Binary Logic was established in 1986 as a member of the Malkogianni -Moutsou Group of Companies. Its actual activities began in 1990, when it entered the Greek market with educational software, with an annual growth rate of 70%.

The principal capital of Binary Logic Ltd. is 20.000.000 Drs. ($90.000), and today the company employs 25 people in different sectors: technical support, software development, training and sales. The annual turnover of the Group for 1994 was 500.000.000 Drs. ($2.000.000).

Areas of Activities

Binary Logic develops specialized applications. Some of them have become widely known as the technology is spread rapidly. The necessity for providing integrated solutions to the customers led Binary Logic to the creation of a self-reliant technical support department.

Our activities cover the following fields:

Studies - Consultative Services

• Implementation of studies, technical support, financial management and supervising the accomplishment of investment and development projects and programmes in national and European level.
• Feasibility studies and needs analysis for computer-enabled management of companies and organisations.
• Consultative services on computer-enabled subjects.

Education

• Consultative services for seminar organisation.
• Educational services on information technology subjects.
• Planning and developing of the material for teaching specialised subjects.
• Information Technology seminars.

Services for Schools

• Consultative services for school management.
• Software development for educational purposes using multimedia.
• Software development for school management of any kind.
• Software development for management of libraries.
• Development of specialised software for examinations of every kind and extent.

Computer-enabled management of companies and organisations

• Integrated office-automation solutions.
• Accounting applications
• Custom applications for the secretariat.
• Electronic protocol.
• Electronic Mail - EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).
• Electronic Document Archiving and Management using scanners and optical disks.
• Electronic Document Workflow Management.

Data capturing

• Applications for managing huge volumes of information and statistics.
• Applications for keyboardless data-entry using OMR (Optical mark Reader).
• Applications for data capturing using handheld PC's.
• Market research and every kind of data collection.
• Software for fast and flexible data-entry.
• Supply of data-entry services.

Telecommunications - Networks

• Study and implementation of local area (LAN) or wide area (WAN) networks.
• Software development for the implementation of databases.
• Specialised WAN applications and communication with remote databases.
• Connection of stand alone or networked workstations with Internet.

Vertical Market Applications

• Software for management of club members.
• Solutions for pharmaceutical companies.
• Complete solutions for quarries and concrete production companies.
• Solutions for marketing and sales departments.
• Solutions of technical support departments.
• Software for management of stock portfolios.
• Complete solutions for publication houses.
• Complete solutions for desktop publishing departments (DTP).
• Custom software applications.

Some of our customers

Ministry of Public Order

Ministry of Labour

Ministry of Industry, Research and Technology

National Technical University of Athens, University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Macedonia, Aegean University

Technical Educational Foundations of Pereus, Patra, Kavala, Iraklio, Tefaa Serron.

Greek Army (Technical Support Department)

Organisation of Economic Rehabilitation of Enterprises

National Statistics Bureau

Public Petroleum Corporation

Public Power Corporation

Manpower Employment Organization

Vocational Education and Training Organization

Greek Productivity Center

Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Size Industries and Handicrafts

Attiko Metro Joint-Venture

Greek Duty Free Shops

International pharmaceutical companies (Astra Hellas, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Darci, Glaxo, Lundbeck, Phone-Polenc Rorer, Roche, UCB Hellas, Warner-Lambert/Parke Davis)

Panhellenic Federation of Language School Owners

hundreds of foreign language schools in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Poland (more than 1.500 installations)

municipalities

carrier companies

Publication Houses and book distribution companies

stock exchange companies

various other commercial and industrial companies

Implementation of studies, technical support, financial management and supervising the accomplishment of investment and development projects and programmes in national and European level

Binary Logic was involved in the preparation and submission of proposals at the European Union and the Greek public sector for various projects, research and development or investment and development. Some of these projects are in the following table.

Programme	Project
Leonardo	English for the financial sector
Horizon	Entreprendre pour l'emploi
Telematics Applications	Hermes - Remote databases for Small and Medium Enterprises
Esprit	MITS - Multimedia Authoring System for English Teaching
Lingua	Greek language for investors
Lingua	Educational multimedia software development for the integration of social subjects in the foreign language learning process
Multimedia Publishing	Objectbank for publishers and producers of advertisements
TEDIS II	Electronic document interchange management
ADAPT	Quality assurance systems and management techniques for the employees of shoe and leather industry
Socrates	Models for European Collaboration and Pedagogy in Open Learning
PAVE 94	Software development for the support of foreign language teaching through multimedia for children
Ministry of Education	GLOSSOMATHIA - Software development for the support of foreign language teaching through multimedia
Ministry of Education	GAIA - A new approach to Geography through multimedia
Ministry of Education	Implementation of an educational tool for History in Greek schools
EPET II	BELL - Software development for the support of foreign language teaching through multimedia
DELTA	Creation of a Distance Learning Studio
ESSI	Quality Improvement in Software Development Process
Libraries	explorer - A Graphical User Interface for Public Library Multimedia Resources Ordering
Telematique II	Network for the provision of expert services
Horizon	Enterprendre pour l'emploi

The project "Network for the provision of expert services", a Telematique II project, was implemented successfully. Binary Logic was the prime contractor and the Greek Productivity Center was the user-organisation.

The project "Quality Improvement in Software Development Process", an ESSI project, in its final phase. Part of the project is carried out by the Software Technology department of the Telecommunications and Computing Systems Institute of the National Technical University of Athens.

The project "Models for European Collaboration and Pedagogy in Open Learning", a Socrates project, is in its first phase. The project's duration is two years and the contractors are research-educational institutions and companies from Norway, Great Britain, France and Greece.

The project "Enterprendre pour l'emploi", an Horizon project (budget 800 Kecu), is in its first phase. The project's duration is 18 months and the contractors are state organisations and companies from almost all over EU.

Feasibility studies and needs analysis for computer-enabled management of companies and organisations

Using its expertise in the area of new technologies, Binary Logic prepares feasibility studies and needs analysis for companies and organisations in order to use complete high technology solutions.

Such a study was prepared for the Hellenic Police - Archives Department analysing the specific benefits of an Electronic Document Archiving and Management System.

Consultative services on computer-enabled subjects

Binary Logic is a registered member of the experts' directory "Consultancy in the Area of Public Procurement for DG XV - Internal Market and Financial Services".

Know-how

The technical support department of Binary Logic supports all installed applications and solutions of the company throughout Greece with field engineers or through modems (remote support).

Binary Logic is a Novell Authorised Reseller and has appropriately trained and certified, by Novell UK and Novell Italia, personnel for studies, installation and technical support of networks. For example, Binary Logic has installed the main server for the network of the Greek branch of INTERPOL.

Some of our engineers have attended special seminars on the development of software for optical mark readers (OMR) in England and Germany.

In order to have the most efficient support in terms of software development, Binary Logic has direct links with the support departments of the international software tool developers: Microsoft Corp., Asymmetrix, Sheridan Software Systems, Crescent Software Inc., Xionics International, Data Techniques Inc., Sequiter Software.

Binary Logic is a member of the Microsoft Developer Network Level II, a Commercial Member of the IBM Solution Developer Program and member of the IBM OS/2 Developer Assistance Program, in order to have access to pre-release versions of operating systems, networking software and development tools.

Binary Logic develops custom software for OMRs for the company Forster Computer which is the largest manufacturer of OMRs in Germany and the supplier of these systems for Siemens-Nixdorf.

Hardware

In order to efficiently support its customers, Binary Logic has 30 Pentium and 486 computers. Five of these systems are high-end multimedia development workstations for the MS-Windows platform.

Three LANs (local area networks) are installed with Novell NetWare, Windows for Workgroups and Windows 95, all interconnected in a large WAN (wide area network) through two leased lines. There is also an FTP server under Windows NT, a World Wide Web server under Windows 95 and another system with Unixware and OSF Motif interface. The Netware server, the NT server and the Unix server are all connected on the same Ethernet network (half bus and half star topology). Part of the network supports 100 Mbps connections.

Almost every kind of computer peripheral is also installed, such as color scanners, postscript printers, color printers, DAT drives, magneto-optical drives, tape streamers, OMRs, video and audio capturing systems.