Offside
Lado B

Bring happiness and love to our neighbours.

Corporate

INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by Paulo Sousa from Maxdata.

Limelight

"When there is a team that is capable of representing the Centre with commitment and seriousness while at the same time being in a good mood, the conditions for success are met." Henrique and João (CPES)

Serious Thinking

"Recent scandals may have undermined social networks’ reliability, but it is up to each one of us, its users, to ensure the veracity and credibility of what is published, to use and misuse of accuracy, which is so characteristic of the scientific method, in order to promote science." Eunice Oliveira (SCOM)

Gallery of the Uncommon

We have increasingly agile, sophisticated and secure resources in order to protect millions of data that are generated every minute. However, at INESC TEC, there is a Centre that stores its data in the safest way possible...

Where are you now?

Every month INESC TEC sends highly qualified individuals into the market...

Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls

In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities.

 
 

Corporate

Corporate

This section gives voice to the companies and organisations that have INESC TEC as their partner in projects and activities. 

 

PAULO SOUSA, CEO of MAXDATA SOFTWARE, S.A.

  • "INESC TEC's researchers have a very close link to the business world, thus being able to conciliate state-of-the-art research with the short-term needs of companies. There clearly is a practical sense in what they do. I believe this is one the main advantages of INESC TEC."

History of the relationship between the company and INESC TEC

Before I joined Maxdata Software (https://www.maxdata.pt), I was a researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon – Navigators research group of LASIGE. It was in this context that my first contact with HASLab emerged. For several years, we collaborated with HASLab through the joint participation in national and international projects in the fault tolerance area. When I moved to the business world in 2010, I remained in contact with HASLab and since then we have kept an active collaboration.

Business areas

Software for the healthcare area

Title of the project

Safecloud

INESC TEC Centre(s) with which the company collaborated

HASLab - High-Assurance Software Laboratory

Project manager (INESC TEC)

Rui Oliveira

Statement about the Project

The European project SafeCloud (https://www.safecloud-project.eu/) was the most remarkable one. It took place between September of 2015 and August of 2018, with a consortium composed of a broad range of academic and industrial partners in addition to INESC TEC and Maxdata Software: Cloud & Heat GMBH (Germany), Cybernetica AS (Estonia), INESC ID (Portugal), Technische Universität München (Germany) and Université de Neuchatel (Switzerland).

The main goal of SafeCloud was to prevent breaches of privacy in the cloud, which is particularly important in the healthcare domain in which Maxdata operates.

In the context of the SafeCloud project, Maxdata integrated its main product (Clinidata®) with an innovative database management system (SafeCloud Database), which was developed by INESC TEC and by the startup SafeCloud Technologies.

SafeCloud Database allows to encrypt personal data in memory and to manage massive volumes of data (big data). Over 100 healthcare professionals had the opportunity to use and assess an experimental version of the Clinidata® software integrated with the SafeCloud Database.

INESC TEC's researchers have a very close link to the business world, thus being able to conciliate state-of-the-art research with the short-term needs of companies. There clearly is a practical sense in what they do. I believe this is one the main advantages of INESC TEC.

Maxdata Software remains in contact with INESC TEC, and there is a joint effort to look for projects that are of interest to both institutions.