Pentalog, or I as an entrepreneur, I don’t know for sure, has just been ranked 90th company by the French Magazine “l’Entreprise”/Ernst&Young in the 2010 top 100 most profitable companies in France that achieved a sales figure of more than 10 million euros. Of course, being on the 90th place out of 100, we could aim for a higher position… but taking everything into account, 230 companies met the competition criteria and there are probably several thousand which didn’t achieve the minimum thresholds to participate (namely a sales figure of at least 10 million euros, a minimum growth of 20% over the last 5 years and positive profitability for the last fiscal period). Obviously, there are already fewer companies behind the gates

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A combination of three achievements: Fast 500, 2nd place at the national business strategy awards, 90th place in the 2010 TOP 100

I have decided, following a request from friends who are already members, to join the strategic committee of the Bar Ilan University of Tel-Aviv, in France. For me, as French citizen, without any known Jewish origin, firmly believing that globalization improves relationships between peoples, this is about contradicting the ambiguous orientations of too many French academicians who recommend boycotting Israeli universities

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I am joining the strategic committee of Bar Ilan University in France

– Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not (19 July 2010, Computerworld) – Japan no high-tech wonderland after all (19 July 2010, IT World) – IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion (20 July 2010, Computerwolrd) – Embedded intelligence and energy conservation (21 July 2010, Ciol) – IT Outsourcing Activity Remains Sluggish in 2010 (22 July 2010, Computerwolrd) – How HTML5 Will Shake Up the Web (22 July 2010, Technologyreview) – IT Professionals Optimistic Over Cloud Future (22 July 2010, CIO) – Studie: Unternehmen zögern beim Einsatz von Web 2.0 (23 Juli 2010, ZdNet) – Studie: Schwerpunkte bei IT-Investitionen und Trends bei IT-Ausgaben (23 Juli 2010, Monitor) – Krise: Der Mittelstand scheint durch zu sein (22 Juli, Silicon) – IT-Projekte in der Fertigung: Gute Aussichten für IT-Dienstleister (21 Juli 2010, CIO) – Bain-Studie: Vier IT-Trends: Radikaler Wandel der Software-Anbieter (19 Juli 2010, CIO.de) – IT-Outsourcing im Bankensektor beliebt (19 Juli 2010, Swiss IT Magazine) Calculate your offshore budget with our price maker

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Press review week 30/2010

A few words on the LABS, the innovation structure of the Pentalog Group, which is currently being set up… The Labs is designed to generate innovation to the benefit of long-term value. Its activities are centered around a group of three deliverables: Proof of Concept: the demonstration model of the feasibility of an application project, accompanied by detailed specifications Target Architecture: the technical file, guideline of a future development of a high level application Business Case: the file containing the team organization and the analysis of project costs, as well as its capacity of return on investment. This complete file, that we shall call the LAB File, must enable to carry out projects in complete security.

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Pentalog Labs: call for applications

Even within Pentalog there are little voices who kindly suggest every now and then that some of the opinions that I develop here make me get too personally involved in areas that are too remotely connected with the object of the company. The criticism that I sometimes direct towards French or Romanian internal policy in particular sometimes generates a certain amount of discussions within management circles. Generally, I justify the choice of stating my opinion on certain subjects by recalling the fact that our economic model derives directly from the political decisions of the different states in which we are established.

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Change of tone on the blog: should I give in to the deceivingly seductive voices of political correctness?

– Gartner criticises cloud market miscommunicatio n (13 July 2010, CRN) – Google ‘to launch Facebook competitor ‘Google Me’ (14 July 2010, Yahoo News) – IT managers play more active role in business decisions (19 July 2010, Business and Leadership) – IT pain relief for midmarket buinesses through end-to end infrastructure virtualization (19 July 2010, Computer Weekly) – Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks (13 July 2010, IT World) – IT spend outlook down on macro uncertainty (16 July 2010, Ciol) – Companies not using social nets at risk, report says (15 July 2010, Computerworld) – Secret to successful outsourcing: Be open about your ambitions (16 July 2010, Silicon) – Offshore Outsourcing On The Rise After Recession : Report (12 July, USA News Week) – Deutschland kommt schneller aus dem Schuldensumpf (15 Juli 2010, Handelsblatt) – Software-Entwicklungsmethode: Scrum noch wenig bekannt (19 Juli 2010, CIO) – IDC-Prognose 2010 bis 2014: Deutscher IT-Markt zieht an (16. Juli 2010, CIO) – Virtualisierungsprojekte zu komplex: Flucht in die Private Cloud – (16 Juli 2010, CIO) – Die IT in Zürich: Erster Bericht (15 Juli 2010, Swiss IT Magazine) – Leistung und Kosten besser im Blick: Outsourcing – profitieren und profilieren (15 Juli 2010, ComputerWoche) – Ein Erfahrungsbericht: Exotisch: IT-Outsourcing in Nordkorea (13 Juli 2010, CIO) – Gartner warnt CIOs vor zweiter Krise (12 Juli 2010, Silicon) – Gartner: The role of the IT department in mergers and acquisitions (13 July 2010, Computer Weekly) – CW+ Exclusive EquaTerra research: Taking the pulse of the European outsourcing market (16 July 2010, Computer Weekly) Encrypt your project and buy our services directly online !

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Press review week 29/2010

So the leader of the French IT professional press reads Pentablog. This piece of news in itself makes me happy, as I have always been a regular 01 reader. Last week’s “blogs” heading touched again on an article that I wrote a few months ago, bearing a somewhat provocative title, but which, in reality, was not: “ What about the French being able to make money and create jobs by leading globalization ”

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01 Informatique selects and puts together Jacques Attali and Pentablog posts

I answered the questions of a Jeune Afrique journalist a few weeks ago and I found his article. Although I share many of his conclusions and confirm that Pentalog will soon embark on a tour of North Africa, for the obvious linguistic reasons that one can imagine, I would have insisted, however, on the fact that the offshore outsourcing market is not represented ONLY by France.

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Jeune Afrique dedicates an article to the offshoring in Maroc

– The Dark Side of Server Virtualization (7 July 2010, CIO) – Cloud acceptance rising in Europe (6 July 2010, CIOL) – Secrecy of Cloud Computing Providers Raises IT Security Risks (6 July 2010, CIO) – Offshore Outsourcing Vendors Upsell Customers to Increase Market Share (9 July 2010, CIO) – Gartner senkt Prognose: Schuldenkrise bremst IT-Investitionen (12 Juli 2010, CIO) – Misstrauen hält Deutsche vom Internet fern (8 Juli 2010, Silicon) – Virtualisiert und entsichert: Die 10 größten Sicherheitsrisiken virtueller Umgebungen (8 Juli 2010, CRN) – Weltwirtschaft wächst schneller – dank China und Indien (8 Juli 2010, Handelsblatt) – Soziale Netze und Firmen: Deutsche Firmen sind beim Social Networking voll dabei (7 Juli 2010, CRN) – Europa geht in die Cloud: CIO-Umfrage: Alle Zeichen auf Cloud Computing (6 Juli 2010, CRN) – Lünendonk-Studie: Mittelstand sorgt für Outsourcing-Boom (6 Juli 2010, CIO) Calculate your offshore budget with our price maker

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Press review week 28/2010

Perhaps some of you have noticed that Pentalog’s price and service catalog, available for download, has disappeared.

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Price transparency, transparency in general: how far can we go?