Madagascar is currently mainly relying on so-called ‘street pharmacies’ run by people like on the picture without a proper pharmacist education. The red pills are against infections, the blue pills are the right cure for “you know what”.

The big problem of these medicines is not that they are not helping for the ‘social’ diseases, and that they are not helping at all in case of real infections or viral diseases. During his social work in Africa, inXites partner Wim De Bruyn – together with Eric Meersman, the country manager of www.ex-change.be for Madagascar – noticed that fraud in the pharmaceutical sector is even more acute in Africa than in Europe.

Right now, an action plan is being established to try to solve this problem, as well as the business problems that ICT-companies and IT-professionals in Madagascar are facing. The goal of this plan is to set up development and service teams for European and world-wide customers. For this purpose, we are teaching them a.o. project management skills.

The inhabitants of Madagascar (‘les Malgaches’, as they call themselves) have a unique combination of qualities. They are interested in IT and business. And in addition to English – the ‘lingua franca’ of business and IT – they also speak French fluently, which is very useful in development projects that inXites is launching to present new products to the European and other markets.

The country of Madagascar has many precious resources, including oil, minerals and clever workforce. Their ICT skills will enable them to provide services to the European market, as demonstrated already for customers such as EDF, ‘les hopitaux de France’ and other European institutions. ICT development and anti-counterfeiting are just 2 of the areas where we can make a difference.

Using their IT skills serves a double purpose: to develop a better service for the European companies on the one hand and to create a better future for the ” Malgache” people on the other hand, by providing employment and fighting diseases.

Our inXites team is proud to assume our corporate social responsibility by helping the local community, and to show that we are not only “citizens of the world” in our business ambitions but also in our humanitarian principles and actions.

In order to trigger the enthusiasm for a job in the IT sector, Dieter Laevers spoke at the Coloma Mechelen and OLV intitute Boom for the students in the 6th grade (18 years).

In this context Dieter also volunteers to coach the students in different matters to help them shape their future: which program to study at the University, how to start your own business, where to find an interesting internship…

Agoria is Belgium’s largest employers’ organisation and trade association. They are representing and helping more than 1,600 companies in the technology industry.
Agoria organizes national CEO Tour where CEO’s of Belgian ICT companies visit schools and give a presentation about their sector.

Here you can download the presentation : inXites presentation at Agoria CEO tour 2011
For more information about the CEO tour, clic here (only in Dutch)

Tuesday 6 december 2011:

Colleague Lex Van Hende, inXites BI en BOBJ specialist, presented a real life case of extracting data from SAP ERP into KPI-dashboards and drill down analytics towards the students 3rd year applied informatics of University college Ghent.
Students will have to document this case further and report their findings and results back to Inxites and the visiting lecturer Lex.

Michael Van Malderen, HR manager inXites :

“We are very happy to help higher education and universities to integrate real life scenarios in their teaching material. Students can get interested in our job-offering and learn the difference between functional and technical IT profiles. And our high potentials like Lex get the chance to speak for an audience of 100 critical students.”

Students gave their feedback :

”We learn more from the experience of IT professionals than form schoolbooks. We could ask questions about new directions in IT and also about practical things about how to choose and apply for interesting jobs. The idea about using project material to present our capabilities is very usefull”.

Universities and University Colleges in Belgium and Europe can contact Brigitte Roelandts for SAP and Software development presentations by experienced inXites and Producmex professionals.

inXites & Produmex, both member of the Naxxos group have hired their 20th new collaborator in the year 2011, which brings the treshold value of 50 collaborators within very close reach. This is a record high and far beyond expectations.

This major achievement has been realised by the entire team of inXites-Produmex thanks to an intensive recruitment program that started in January 2011.

The group strives to reach well over 50 highly specialised professionals during the year 2012 through an intensified effort on internationalization and global presence by means of opening different subsidiaries and roll out of international projects.

Asked for the reasons why people joined our successfull team, the main ones were:
• A Unique Selling Proposition,
• A Sustained effort to become a niche market leader in Shopfloor Integration, Serialization, Business Analytics, Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions and Tracking&Tracing
• Focus on SAP technologies.
• A Unique location to work from (inXites-Produmex Castle)
• Internationalization
• Productization and building of software solutions
• Industry focus

If you are a talented person and you want to be part of this enthusiastic team, offering you an attractive proposal in terms of team, salary and jobcontent, please drop your CV to info@inxites.be

inXites is supporting the actions of the EEC and the Belgian Technical Coöperation in Bénin to rebuild the public service for health in Bénin. Colleague and partner Wim De Bruyn is designing, coaching and building the information systems of the ministry of health, agriculture and food in Bénin (“Agence Béninoise de la Sécurité Sanitaire” ABSSA). Important for that public service is to set up a central biological and analytical lab with a LIMS (Laboratorium Information System) (“Laboratoire centrale” LCSSA). This unique laboratory with more than 50 analysts will provide the data and evidence of the actions of the agency for food and drug security and support the people in Bénin and neighboring countries with a better food and drug safety.

A first visit with 1 week coaching sessions of the different stakeholders was organised in September 2011
Important is also to provide a good communication system between the database of the central Laboratory, the epidemic monitoring IT system of the World Health Organisation and World Food Aid Organisation, and monitoring IT system of the related governmental ministries. This is the goal of the visit, coaching and training session in the second week of January.
In the future the experience with serialization and authentication of Food and Drugs and the global traceability of Food chains will become more important. These projects are executed in cooperation with www.ex-change.be a Belgian NGO and the efforts are a donation of INXITES-PRODUMEX group for helping African countries to develop better ICT systems and capabilities.

Because of the growth of the company and the limited office space at the
current location, it had become necessary to look for a bigger office
location. Furthermore, it was also important that the new offices would be
easy to reach and centrally located in Belgium. The historic castle of Perk
which dates from the 17th century was elected as the best. In this
historically rich environment InXites faces the future with confidence.