HansaWorld is a business-software developer whose story began in Sweden in 1988 with an accounting program written for Apple computers; today its Standard ERP, Standard Accounts, Standard CRM, Standard Hotel, Standard POS and Digital Office products are sold through a partner network, with the Luso-Swedish Chamber of Commerce’s member catalogue crediting the group with more than 550,000 customer companies in over 120 countries. In Portugal it operates through HansaWorld Portugal – Sistemas Informáticos, Unipessoal Lda (NIF 507680103), a single-shareholder company registered at Rua José Augusto Seabra 17B, Escritório C, 1500-675 Lisboa, with share capital of €253,000 and computer programming (CAE 62010) as its principal registered activity.
HansaWorld’s Portuguese presence is a fully owned, single-shareholder company rather than a branch or a reseller. The Portuguese company register lists HansaWorld Portugal – Sistemas Informáticos, Unipessoal Lda (NIF 507680103) at Rua José Augusto Seabra 17B, Escritório C, in the Benfica area of Lisbon, with share capital of €253,000 and computer programming as its principal registered activity. The entity is the local vehicle for the group’s Standard ERP platform and its smaller Standard Accounts and Standard CRM products, and for the hospitality and retail systems (Standard Hotel, Standard Eats, Standard POS) that the group markets to hotels, restaurants and shops through partners.
The group itself is Swedish by origin: its own account of the company begins in Sweden in 1988 with an accounting program for Apple computers, then the only mainstream platform with a graphical interface, followed by translation into multiple languages and international distribution within a few years and, before 2000, an ERP client for mobile phones. The Luso-Swedish Chamber of Commerce’s member catalogue, through which NorthSouth HQ first recorded the company, credits HansaWorld with more than 550,000 customer companies in over 120 countries. The Lisbon company is one of the few Nordic-origin business-software vendors with its own Portuguese legal entity, most competitors covering Iberia from Madrid or through local distributors.
Enterprise software is one of the quieter Nordic exports to Portugal, and HansaWorld’s structure — a small unipessoal company with modest capital, selling a mid-market ERP localised for Portuguese invoicing and tax rules through partners — is the template that Swedish and Finnish software vendors most often follow when they decide that Portugal justifies a legal presence rather than remote sales. For Portuguese integrators and accountants it is also a channel: the partner model means implementation, localisation and support are delivered locally. NorthSouth HQ lists the company in the Nordic Companies in Portugal directory on the basis of its registered Portuguese entity.
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