Sustainability for Vitec

Sustainability is a central part of Vitec’s success and permeates its operations from ecological, social and economic perspectives. The products contribute to positive societal impacts and reduced risk while promoting responsible business practices that allow employees’ expertise and creativity to flourish. Vitec takes an entrepreneurial approach to sustainability and aims to enable solutions for today’s needs without compromising the opportunities for future generations.

Our long-term perspective is important in everything we do, regardless of whether it concerns acquisitions, employeeship, product development, or customer relationships.

Employees and talent

Vitec's talented employees are an extremely important component of our value-generation strategy. The long-term perspective is also central to our aspiration to promote sustainable employeeship, providing them with an opportunity to use their energy wisely, to grow and to maintain balance in life. Each employee is entrusted with great responsibility to contribute their specific expertise in our ongoing development efforts.

Cash flow and external capital

With our strong cash flow and external capital, we are able to both reinvest in products and make acquisitions. The continued refinement of our products is crucial to ensure that our offering will remain relevant in the future. We have a common framework for planning, implementing and following up on product development. Vitec is also a long-term player that acquires companies in order to keep them and develop them. With this approach we can grow responsibly and sustainably. Within the framework of our decentralized organization, corporate culture plays a significant role in corporate governance.

Technology and processes

We can further generate value at the intersection of technology, employee talent and well-tested methods, processes and frameworks. Using our business model as a point of departure, with our resources we can work with a long-term approach regarding both acquisitions and refinement of our products. We are an industry player with a long-term perspective on our growth journey. We have been successfully creating stable growth and generating value for our owners and society at large over a long period of time.

Our contribution to sustainable development

We generate our largest contribution to societal development through our products.

And through our products, we also successfully contribute to the success of our customers by increasing their efficiency, quality and competitiveness. Our products create stability, availability and data security, while reducing environmental impact. Taken together, it is a matter of jobs, tax revenues, prosperity and innovation. In a circular system, we can contribute to sustainable development in society through collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.

We are also determined to minimize our impact on the climate and the environment, which must be reflected in every decision and apply to the entire value chain.

Vitec’s value chain

This model illustrates where Vitec’s material impacts, risks, and opportunities (IROs) arise within the company’s direct and indirect business relationships across the entire value chain: upstream, own operations, and downstream, including the company’s stakeholders.

Upstream value chain

Vitec’s upstream value chain consists of suppliers and subcontractors. Examples of such actors include suppliers of IT equipment and providers of computer operations. These actors, in turn, have subcontractors that supply and manufacture the equipment. There are participants in the value chain that extract sensitive minerals from mines, as well as those that manage transportation. The value chain also encompasses the individuals who work for these subcontractors.

Other suppliers include landlords for our premises and subcontractors working with software development.

Own Operations

Vitec's talented employees are an extremely important component of its value-generation strategy.

The long-term perspective is also central to the organization’s aspiration to promote sustainable employeeship, providing employees with an opportunity to use their energy wisely, to grow and to maintain balance in life. Each employee is entrusted with great responsibility to contribute their specific expertise in the organization’s ongoing development efforts.

Vitec’s own employees are the most important resource, and equal treatment and fair working conditions are fundamental principles.

Downstream value chain

Vitec’s customers – along with their own customers – comprise the downstream segment of the value chain. The Group’s business units develop and deliver standardized software that supports customers’ operations.

Customers use the software in their interactions with their own customers and end consumers.

Although downstream activities may involve certain risks, they are dominated by opportunities created through Vitec’s products – such as increased efficiency in work processes, improved energy efficiency, reduced waste and enhanced sustainability reporting.

For consumers and end-users, information security and data protection are top priorities.