TOTVS - the software most Brazilian companies actually run on - Brazilian enterprise resource planning vendor, founded in 1983 and listed on B3.

TOTVS was founded in 1983 by Laercio Cosentino and Ernesto Haberkorn, took its present shape from the combination of Microsiga and Logocenter, and is the leading enterprise resource planning vendor in the Brazilian market. It employs around twelve thousand people and trades on B3.

It is not a company that began in 2005. It began in 1983 as Microsiga, was renamed after the Logocenter transaction, and the name TOTVS derives from the Latin for all or everything.

It belongs on a networking and security timeline for a reason that has nothing to do with networks: ERP is the system whose availability decides whether a company can invoice, pay, dispatch or close a month. Every argument about redundancy, maintenance windows and disaster recovery in a Brazilian enterprise is ultimately an argument about this class of system, and frequently about this company's software specifically.

The trajectory is also a rare Brazilian counterexample to the pattern most of this timeline records. Where integrators and specialists here were repeatedly bought by foreign groups, TOTVS grew by acquiring - Microsiga and Logocenter first, then Bematech, Virtual Age, PRX and PC Sistemas - and remained the acquirer rather than becoming the acquired.

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