by Roberta Imbimbo
Established in 1998 from the family business that had already been known for decades in the mechanical and agricultural sectors, Ricca IT is now a highly specialised System Integrator in the creation and implementation of information systems, data centres and cybersecurity, in order to protect IT infrastructures from the risks posed by web threats. Stefano Ricca – who joined the company in 1990 and has been at the helm since 2016, with the aim of imparting a new and revolutionary corporate culture – has succeeded in a short time in enhancing the brand identity and creating a successful business capable of overcoming the challenges imposed by an increasingly competitive and globalised market, while preserving the same entrepreneurial passion that has always characterised his family’s work. Thanks to a strategic vision and an innovative business approach, this Southern Italian excellence has experienced exponential growth both in terms of turnover and organisational structure (it now has around 80 highly qualified employees, some fifteen more than at the beginning of 2022). The recent redevelopment of the Ragusa headquarters, which has been completely restructured and modernised, adds to the operational offices in Catania, Bari and Naples, in addition to the one opened at the beginning of 2023 in Rome: tangible proof of the expansion, also territorial, that the company has undergone, and that it is in fact active throughout the country. Today, Ricca IT is an important point of reference for hundreds of SMEs operating in the automotive, healthcare, university, and large organised distribution sectors, which need a qualified and reliable partner to deal with an ever-increasing number of hacker attacks, carried out with the use of malware, i.e. malicious software introduced into the target systems for illicit purposes, thus avoiding stopping their production process. Its client portfolio boasts prestigious brands, also thanks to brilliant partnerships, such as the historical ones with IBM and Lenovo, to name but a few. Among other important assignments, Ricca IT was also involved in the PLATINUM space mission, which will see the launch of as many as two Italian satellites between last year and 2024: among the many services requested on behalf of the Italian Space Agency from the temporary grouping of companies led by SITAEL, the supplies of the Ragusa-based company shone out. It ensured all the specific features required for the ground segment of the extremely delicate mission, guaranteeing the use of ad hoc machines that had already been assembled in detail in the factory, and then delivered quickly and with great care. There is no secret behind the company’s rise: Ricca IT invests the profit generated each year in new hires, bonuses, improved quality of life, innovation and continuous training, to increase the skills of its employees in a happy, stimulating and state-of-the-art working environment. Precisely because of its orientation towards the centrality of people, despite the obvious infrastructural gaps that the Sicilian region presents, over time it has succeeded in attracting talent and drawing back to Ragusa young people who had previously left for the north of the country, offering a solid future and demonstrating that doing good business in the south is always possible, if values such as respect for people, high skills, and the will to cooperate for the generativity of the territory remain at the centre. An example of this is the ongoing commitment to eco-sustainable projects such as the Archimede Solar Car, a prototype racing car completely powered by energy created by the Futuro Solare Association, and Hack Your Talent Ragusa, a hackathon in favour of young Ragusans resulting from a community pact for the development of their future signed with another dozen companies and the Municipality of Ragusa at the end of 2022.
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