Parma & its enterprises

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Information and Communication Technology services I CT in the Parma area grew as the sector acquired importance. Its first steps date back to 1952, when the Accounting Center for the Banca Commerciale Italiana, an important Italian bank, was set up.

The adaptability of their offer to specific wishes and needs is one of their strong suits; the will to provide their customers with tailored solutions is present in their development and production of systems, programs and specific ICT tools based on their customers’ needs and wishes. Their primary activity involves designing corporate- specific software, service providing, data security, projecting and implementing a wide range of internet services, sites and portals, data communications andmultimedia services, including promotion, marketing, company budgeting, finance and treasury programs. Technical assistance and training is readily available from these firms, for both company and private citizens. The good tradition and deep experience in this sector often bring up good results; the world leader in mobile phone contents is a company hailing from Parma.

From the beginning of the 1960s to the 1980s, accounting and data processing centers (especially supporting bank and their activities) made up the bulk of the ICT activities in our area; later, between the 1980s and the 1990s, often after previous experiences in the field, smaller firms have sprung up, focusing their activity on researching and developing specific programs. Such software houses mostly centered their activity on providing highly specific and specialized solutions to the most important productive realities of our area, most of all in the agrifood and food processing equipment sectors. There are several dozen companies active in this sector (usually small or medium in size) providing high added value.

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