FOLLOWING TRADITION In order to keep track of goods stored in their warehouses, the Incas used the knots and strings of a special comb; a precursor of the system integration activities carried out by Incas SpA. Hence why the company is named after the civilisation of pre-Columbian America, which built an empire mainly through road building and commerce, rather than waging war, as Mr Ermanno Rondi, Incas SpA’s MD, explains to Barbara Rossi.