Cluster Champions 2011

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« Our challenge: to boost growth by helping each of the 11
SMEs named « Systematic Paris-Region Cluster Champions »
with one promising development project »
The Systematic Paris-Region Cluster, an ecosystem of excellence which
offers valuable network opportunities, has chosen 11 innovative SMEs
with excellent growth potential, and has committed to helping them
through the SME AMBITION program.
Modeled on the « Innovative Enterprise » label, whose goal is to bring
together private investors and financing for promising SMEs from the
cluster, we have created the « Champions of the Cluster ». Our objective
is to assist innovative SMEs from the Systematic Paris-Region Cluster
in a more comprehensive way, not only in terms of fundraising. This
will leverage all development factors: Business, Export, HR, Innovation
Strategy, Network Effects…
The goal is to turn these SMEs / VSEs into intermediate-sized companies
and make them world leaders in their fields.
These 11 SMEs were carefully selected by the cluster’s Marketing and
Promotion Committee, led by Laurent Kott and made up of industrialists, investors, and experts in innovation strategy. This committee
helps the SMEs define their strategic positioning on the market, draw
up technological road-maps, and develop appropriate financing strategies. The goal is to assemble the tools and resources necessary to
guide them through their strategic development projects, notably via
the SME AMBITION program. »
Jean-Luc Beylat, President of Systematic Paris-Region
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«
lter Way, a new approach to recruitment… La Libre Académie is a training and
specialization center for open source technology aimed at four different groups of
people: young people working in co-op or
training programmes, recent graduates,
people undertaking a new career path,
and company employees. For us, La Libre
Académie represents a new approach to
recruitment, training, and employment in
the field of open-source digital services.
With an expected 200 new jobs planned
for between now and 2013, Alter Way
will continue to seek out passionate, talented employees who love their work.»
Véronique Torner, Philippe Montarges,
Co-Founders and Co-Présidents
The open source service operator...
A new kind of « open »
Alter Way helps companies develop and exploit
their IT systems using the best open-source digital
solutions. Defining itself as an open-source service “operator,” Alter Way is the only player on the
French market to offer 360° services, responding to
a full range of IT service needs: Consulting, Design/
Communication, Solutions, Hosting, and Training.
Alter Way
1, rue Royale
92210 Saint Cloud
Standard : +33 1 78 15 24 00
www.alterway.fr
Date founded : 2006
Sales in 2010 : €11 mil.
Staff: 125
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«
ith an average annual growth rate of
116% since 2005, we are pursuing our international expansion. Encouraged by the excellent feedback we receive from our clients in
the French industrial sector, we are now turning our attention to the export and logistics
sectors.
Our company can also take pride in the fact
that, this year, we were truly on the cutting
edge of innovation with the launch of our new
3D « geo-guidance » technology. This combination of innovation and international expansion gives us excellent growth prospects! »
Raul Bravo, CEO
Simply automatic Balyo has created a mobile robot navigation technology to guide standard forklifts without wireguided or laser-guided infrastructure. This new
generation of automatic vehicles can be used for
transporting pallets or specific loads in the industry
and logistics sectors.
Balyo
170, rue Raymond Losserand
75014 Paris
Standard : +33 1 55 26 43 10
www.balyo.com
Date founded : 2005
Sales in 2010 : €5 mil.
Staff : 39
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« ictao owes its success both to its
expertise in security technologies, and
to the trust of its major clients. Our priority has always been reaching high levels
of security and performance, which are
indispensable for our clients and partners.
In the last 18 months, there has been a high
demand for service-based solutions. We are
strengthening our relationship with largescale integrators and are committed to a
strategy of international development.»
Jacques Pantin, Chairman and CEO
Trust and security for paperless
applications
Dictao is the leading publisher of software relating to trust and security. Its products and services
serve three broad functions: safeguarding identity
with multi-method strong authentification, ensuring secure transactions with electronic signatures
and transaction proof management, and data protection with the digital vault, archiving for legal
purposes, and traceability.
Dictao
152, avenue de Malakoff
75116 Paris
Standard : +33 1 73 00 26 10
www.dictao.com
Date founded : 2000
Sales in 2010 : €11 mil.
Staff : 95
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« or nearly 40 years, ESI has been
developing proven digital technologies to
simulate physical phenomena, all founded on a deep understanding of materials. Historically, the automotive and
energy sectors have accounted for a large
part of our sales. More recently, we have
become increasingly active in the field
of aeronautics. The principles and tools
of end-to-end virtual prototyping can in
fact be successfully applied across several
industries where they can help reduce the
number of physical prototypes. With the
help of business clusters, and Systematic
in particular, ESI aims to increase its sales
in France and to multiply that expansion
internationally.»
Vincent Chaillou,
Product Operations President & COO
The experts in virtual
prototyping for industry ESI is a pioneer and world leader in virtual prototyping solutions for the manufacturing sectors, taking
into account the physics of materials.
ESI offers a suite coherent industry-oriented applications, which constitute a unique, open and collaborative solution for end-to-end virtual prototyping, allowing the gradual elimination of physical
prototypes during the product development phase.
ESI Group
100-102, avenue de Suffren
75015 Paris
Standard : +33 1 41 73 58 00
www.esi-group.com
Date founded : 1973
Sales in 2010 : €84 mil.
Staff : 850
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« sterel Technologies is focused on a very
specific market: the development of critical
software and systems, often «embedded»
in high-tech industrial products. It’s a worldwide market, which has led us to establish a
strong international presence in the USA, the
UK, Germany, Russia, and China. It has also
led us to pursue a policy of constant innovation in our R&D center in Elancourt, near Paris (within Systematic Paris-Region), in Toulouse and Sophia Antipolis, as well as in our
testing and validation team in Shanghai.» Eric Bantégnie, President and CEO
Safety-critical Systems
and Software Development Solutions
Esterel Technologies publishes software specialised in the development of critical systems and
software. It is the world leader in this field, with its
SCADE Suite for control software, SCADE Display
for embedded graphic interfaces, SCADE System
for system design and architecture, and SCADE LifeCycle for life cycle management.
Esterel Technologies
Parc Euclide
8, rue Blaise Pascal
78990 Elancourt
Standard : +33 1 30 68 61 60
www.esterel-technologies.com
Date founded : 2000
Sales in 2010 : €14 mil.
Staff : 104
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«
aving doubled its sales in the last four
years, HGH Infrared Systems has entered
a new phase of ambitious expansion. We
have defined three main development priorities. The first is innovation. Through our
involvement, notably, in several collaborative research projects, HGH has developed a
technical excellence that has been recognized by numerous innovation awards. Next,
HGH has positioned itself on international
markets, with more than 80% of its sales
made abroad in 30 countries. Finally, HGH
is constantly striving to optimize its organization, to improve efficiency and service
for our clients. With ISO9001 certification,
we work every day to improve our organization and keep our partners happy.»
Thierry Campos, Chairman and CEO
The standard in infrared
HGH Infrared Systems designs, develops, assembles
and sells complete optro¬nics systems for industrial, civil, and safety-related applications. Its principal areas of activity are Security, Industry, and Test
and Metrology.
HGH Systèmes Infrarouges
10, rue Maryse Bastié
91340 Igny
Standard : +33 1 69 35 47 70
www.hgh.fr
Date founded : 1982
Sales in 2010 : €9.5 mil.
Staff : 45
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«
s we grow, we will continue to respect
the same principles that made us successful
in the first place – a high level of technological
expertise coupled with stringent business and
production processes. We are pursuing a policy
of sustained growth, and we expect to double
our staff numbers again in the next 4 years.
To this end, we are working to develop complementary services for mobile, DSS, networks,
and Open Source ERP. We are accelerating
our expansion to new geographical areas and
are also expanding our publishing activities.
Finally, we are valorizing the solutions resulting from collaborative R&D projects.»
Patrick Bénichou,
Chairman and CEO
Open Source Architect
Open Wide, one of the first French technological expertise groups to work on Open Source
software, designs, creates, and operates innovative
and reliable ready-to-use solutions. The company
dedicates a large part of its resources to R&D and
innovation. More recently, it has started work on
publishing and Open Source base for Java-management applications.
Open Wide
23, rue Daviel
75013 Paris
Standard : +33 1 42 68 28 00
www.openwide.fr
Date founded : 2001
Sales in 2011 : €10 mil.
Staff : 100
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«
y ambition is to see Spring
Technologies become an intermediate-sized
company by strengthening our activities
with our Major Clients and their suppliers
(EADS, Safran, Dassault, Thales, Alstom,
Areva, DCNS, Renault...) and by helping their
international subsidiaries to develop new
markets.
I’m interested in North Africa for a Nearshore presence, and in the emerging markets
of Mexico, Brazil and India, and I plan to
accelerate the company’s expansion by
external growth and links with other SMEs.
I am a great supporter of european team
work, and am an active participant in the
SME association « Pacte PME » as a representative of the cluster.»
Gilles Battier, Chairman and CEO
Your PLM partner,
from design to manufacturing
A Builder of PLM solutions, Spring Technologies has
been helping industrial companies through the product development and process phases for 30 years.
It offers CAD/CAM and PLM services, expertise in
the areas of industrial product development, machining, and software publishing (simulation, optimization, tool management, and technical instructions). In the last 5 years, Spring Technologies has
established a presence in Germany, China, and the
USA, at BMW, Raytheon, the US Army, GE, Toyota,
Hyundai, and Cast, among others.
Spring Technologies
261, rue de Paris
93100 Montreuil
Standard : +33 1 43 60 25 00
www.springplm.com
Date founded : 1983
Sales in 2010 : €10 mil.
Staff : 100
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« or 25 years, Systar has been at the
forefront of innovation, responding to
the new needs and complexities of Cloud
computing and real-time enterprises. Our
software packages provide business managers with the information, diagnostics
and recommendations they need to improve the performance of their IT infrastructure as well as the efficiency, quality,
and security of their business operations.
Systar will continue to invest massively to
anticipate its clients’ emerging needs and to
win new market share, notably in the Asia
Pacific region.»
Guy Kuster, Chairman and CEO
Manage with Vision
Over 180 clients worldwide, including 10 of the
world’s 15 largest banks, rely on Systar’s performance management software to transform
their business and IT operations from reactive to
proactive, solving problems prior to impacting the
business. Systar is widely regarded as the leading
provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
solutions and offers innovative Virtualization Management and IT Governance software for physical
and virtual server and storage environments..
Systar
171, Bureaux de la Colline
92213 Saint Cloud
Standard : +33 1 49 11 45 00
www.systar.fr
Date founded : 1984
Sales in 2010 : €20.1 mil.
Staff : 130
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transatel
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« ransatel is emerging as an important
new player in the field of machine to machine (M2M).
Having won a contract with Everything Everywhere, the result of the merger between
T-mobile and Orange UK in England, Transatel has shown that its M2M platform meets
the needs of major operators seeking to
limit their investments, gain flexibility, and
improve « time to market ».
Spurred on by this success, Transatel is now
ready to approach all the mobile telephone
operators on the planet! »
Jacques Bonifay,
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Ready-to-use solutions for MVNO and
M2M
Transatel is an MVNO Enabler which provides
ready-to-use services for these companies. Practically speaking, Transatel offers hosting for all necessary infrastructure (Telecom network backbones, IT
platforms, SIM cards).
Transatel
Tour Monge, La Défense 5
22, Place des Vosges
92979 Paris La Défense
Standard : +33 1 74 95 74 00
www.transatel.com
Date founded : 2000
Sales in 2010 : €15 mil.
Staff : 75
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« hanks to our Research & Development
work over the last 7 years, we now offer IT
security solutions that help companies’ Chief
Information Officers and computer security
managers respond effectively to IT risk
management regulations linked, notably, to
outsourcing.
We plan to pursue our investments in
products in order to provide new innovative
functionalities for Cloud computing and the
mobile sector.
Wallix’s growth is due to the strength of our
network of integrators in France and abroad.
New strategic partners in Europe and the
United States, combined with an ambitious
marketing and sales policy, will allow us to
increase our presence on the market.»
Jean Noël de Galzain,
Chairman and CEO
Securing access and traceability for
Information Systems
Wallix publishes IT security software specialised in
risk management related to accessing companies’
safety-critical IT infrastructure. It offers solutions
for username and password management, traceability, and session logging. Simple and economical,
Wallix’s solutions give companies the tools they
need to conform to safety and governance standards for IT systems.
Wallix
118, rue de Tocqueville
75017 Paris
Standard : +33 1 53 42 12 90
www.wallix.com
Date founded : 2003
Sales in 2011 : €3.5 mil.
Staff : 35