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| June
1st, 2004 |
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: Pentalog Opens the Second Office in Romania.
After
Brasov (300 000 inhabitants close
to
the Carpathians), Pentalog opens another
office in Bucharest
(Romanian capital - 3 000 000 inhabitants).
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auxiliary of the first unit offshore, this office
has five key objectives:
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To provide techical solutions and services for
the Romanian market,
2. To increase the production capacity of the
offshore projects,
3. To have at its disposal a reception office
close to the airport, for the spot projects or
for the ones that require the client's presence,
4. To have at its disposal an equipped center
with multiple and redundant providers for long-distance
services, including a high-degree availability
(tele-administration, tele-infomanagement, tele-production...),
5. To provide a pole of functional expertise,
both internal and in partnership.
To
sum up, Pentalog High Tech has now three French
agencies, two cost axis and two infrastructure
axis, in order to offer its clients the most suitable
solutions for their needs.
Let
us recall that in 2004 Pentalog High Tech will
double its Romanian turnover, which will represent
30% of the Group global turnover. |
| Contact
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Hemery |
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| March
20, 2004 |
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| The
first quarter of 2004: +16%
By
the end of March, Pentalog expects a quarterly
increase of its CA of about 16%, comparatively
to the first quarter of 2003. This percentage
of annual growth is accompanied by a sequential
percentage of growth (between T104 and T403)
of 9%. |
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increase, if continuous, will be far greater than
our expectations (+2,5 predicted for 2004) and
not the same as our objectives. Nevertheless,
it confirms the healthy paths chosen by the company.
The figures revealed a 4,5% increase in the activity
of the French agencies, while the growth of the
Business Unit Offshore (Romania) is established
at about 29%, contributing greatly to the global
growth.
The company starts to gain revenues from its CRM
Center offer, which enables the clients to benefit
from the applications of the iNet range in ASP
mode, to rely on the services of his web designers
on the offshore website, to track the visites
on the website in relation to the commercial databases
of the company, on the call-back services connected
to the clients' visites on the website, on the
database management. This offer is supported by
foreign investments, which make it highly competitive.
Among the new clients, we mention the arrival
of Sud Ouest Group, for which Pentalog High Tech
develops a software for the administration of
rotary printing activities. Pentalog also strengthens
its position with many clients like Cogestib,
SNT Vitalicom, Loxam - which are fast-growing
clients.
Pentalog
High Tech has also signed a Silver partnership
contract with Business Objects (world leader in
the Business Intelligence software industry).
As a result, Pentalog High Tech becomes the only
BO partner in Region Centre and the second in
Aquitaine.
This contract extends the commercial capabilities
of Pentalog on this activity branch and brings
to strength the long-time service relationships
developed with France Telecom, Orange, Vivendi
Telecom International, Vitalicom (groupe SNT)...
Pentalog, now able to resell the products of the
editing leader, has a global capacity in terms
of providing solutions in the Decision Making
area.
Together with Oracle and Microsoft, this contract
enriches the list of strategical technologic partners
of the company. |
| Contact : Hélène
Hemery |
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| March
15, 2004 |
| The
SCSC established in Orléans, Bordeaux,
Paris and in Romania reveals its CRM Center
offer.
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offer of CRM services, located between Brasov
(Romania) and Paris for the Data Center includes
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The
selling of commercial information (thousands of
qualified contacts, including e-mail addresses)
- The capturing of commercial data
- The exchange of commercial information
- The unified management of the commercial data
- The conception of operational marketing operations
- The sending of e-mailing operations
- Behaviour tracking services suitable for the
e-mailing operations
- The supplying of software solutions for extranet
portals
- The updating of websites
- The systematic recall of the most active Web
users
Technically, this offer is based on the CRM tools
of the iNet range (www.inet.fr).
Subscriptions in ASP mode can be proposed to the
customers within the CRM Center offer framework.
The Romanian localization of the human resources
allows our customers, within a 100% French-speaking
environment, to reduce considerably their commercial
costs while developing continuous relations with
their customers.
Through
the CRM Center the customers of Pentalog High
Tech avoid financing the acquisition of a CRM
software line and enables the commercial personnel
to concentrate upon the operations containing
greater added value.
This
offer has already convinced several customers
who use it partially or entirely.
Tariff of the services: from 150 to 2000€/month
according to the nature and the volume of the
services requested. |
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CRM Center page |
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Hemery |
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| March
1st, 2004 |
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| Business
Objects Silver Partner : The first in Région
Centre !
By
signing of this contract, Pentalog High
Tech becomes the first company from Région
Centre to reach this level of partnership
with the solutions editor from Business
Intelligence. More information. |
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Pentalog
High Tech has been a provider of BO services to
its clients for over 7 years and claims numerous
references on the subject: Kencell Communication
Ltd (Group Vivendi from Kenya), France Telecom
Branche Entreprises, Orange, Loxam, Vitalicom
(Group SNT), but also Maroc Telecom in partenership
with Steria. The consultants from Pentalog have
also accompanied BO in the banking industries
and in the business of musical editing.
Pentalog
High Tech has nowadays global competences on the
Business Objects range and is determined to convince
the enterprises from the regions Centre and Aquitaine,
as well as from Paris, to take advantage from
the skills of its team, but also from the conditions
of selling the licences, offered by this new statute.
From today on, Pentalog High Tech opens its order
book of BO licences with Vitalicom (Group SNT,
from Blois), which realises in this period a BO
test project to replace its ancient tools of decisional
analysis. Pentalog High Tech has been a supplier
of decisional analysis tools for Vitalicom-Group
SNT since February 2003. |
| Contact : Hélène
Hemery |
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| February
10, 2004 |
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Pentalog
High Tech and Cogestib in Barcelona.
The
two companies, first based in Orléans
and the latter in Tours, give an example
in respect with the regional co-operation. |
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European leader in the the field of software
for automobile distribution, has recently
signed with Thales-IS a contract for the realization
of the management system for a very important
Japonese car manufacturer. The
development operations being localised in
Barcelona, Cogestib has requested the international
vocation of Pentalog High Tech.
Four
J2EE developers thus took seat within a
team which, on the long run, will largely
exceed ten persons.
Other
Spanish consultants from Pentalog High Tech
could still join this team. |
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| February
1st, 2004 |
| New
Orleans MBA and Orléans DU.
Pentalog
takes part in DU European Management of the University
of Orléans (equivalent of the MBA of New
Orleans). |
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| In June 2003, Frédéric
Lasnier, Chairman of Pentalog was invited by the
University of Orléans to teach a Project
Management course, in English, intended for the
foreign students or French professionals who already
had university degrees.
This 24 hour module will approach the management
of the change, the role of a project leader and
a project sponsor, the management of competences,
of time, of international resources and legal
systems, of communication both intra and inter-project.
The students will be also taught the crisis management.
This lecture will be accompanied, for each of
the 4 to 6 hour meetings, of workshops on projects
implying an European or international dimension.
Each project will be led by a project manager.
Let us emphasize that Frédéric Lasnier,
like many Pentaloguiens, has been a graduate of
the University of Orléans; where he is
now a lecturer in Marketing Technologies. |
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Hélène
Hemery |
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| December
15, 2003 |
| Turnover
+12%, net result :+300%
Even
if this year is not not yet ended, the 2003 figures
show that the ambitious orientations of the past
years were good ! This trend will be certainly
confirmed in the next months. |
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the scheme of a durable performance seems to be
strongly funded:
- during the
year 2003, our fees have recorded a 7% drop (the
average is about 13% in EC). Our clients benefit
of this movement.
- the number of production days increased by 6%
- the marketing and sales cost increased by 3%
when turnover recorded 20% growth
- constant number of consultancy people
- salary growth
This performance
has to be appreciated in an unknown IT crisis
context (-8% for the IT sevices in the EC).
Our figures
are strongly linked to the continuous improvement
of our Offshore Business Unit (Romania) which
contributes up to 30% to the net result. Its growth
rate is expected to reach 100% for year 2004.
About Q4 , our growth is about
5% (in comparison with Q4 2002). Our activity
has been continuously inforced by international
markets (Belgium, Spain, Bulgaria).
The recorded sales for 2004
cover about 40% of the year and the breakeven
point is secured for the next 6 months.
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