Created in 1973, Ibermática is a private Spanish Software Engineering Company, with approximately 1000 employees, and an expected turnover for 1999 of 85 Mio EUR. Ibermática's business activity is in consultancy and software services including services such as system planning and assessment, product selection and evaluation, application diagnostics, project development and implementation, system maintenance, training and outsourcing. More than 65% of Ibermática's activities are related to Information Retrieval Systems.

Commercial activity is based on three basic principles:

• to adapt solutions to meet customer needs in the effective use of information and communication systems.
• to act as solution providers, which means delivering the best solution to customer needs (in price, functionality, adaptability, lead-time, etc.).
• to use the most open architectures available that allows re-usability and adaptation to the different hardware and software environment.

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