15 Apr 2019

AICEP LAUNCHES NEW TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM PORTUGAL EXPORT

The launch of the first pillar of the Digital Transformation of AICEP, the new platform "Portugal Exporta", which will support Portuguese companies to export more, is taking place this morning in Aveiro, with the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva.

The new technological platform develops new products and services of greater added value and completely customized, meeting the expectations and specific needs of each company, taking into consideration its degree of maturity for the internationalization, activity sector and products.

How?

Through the use of Artificial Intelligence, the platform offers tools with multiple facilities: matching between companies and markets, importers and partners, indication of business opportunities, commercial actions and training, design of action plans of internationalization, maturity diagnoses of the company, suggestion of news, events and other relevant contents, alerts for the available incentives deadlines. It will be a personalized and easy-to-use digital solution, in self-service mode.

By collecting a large volume of data (e.g. exporting companies, sectors, markets, importing companies) using Artificial Intelligence technologies, including Machine Learning, as well as Big Data, the "machine" will deliver information, services and business opportunities with a high level of relevance for companies.

AICEP specialists will provide a more targeted advice to each company, creating new products in a continuous way, always updated and adapted to the needs and economic and business context, national and international.

This technological solution has being developed in co-creation with the companies, in order to guarantee that it will fully respond to their needs. The first sector in focus was Footwear and, within a year, all sectors of the Portuguese economy will be covered.

Objective: To improve the quality of the service provided by AICEP and to bring more companies to internationalization, therefore contributing to the expansion of the national export base.

"AICEP's Digital Transformation has been thought out and worked out for and with companies. We believe the new technological platform is absolutely state of the art and will have a very positive impact on business life of the companies. It will certainly bring important results to the level of export growth”, said the president of AICEP, Luís Castro Henriques.

After the launch of Portugal Exporta, we will launch the remaining pillars of AICEP's Digital Transformation: a Portal dedicated to Investment, the Business Match Making, known as the "Tinder" of Companies, the Online Internationalization Accelerator (dedicated to E-Commerce) and the Investment Optimizer, which suggests the recommended location for large investment projects. All these new tools come from Simplex measures, approved by the Government.
Source: In, Aicep
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