QuidNet Glossary

Business Plan | Formalization of the QuidNet partnership | Genio | Key-person | Library of systems | Partners portfolio development | Quidality | QuidNet | QuidNet partners | Training

Business plan

QuidNet business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why we believe they are attainable, and the strategy for reaching those goals. It also contains background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals. QuidNet business plan is a commitment and a decision making tool.

QuidNet business plans contain whatever information is needed to decide whether or not to pursue a goal, involving, in this case, issues such as: expected turnover, growth rates, personnel admission, break-even, area of influence, marketing strategies and upcoming projects.

Formalization of the QuidNet partnership

Quidgest is ready to share risks. That is why we are choosing to invest in a business solution where a new entity is created by both, contributing equity, sharing in revenues and expenses and mutually controlling the new enterprise.

This form of partnership ensures all QuidNet partners intellectual property, without exception, is respected and guaranteed.

Genio

The key for QuidNet’s success is Genio, the automatic software generator developed by Quidgest. Genio is the result of Quidgest’s R&D evolution process, started in 1991. This platform boosts developers’ productivity. Using this technology, Quidgest has developed a high capacity of introducing new specification requirements and providing fast software development.

The platform can be used to build, change, and operate enterprise applications that integrate with other existing systems. This built-to-change approach ensures that applications are constantly aligned with business needs and reflect user feedback, maximizing adoption.

Genio generates solutions that follow an n-tier architecture, separating design, database access and business rules. The platform generates information systems in standard programming languages like Java, C# and C++ and works with the main relational database management systems.

Key-person

A key-person is one that plays an important role in the company. It can be anyone directly associated to it, whose choices can cause financial strain to business, like the company’s director, key sales people, key project managers and people with specific skills or knowledge that are vital to the company.

This person has got to have thorough knowledge of the IT business, thus sharing our flexible and innovative vision of the IT market, in order to take the most out of Genio’s advantages. He will ultimately have to know how to transfer that knowledge to the new QuidNet partnership.

Library of systems

QuidNet partnership is a network where each member is paid to improve the platform and also benefits from the business contacts, know-how and innovation generated by network members.

It will run like a worldwide library where partners can sell and buy solutions or parts of solutions at much competitive costs. If a partner has a new project and needs to add new features to the existing solution, it is much easier and cheaper to access QuidNet solutions library than doing the entire development from scratch. However, we must stress that this will only succeed if all QuidNet partners totally engage in the process of constantly improving software development maturity, using Genio and their own skills to enhance QuidNet’s R&D.

There is also an exchange of sales, leads and business opportunities. There are many international projects that, for financial or distance reasons, may not be interesting to one company in Poland, but that can be an excellent opportunity to a partner from Spain.

Partners' portfolio development

The partner’s key person will finish the intensive training month creating a portfolio made of the systems he was able to build using Genio technology – whether to create his own systems, or to simply adjust other QuidNet members’ systems to his own language, legislation, currency, and so on. This will be a first approach to the possibilities and advantages provided by Genio.

Partners’ initial portfolio has a worth of thousands of euros and includes Balanced Scorecard, CRM, Human Resources, Payroll, Asset Management, and more.

Quidality

Enterprise software development remains the only economic sector where the producer pushes into the market what he wants and within conditions defined by him. It is the last industry where the producer, and not the client, is «king». This cannot last for long.

Quidality is a new standard of corporate software quality that helps create software that fits the customer’s needs, rather than forcing their business to adapt to software impositions.

This “pull” approach inverts the “push” strategy that currently dictates market rules: instead of imposing its products, QuidNet partners will easily create unique systems, adequate for each customer. This is what we call the rule-breaker attitude. To create new concepts, reinventing our sector of activity and breaking the former rules.

At QuidNet, quality is a constant commitment to both Adequacy and Continuous Improvement.

QuidNet

QuidNet consists of a network of companies sharing Genio, our innovative platform of automatic software generation. By sharing Genio, companies are able to deliver technology and services that provide competitive, fast and cost-effective business solutions to their customers.

Our goal is to increase value for clients at a significantly lower price. This project aims to revolutionize the entire software development industry, changing the global development of corporate solutions. It defies in particular the current enterprise software industry leaders, which have strong restrictions, small evolution capacities and low flexibility to generate user-friendly solutions.

QuidNet Partners

In general terms, it can be anyone who wants to actively participate in the technological revolution of our time. Partners must share our vision that “IT matters and is a vital source of competitive advantages for companies”.

Potential QuidNet partners are entrepreneurs, developers eager to start their own business, newly or well established software providers, consultants, consulting companies, training centers, business angels, outsource code providers aiming to create their own software, strategy gurus or IT evangelists.

Training

It consists of four weeks of intensive learning, during which the key staff members gain a deep insight on the following areas:

• Technology and development methods – having access to Genio functionalities, becoming autonomous enough to generate independent solutions, contributing to the platform improvement and receiving a massive technology transfer;

• Business and global marketing policies – making business contacts, having access to sales material and participating in a library of systems, modules and functionalities;

• Quality procedures – benchmarking results and learning about tested methodologies to provide a global and integrated service;

• Support infrastructure – making contact with QuidNet’s help desk, partners’ portal and the on-site assistance procedures;

• Strategic tools – defining strategic goals, critical success factors and key performance indicators, and using Quidgest Balanced Scorecard to map strategy.

This is the moment when partners are able to decide whether to go further with QuidNet or to have an early step-out without further restrictions.

In addition to this initial intensive training, there will be continuous yearly training.