Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in low-code application development for the enterprise, announced that Van Marcke, Belgium’s leading plumbing wholesaler, in collaboration with BPM Company, a software consultancy company and Mendix partner, has rapidly built and deployed a contact tracing application to help ensure the health and safety of 1,600 employees returning to work as the pandemic continues.
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The app, Stay Safe, traces contacts among the company’s distributed workforce in Belgium, France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. It enables employees to voluntarily record interactions with their extended personal network and upload the information to the company’s SAP Cloud Platform environment, using a single sign-on protocol. The anonymized, confidential data is securely piped into Belgium’s new national call center, enabling public health officials to quickly and sensitively inform citizens of their potential exposure and provide supportive steps to mitigate the disease.
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The push to develop the Stay Safe application came directly from Van Marcke CEO Caroline Van Marcke. She saw the problems inherent in the government’s central registry program, which relied on citizens’ use of personal log books or memory to self-report a coronavirus diagnosis and detail every social encounter during the previous two-week incubation period. “You can do better,” said Van Marcke, challenging her IT team to create a digital solution.
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With no cure or vaccine for coronavirus yet available, communities must work collaboratively to slow transmission of the virus. Contact tracing has long been a central pillar of disease control during widespread outbreaks. However, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates strict privacy requirements for collecting and handling digital data.
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