Quidgest
| Company type | S.A. |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial Intelligence Engineering |
| Founded | May 10, 1988 |
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Portugal |
Key people | Cristina Marinhas, CEO
João Paulo Carvalho, Co-founder and Senior Partner Álvaro Damas, Administrator |
| Products | https://quidgest.com/en/global-product-catalogue/ |
Number of employees | 130+ (2024) |
| Website | https://quidgest.com/ |
Quidgest is a global technology company of Portuguese origin, founded in 1988.
A pioneer in software modeling and automatic generation, Quidgest develops complex, urgent, and specific systems that are continuously evolving, flexible, and scalable, through its Generative AI platform – Genio, supporting various technologies and platforms (web, cloud, and mobile).
Partners and large organizations, including governments, multinational corporations, and global multilateral institutions, use Quidgest’s solutions to achieve their digital strategies.
Genio Platform
[edit]Genio is a code modeling and automatic generation platform developed by Quidgest since 1991. This Generative AI platform distinguishes itself from low-code and no-code alternatives through its pattern-based approach and its capability to transform a model into a software solution with exceptional speed and efficiency.
The study "Low-code Development Productivity," published in 2023 in the international journal ACM Queue, revealed that Quidgest’s Genio platform is ten times more productive than other platforms in creating and maintaining software applications.
Global Digital Solutions
[edit]Quidgest’s portfolio includes solutions tailored to diverse market challenges, standing out for their alignment with Gartner's concepts of Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs) and Composable Digital Enterprises.
These are highly customizable, agile solutions available across a wide range of industries (Global Sustainable Development; Central, Regional, and Local Public Administration; Regulation; Banking, Insurance, and Financial Services; Engineering, Energy, and Environment; and Healthcare) and capabilities (Human Resource Management; Finance; Procurement and Assets; Business Process and Document Management; Logistics and Distribution; Production and Core Services; Sales, Customer, and Citizen Relationship Management; Strategy, Quality, and Innovation; Compliance and Risk Management; and IT Development and Management).
All solutions benefit from being developed on Genio, allowing for continuous evolution that adapts to companies' unique procedures, needs, and challenges, unlike other providers who require companies to adapt to software constraints.
A One-Stop-Shop in Management Software
[edit]In 2024, Quidgest released the book "Empower All Your Business Areas with Hybrid Generative AI." This work, written in English with a focus on the global market, addresses the main challenges organizations face today and how an integrated approach with Hybrid Generative AI can empower them across ten functional areas, providing them with a sustainable competitive edge.
In this book, Quidgest, more than a leading Portuguese tech company, presents itself as a universal (one-stop-shop) management software provider, describing the impact of Hybrid Generative AI in each of the functional areas for companies aiming to lead this transformation. The ideas offered deliver optimal solutions for critical issues in the digital economy, including creating sustainable competitive advantages, ensuring adaptability to future evolutions, and explicitly representing business processes. The book can be downloaded for free here.
Quidgest_Academy
[edit]Quidgest_Academy is an innovative certified training project enabling a new generation of citizen developers to create software. By using the Genio platform, which combines logic and business knowledge to create intuitive software (designed by business people for business use), the IT market is no longer exclusive to programmers. Of course, traditional programmers can also use Genio to enhance productivity (up to nearly 100 times in some contexts!). Ultimately, software development becomes accessible to a larger pool of new talent... to everyone.
In the realm of empowering students and young professionals with future digital skills, Quidgest has partnership agreements with several higher education institutions where the Genio platform is part of the curriculum or freely used by students for academic and entrepreneurial projects. The company also welcomes students from various fields (Software Engineering, Human Resources, Marketing & Management, etc.) for summer internships, professional internships (IEFP), and other internships under international programs like ERASMUS+ or Global Training.
SDGs and the 2030 Agenda
[edit]Recognized for its highly active social responsibility policy, encompassing foundational projects in different regions of the world, Quidgest helps establish modern benchmarks in countries by creating strong support networks for economic development, mobilizing national resources and skills, and promoting active citizenship and public engagement.
Examples of this include projects funded by international development entities, including the World Bank Group, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, USAID, Irish Aid, and the Agência Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo.
Certifications
[edit]- NP ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems
- NP ISO 14001 – Environmental Management Systems
- NP ISO/IEC 20000-1 – Service Management System
- ISO/IEC 27001 – Information Security Management Systems
- NP 4552 – Professional, Family, and Personal Life Balance Management Systems
Awards
[edit]- UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) – Successful Business Internationalization Award, awarded by UKTI and the British Embassy in Portugal, 2008.
- Computerworld & CIO Ibero-American Awards by IDG - 2013
- Recognized as one of the top 10 most innovative organizations by the European Commission under the "Get Digital: Go Green & Be Resilient" initiative, in 2023.
- Quidgest and the Cascais City Council won the "Equality and Inclusion" category of the APDC Cities & Territories of the Future Award in 2024, with the project Cascais Social Charter.