Nextbitt: 'precious help' for the automotive industry

Nextbitt was founded in 2015 and has never stopped since. They are a Portuguese software company that provides an innovative solution for the management and optimization of physical assets and for the sustainable compliance of organizations. In an exclusive interview with Jornal das Oficinas, Miguel Salgueiro, Founder & Partner of Nextbitt, revealed how they can be a 'precious help' to the automotive industry.

What is Nextbitt? How did it come about and what are your objectives?

Nextbitt allows each organization to keep a permanent record of all its assets on a single platform, as well as managing the useful life cycle of each asset. It works towards the development of a safer, more effective and easier-to-use technical solution for its clients, focused on the ethical environmental commitment of organizations.

It was created in 2015 by three partners, Miguel Salgueiro, André Calixto and Pedro Morais, as they wanted to create a business that would add value to the organizational world and the information technology sector.

Since its inception, it has been working with the latest technologies on the market and its main goal is to become an international benchmark in the area of physical asset management and sustainability within five years.

How important is a company like Nextbitt in the aftermarket sector?

Companies in the aftermarket sector are characterized, on the one hand, by having large numbers of physical assets, such as car parts, machinery, software and, of course, computers, chairs, desks, among others. On the other hand, they are organizations with a high carbon footprint.

In this sense, the implementation of a platform like Nextbitt's in companies in this sector is essential for organizational success. This is because, by including a platform that manages and optimizes its physical assets, an organization can keep a permanent record of all its assets, as well as managing the useful life cycle of each physical asset. However, the Nextbitt Platform, in addition to managing and optimizing physical assets, brings together the Environmental Management System and Energy Management System modules, capable of simplifying environmental compliance and sustainability reporting in a Top-Down view, from departments to infrastructures to physical assets, in a single application. This solution guarantees the management of the carbon footprint calculation, allowing it to be reduced based on all the physical asset management information: energy quality metrics, water, gas, fossil fuels and tracking of hazardous waste produced, as well as the interior environment of buildings.In addition, it also allows organizations to see consumption in real time, in a simple and low-cost way, which was not possible in the past.

What added value can a company get from hiring your services?

A market-leading platform, based on Micrsoft technology and cloud, which allows an integrated view of the life cycle of physical assets!

In this sense, by implementing the Nextbitt platform, we are able to control and manage physical assets in real time, which will allow the costs allocated to these expenses to be directed towards needs that are more relevant to the development of the business. On the other hand, as I mentioned in the previous question, the Nextbitt platform also has the capacity to develop sustainability reports focused on the Environmental Management System and Energy Management System, in a fully automated, clearer and more direct way. In other words, this solution guarantees the management of the carbon footprint calculation and the possibility of reducing it.

They are very strong in the transport sector. What projects have you developed in this sector?

The Nextbitt platform is transversal to any sector, but we can say that our main industries are Energy, Banking, Specialized Retail, the Metalworking Industry, Health and, of course, the Transport Sector. Currently, what we can share is that we have already developed several projects with organizations in the transport sector in the Portuguese context, namely CP, Fertagus and Via Porto.

In 2022 you saw your strategy recognized with a 5 million euro investment fund from Explorer Investiments. What does this achievement mean to you?

We see the winning of the 5 million euro investment round by the Explorer Investments fund as recognition of the effort, hard work and strategic management since our creation. In this sense, the main objective of this operation will be to strengthen Nextbitt internationally, initially in the European market, through the creation and establishment of new online and in-person offices, with a focus on developing and promoting the sustainability area as a strategic value-added offer in the management of physical assets.

This partnership makes us more robust, allowing us to focus more on accelerated growth in different geographies.

What are Nextbitt's future projects?

For 2023, Nextbitt aims to achieve 30% growth in turnover and 10 to 15 new clients in Portugal. As far as the growth of its team is concerned, Nextbitt expects to hire 60 more professionals, including highly qualified and experienced ones, but also young graduates in the IT field, so that we have a strong response to the company's national and international growth.

Finally, as I've already mentioned, Nextbitt aims to be an international technological benchmark within five years, with a clear commitment to sustainability.

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Source: Jornal das Oficinas

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