Sustainable Development Goal 16

I am glad that in my entrepreneurial journey I had the strength to stay true to moral principles and the rules of fair business. Slovakia, the country in which our company was founded, is among the countries that have not had a good rating in global corruption indices for a long time (https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/slovakia). And therefore, it is no exception that our company also had negative experiences with corruption – one of our work opportunities was participating in a team of specialist subcontractors on a project for a government institution. After revealing a form of corruption and unfair business practices, where we would have become part of the fraud, we unilaterally terminated the contractual relationship with the customer, despite the fact that this attitude has caused us significant financial damage in the long term, extending to the present. This experience was the turning point where we stopped delivering our professional services to order. We have created a SaaS platform for the general business community as a product that entrepreneurs – our esteemed business partners – rent from us, which, in addition to consulting, makes up almost one hundred percent of our revenues.

We believe that it is possible to do business without bribery and fraud. The product itself, its quality, and especially the good name of SonataSW s.r.o. have aroused the interest of even big companies, which as corporations have demanding requirements not only for high quality and safety of the product, but also for the seriousness and value setting of the supplier.

It is also important for us to support organizations that reveal or expose corruption (especially in our country), and therefore, on our own initiative, we have been supporting investigative journalists for a long time by operating an information system that we have created specifically for this purpose.

SonataSW s.r.o. does business fairly and tries to contribute to society with what it is good at.

Juraj Nemec

CEO, SonataSW