Against more and more aggressive business competitive contexts, nowadays the priority of companies are focused on:

Increasing individual and business productivity;
Reducing operating costs;
Maximizing human resource and assets;
Increasing both innovative skills and the rhythm of innovations;

It is more and more evident that the essential quality to reach these goals is represented by the corporate ability to make available business data in an approachable and safe way. The purpose is to assure a major productivity and effectiveness, accelerating both communications and collaborations among hived-off business units and team-work groups, and simplifying interactions with clients and real and potential suppliers.

The spreading of Internet, not only to collect data or for communicative purposes, but also to capture users’ new ideas or information (they could be employers, collaborators, clients, suppliers) represents indeed an opportunity that firms have to exploit in order to became flexible, profitable and innovative.

SMC invested on the develop of a new-innovative software solution, called Open Square, which permits an access and the following simply use of corporative and commercial information, both inside and outside the company. The purposes are:
Increasing individual and business productivity and efficiency;
Enabling the individual contribution to improve the processes;
Recognizing and taking advantage of the opportunities related with market changes.

It is true that Internet represents the contemporary industrial revolution, since it permitted widespread (multi-level) interconnections and communications; moreover, strategic and vital information for outcome of a company surfs the net. However, Open Square is the fundamental instrument to catch data, making them available by users or users’ group and – at the same time - simplifying communication, collaboration and the development of internal or external company activities, which could also involve suppliers, branches, costumers or prospects.