Combining Technology, Talent and Tolerance (3Ts) in Creative Class of Europe" (Europe in Creative Age, Report by Richard Florida and Irene Tinagli, February 2004)

Business scope: Business/Administrative Process Management (BPM/APM)

Generic Services and Solutions:

Design of organizational processes including activity specification: content, inputs, outputs, activity flows and required resources for their execution.The processes are visualized in so called process maps – maintained in a corporate knowledge-base.
Automation of processes, in whole or in part, where information or tasks are passed from one participant (function) to another, according to certain criteria. A process is a logically related set of workflows, work-steps and tasks which can be sequential or parallel.
Document management solutions providing digital access to documents along the process flow throughout an enterprise. It incorporates capture, workflow, document repositories, archiving, ERM (Enterprise Report Management), output systems and retrieval.
Corporate e-Learning and help desk services
EAI ( Enterprise Applications Integration): integrating workflows, documents and resources with data processing systems of the organisation.
Performance Evaluation process of the organisation by using the Balanced Scorecard methodology.

"Jobs and growth lie in each sector where value can be added through the creation and application of knowledge"

Integrated in a comprehensive process engineering technology of Novitech:

p-Business Ring

Successfully implemented in a wide scope of business and government sectors with impacts on:

• Transparency of processes (who does what?)
• Reducing process transaction times and cost
• Measuring utilisation of resources by process
• Maintaining structured document management
• Improving organisation's flexibility on change

Main Company Data:

• Established in 1989, head office in Košice, Slovakia
• Today the Novitech Group consists of 4 daughter companies, 6 subsidiaries in Slovakia, 1 in Hungary and 1 in Belgium and involves around 200 employees
• Group turnover of 4,7 M Euro in 2004
• 15 years continuous profit record
• Novitech Plc., listed on Bratislava Stock Exchange
• Mr. Attila Tóth - founder and CEO. Novitech (NT) subsidiaries' skill base supporting the core business:

Novitech (NT) subsidiaries' skill base supporting the core business:

• Large scale application software development (NT Tax, NT Zilina, NT B. Bystrica)
• ISP and networking (NT N. Zamky)
• Mobile applications (Novisys)
• Training and eLearning (NT Partner)
• EU project financing (NT Hungary)
• Process management in government (NT Bratislava)
• Workflow and Application Integration (pFlow)
• Support and preparation of EU projects (Novitech Belgium)
• Business Process Management solutions (BPM Consulting).

Important events and targets in 2005:

• Finalisation of eTAX and eVAT web-service solutions and tax reform related projects
• Testing and preparation for production of MIS and ADMIS - General Health Insurance of Slovakia
• Implementation of Farmer Communication System web-service of CAP in SK, CZ, PL and HU
• Implementation of SILC (Statistics of Income and Living Conditions) project in SK
• Implementation of PROPASS (Project Proposal Assistance) project in SK
• Processing of U. S. Steel Kosice delivery invoices based on workflow technology
• Process Management and Strategic Performance Evaluation projects for national and international clients

Research and innovation activities 2004-2005:

• Permanent p-Business Ring technology development within the framework of EU projects
• Novitech Project Portal development
• Development of e-learning applications for Slovak SMEs (www.teledom.sk)
• www.eulobby.net - European lobbying portal
• www.eucom.net - Central European Business Community Portal Key technology partners:

Key technology partners:

• Tibco - Staffware Plc (U.K.) - workflow engines
• QPR Software (Finland) - process design and BSC tools
• IBM (USA) - document management and portal development environments
• SAP (Germany) - in EAI
• TRASK Solutions (CZ) - corporate learning management systems
• DICOM (USA) - scanning and OCR Novitech key clients in 2004-2005:

Novitech key clients in 2004-2005:

• European Commission
• Slovak Tax Authority (Novitech as main application SW developer and integrator since 1994)
• Slovak Health Insurance (BPM, workflow, EAI)
• Orange Slovakia (Process management)
• IBM Slovakia (Document management)
• Slovak Post (Balanced Scorecard)
• U.S. Steel Kosice (Purchasing workflow, EAI)
• Danish Ministry of Taxation and Customs (eGovernment) Contact addresses:

Contact addresses:

Slovakia:
Dr. Attila TÓTH
Moyzesova 58, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
Phone: +421-55-3274491,
Fax: +421-55-6221043
E-mail: toth_attila@novitech.sk

Brussels Liaison office:
Christian D. de FOULOY
Rond Point Schuman 6 Box 5, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 (0) 497-482111
Fax : +32 (0) 2-7421785
E-mail: baiint@chello.be