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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.
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Beginning in January 2010, we decided, after consultation with telecom operators to call upon Orange to establish our fleet of mobile telephones in France. We took advantage of this new contract to deploy a fleet of iPhones for our managers. We now have 13 3Gs iPhones.

The choice of the iPhone for business use has not always had good press. I wanted to give you our assessment after 3 months use.

As a little reminder, I would like to give you the context of its use… The iPhone, for Pentalog, is considered a professional tool under the control of the ISD. Users cannot install applications. This requires approval for the purchase (even for the free applications). The “Profile” is enabled on the terminal, and it allows us to limit access to certain features without disrupting the operation of the terminal.

The main applications that have been added are as follows:
- Skype: I will not present it
- BFM TV: it remains connected to the visual information H24. Our nomadic personnel have need of it.
- Cityvox restaurants: normal, it was developed by Pentalog
- DropBox: Sync with an online file repository (presentation, various files…)
- RSS reader: a must-have feature for tracking information
- GeoTaxi: find a taxi in Paris
- Travel-SNCF: Hourly transportation
- La Tribune, Le Monde, LePoint: additional information
- IDICT: online dictionary
- ISIP: SIP client to connect us to our private Centrex
- P5Dial: tool for home use and access to our voice VPN via the GSM network. Savings assured
- OneTeam: chat client to access our private chat.
- Yellow Pages: online directory
- RATP: again for travelers
- Rotaxi: list of Taxi companies in Romania. Very useful.
- TripIt: monitoring our movements. TripIt will soon be directly connected to our system of internal travel
- Travelers: contents published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on practical information concerning different countries
- Google Analytics for those who follow the activity of websites
- Cacti & Nagios for those who follow the network infrastructure
- Facebook & Twitter for those who can justify a presence on social networks.

Initially, users were a bit frustrated with the limitations set on the installation of applications. When an application is professionally justified, it is not denied. No one has shown signs of resistance to this change and the adhesion was practically immediate. It must be said that we have been able to increase the use that these managers were able to obtain with their previous smartphones.

Everyone has now taken the measure of the interest and the inevitable functions of this type of device: direct communication, usability… The major defect and it is so well known is autonomy. To address this problem, we have acquired external batteries that are recharged through the USB port. Autonomy is thus multiplied by 3 to 5 times with minimal amount of additional space.

Although not a cell phone for an adventurer, it is very suitable for use by our nomads. For the moment, none of the terminals have been broken. Several have been customized (hull, protection …). A user employs it even as an access badge.

We also have a stake in security issues with the terminal. Yes, this is the second weakness of the iPhone. The initial responses to guarantee a level of security were to systematically use the unlock code, to activate the boot after 10 failed access attempts. In addition, personal iPhones do not have access to the company messaging service. The iPhone is not a USB key; thus it limits the amount of uploaded files onto the terminal. It uses a VPN to access sensitive corporate resources. We will be very attentive to the features of the new version 4.0 of the OS for security and for the management of our fleet (remote control, application deployment “over-the-air”,…).

It is still too early to assess the impact of the new uses on the cost (data) abroad. I will wait see over a significant period of four received invoices. But everyone has been made aware that the mode “Data abroad” should be activated only when needed.

For the record, you may have read in a previous post that the managers were meeting last weekend in Brasov. It is the first time that the large family of French, Romanian and Moldovan iPhones were brought together. Some extra cell phones (personal iPhones) were even invited for this beautiful family photo.
 
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In conclusion, we have no regrets after three months of using iPhones in our enterprise. The planned evolution of the iPhone is going in the right direction.

Posted on Mon., 19 Apr. 2010 8:59 by Aymeric LIBEAU (760 day(s) old)
Categories: Offshore technology and organisation
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