MICROPOLE Group
The Organizational Transformation Mavericks

Christian Poyau, Co-Founder and CEO of MICROPOLE Group, MICROPOLE GroupChristian Poyau, Co-Founder and CEO of MICROPOLE Group
In a constantly changing world, digital technology is transforming consumption patterns and business models daily. “At MICROPOLE Group, we are convinced that the optimization of companies’ data assets is the key to their performance,” says Christian Poyau, Co-Founder and CEO of MICROPOLE Group. The company collaborates with organizations to explore all innovations that can help the transformation, adaptation, and evolution of their business by giving them the possibilities to become a data-centric and data-smart organization.

A Holistic Vision of Customer Issues

MICROPOLE reflects this in its by-universe approach, which can be defined as:

• ‘Digital Business’ to increase the growth of companies and boost their commercial and operational dynamism
• ‘Data-Driven’ to define the new data-centric strategy
• ‘Cloud Acceleration’ to rethink the organization, the way they interact, and to gain competitiveness due to MICROPOLE’s agility

As Poyau mentions, “For over 30 years, we have been passionately contributing to the growth of our clients, leading successful projects world-wide with the same motto: delivering more business value. Strategic consulting, technological innovation, and business expertise are at the heart of our DNA.”

Thinking Differently about Data

MICROPOLE has built a dedicated Microsoft Center of Excellence and an advisory methodology that allows them to think differently around the “how” to enable businesses to become data-driven organizations. Concretely, through workshops based on strategic use cases, the company generates value and goes beyond the technological vision of data processing.

At MICROPOLE Group, we are convinced that the optimization of companies’ data assets is the key to their performance

“This is what we call Data Thinking®. Our expertise, vision, and methodology allow us to think differently about data to generate value. It allows us to go beyond the technological vision of data processing and enable data democratization at the heart of the business,” says Wim Haedens, Director of Microsoft Analytics CoE at MICROPOLE BeLux.

Meet the Key Insights

Through its Advanced Analytics in the Cloud (A2C) methodology, MICROPOLE has built highly scalable enterprise data platforms in the cloud.

1. Use cases: Put the data at the heart of your company, allowing you to focus on value and usage.
2. Agility: Train and build small, highly functional teams that work together to solve the big issues of your business.
3. Technology: Create modern data platforms. For us, this is the catalyst for change.

Based on a pure OPEX approach, A2C emphasises the use of the PaaS model for real substantial savings. Our expertise brings real agility to the process and qualifies new use cases.

“Supported by an agile approach, the A2C methodology will ultimately reduce Shadow Analytics and the frustration caused by the lack of both performance and data governance,” says Paul Kaisin, Managing Director of MICROPOLE BeLux. Further, MICROPOLE is aware of security and compliance issues. Thanks to a partner like Microsoft and its ‘Go Cloud and Security’ department, we can anticipate and respond effectively to these challenges.

Meeting Expectations for Operational Efficiency

“We are faced with the new challenge of being able to meet the ever-increasing demand for application production (50 million new applications will be created in the next 50 years),” said Davy Ly, CoE Director at MICROPOLE Group. To meet this need, Azure’s Power Platform enables real acceleration of production times and greater design agility within business teams thanks to its low-code approach. MICROPOLE is already deploying applications in under a week to a major transportation company to test and validate its field use cases. In addition, Augmented Analysis, automated Machine Learning features, Artificial Intelligence, which are some of tomorrow’s issues, are already managed by Microsoft solutions and MICROPOLE’s teams. Increasingly integrating with remote collaboration through Microsoft Teams, or internally, the company’s experts help organizations solve their governance, networking, and change challenges.

With a strong presence in the luxury, banking/insurance, retail, and industrial sectors, MICROPOLE is convinced through the many projects they have carried out that Microsoft solutions are extremely effective for meeting the challenges of tomorrow. Truly, the experts of MICROPOLE are the guarantee of making a difference in the clients’ transformation.