Business TIC’08, a B2B conference organised for and by information and communication technology companies with the aim of stimulating business, cooperation and transactions, was held in Seville on 6th and 7th February.

The event was organised around five work areas: Business round, Outsourcing Market, ICT Cluster, R&D&i funding and Partners Meeting Point.

MP presented its “Sustainable Construction and ICTs” project at the event. The presentation focused on the global problem of SUSTAINABILITY, which plays an important role in CONSTRUCTION. The Integral Building Solution is the competitive implementation mechanism for sustainability in construction, and requires the sharing of multiple technologies which, operating in coordination with each other, optimise end solutions which can be generally applied to buildings. ICTs act as a fundamental tool for defining these solutions in two different ways: by providing functions that are valuable in themselves (internal networks, home and building automation, IT systems), and by acting as an agent for the INTEGRATION AND OPTMISATION of other subsystems in the building. MP is proposing a model for bringing together technologies and partial solutions, which if integrated properly, address the significant challenge of the “INTELLIGENT” SUSTAINABLE BUILDING, not as a one-off solution, but rather a standard, generally-applied solution.

Within Partners Meeting Point, MP SYSTEMS gave a presentation on its ERP MIC 2000 which is aimed at attracting distribution channels and partners in the integration of specific solutions for vertical markets.

The presentation proposed a management software approach for companies split into types: standard ERP software and personalised management software, which traditionally has not covered all the areas required or has suffered from the problem of significant technological differences between some applications and others; issues which have changed substantially in recent times. Today, the concept of ERP is based on: ERPs for (large, medium and small) companies, verticalized solutions for specific sectors, and ERPs based on free software or “owner” software.

For one day and a half, the event brought together over 200 companies and university research groups from the national ICT sector.

Business TIC 08 has successfully combined informative sessions and business and networking opportunities, theory and practice, and concepts which had not been expressed thus far in such a structured and natural manner in other business conferences. Attendees were able to enjoy presentations from high-level and prominent businesspeople, such as the Vice-President of EMEA of INTEL CO., from national experts such as the Deputy Director General of IT Companies of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, Víctor Izquierdo, Jesús Banqueri, Director of Innovation and Technology of the agency IDEA, and Ramón Tamames, economist and professor of the EU Jean Monnet Programme.