Indra Sistemas, S.A.

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Profile

Indra is the leading Spanish company in Information Technologies (IT) with more than 6.000 employees. In 2002, the company generated revenues of 882.2 M€ and a backlog of orders in excess of 1.177 M€. Its activities are distributed into three lines of business: Information Technologies, Simulation and Automatic Maintenance Systems, and Defence Electronic Equipment.

Indra's business is based on a market and customer focus accompanied by the creation of the Company's own innovative solutions, paying particular attention to segments showing emerging demand and higher added value and technological content. Indra is an outstanding point of reference on the markets in which it operates, at both national and international level. Present in more than 40 countries on the five continents, 30% of its billing in 2002 came from its international activities.

Role in the project

Indra is the principal developer and integrator in the project. The company leads both workpackages 7 and 8 where the platform and the pilot services will be developed, integrated and deployed. Indra has large experience in this kind of leadership in both national and international environments as well as in commercial and R&D projects, thus guarantying successful results.
Other main tasks addressed by Indra in the project are the analysis, research and description of potential business models under which such a platform and services could be exploited and the research and definition of user-friendly mobile user interfaces.

There are different units of the company, called markets, engaged in the project. The Public Administration and New Operators markets that are client-oriented units, will assure a future exploitation and reuse of the results. On the other hand the Excellence Center devoted to mobile solutions will undertake the main development and integration activities and, finally, the e-Business unit will work in the usability aspects of the user interfaces. The latter unit has a specialized group specifically devoted to user interfaces and content/information architectures.
Needless to say that Indra will also collaborate in the rest of common tasks such as dissemination and promotion of the results.

Key Personnel

Patricio Gil. Graduated as a lawyer at the University of Valencia, has a master degree in corporate law (Instituto de Empresa). He has also several other degrees in subjects such as Finance & Accounting, Corporate Strategy, Human Resources and enterprise management.With more than 14 years experience in consultancy firms, for the last seven years he has been working in the Public Administration sector, Public Postal Operators and International Institutions. He has participated in many different large projects in subjects such as corporate strategy, process reengineering, change management and deployment of IT information systems.

Andrés Lomander. Graduated in 1993 in Business Administration at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid (ICADE) and has Post-graduate studies in 1998 (Master in Sales and Marketing at ESIC, Spain) and in 2000 (e-Marketing and e-Commerce at ICEMD, Spain). From 1993 to 2000 he worked as a Sales & Marketing Manager in the service sector. From 2000 until now he has worked as a Business Consultant in various consulting projects in the field of e-consulting and value added services for mobile operators. Working currently for Indra as a Senior Consultant in the Telecom market and has relevant experience in the field of Mobile Services due to current projects with a Spanish Mobile Operator (Value Added Services and Business Models for Transport and Traffic Market) and former projects related to SFA (Sales Force Automation) and Spanish 3G Operator (inhouse consulting to identify and define both vertical and horizontal Value Added Services for the corporate market).

Antonio Linares. Graduated in 1988 as a Telecommunications Engineer at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. From 1988 to 1992 worked in the UPM for in several European ESPRIT Project (CACTUS, GAUCHO). From 1992 to 1994 he worked in the Software Engineering department of Telefonica I+D. Since 1994 he works for Indra. Currently he has a position as Project Manager for the Mobility Business area of Competence Centers in Indra. He has more than 14 years of experience on dealing with projects related to Communications, Internet, Security and Mobility.
In the last years, he has led several mobility projects for Spanish and foreign customer, including developments for Mobile Phones, PDAs, WAP, SMS, GPRS and Location Based Services (LBS). He has participated in several European Projects, in some of them as technical leader of the Indra team: LOCOMOTION DEDICA, SOSENET, SHINE, CADDIA, etc.