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Discover the Essonne Trade Mission
Profiles on our participating companies
Hosted by PRIME and SYSTEM@TIC, with the support of the FACCSF
Monday, December
8th - 3:45 to 6:00 PM @
PRIME
Organized by
presentation order:
Spring Technologies
Wallix
Genostar
INL
Sparkom
Qualigram
On December 8th and 9th
of 2008, the FACCSF, PRIME, System@tic and CCI Essonne organized a trade
mission for 6 French innovative hi-tech companies. With a strong presence in
France, these companies have decided to explore the US market - to discover
its opportunities and its likeminded focus on innovation and service.
During the San Francisco leg of the trip, the companies each underwent an
intensive two day program, featuring a conference on Open Source business
models and meetings with experts - lawyers, accountants, IT
specialists and CEOs, project managers, public relations coordinators,
bankers, IP experts, and more - all tailored to each companies needs.
If you participated
in the session and wish to obtain the contact information for
the companies and audience members, contact Victor at
events@faccsf.com
We would like warmly
thank our participating experts, partners, and companies
"I was very satisfied
with the organization and caliber of contacts that [the Chamber] had
developed for me. In such a short span of time, I was able to benefit from a
program that was both efficient and an extremely rich learning experience.
For medium/small sized business, this element is critical ...Your warm
welcome and enthusiasm truly elevated the trade mission."
-- Gilles Battier, Spring Technologies
Spring Technologies
Gilles
Battier, CEO
SPRING
TECHNOLOGIES is a leading French Product Lifecycle Management software
company. With 25 years’ experience in the field of PLM, SPRING
TECHNOLOGIES has gained worldwide recognition in the field of NC machining
with its "DIGITAL WORKSHOP" offering of software and services accompanying
the leading products in the CAD/CAM and PDM markets.
SPRING, in
figures, represents 140 employees located in 8 offices in France,
Switzerland and Germany. A 9th office was established in China in early
2008. SPRING Technologies has 20 resellers around the world who sell and
support our software. SPRING is led by CEO Gilles Battier, an engineer and
SPRING veteran with twenty years’ experience at the company.
Our two main
business activities are in
- Software: Our
Digital Workshop portfolio includes four software packages geared towards
Manufacturing processes
- Services: We
are a Value Added Reseller for Parametric Technology Corporation in France
and Switzerland, CAD Training Center Cadecole, PLM integration
Our number one
priority is to provide comprehensive, pragmatic solutions to help our
clients quickly and securely take their manufacturing processes on stream
without unbalancing or disrupting corporate organization. We have strong
experience in manufacturing activities, through our Digital Workshop
portfolio which includes the following four software packages:
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NCSIMUL
(Program verification and optimization)
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TOOLEXPERT
(Tool management)
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TOOLSIMUL
(Cutting condition calculation)
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WIPLINK
(Manufacturing Document Management)
SPRING
TECHNOLOGIES. is one of the most powerful companies in software publishing
and now is a partner in two Competitiveness Clusters : Systematic and Arve
Industrie.
For more information please go to
spring.fr/en
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Wallix
Jean-Noël de Galzain,
CEO
Wallix
is an Open Source software company specializing in security and
infrastructure management solutions. WALLIX leverages its open-source model
to integrate traceability and access control in the center of IT management
systems.
Wallix was established in 2003 by
Jean-Noël de Galzain,
who previously founded IF Research and Aurora Linux, the first leader
in the Open Source industry. Jean Noel raised 1.5 Million euros in 2008
with Angels and VC’s. He is actively involved in the European Open
Source community, and VP smbs development of the most important French
IT cluster.
By
capitalizing on its "Open Source" expertise and heterogeneous environments
experience, WALLIX R&D focuses on security solutions to protect critical IT
infrastructures; building secure collaborative platforms to entrust extended
networks.
WALLIX
provides a range of products in four areas:
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Network
security with "TotalSecure"
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Centralization
and collection of various logs with "Logbox"
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Supervision
console with "WatchServer"
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Innovative
tractability & access control solutions with "Wallix AdminBastion" or "WAB".
The
priority of WALLIX solutions is to address the financial and industrial
markets, as well as businesses or governmental organizations collaborating
through extended networks and applications like Groupe Total, Alcatel
Lucent, BNP or Natexis. Wallix also helps consulting and services companies
to improve the level of security to access critical information systems for
its customers.
For more information please go to
en.wallix.com
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Genostar
Adrienne
Kennard, COO
The
company was co-founded in 2004 by
Dr
Patrice Garnier (CEO), a veteran entrepreneur who previously created a web
development company (purchased in 2000 by a European company listed with
EuroNext).
Adrienne Kennard
(COO) is responsible for business development and operations. She brings ten
years of experience in life sciences research and international mobility
management to Genostar’s management team (Chevron Chemical, Wesley Jessen,
Inc., Abbott Laboratories). Ms Kennard holds a Bachelor of Science in
Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the
Grenoble Graduate School of Business.
Genostar
offers powerful, integrated software and specialized databases for
comparative genomic and metabolic analysis, from comprehensive
annotation to exploration and visualization of the associated reactions
and metabolic pathways. Genostar also offers a full range of
bioanalysis services and return results in a ready to use, explore and
share format.
Genostar’s
bioinformatics solutions help our clients in vaccine research, drug
discovery and nutraceuticals to:
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Increase
discovery opportunities,
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Optimize and
accelerate the research process
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Reduce cost and
time to results.
Our
products accept, integrate and facilitate analysis of:
In-house
expertise in design and development
means that our solutions:
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Accept multiple
data entry formats,
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Accept the
output from different sequencing technologies
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Can be easily
customized or extended to add new methods, functionalities and data.
The
company’s primary markets are in the pharmaceutical (anti-infectives,
antibacterial drugs, vaccines, antivirulence,
livestock protection) and nutraceutical industries (Probiotics and
lactic acid fermentation) in Europe and North America. Genostar’s Clients
include: Sanofis-Pasteur (Canada), BioMerieux (France), Merial (France),
ArrayXpress (USA) and academic laboratories
For
more information please go to
genostar.com
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INL
Vincent
Deffontaines, CEO
INL, an
innovative IT security and software company, was founded in 2004 by two
recognized IT security experts Éric Leblond and Vincent Deffontaines.
Vincent is the official translator of Apache French documentation and he
also publishes articles in reviews such as La revue « Securité Informatique
», MISC and Linux Magazine France. Éric Leblond is a major contributor to
the Netfilter project in addition to speaking and writing about IT security
issues. Jérôme Notin joined the company in 2005 as Commercial Director and
has increased the turnover of the company five-fold to approximately
530.000€.
INL helps
enhance IT security with NuFW, a new generation firewalling technology
that includes exclusive innovations offering new authentication and
user tracking possibilities. For the first time, it is possible to
strictly define and use a filtering policy based on a user’s
information instead of IP addresses.
NuFW is packaged
in EdenWall, a UTM firewall for companies wishing to effectively deploy
their security strategy. Access permissions enforced by EdenWall are very
strict: no insecure IP/Mac = User binding is ever performed. The algorithm
allows authenticated filtering even on computers with multiple users and is
exclusive to INL.
EdenWall also
effectively addresses the following problems:
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How to provide
multi-protocol, firewall filtering based on a user's ID instead of only
computer IP addresses
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How to provide
access to internal information and resources to road warrior users
according to the organization's identity-based access rights
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How to restrict
user access rights for connections passing through a WIFI access point
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How to keep
track of users’ network activity (SOX)
In France INL’s
clients include the army, the national education system, hospitals and NATO
as well as private businesses.
For
more information please go to inl.fr
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Sparkom
Franck
Rougeau, CEO
Sparkom is an
Internet software company founded in 2005 by Franck Rougeau and Philippe
Martinou.
Sparkom has
created SparkAngels, the first Digital Coaching On-line Service
Platform that makes sharing digital know-how between people around the
world easy, fun, instantaneous and valuable. With SparkAngels you can
show your screen and get help at home from anyone connected to the web.
You can share screens freely with your friends and family or you can
find experts on the SparkAngels marketplace if you need immediate
remote professional support. Never again be alone in front of your
screen.
SparkAngels is
already used by over 200,000 individuals and companies in 90 countries
around the world and appears to be the Web 2.0 answer to the digital divide
problem. Sharing, helping, coaching, doing together are fundamentals of the
SparkAngels service to bring the communication level between people one step
further.
SparkAngels sets
a value to digital literacy and brings the complete environment to sell that
value to those in need. This gives an opportunity for individuals to add
their own value to the service market and to the enterprises to rely on a
potentially infinite community of coaches to support their online business.
Remote digital coaching brings significant savings to digital assistance
expenses.
Franck Rougeau,
co-founder of SparkAngels, is visiting the Bay Area (New York) in order to
investigate how this service could better address the US digital
environment. The company is planning to develop communities of coaches and
partnerships with enterprises that are ready to rely on managed
Internet coaches to support their business. The Sparkom business model
follows a marketplace model based on an intermediation fee complemented by a
“Software as Service” model for businesses that are more attracted by a
white label offer.
You can try the
service by clicking on the following URL:
spark-angels.com
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Qualigram
Francis
Prevot, Founder & Sales Director
Did not
present during the Pitch Session
Francis Prevot co-founded OpenSphere in 2005 and currently serves as Sales
Director. OpenSphere is an IT company specializing in Information System
Security and produces the Qualigram software. OpenSphere consists of 8
people and has generated sales of 150 k€ with 23% profitability in the last
six months. Mr. Prevot previously held management roles in the IT field
including supervising EDI within a French bank and maintenance of Airbus’
Micro Computer Park.
QUALIGRAM is an affordable suite of powerful software that helps
map,
manage,
control,
communicate
and
improve
the processes that are linked to a profession, project, or
organization. Qualigram presents concepts in a visual manner. This
facilitates communication with a target audience and promotes the
implementation of ideas, proposals, projects, processes, missions or
studies. It is distributed in many countries with wide distribution in
both France and Canada.
More than 400 clients, including Banque de France, Aventis, and the French
Department of Defense are using Qualigram.
Qualigram is a Business Process Management tool responding to normative
requirements and continuous improvement. Easy-to-use program based on
Microsoft Visio, it uses logograms with a specific, easy language to help
visualize and understand complex organizations or processes. For example, it
helps identify dysfunctions and improve productivity, or simulate the
consequences of the implementation of a new process, or involve employees in
the success of a new transversal organization.
For
more information please go to
qualigram.com/en
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