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Frédéric Lasnier
Title: President&Chief Executive Officer
Bio: After a quick passage in a national marketing service company, Frederic Lasnier founded Pentalog with four colleagues, academics like himself. During a period of economic stagnation (in 1993).
In 1995, he decided to open permanently the capital of Pentalog to the participation of his employees. This participation now has reached 56%. It was a political vision that he shared with the founding members. Starting from 1997, Pentalog exported their first services outside of France. The percentage of foreign activities subsequently reached 60% in 2006.
In 1999, as part of a large software project (10 000 man-days in J2EE), he made his first trip to Romania and laid the foundation for the Pentalog policy of European "low cost". In 2005, he initiated the creation of BPO services (Business Process Outsourcing) and offered a New Business Model to Pentalog High Tech. In 2006, with the help of Ausy, one of the 5 most important players in the French market of outsourced R&D services, he created Pentalog Technology, a joint venture between Ausy and Pentalog, co-owned equally by the two partners. The Joint Venture aims to provide low cost but high quality R & D to global players. Pentalog took operational control of this alliance.
In 2008, Pentalog Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the group was created.
In 2009, Frederic created Pentalog Vietnam.
In all these areas, the management is provided from Orleans and it is here where 70% of the consolidated value is held.
Frederic is the father of the adaptation of the "design to cost" for intellectual services in France.
Aymeric Libeau
Title: CIO - Vice President Infrastructure & R&D
Bio: The management of infrastructure and R&D Aymeric is supervising includes all the technical aspects (for the company as well as for our customers), whether they are related to corporate needs, resources to complete a project, R&D activities or quality control.
Aymeric is the one who defines the strategy of development of our infrastructure and information system.
This former peacekeeper has led several international operations, in particular in Eastern Europe. He remains operational for some of our customers, whether as an expert in architecture, a project director or consultant in the choice of technologies.

Monica Jiman
Title: Deputy CEO
Bio: Monica graduated in Marketing and Production from the University of Orleans, and joined Pentalog as a trainee.
She then became the Manager of the branch office in Bucharest, today employing 50 people in the field of outsourced software development on the offshore as well as local market in Romania.
In May 2009 she became Chief Operational Officer. Monica is now in charge of operations in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, France and Germany, involving over 300 employees. She manages sales and business lines, the creation of new branch offices, recruitment, human resources and the responsibility of contractual operations.
Monica has been Pentalog's Deputy CEO (Deputy Chief Executive Officer) since August 2011. She is in charge of operational management, including the management of production and production structures, financial and reporting management, administration and development of existing partnerships, supervision of the information systems, technical management and … the incubator.
Alexandra Mondanel
Title: International Operations Officer
Bio: After a 4-month internship within the Pentalog Orleans Team, Alexandra was recruited to develop the company's international activities. She holds a postgraduate degree in International Business and foreign languages and she is European to the core: her mother is German and her father is French; she attended a British University, and used to work for the German subsidiary of a French company before joining Pentalog in 2005. Her ability to speak four languages will be determining to find partners all accross Europe.

Sophie Lelarge
Title: WW Sales and BL Director
Bio: Sophie is the group's Sales Director and manages the 3 Business Lines: Information Systems, Embedded Systems and BPO.
She ensures the dialogue with consultants and project managers, as well as the monitoring of our commitments, in coordination with the project managers.



Pierre Peutin
Title: Head of Business Line for Information Systems
Bio: Pierre entered Pentalog as a developer, in 1999. He has worked on web and client/servers projects, on missions of medium and long duration in both France and Belgium. After several years as a developer, Pierre oriented himself towards Business Intelligence by participating in various reporting projects for customers like PSA Peugeot Citroën, Loxam or the ACTICALL group. Later, Pierre became Project Leader for specific application developments, managing teams of 1 to 7 people based in France and offshore for Pentalog. Pierre then naturally served as an offshore Project Director before taking on the responsibility of the Business Line for Information Systems.
Pierre is presently responsible for writing business proposals, monitoring existing customers, commitment control vis-à-vis our customers on projects, compliance with Pentalog quality system procedures and control and optimization of expenses for the Business Line.
Mickaël Hiver
Title: Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO
Bio: Mickaël entered Pentalog as a Network Administrator in February 1997 with the aim to gain global understanding of information technology in order to assist and guide users in meeting their real needs. For 8 years he was an in-house producer for Pentalog clients. With his acquired experience, Mickaël progressively left production to become first a Project Manager, then Project Director and finally the Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO.
Mickaël is a hands-on and open person, with an acute sense of organization and priorities. Through his assistance and counseling he gives his clients and prospective clients the opportunity to focus calmly on their actual core business.
Eric Gouin
Title: Administrator
Bio: Eric graduated from a renown school of Physics and Chemistry in Paris. While he was a student he used to develop websites related to his student activities.
After two research internships within a French company producing mobile phone components in the Sophia-Antipolis Technopole, he joined the IT world in which he held several key positions.
He now is a finance and management control consultant.

Aleth Delcenserie
Title: Quality Manager
Bio: Associate-founder of Pentalog and board member, Aleth Delcenserie first evolved in the graphics department of the company. Gifted with a strong sense of organization and a taste for detail, she conducted with rigorous methodology publishing projects and electronic media for over ten years, and launched the Pentalog BPO-DTP sector at the end of 2005.
From September 2007, Aleth has been responsible for the definition and for the implementation of the Pentalog Quality Policy, leading to the ISO 9001:2008 certification of the group, on December 24, 2008.
As the Director of Quality Control, Aleth is now based in Moldova since 1 January 2009, where she now shares her time between coaching project managers in implementing effectiveness control and the progress of Pentalog Quality.
Tuan Nguyenquoc
Title: Sales Director
Bio: Tuan holds a Master's Degree in Information Systems and New Technologies from the Paris-Dauphine University, and gained some professional experience in France before returning to Vietnam to start his offshore adventure. He became a team leader in a Datawarehouse deployment project in Africa for a telecom provider, and witnessed violent riots in Kinshasa during a couple of days.
Following this project, Tuan turned to a Marcom position as the offshore business development manager of a big Vietnamese IT services company.
While reading the Pentalog blog Tuan became acquainted with Frederic and they met during Frederic's first visit in Vietnam. He was immediately convinced by Pentalog's business model and now manages the development of the first Pentalog office in Vietnam.
Pentalog selected to participate in the European Business Awards
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Good news does not stop coming! We have just learned that Pentalog has been chosen for the first round of selections to represent France at the European Business Awards 2010, which aims to promote excellence, good business practices and innovation within the European business community. The selection was made from amongst 7000 companies studied… from large multinationals to SMBs, including gazelle companies :-) .

Pentalog is already a member of of the French fast-growing company association “Croissance Plus” and has been integrated into the classification of the European Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2009. We also have participated in several “strategy” competitions recently. With the European Business Awards, we could still receive an award at the European level, for having maintained our strong growth in these times of crisis and for the effectiveness of our business model.

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Pentalog Cloud computing services
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Since the end of 2009, we have been conducting a thorough reflection on how to shift towards Cloud Computing. The debate on Cloud Computing did not take place because we were all convinced that this is not just a new fashionable innovation.

We know that equipment remains an important part of a software solution but since the first virtualization solutions, the interest in material has decreased. The transition to Cloud Computing is the next logical step. Soon the very existence of processors, memory and storage will be only distant memories as is the machine language. Always there, but forgotten by all!

We have not yet decided whether we should invest in our own Cloud solution in order to have greater ramp-up capabilities or to become Cloud broker. Asking the question is not totally meaningless, because we already have established offices that can accommodate the equipment in Paris, Bucharest and soon in Asia (Singapore, Hanoi …). Moreover we already have the supervision and administration capacity for these platforms. In the past we’ve already been able to respond positively to hosting needs with our infrastructure. The Cloud market is large; there is room for a Pentalog between the internal solutions and the major actors in this market place.

In our sphere of services, the use of Cloud Computing would seem to be a natural step forward. We are regularly faced with restrictions concerning the solutions we develop for our clients in regards to a shared integration platform, performance testing on a production platform, later adaptation to Cloud Computing. Indeed, when the network environment of our client is impervious to external access, the required shared access for good reactivity has an immediate impact. When our client is (already) in this process of outsourcing the execution of its solution, our responsiveness and our visibility in the project are enhanced significantly.

For many of our clients, we have studied the adaptation of their solution in a SaaS model. It is true that with this model, editors are able to reduce the client decision cycle or show prototypes for a reduced cost. The shift to production is so much easier. These successes have allowed us to define our processes and expand our knowledge about the constraints of these platforms.

The concept itself, of Cloud Computing is very convincing: I transform my investments (CAPEX) in operating cost (OPEX). I also gain in agility because only the “click” of the mouse gives me access to more processing power and or storage without having to follow the order, delivery and installation cycle. But we must not neglect the component “network”. The Internet access of the enterprise is already critical, often polluted by non-professionals traffic. What was not visible in a LAN or VPN, is going to become a problem for a high business traffic did not use to share the same resources as the Internet access. The solutions of a private Cloud will also have to integrate WAN optimization solutions in order to reduce the distance with their Datacenters which are not always on-shore.

So we can already meet the following requirements:

- Development of software solutions dedicated to Cloud computing.
- Assistance to make a solution become SaaS. Help in choosing the appropriate platform (vendor, PaaS / IaaS / Saas model).
- Supervision, management of outsourced platforms.
- Implementation of complementary solutions to take into account new Cloud constraints (access performance, high availability, disaster recovery plan, security …).

For more details, see our propositions on the Pentalog web site.

On the other hand, we are also exploring the provision of SaaS in a sector that we master very well. This will be the subject of another blog post.

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Press review week 12/2010
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- Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT (15 March 2010, InfoWorld)
- Companies’ outsourcing spend to increase (16 March 2010, ZDNet Asia)
- Outsourcing deals: Three steps to better performance (17 March 2010, Silicon)
- Career Turning Points: Zero in on Business Impact (17 March 2010, CIO)
- App market will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012 (17 March 2010, ITPRO)
- China’s impressive. But India may have more long-term potential (17 March 2010, SikhNet)
- ICT spend recovering but specialists to win out (17 March 2010, MIS Australia)
- More firms to use IT outsourcing, says expert (18 March 2010, Outsourcing Russia)
- Outsourcing: Prepare Now for Anti-Offshoring Laws (18 March 2010, CIO)
- Wireless Controlled from the Cloud (19 March 2010, Technology Review)
- Lockdowns on Outsourcing? (22 March 2010, Outsourcing Opinions)
- Firmen benötigen dringend Sanierungshilfe (16 März 2010, ComputerWoche)
- IT verbessert Kredit-Rating (17 März 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Per Twitter zur Karriere (17 März 2010, ComputerWoche)
- 5 Praxis-Schritte zu einer nachhaltigen IT (17 März 2010, CIO)
- CA: Deutsche Unternehmen nicht von Cloud Computing überzeugt (18 März 2010, Silicon)
- Deutscher Internet- und Telekommarkt unter Dampf (18 März 2010, Silicon)
- 10 Sicherheitstipps für Soziale Netzwerke (19 März 2010, CIO)
- Unternehmen nutzen Virtualisierung nicht aus (22 März 2010, ComputerWoche)


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