META Services

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At meta. we are fascinated by what’s possible when digital, hardware and software technologies meet.

We’re a company that brings together deep technical expertise and

proven business acumen. We build teams of restless engineers and

researchers who can’t stop thinking about disruptive technology,

product design, and digital experiences.

We help leading organizations across diverse sectors turn existing

knowledge and technology into products that maximize the value of

their business.

About

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We accelerate your transition to a software-driven company

We enable leading companies to focus on building—not

buying—software. We build teams 'as a service' that help you develop

better tech products, using a proven methodologies and powerful

innovation processes. We optimize enterprises so they can move with

greater business agility. Our methodology is about evolving, in both

development and innovation, and our culture is empowering. Our team

uses agile and lean approaches to building innovative solutions.

Mission

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We deliver di�erentiated solutions to uncracked challenges.

Our customers come to us because they need top engineering, far

beyond the ordinary IT consulting. We recruit the best talent and build

engineering teams pro�cient in developing disruptive technology and

turnkey technology products. We allocate development teams to solve

technological problems that require a deep technical expertise.

Why us?

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Value Proposition

Talent We invest in the best people to overcome complexity, where others usually fail.

DriveTechnical innovation, hardware integration, rescue projects - we have it covered.

ProcessAgile and lean approaches to create and build successful products that sell.

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our expertise

Big Data Analysis

We have specialized in gathering

and unifying real-time streams of

data, to unlock visual analytics and

business intelligence. We customize

big data applications to explore,

analyze, and predict a wide range of

data sets.

Machine Learning & AI Technology

We build complex Machine Learn-

ing, Deep Learning and AI technolo-

gies to develop heavy data-driven

applications and use cutting-edge

techniques to extract relevant infor-

mation from huge amounts of data.

Augmented & Virtual Reality

Our work in AR and VR enables the

integration of virtual elements into

a real life view of the world, often

handled by overlaying images, 3D

elements and additional controls

on to of a live image feed.

User Experience

All our projects are grounded in

rigorous UX studies like Personas,

Content Strategy, Information Ar-

chitecture, Interaction Design,

Visual Design and Usability Evalu-

ation.

Computer Vision

We deliver custom Machine-Vision

solutions that perform automated

visual analysis and interpretation.

Our work includes the detection,

recognition, and tracking of ob-

jects, and human behavior from

images and video.

Our Work

Industries

We o�er everything digital from strategy to bespoke development.

We work with a wide range of local and global organizations, helping

them understand and pro�t from the online and mobile revolution.

Our focus is on the areas of digital strategy, mobile, social/web, content

management and managed services. Underpinned by digital tech

architecture, application implementation and development expertise. We

approach our work with great energy and passion as we align our client's

business aspirations to the goals of the end user.

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Digital

Digital Solutions

We help our clients deliver innovative digital product experiences.

DigitalProducts

We make excellent software. And by software we mean state of the art

apps for leading mobile and web platforms. Over the past 2 exciting years

meta. has supported several clients worldwide in the development of

their mobile strategy and digital presence.

We deliver high quality end-to-end digital products for mobile and web.

We fully support native mobile development (iOS, Android, Windows

Phone) as well as advanced HTML5 solutions. We o�er accompanying

front-end and back-end web development in Java and Ruby on Rails.

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02 Internet of Things solutions and connected devices development

03 User Experience and User Interface Design

Industries

Keep pace with the changing rules of retail.

Digitally-savvy customers armed with smart devices expect retailers to

engage with them on all fronts – social media, in-store, online and on

their mobile. Retailers growing in this scenario, exploring newer channels,

marketing formats and geographies need agile processes and robust IT

to support and enable this growth.

meta. helps retailers increase revenue by delivering great buying

experiences. With a focus on multi-channel, digital marketing and

shopper-centric merchandizing, our solutions and services help you

transform your business with minimal time-to-market.

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Retail

Retail Solutions

We help our clients sell more through a better in-store experience.

In-StoreSolutions

Real-time Marketing through Beacons with custom campaigns

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02 Real-time information about products through interactive displays

03 Real-time pricing updates with electronic labels

The customer is king. It has never been truer, and it’s more critical than

ever in today’s ‘right here, right now’ retail environment.

Customers today expect an omni-channel experience where shopping is

fast, easy, and consistent across in-store, online and mobile channels.

Location and context-aware technology is putting highly relevant and

e�ective retail o�ers literally in the hands of customers, driving sales,

margins, and customer loyalty.

Providing the advanced environment to enable and support such

personalized interaction is where meta. steps in.

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Retail Solutions

The incorporation of E-commerce, VR and AR into retail will change the way customers buy.

OnlineSolutions

Augmented reality products01

02 Virtual reality store

03 Website and e-commerce development

We remove all retail borders, and create a more complete retail

experience than would not be possible in either a web-based or retail

environment alone.

E-commerce, Virtual reality (VR) along with its sister technology

augmented reality (AR), o�ers retailers the opportunity to transform how

people shop. meta. develops these digital applications to eliminate

customer pain points, elevate customer service, and create a

di�erentiated, personalized customer experience.

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Custom Software to:

Retail Solutions

We help our clients lower costs through the increase of e�ciency

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)Manage sta� kpi’s and schedule;Manage product stock, orders and logistics;Centralize and integrate existing softwares;Customer relationship management Software;

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We build custom software to help our clients manage all the relevant

information on buying, supply chain, merchandise inventory, physical

assets, and the details on customers and workforce. meta. helps retailers

integrate and combine all this information to make sense of it and get

critical information to the right people to discuss it in real time.

Retail Solutions

We help our clients lower costs through the increase of e�ciency

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meta. develops solutions to help retailers optimize their business through

a data driven approach. Data is collected in retail stores with the help of

sensors and cameras strategically placed throughout the store. Sensors

that track every activity of each individual shopper to learn what speci�c

items they have viewed, queues, path they took, times spent on each

product, shelf interactions and store heat maps. This powerful data is

made the basis for the rich analytics that we deliver.

Customer#4729

Customer#4234

Customer#4674

Customer#4546

Customer#3657

Customer#5332

Queue monitoring

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02 Monitoring Shelfs

03 Optimize product placement and store layout

Retail Solutions

Custom Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions

Behaviour in-storePreferencesStore dwellingPurchasesDemographicsInteractionsDigital pro�ling

Website dataEcommerce dataTransaction dataMail DataSocial DataCRM dataLoyalty DataPoS dataIn-Store Data

Customer Pro�ling Omnichannel Platform

We help our clients get a complete overview of their business and clients.

Our analytics expertise helps stores harness vast amounts of data to

reveal patterns and deliver more relevant promotions, both in-store and

online. Our POS support, retail application development, and IT

infrastructure expertise ensures that stores work e�ciently and

e�ectively. And our focus on empowering your employees and

customers, security, and retail best practices ensures the rest of the

business can keep up.

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Retail Solutions

Custom Big Data and Business Intelligence reporting

Sta� analytics and insightsProducts analytics and insightsSales analytics and insightsStores analytics and insightsMarketing analytics and insightsOperations analytics

We develop custom analytics reports:

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Digital transformation for a connected manufacturing.

Industry 4.0 is at the heart of digital transformation for every enterprise.

To create value from insight generated by connected assets throughout

the product lifecycle, manufacturing and supply chain.

Interaction between machines, products, people, processes and

enterprises triggers positive change at every level. We can help you

unleash this formidable opportunity for competitiveness and growth.

As a transformation partner, meta reveals both the most direct route to

Industry 4.0 and a clearly articulated pro�le of solutions.

Industries

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Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 Solutions

We help industry optimize their operations and manufacturing systems

Supply ChainDigitization

Inventory control Software

Employees Management

Logistics and suppliers Management

Product production-cycle monitoring

Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

We develop:Systems based on real-time end-to-end planning and horizontal collaboration using cloud-based planning platforms for execution optimization.

Digitization and automation of processes for smarter use of human resources and higher operations speed.

We build software that help our clients integrate planning and execution

systems, logistics visibility, autonomous logistics, smart procurement and

warehousing, spare parts management, and advanced analytics. The

result will enable our clients to react to disruptions in the supply chain,

and even anticipate them, by fully modeling the network and adjusting

the supply chain in real time as conditions change.

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Wearables

Customer Pro�ling


We help our clients sell more through a better customer experience:

Digital Productsand Services

Website

Ecommerce

Software Integrations

Cloud Infrastructure and Hosting

We develop:

Web solutions to Increased scale from an wider market share and new digital sales channels.

The rapid expansion of the Internet, use of mobile devices, along with

better payment options and advanced shipping is a big part of the

reason why digital products and E-commerce is growing for industry

purposes. We develop custom software to bring the industry closer to the

B2C market and integrate existing software to help you centralize all your

management tools.

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We help industry get a real-time and complete picture of their data assets.

DataAnalytics

Production chain analytics

Employee analytics

Business analytics

Sales analytics

We provide:Real-time visibility into the process and product variance and optimization by data analytics.

Predictive maintenance on key assets using predictive algorithms to optimize repair and maintenance schedules and improve asset uptime.

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We leverage our expertise and our clients datasets, helping them explore

how their organization can take advantage of the state-of-the-art in deep

learning techniques and infrastructure. Our aim is to iterate methodically

in these areas of research to conceptualize and build smart predictive

informatics tools to manage big data, and scale their services to deliver

unmatched business value and productivity.


We bring intelligence to the production line.

SmartManufacturing

Real-time inline quality control based on Computer Vision

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02 Modular, �exible and costumer centric production concepts.

03 Vertical integrationof sensors for real-time production planning, better machine utilization and faster throughput times.

of sensors for track-and- -trace of products for better inventory performance and reduced logistics.

Horizontal integration

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By integrating sensors to collect data in real time from their factory

production lines, and often without human intervention, defaults and

errors can be prevented, delivery lead times can be signi�cantly reduced

and freight and inventory management optimized. The rapid exchange

of information also boosts the agility of the entire chain, while enabling

processes optimization.

Our Team

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We build teams that would breathe your vision, focus on reaching the goals to make you succeed.

We believe that the most valuable resource we possess is our people.

meta. since its foundation has invested in training, scrupulous selection

procedures, competitive bene�ts, and appealing career possibilities, to

assemble a motivated, loyal and highly skilled teams of IT and tech

professionals.

Team

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Leadership Team

Vasco is a senior product manager and an experienced entrepreneur and

researcher. Responsible for launching companies like meta. (R&D provider for

companies) and LINNK (technological incubator), worked for multinational

companies like Fuksas and JDS and was a researcher at institutions such as IAAC

(Barcelona), Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon) and MIT Media Lab (Boston).

With a strong Smart Cities research background, having �ve years of applied

research in �elds such as IoT, Electric Mobility and Automation. Before Sensei,

Vasco was supervising all the R&D and innovation strategy at META, including

being responsible for the innovation pipeline ensuring the strategic

decision-making of the design, research, and development of the company

cutting edge products.

Vasco PortugalChief Executive O�cerAcademic Degree: �nishing PhD;

E-mail address: [email protected]

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Paulo Carreira is a Senior Researcher at INESC-ID and lecturer of Software

Engineering and Database Subjects at the CSE department of IST. His work

focuses the agile creation of highly modular software for real-time

data-intensive applications. With 50+ publications and a total 40+ MSc

students brilliantly advised, Paulo has become one of the leading authorities

on IoT and sensor data integration. Before joining academia he worked 10

years in industry in a number of high visibility data integration projects

serving both in technical and managerial roles. He was head of

development of Data Fusion, a tool set for large-scale data integration and

migration used in the banking industry.

Paulo CarreiraChief Technology O�cerAcademic Degree: PhD; Assistant Professor IST


Leadership Team

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As partner of meta, Joana is responsible for strategy and business development

driving international sales and managing operations at this technology

company.

Joana has acquired broad experience in fashion and retail while developing

projects for digital transformation and global marketing strategies across her

family's retail brands. She was responsible for market expansion of Dielmar S.A.

in the USA, �nding new business and managing retail clients relations.

She practiced as an Architect in Portugal and Boston, USA at NADAAA inc.,

participating in several projects across continents, coordinating retail projects

as store redesign and construction.

Joana RafaelChief Operating O�cerAcademic Degree: PhD Candidate;


Leadership Team

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During his career, João has assumed several roles such as software developer; product

manager; consultant; chief technology o�cer and chief executive o�cer. As a result,

he was involved in leading turn-around processes, strategic planning, performance

optimization and business development within several industries. Moreover, he was

also involved in P&L and in the rollout of more than 20 software products worldwide

(for both B2B and B2C).

In the recent years, as ICT executive (both at d and c level) his main focus were:

managing international expansion processes, overseeing corporate budgeting &

�nance, designing plans to enhance e�ciency and pro�tability and organizational

leadership. Besides his experiences in executive roles, he also has 3 years of

experience in product and project management focusing on software and a strong

technical background with a previous experience of 5 years working as a software

developer and team leader.

João Costa FernandesChief Strategy O�cerAcademic Degree: Master’s degree | MBA;


Leadership Team

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