutting-edge and performance-enhancing technologies, with significant effects on their output and the guarantee that their applications will be continuously upgraded, thus reducing system crash problems and automatic data back-up.

 

With ImpresaDinamica, SMEs can finally access Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in a simple, flexible and cost-effective manner, acquiring an indispensable competitive lever and accelerator for business development and competitiveness, which, to date, had been precluded to them due to the high investment and management costs entailed.

 

ImpresaDinamica is a range of cutting-edge solutions and services designed to meet the needs of businesses based on easily accessible and streamlined technologies. ImpresaDinamica can improve the market efficiency and reactivity of SMEs, with immediate returns on investment and easy access to credit. ImpresaDinamica transforms innovation into a safe and profitable investment in both the short and longer term.

 

 

STATEMENT by Mr. ALBERTO TRIPI:
“This offering for SMEs – said Mr. Alberto Tripi, Chairman of AlmavivA – is the first result of the partnership launched in October 2005 after my meeting, in Milan, with Bill Gates. The new range of services developed by AlmavivA, Microsoft and UniCredit Banca d’Impresa, targets 96% of small and medium enterprises, which represent the backbone of the Italian economy. To grow and compete, businesses are increasingly in need of innovation and know how: ImpresaDinamica – a unique range of services – has been developed precisely for this purpose, radically streamlining the management of corporate processes by providing turnkey services tailored to the needs of Italian SMEs.
AlmavivA wishes to become its Customer’s partner for innovation and competitiveness also in this important sector of the country’s social and economic fabric.”

STATEMENT by Mr. MARCO COMASTRI:
“Small and medium enterprises – observed Mr. Marco Comastri, CEO of Microsoft Italia – are a strength of our entrepreneurial world and are at the forefront, worldwide, for creativity, flexibility, quality and production innovation. Our enterprises, after having developed new strategies in recent years, in response to the changed market dynamics such as internationalisation and the competition of emerging countries, must now learn to go a step further, with the support of ICT technologies, to achieve the productivity levels that are necessary to further enhance their business model. Our task, also thanks to the partnerships such as the one announced today with AlmavivA and Unicredit Banca d’Impresa, is to make available to entrepreneurs increasingly user-friendly, effective and customized technological solutions.”

COMMENT BY UNICREDIT BANCA D’IMPRESA:
“Achieving innovation in the non-financial services sector.”
Why is UBI in a partnership with Microsoft and AlmavivA to supply ERP services?
UniCredit Banca d'Impresa has been strongly convinced, for quite a while now, of the strategic importance of the role of business support and assistance along the entire financial value chain of its customers.
It intends to act as an innovatory partner focusing on its customers, also with respect to non strictly financial matters.
Therefore, we believe that the offering, developed with our partners, of this cutting-edge management system, delivered in an innovatory and highly integrated manner with our e-banking services, may represent a fundamental support to the growth and development of enterprises.”

 

AlmavivA S.p.A
Antonio Di Raimondo
External Relations
Tel. 06 3993 3596
e-mail: a.diraimondo@almavivaitalia.it
www.almavivaitalia.it

 

Microsoft    
Vincenzo Cosenza   
Public Relations   
Tel. 02 70392059   
e-mail: msstampa@microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com/italy/stampa  

 

Hill & Knowlton
Laura Galbiati
Tel. 02 319141
e-mail:  lgalbiati" data-dominio1="hillandknowlton.com
www.hillandknowlton.com

 

UniCredit Banca d’Impresa
Michele Velo
External Relations
Tel. 045 8081108
e-mail: michele.velo";}unicreditimpresa.it
www.unicreditimpresa.it