Hardis Group is creating a business unit entirely dedicated to consulting for players in the distribution, retail, and luxury sectors. This new entity offers end-to-end support to stakeholders in this sector, from defining their business and IT strategy to operational implementation of projects. Led by David Perrais, this new business unit reflects our ambition to significantly accelerate our efforts in this key sector.

Hardis Group has been offering strategic and digital transformation consulting services for about twenty years. In recent years, the company has aimed to verticalize its offerings. Within this context, the business unit was created, fully dedicated to consulting for the retail, distribution, and luxury sectors, and structures its offering around the following areas:

This new business unit already comprises around thirty consultants, based in Paris, Grenoble, Lyon, and Nantes, capable of assisting mid-sized and large companies in their strategic thinking ahead of digital, operational, and IT transformation projects.

It is led by David Perrais, who brings 25 years of experience in this sector, gained at companies such as Galeries Lafayette, SMCP, Decitre, and Frans Bonhomme.

We have been supporting players in this sector for years through our supply chain software solutions, our consulting services, and transformation project support. The arrival of David Perrais, combined with targeted partnerships, will allow us to offer even more specific support tailored to the current and future challenges faced by players in this sector,

Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group

This recognition validates the Group’s expertise across the entire analytics value chain, supporting more structured, reliable, and business-aligned Data projects.

Official recognition of analytical expertise

Granted based on validated client references, a high level of team certification, and operational quality criteria, this specialization acknowledges Hardis Group’s capabilities in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance analytics environments within the Google Cloud ecosystem.

Sustainably structuring Data environments

This certification is part of Hardis Group’s ongoing strategy to strengthen its Data expertise. For several years, the company has been supporting clients with concrete needs: securing data processing pipelines, building suitable governance models, generating decision-support indicators, and making architectures more scalable.

Rapidly evolving business needs

The challenge is no longer to accumulate data, but to extract value from it in short timeframes. Reliability, scalability, security, and clarity have become key criteria in choosing analytics environments. Businesses now expect their partners to translate strategic objectives into concrete operational systems.

The Google Cloud Data Analytics specialization guarantees this level of rigor, relying on a proven methodology, mature tools, and consolidated expertise.

Concrete examples are available in our case studies, illustrating real-world use cases already implemented.

A dynamic approach in support of business transformation

Hardis Group is thus continuing to develop its Data offering, serving business departments and ongoing transformation initiatives.

Batiment avec le logo Hardis Group en facade

Grenoble, April 23, 2025 – Hardis Group, an IT consulting and services company, a pure player Salesforce integrator, and a software publisher for the supply chain, announces significant changes within its digital transformation consulting and digital services division to align it with its “Tech for Business” mission. This mission aims to unlock the potential of technology to transform business, optimize the supply chain, and enhance customer performance.

A restructured offering around five technological pillars

To meet the expectations and needs of companies, particularly mid-sized businesses, and to offer support aligned with current technological market challenges, the Services division’s offering has been reorganized around five key areas: data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud, and sustainable digital technology.

“At the same time, the sales and marketing organization has been redesigned to develop sales of these high-potential market offerings,” explains David Vacca, Director of the Services Division at Hardis Group.

A sector-based reorganization of consulting activities

Simultaneously, the consulting activity is being reorganized by sector. Johan Cote takes over its management, aiming to develop consulting services for mid-sized companies and large enterprises, particularly in Île-de-France and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

The Insurance-Mutual sector, created in 2021, is now headed by Jérôme Blanchard. Two new sectoral divisions have been added: one dedicated to industry and services, led by Cyprien Pouzargue, and another focused on the Retail-Distribution-Luxury sector, headed by David Perrais. The latter was recently recruited for his 25 years of experience in the sector, notably at companies such as Galeries Lafayette, SMCP, Decitre, and Frans Bonhomme.

“This sector-based organization aims to closely address the strategic challenges of our mid-sized and large clients and their operational realities, helping them convert the promises of technologies particularly AI into real business value,” adds Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group.

Establishment of technical and operational governance

Finally, a technical and operational governance structure has been set up, with the creation of the Chief Technical and Operations Officer role, entrusted to Michel Cordier. With over 30 years of experience in various IT services companies, including Capgemini, Steria, and SQLI, his missions include developing Hardis Group’s visibility in Île-de-France and forming new technological and commercial partnerships, especially with major market players or innovative AI and data start-ups. He will also contribute to expanding modernization offers for information systems (IS) and cloud migration (Move to Cloud).

Grenoble, March 27, 2025 – Hardis Group, a French consulting and IT services company, a pure Salesforce player through its subsidiary Cloudity, and a supply chain software publisher, has announced its financial results. Consolidated revenue for the 2024 financial year reached €196.8 million, up from €186.6 million in 2023. Growth was primarily driven by international expansion, both in Salesforce solution integration and software publishing activities.

International growth to drive 2024 growth

In detail, Hardis Group’s supply chain software publishing activity generated €86.3 million in revenue in 2024, reflecting an 11% increase. Cloudity, which focuses on Salesforce solution integration, exceeded €29 million in revenue, up 5%, while digital consulting and services activities saw minimal growth of 0.4%, impacted by a challenging economic environment in the French market.

The year 2024 was marked by strong international expansion. Revenue generated outside France rose by 40.6%, reaching €27.5 million. This figure includes contributions from two acquisitions: the first, in April 2024, was Reflex’s distributor and integrator in Italy; the second, in July 2024, was Magnus Black, a publisher of an order management system (OMS). Excluding these acquisitions, international organic growth stood at 20.4%.

“Cloudity has confirmed its position as the leader in Poland in the field of Salesforce solution integration. As for Reflex, its availability in SaaS on Google Cloud has accelerated international deployments, particularly in Asia and the United States. Whether for Supply Chain or Cloudity software, we are now carrying out more and more multi-country projects for large groups and successful mid-cap companies,” says Nicolas Odet, CEO of Hardis Group.

“For services, while 2024 was a challenging year, it allowed us to build new offerings, particularly around generative AI and cybersecurity, in addition to those we already offered: cloud, data and sustainable digital. In addition, following Meta’s decision to cease operating its Workplace solution, Cloudity has entered into a partnership with Workvivo,” adds Yvan Coutaz, Managing Director of Hardis Group.

2024 in terms of non-financial performance

Beyond the financial performance, Hardis Group launched a “Women in Tech” program in 2024, which has three objectives: developing the careers of women within the group, improving the attractiveness of tech professions to women and participating in the evolution of the place of women in the tech sector.

“In addition, we have been supporting inspiring high-level athletes for many years. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, we were proud to see Florian Jouanny add two Paralympic championship titles and a bronze medal in para-cycling to his collection, and we supported Emma Lunatti in rowing, as well as Anaïs Vincent in her first para-cycling participation,” continues Coutaz.

2025: a target of 207 million in turnover

In 2025, despite an economic and geopolitical context that remains uncertain, Hardis Group aims to achieve 5% growth, which would bring its consolidated turnover to 207 million euros.

To achieve its objectives, the group is counting on:

Regarding CSR projects, the year 2025 will be devoted to expanding the initiatives launched in France to all of the group’s subsidiaries, as well as to conducting a double materiality analysis. This proactive approach, ahead of the application of the CSRD, will enable Hardis Group to measure both its impact on society and the environment and the impact of societal and environmental issues on its economic performance.

Hardis Group has announced the appointment of Clarisse Badiou, Automation Consultant, as a UiPath Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2025. This prestigious recognition, awarded by UiPath a key player in automation software and artificial intelligence highlights the expertise and dedication of the most influential professionals within the UiPath community.

Fabien Guerrero has been appointed Reflex Customer Sales Manager. He will work under the direction of Pauline Poissonnier, Sales Director France, to increase sales activity and consolidate the customer portfolio on the French market. 

Grenoble, February 5th, 2025 – Reflex, Hardis Group’s business unit specialized in supply chain software, announces the appointment of Fabien Guerrero to the position of Sales Manager. In this role, he will be responsible for developing sales in France, and helping customers to leverage the full functional potential of the Reflex software suite. 

Building customer loyalty and satisfaction 

Fabien Guerrero will manage a team of around ten account managers. His main missions are to develop sales with existing customers in France, to support his team in achieving their objectives, and to collaborate with other Reflex departments, particularly those in charge of run operations and support, in order to guarantee customer satisfaction. He will report to Pauline Poissonnier, Sales Director since early 2023. 

A supply chain expert

Fabien Guerrero has nearly 25 years’ experience in developing sales of technological solutions for logistics, in particular voice preparation solutions. Before joining Hardis Group, he held a number of sales and marketing management positions in companies in the sector, including Körber Supply Chain, Voiteq, Zetes Goods ID and Psion. Fabien Guerrero, who began his career as a developer, completed his training at EM Lyon, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Management of Operational Units. 

We are delighted to welcome Fabien Guerrero to our Reflex sales team. His in-depth supply chain expertise and proven business development experience will be major assets in strengthening our relationships with our clients and developing our presence in the French market.

Pauline Poissonnier, Reflex Sales Director in France

The IT transformation consulting and digital services company announces the launch of a dedicated cybersecurity business unit. The new entity’s offering encompasses everything from auditing and consulting through to expertise and managed services.

Grenoble, January 29, 2025 – Hardis Group, a French consulting and IT services company, Salesforce pure player, and logistics software publisher, announces that it has launched a cybersecurity business unit. The new entity, headed by Yannick Parrain, reflects the company’s ambitious growth strategy in this area.

Since 2018, Hardis Group has offered managed cybersecurity services through its Security Operations Center (SOC), which is based in France. Over the years, the company has steadily built out its portfolio of services. It has now created a dedicated unit, with a team of around 30 people, to take this aspect of its business forward.

The new business unit offers three types of services:

We support our customers in five key areas: data, AI, cloud, digital responsibility, and cybersecurity. The new cybersecurity unit will help us rapidly scale up this aspect of our business in the years ahead. We’re looking to hire dozens of cybersecurity experts and we aren’t ruling out pursuing external growth opportunities in this area.

Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group

Grenoble, Milan, April 23, 2024 – Hardis Group, a French consulting and IT services company, Salesforce pure player, and logistics software publisher, announces that it has acquired a majority stake in Hardis Italia, an integrator partner for its Reflex software suite founded in 1995. The deal, which is fully aligned with Hardis Group’s international expansion strategy, sees the creation of a new Italian subsidiary based in Milan. It follows similar moves in Spain (2017), the Netherlands (2018), and Poland (2021). 

Italy, an extremely buoyant market

The analyst firm Gartner has recognized Hardis Group as one of the major WMS vendors in Europe for its Reflex WMS software. Its Reflex business unit, which publishes logistics management software in SaaS mode, serves over 450 customers in 25 countries.

Hardis Group has opted to open a new subsidiary in Italy on account of buoyant business conditions in the country, especially in the process digitization and e-commerce segments. It is also aiming to build on Hardis Italia’s solid foundations, including its team of Reflex-trained logistics experts offering an end-to-end local service (consulting, development, and support), as well as its established base of major customers across various sectors including manufacturing, luxury goods, and logistics services. The move aligns with Hardis Group’s triple objective of offering local support to Italian enterprise users of its Reflex suite, supporting its international customers with multi-country deployments of its applications, and winning new business.

We are targeting a threefold increase in sales in Italy over the next two years. We can build on strong foundations, an expert team, and an established customer base across sectors such as luxury goods, fashion, retail, logistics services, and agrifood.

Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group

Leadership team and new hires at Hardis Italia

Hardis Group Italia will be led by a two-person team:

Hardis Italia and Hardis Group share a long and successful history. I set up the company in 1995 to bring our partner’s software solutions to the Italian market. This new phase is a natural step forward, signaling ambitious and exciting times ahead for Hardis Italia, Reflex, and our teams.

Achille Sordi, founder of Hardis Italia

Hardis Italia will double its workforce over the next two years to support its growth. The company, which currently employs around 15 people, is actively seeking technical and functional consultants, project managers, developers, and a head of marketing.

Grenoble, March 14, 2024 – Hardis Group, a consulting and IT services company, Salesforce pure player, and logistics software publisher, announces that it achieved €186.6 million in consolidated revenue in 2023, up from €156 million in 2022. The Group now employees 1,700 people, with 260 of its employees located outside France. In 2024, Hardis Group is targeting organic growth of 10%, will add 380 new hires to its workforce, and will celebrate 40 years of profitable growth.

Growth across all business lines in 2023

In 2023, Hardis Group achieved revenue growth across its three major business lines: IT services (14%), Salesforce integration (60%), and logistics execution software (16%).

A detailed breakdown for the Group’s IT services business line is given below:

Turning to the Group’s logistics software business line, sales of the SaaS version of Reflex WMS jumped by 175% in 2023. Also last year, Reflex launched in Google Cloud, and the Group’s subsidiaries outside France—in the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland—achieved growth of 63%.

We are seeing strong growth in the areas we have identified as priorities in our new strategic plan: public cloud (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure), data (especially with Talend and Snowflake), and multi-country deployments of Reflex WMS and Salesforce.

Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group

Passing the €200 million mark in 2024

Despite an uncertain economic and geopolitical environment, Hardis Group’s management is targeting 10% organic growth in 2024. Highlights of the year are expected to include:

2024 is the first year of our new three-year strategic plan, through which we are aiming to consolidate our leading position across our various business lines, including by moving into new countries, by expanding our data, AI, and security offerings, and by making targeted acquisitions.

Yvan Coutaz, Managing Director of Hardis Group

To help it achieve these goals, Hardis Group will add 380 new hires to its workforce and continue investing in developing its employees’ hard and soft skills. “Some 300 employees received training in software eco-design and digital accessibility in 2023,” said Coutaz. “In 2024, we will continue building our employees’ digital responsibility skills and develop new training modules on generative AI, automation, and cybersecurity.”

“Our 2023 results are testament to our dedicated, ambitious people” said Odet. “We look forward to celebrating the Group’s 40th anniversary with them in June 2024.”

Hardis Group has unveiled a vast recruitment plan to supports its ambitious expansion plans in France and worldwide, as it looks to achieve organic growth of 10% in 2024:

Grenoble, February 15, 2024 – Hardis Group, a consulting and IT services company, Salesforce pure player, and logistics software publisher, has unveiled its recruitment plan for 2024. The group, which currently employs 1,700 people, including 260 outside France, will add 380 new employees to its workforce in 2024.

57% of new roles in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and over 11% outside France

In 2023, Hardis Group posted consolidated revenue of €190 million (provisional data), up 22% relative to 2022. In line with its target of achieving 10% organic growth in 2024, the group plans to hire 380 new employees this year.

“Our ongoing growth strategy is built around two priorities: maintaining our strong local roots in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, our traditional heartland, and bolstering our position in Europe, especially for our Reflex software publishing business,” said Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group. “In France, we’re recruiting people with the right skills and background to grow their careers internationally should they wish. More than 30 nationalities are already represented in our workforce.”

Sought-after tech skillsets

Across its various business units, Hardis Group is actively seeking to recruit development engineers, system and network engineers and developers, DevOps engineers, product owners, infrastructure consultants, test automation engineers, IT project managers, solution consultants, support technicians, public cloud experts (especially Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure), database administrators, architects, business analysts, and experts in data, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

Training and internal job mobility

The Hardis Group Academy reflects the group’s ongoing and active commitment to staff training, with an emphasis on skills development and internal job mobility.

“Our training programs are geared toward developing our people’s hard and soft skills,” said Yvan Coutaz, Managing Director of Hardis Group. “Last year, we launched a course on digital responsibility. Some 300 people completed training on best practice in eco-design and digital accessibility. In 2024, we’ll add new sessions on three major technology trends: generative AI, automation, and security.”

Internships, work-study placements, and partnerships with schools and universities

As is the case each year, Hardis Group expects to welcome around 50 people on internships and work-study programs, most of whom will come from partner schools and universities including INSA Lyon, the MIAGE program at Université Grenoble Alpes and Nantes Université, IMT Atlantique, Epitech, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), coding school 42 Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Simplon, and Campus Numérique.

Grenoble, Warsaw, November 15, 2022 – Hardis Group, an IT consulting and services company and Salesforce and Workplace from Meta integrator, is acquiring Cloudity, a company specialized in digital transformation and a Salesforce solutions integrator, headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, with offices in Berlin, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden.

Since its creation in 2014, Cloudity has helped more than 400 companies in 26 countries with their digital transformation projects using Salesforce solutions (CRM, Tableau, Mulesoft and Slack). The company is targeting revenues in excess of €10 million in 2022—a more then 50% increase relative to 2021—and has 200 employees based in Poland, Germany and Sweden.

Hardis Group has operated in the Salesforce solutions integration market since 2017. This line of business has developed strongly since its creation, both organically and through external growth. This new acquisition, which comes a few months after the addition of Carrenet to the group, is coupled with the creation of a dedicated Salesforce solutions integration structure. Operating under the Cloudity brand, this new entity now has 350 Salesforce specialists. Its president is Nicolas Odet, also president of Hardis Group, and it is headed by Karim Ogbi, who had been in charge of Hardis Group’s Salesforce and Digital Workplace business unit since 2018.

“With this new acquisition and the creation of this entity, we are becoming a major Salesforce integrator in Europe. We will exceed €28 million in revenue for this activity this year and are targeting 30% growth for 2023,” said Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group and Cloudity.

“Over the past eight years, we have experienced rapid growth, allowing Cloudity to support the digital transformation of hundreds of customers and built the careers of numerous employees. From our very first interactions with Hardis Group, we realized the partnership was right because we shared the same values: a commitment to customers, a focus on people and a clear ambition to grow. We are confident that the merger with Hardis Group will allow Cloudity to accelerate future growth and achieve our goals together,” said Pawel Sobczak, co-founder of Cloudity.

By taking a stake in Carrenet, Hardis Group will make good on its ambition to become one of France’s top 5 Salesforce integrators in 2022, with 150 certified employees working on over 300 projects for SMEs, mid-sized firms, and major groups.

Grenoble, Boulogne-Billancourt, March 29, 2022 – Hardis Group, a consulting firm, digital services company and independent software vendor, will acquire a majority stake in Carrenet, a Salesforce integrator headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris. The external growth operation, which comes five years after the acquisition of Bluetis and Synefo, will equip Hardis Group with 130 Salesforce-certified staff based at offices in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Bordeaux, and Nantes.

Carrenet, founded in 2004, supports SMEs, mid-sized firms, and major groups with customer relationship digitization projects. The firm, which obtained Salesforce certification in 2011, has completed around 100 projects to date in France, ranging between 30 and more than 3,000 users. Carrenet, which achieved revenue of €4.1 million in 2021, employs over 30 people who, together, have obtained more than 100 certifications.

This majority stake* is the latest move in Hardis Group’s ambition to become a major support and transformation partner for mid-sized firms, through the integration of Salesforce’s 360° CRM application.

With 150 employees having obtained a combined 300-plus certifications across all Salesforce applications by end-2022, Hardis Group aims to become one of the top 5 Salesforce integrators in France and achieve revenue in excess of €18 million in this area of its business.

“We continue to pursue ambitious growth plans for our Salesforce business,” said Nicolas Odet, President of Hardis Group. “Since 2017, organic growth has seen our team expand from 30 to 100 people and we’ve completed over 200 projects. We have a solid reputation as an integrator of various Salesforce cloud applications. This merger will provide fresh impetus to our growth in this line of business, equipping us with additional expertise and new sector-specific skills. Our ambition is to become the new go-to name in the Salesforce landscape, and to expand our operations in Europe.”

“This new, go-to name in the Salesforce landscape is great news for our employees, helping them to expand their reach and innovate in new ways,” said François Papon, co-founder and CEO of Carrenet. “And because Hardis Group shares our people-centered values, the merger will offer consistency for our consultants and our clients.”

*The merger will be finalized once the relevant processes have been completed under French employment law.