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Group

The Group is a technological centre comprising of companies and specialists operating in different ICT fields that are intended for Public Administration, Finance, Companies and Health markets.

The companies forming part of the group are listed below:

Unimatica S.p.A
Logital S.p.A
Regulus S.r.l
WindOpen S.r.l
Consorzio Aurora

Unimatica S.p.A started in 2000 from Logital and the University of Bologna with the objective of designing and marketing IT applications based on the use of digital signature. The recording system used in UniWex university exams is "the first Italian application to use digital signature according to AIPA standards" and it is therefore recognised as legally valid by the Italian Government. Other important creations include the Unimoney system for managing digitally signed orders for payments and for collections between public bodies and Bank's Treasurers and the Uniarc system for managing, digitizing and storing legal documents.

Founded in 1990 as Plc, Logital S.p.A. turned into a Joint Stock Company in 2000, with the admission of shareholders from the Monrif Group, an editorial company that owns newspapers such as Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione and Il Giorno. Always oriented towards innovative technological solutions, both hardware and software, Logital consolidated several products and solutions in the fields of safety (Guardian), access control and production control. Recently it created the WOB product, which is an innovative video information system that can be installed on means of transport (buses, undergrounds, trains, ships) able to receive contents via Ian WiFi rather than via GPRS, and, in the future, via UMTS.

Regulus S.r.l started in Bologna in 1981. The company specializes in building software solutions that allow local Public Administration Authorities to provide their services through traditional and innovative means, with special reference to e-government, e-money and self-service vending machines. In particular, Regulus on-line payments and collection platform has over one hundred clients spread throughout the national territory. Among these are People, CiTel, EtnaWeb, FROM-CI SC, SISFI.

WindOpen S.r.l started in 2005 with a proposal by Newco in the context of the ICT@Bologna project, which was one of the few loans granted by the Council of Bologna. Today WindOpen's objective is to create a suite of products for companies on the basis of Open Source, both in Microsoft and Linux environments and safety applications for privates based on IPCAM and low cost WiFi systems.

Aurora is a non-profit association of agencies aiming to promote and support companies interested in starting technological renovation projects in order to transform themselves into e-businesses. Joining the consortium allows companies to start renovation projects and to access loans for the improvement of their productive, commercial and administrative processes. In fact, e-businesses are vital in the new competitive challenge that all companies are faced with in a globalized market. This does not simply entail uploading a web-site or portal for e-commerce purposes, but implies changing the roots of company's productive and organizational processes by automating and digitizing them.