Projects

Projects in industries with nothing in common

Retail, banking, insurance, healthcare, industry, culture, public sector, training…

Those environments are very different, yet projects often raise the same questions: understanding the need, working with what already exists, choosing a realistic architecture and getting business and technical people to work together.

That variety is now part of our experience.

Several decades of hands-on IT practice
10+ sectors and business environments
France & worldwide assignments delivered in widely different settings
125stores for one of the largest deployments we have supported

Areas of work

A few projects, sector by sector

This selection spans several periods in the history of eletec. Some of the technologies mentioned are old by now: we keep them deliberately, because they show how projects evolved and what we know about existing systems. For each assignment, what matters is still the problem addressed and the role played.

  • Auchan France — Projet Ambitions — Development of the interface for a forecasting tool used by department managers and management controllers.
    Environment: Delphi, Hyperion, Excel.
  • Auchan France — Intranet Planet Auchan — Supporting the intranet roll-out across 125 hypermarkets, with advisory, communication and project management roles on the France project.
  • Auchan International Technologie — Defining a method to support the roll-out of HR solutions across the group’s various countries.
  • Auchan — Produits référencés — Development of the interface for an intranet service giving access to information on referenced products.
  • Groupe ADC — Gestion commerciale — Design of a multi-site sales management information system and implementation of the communication infrastructure between sites.
  • Tape à l’Œil — Plateforme numérique — Supporting the project from scoping through to delivery follow-up: specifications, tender and monitoring of the selected supplier.
  • Groupe ADC — Gestion de production — Support in selecting and implementing a production management solution.
  • AXA / Groupe ADC — Échanges de données — Design and development of computerised exchanges automating the purchasing flows for communication furniture.
  • EuropeEyes — Audit du système d’information — Audit of a business system resting in particular on an IBM environment.
  • Carter-Cash — Audit de l’application ATHENA — Analysis of the code and architecture of a sales management application.
    Environment: .NET, C#, SQL Server.

  • Howden International — Gestassur — Maintenance and evolution of an insurance management platform on IBM i / AS/400: technical support, incident resolution and change requests.
  • FIMATEX / AXA — Bourse en ligne — Involvement in the design and development of an online trading package: user management, configuration repository, administration and back-office components.
    Environment: UML, Java, EJB, XML, HTML, Shell, Perl.
  • AXA — Outillage achats — Design of a data exchange system to automate certain purchasing flows.
  • Études & architecture — Methodological support in object design, UML modelling and architecture review.

  • Lüman — OSIM+ — Design and development of a business application dedicated to keeping people with disabilities in employment. It lets ergonomists follow an intervention from the initial report through to the written summary and the implementation of recommendations. The solution has been used in environments such as Nocibé, Decathlon, Accor and Norauto.
  • Schering — Development and implementation of a management information system.
    Historical environment: Visual Basic, Oracle.
  • Mutualité du Nord-Pas-de-Calais — Development of an information system for managing disputes.
    Historical environment: Microsoft Access.
  • IFMKNF — École de kinésithérapie de Lille — Implementation and evolution of the institution’s information system.

  • Fosse Data Europe — Base de données canine — Design of a platform to manage registrations, pedigree data, automated catalogue production and online payment. The project won first prize at InovArt in the “Manufacturing systems” category.
    Historical environment: Delphi, ASP, Oracle, Access.
  • Gestion de production industrielle — Training production and scheduling teams to use an industrial ERP, from first principles through to advanced functions.
  • Ganesh ERP Industries — Involvement in developing a production management package: technical data, bills of materials and manufacturing orders.
    Environment: .NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server.
  • Affichage dynamique de production — Development of a display system fed in real time by the central management system and broadcast simultaneously on the web and on local screens.
    Environment: HTML5, C#, SQL.
  • Jagger & Lewis — Mise à jour de firmware — Development of a tool to update the firmware of an Arduino-based embedded device.
    Environment: C#.

  • Groupe Emap France — Development of the Tarif Média database gathering rate data for French print media, with PC and Macintosh versions.
    Historical environment: FoxPro.
  • Bayard Presse — Development of a secure browser aimed at young audiences.
  • Métropole lilloise — Atlas Culturel Interactif — Feasibility study, architecture and development of an interactive geographic information system listing more than 1,800 cultural venues and facilities across the cross-border Lille metropolitan area and the former mining basin. The content is browsed by map, by subject area and by territory.
    Historical environment: Linux, MySQL, Oracle, JSP, open-source mapping components.
    A period television report on the Atlas culturel: the project is presented, with glimpses of the application and the cultural map. Original picture and sound, kept as they were.© C9 Télévision

  • Ville de Lille — Advisory, development and management assignments on digital projects.
  • Ministère de la Justice — Work on several projects and information systems.
  • Ministère du Commerce extérieur — Support for IT and digital projects.
  • CETE Nord-Picardie / DIV — Studies and deliveries within digital projects.
  • SKEMA Business School — Support for projects relating to the information system.

  • PIB — Portail d’informations Business — Study and build of a portal collecting, centralising, qualifying and distributing tender notices from French, Belgian and European sources. The service included a search engine and personalised subscriptions.
    Historical environment: Linux, MySQL, PHP, XML.
  • Institutions européennes — Senior advisory assignments on projects relating to information technology.

  • Groupe Auchan — Formation métier à distance — Design of simulators and training modules covering several business processes: forecasting, merchandising, checkout systems, supply and equipment fleet management. Some of these were rolled out to several thousand users.
  • Formations techniques — Assignments with companies, schools and training bodies on software development, databases and system environments. Organisations involved include: Agfa, Microsoft France, EDHEC, France Télécom, La Poste, Schering, ESJ Lille and several universities.
  • Université de Lille — UER CUEEP — Build of the LCPE software (Reading, Comprehension and Written Production), a teaching tool dedicated to learning to read and write. It combines paper documents with interactive computer exercises, organised into teaching kits (LCPE 1 and LCPE 2).
  • ILEP — ID PANNE — Build of the ID PANNE software, a CD-ROM for training in the repair of technical objects.
    Producer: ILEP — Institut Lillois d’Éducation Permanente.
  • ILEP — Le monde des techniques — Build of the “Le monde des techniques” CD-ROM, a multimedia teaching tool designed to support training and career-guidance paths: digital technologies, administrative techniques and entry into employment.
  • IFMKNF — kine-lille.com — Creation of the website of the École de kinésithérapie du Nord de la France and maintenance of several components of its information system.

  • JeCréeMonStore — Configurateur de produits — Development, with the Inouit agency, of a configurator for assembling blinds, insect screens and shutters online.
  • Groupe ADC / AXA — Consolidation de commandes — Development of an automated exchange grouping orders from several PrestaShop stores into a single flow.
  • Groupe ADC — Creation of the portal presenting the work of Les Ateliers de Chevreuse.
    Environment: WordPress.
  • Abricyclette — Development of the website of bike-shelter manufacturer Les Ateliers de Chevreuse.
  • Panocolor — Website development on WordPress.
  • RDM Vidéo — Website maintenance and evolution.

  • Ville de Lille — Bornes MIPIM — Design of an interactive mapping application presenting Lille’s industrial sites at MIPIM.
  • NeoNet — Development of a secure browser designed for interactive kiosks and deployed in several public and private settings.
  • Lille 2004 — Design of an interactive CD-ROM retracing Lille’s bid to host the 2004 Olympic Games.
    Historical environment: Delphi, 3D Studio.
  • Ministère de la Justice — eFore — Production of a multimedia resource listing the distance-learning tools available in prisons.

Open source

Open projects, to show current work too

Some recent experiments and builds are published as open source. The code, the history of changes and the technical choices can be read directly.

Atlas Trader — Quantitative experiment on crypto markets

An open-source project studying a strategy that collects funding rates on perpetual contracts, with spot hedging to reduce directional exposure.

  • Market data collection and processing
  • Decision engine
  • Risk management and monitoring
  • Backtests
  • Paper-trading simulation
  • APIs and monitoring interfaces
  • Docker deployment
  • Documenting results, the errors encountered and the strategy’s limits

Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Streamlit, SQLite, Docker.

See the code on GitHub See the demonstration

Easy Packing — Optimising how vehicles are loaded

An open-source application for optimising how goods are arranged in pallets, vehicles and containers. It combines several optimisation approaches to produce loading plans that can actually be used and viewed in 2D and 3D.

  • Placement optimisation
  • Handling several vehicles
  • Stability checking
  • Centre of gravity and load distribution taken into account
  • Interactive visualisation
  • Multilingual interface

Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, React, Docker.

See the code on GitHub See the demonstration

Organisations

Projects delivered with very different organisations

These assignments were carried out in varied settings: directly for the organisation concerned, as a consultant, as a supplier, or within teams bringing several partners together.

Business applications

Information systems, sales management, production, insurance, document management and specialised applications.

Web & integration

Portals, intranets, e-commerce, APIs, data exchanges and integration with existing systems.

Data & artificial intelligence

Databases, replication, geographic information systems, document search, automation and new uses of AI.

Projects & knowledge transfer

Project management, auditing, consulting, training, e-learning and team support.

Does your project look nothing like these?

That is not a problem. We do not try to copy a solution from one sector to another. Experience gained on very different projects mainly helps ask the right questions sooner and recognise certain difficulties before they become expensive. Tell us about your situation: we will see whether that experience can help you.

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