In addition to strengthening the Group’s positions in Latin America and Iberia, and with large Spanish clients brought to us by IECISA, this transaction has enriched our expertise and expanded our catalogue of solutions in various fields such as SAP integration, digital technology, and sectors like transport, mobility, digital identity, and healthcare. This decisive year was to a great extent also marked by the revealing of our new identity on 1 January 2021, when we officially became Inetum.
A name that resembles us and that reflects our values and our DNA – rooted in the Latin word incrementum that means growth, to serve our ambition of economic as well as human development. An ambition brought to life that embodies our vision of Positive digital flow, an identity that reflects our strategy, and a renewed aspiration to take on a technological environment that is constantly on the move – with AI, IoT, 5G, virtual environments, quantum computing, and more.
The Group has demonstrated the resilience of its business model in the face of an unparalleled health crisis. The crisis engendered by the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the resilience of our business model.
Our priority was to protect and safeguard all our employees for instance by maintaining salaries, communicating our solidarity, and providing psychological help, and to implement a set of measures to meet the needs and expectations of our clients – ensuring service continuity for all of them by resorting to telework, and by keeping a physical presence on our and our clients’ premises down to the minimum.
As a company that puts an emphasis on its social responsibility, we once again rose to the occasion for example by mobilizing our expertise and Botfoundry technology to roll out a chatbot that provides the public with information on the COVID-19 pandemic. We are proud also of helping in the fight against the virus through our solutions deployed for instance in public hospitals, private research laboratories, and emergency call management systems. These demonstrate our capacity to respond together, as a Group, to our clients’ expectations through our creativity and ingeniousness to find adequate solutions and – as always – to make a difference.