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TOTALSOFT
TotalSoft
is a leading Romanian software solutions developer and systems implementer.
The Company has acquired expertise in designing, selling, and implementing
products suited to SMEs, the most dynamic market segment in
Romania, and a sector exhibiting growth despite repeated
economic downturns. The investment that the Trans-Balkan
Romania Fund (TBRF) has made in TotaISoft
is an example of leveraging SEAF's overall SME focus.
Set
up in 1994 by Romanians Liviu Dragan and Dan Lazarescu, TotalSoft plans to build on its impressive customer
base by developing an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system,
which is neither' like inadequately customized Western packages
nor error-prone and incomplete local systems. To this end, TBRF
invested an initial $400,000 for 31 % of TotalSoft, in March 2001,
with a further $200,000 of convertible debt due to be drawn down
in December 2001. Recently, TotalSoft won a contract to design an
e-Market sponsored by the Romanian Government. If the design is
accepted, TotalSoft is in an excellent position to win. the implementation project, estimated
at $2 million.
TBRF is assisting TotalSoft to implement new cost
accounting and operational management systems for each project.
In addition, TBRF staff members recently accompanied TotalSoft management
to the U.S. to help with the launch of a new initiative to
incubate Romanian companies in the
US. ‘Incubator
America!’ is a program sponsored by USAID, the Romanian
Ministry of IT and Communications and the
George Mason University Enterprise Center.
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