In July of 2000, Sistrade – a company based in Porto, started its activities oriented towards business to business area providing management tools. Since the very beginning, the company stood out from the other offers on the national and international market due to the originality of the solutions as well as the fact that it had developed an exclusively web based software, which at that time, was quite rare on IT market. The core business of Sistrade is the development of industrial management systems.We talked with Sistrade director, Mr. Paulo Souto.