Our History
- 1991
- 1993
- 1994
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1998
- 2000
- 2002
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2003 -
2003/04
- Foundation – under the company name “Signus”
- Technological innovation – Microsoft/Informix
- Pioneer in Data Warehouse
- Incorporation of Oracle technology
- Pioneers in Web development
- Incorporation of Java technology
- Creation of “Vates S.A.” / Strong growth phase
- Opening of Buenos Aires offices
- Political/economic crisis – Change in strategy:
- Exploration of new markets
- Development of new products - Creation of “Vates Group”
- Vates S.A
- Kanav S.A
- INNEVO - Opening to new markets: Mexico and Chile
What does Vates mean?
“The term vate has Celtic-Italian origins and signifies the fortune-teller
and poet. It comes from the Indo-European root wat which means something like
“being spiritually or emotionally inspired”.
It has similarities to the Gaelic term ouateis, “fortune-teller”;
the Irish term faith, “poet, clairvoyant” and the Sanskrit vatayati
“that which makes understand”
A clear evidence of its meaning of fortune-teller in Latin is Plauto (Mill. III, 3,37):
“You could be a good fortune-teller (vates), since you know the future.”
Varrón (De L.I. VII, 36) attests to the meaning of poet: “Ancient poets were called vates.”
