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Asseco Poland S.A. signed an agreement with the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMWM) to develop and implement the IT System for Quality Control of Hydrological and Meteorological Measurements and Hydrological Forecasts, expand the Customer Service System, as well as to create and implement the Central Historical Database. The contract value exceeds the amount of PLN 25 million (gross).Implementation of the system will enable centralization of all the key data generated by individual function systems used at IMWM, also providing for the unification of access and better storage security of such data. The system also aims to improve the quality of hydrological forecasts prepared and to streamline the distribution of products developed for IMWM's customers. The system will be built on a centralized architecture, matching the latest standards of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and using the enterprise service bus (ESB).Under this project Asseco Poland will furthermore supply the necessary hardware infrastructure, install third-party software, conduct a pre-deployment analysis, implement five modules of the system, and provide appropriate user training."We feel honoured that IMWM, acting in accordance with the World Bank procedures, has chosen our company to implement such a mission-critical system. Floods, which occur more and more frequently in our country, have emphasized the need for using an efficient and reliable system capable of processing the data on actual water levels and rainfall forecasts. Implementation of the new system will significantly enhance the quality of hydrological forecasting, and improve the distribution of information to adequate state services, local authorities, other public organizations as well as to the public. This is our first large size project for IMWM and we hope it will bring a lot of satisfaction to our client, thereby triggering further long-term cooperation within the supply and maintenance of customer-tailored systems," says Witold Malina, Managing Director of the Agriculture Division at Asseco Poland S.A.The planned project duration is one and a half years (the contract also provides for a three-year warranty period).

OTAGO, a subsidiary of the Asseco Group, concluded a contract with the Municipal Office of Piła for supply and implementation of the Integrated Municipal Management Information System.
The implementation will cover the main areas of operations of the Municipal Office in Piła, including accounting and finance, budgeting, financial forecasting, human resources and payroll, taxes and non-tax charges, population records, and the records of land and buildings.The system will not only support the work of employees at the Municipal Office, but it will also enable communication with its subordinate units. Within the implementation process, OTAGO's specialists will migrate data from the Office's legacy software systems and train their staff to use the newly installed software. The implementation project is expected to be completed by 30 June 2012.Zakład Usług Informatycznych OTAGO Sp. z o.o. employs nearly 90 people in the cities of Gdańsk, Łódź, Cracow, and Katowice, and provides IT services throughout the country. For twenty years, OTAGO has been engaged solely in the development and implementation of software solutions to support the work of local administration. The company is the creator and owner of the OTAGO Integrated Municipal Management Information System. Among the company's clients are most of larger Polish cities such as Warsaw, Gdańsk, Cracow, Łódź, Wrocław, Szczecin and Bydgoszcz, as well as medium-sized cities such as Zabrze, Toruń, Ruda Śląska, Rzeszów, Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Starogard Gdański, Piaseczno, Skierniewice, and Łowicz. OTAGO has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Asseco Poland S.A. since 2009.

The Regional Medical Information System (RMIS) is the first IT system in Poland that is going to link all the healthcare facilities subordinate to a provincial self-government. It will allow easier access to medical services for patients as well as more effective management for hospitals.The project cost exceeds PLN 40 million, of which 75 percent will be financed by the European Union. The implementation of RMIS has been divided into two stages. The first involves the construction of an appropriate network infrastructure, installation of hardware and software in 24 healthcare facilities located across Łódź Province. In the second stage, a medical portal will be created, enabling patients to get quick information about the availability of medical professionals they are looking for. Another important functionality of the portal will be to keep records indicating the place where each patient’s treatment dossier is stored.The contract, whereby Asseco Poland is going to provide the network infrastructure, has been officially signed today at the Marshal's Office in Łódź. The company’s specialists will construct the passive infrastructure, including fiber optic connections between buildings and structured cabling, modernize the server rooms, as well as they will install all active devices needed for the local ICT networks at particular healthcare centers. They will be also responsible for the purchase and installation of a VoIP system, which is much cheaper to operate than traditional telephony.The project will require laying a total of 6706 lines of structured cabling. Asseco Poland will provide 13 VoIP centers and 1500 VoIP-enabled phones. Furthermore, the company will equip 23 server rooms with the systems of emergency power supply, monitoring and security, and air conditioning."Being entrusted with laying the network foundation for the nationwide pioneering RMIS project is a great recognition for our company. We have extensive experience both in the construction of network infrastructure as well as in upgrading server rooms. Furthermore, we performed the largest and most technologically advanced IP telephony system implementation for the local government administration in Poland, namely for the Warsaw City Hall," Wojciech Woźniak, Vice President of Asseco Poland, said in a statement after signing the contract.The contract received by Asseco Poland is worth more than PLN 10 million net, and the company has eight months to complete the assigned work.nate to a provincial self-government.

The Asseco Group earned PLN 291 million in net profit for the first three quarters of 2011. Operating profit amounted to PLN 504 million, while consolidated revenues reached PLN 3.52 billion on a significant increase in sales of proprietary software and services.Sales revenues surged to PLN 3.52 billion or by 61 percent as compared to PLN 2.19 billion reported for the first nine months of 2010. In the first three quarters of 2011, the Asseco Group generated PLN 2.57 billion in sales of own software and services, surpassing the corresponding year-ago figure by nearly 80 percent. Operating profit climbed to PLN 504 million and improved by 22 percent over PLN 413 million achieved last year. The Group earned a net profit of PLN 291 million as compared with PLN 315 million posted in 2010.The Asseco Group is effective in pursuing its strategy to boost financial results by promoting sales of its proprietary IT solutions. In the first three quarters of 2011, sales of own software and services accounted for 73 percent of the total turnover; whereas, a year ago such contribution equalled 65 percent. Sales revenues were well diversified among our individual target sectors: industrial enterprises – 43 percent, banking and finance – 33 percent, and public administration – 24 percent.Our strategy aiming to increase the share of proprietary solutions in total revenues is favourably reflected in the industry rankings and competitions. The Asseco Group ranked seventh in the prestigious Truffle100 report, presenting a list of top 100 European software vendors in 2010, and advanced by one position as compared to the last year's result. The first place, just as a year ago, was taken by SAP, followed by Dessault Systems, and Sage closing the top three. More information on the ranking is available at www.truffle100.com

Asseco ranked seventh in the prestigious Truffle100 report containing a list of top 100 software vendors in Europe.Asseco's seventh place is an advance by one position as compared to the last year's ranking. This was achieved owing to the Group's excellent financial performance in 2010 when it collected EUR 516 million from sales of software, out of the total revenues of EUR 808 million. Furthermore, the Group earned EUR 103 million in net profit.The Truffle100 ranking is prepared under the auspices of the European Commission and it discusses the market of Europe's major software producers. The group of leaders is headed by Germany's SAP with EUR 12.3 billion in software revenues, followed by France's Dassault Systèmes (EUR 1.5 billion) and Britain's Sage (EUR 1.5 billion). The ranking is dominated by companies from the UK, France and Germany.Combined revenues from sales of software generated by all the firms included in the 2010 listing reached EUR 30.9 billion, this is over EUR 3 billion more than in 2009. Whereas, 52 per cent of such total turnover was generated by the ten largest players. In 2010, R&D spending of all the Truffle100 companies reached EUR 4.4 billion in aggregate, improving by 15 per cent in comparison with 2009.More info: http://www.truffle100.com/2011/ranking.php

The Institute of Economics at the Polish Academy of Sciences prepared a ranking of Poland's most innovative companies. Subsequently, Wprost weekly magazine awarded twenty-one of them with the Innovator of 2011 statuettes.Asseco Poland was named the fourth most innovative Polish company, while Asseco South Eastern Europe took a high, eleventh place."The creation of proprietary software applications requires a continuing commitment to conceptual and development work, especially that Asseco Poland generates as much as 64% of total revenues from the sale of own software and services. We also appreciate the importance of academic knowledge in creating our innovative solutions. Therefore, we cooperate with numerous universities and research institutes. Such collaboration usually results in the development of purely commercial solutions such as one of the constituent modules of our flagship banking suite def3000, namely Sales Agent Workflow that was built in cooperation with the Rzeszów University of Technology," said Katarzyna Drewnowska, Asseco Poland S.A.The winner of this year's innovation ranking was Polpharma that allocates nearly 6% of its total revenues to R&D work. In aggregate, Wprost weekly awarded twenty-one of Poland's most innovative companies, often owned by the richest Polish businessmen, which were all included in the ranking of the Institute of Economics at the Polish Academy of Sciences.Innovative Companies constitute a cycle of magazine supplements published by Wprost weekly in 2011. The ranking was compiled on the basis of the list of 500 most innovative companies in Poland as prepared by Institute of Economics at the Polish Academy of Sciences.