Shortfacts - December/January 2021


Covid-19 app
Mendix, Siemens subsidiary, announced that Van Marcke, plumbing wholesaler, in collaboration with BPM Company, a software consulting firm and partner of Mendix, has rapidly developed and deployed a contact tracing app to ensure the health and safety of 1600 employees returning to work during the pandemic.
The "Stay Safe" application tracks contacts between the company's employees in Belgium, France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. It allows employees to voluntarily record interactions with their extended personal network and upload the information to the company's SAP Cloud Platform using a single sign-on protocol. The anonymized and confidential data is securely forwarded to Belgium's new national call center. Through this center, health authorities can quickly and confidentially inform citizens of their potential exposure and take supportive steps to contain the disease.