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Founded in 2015 by Grégoire Spiers, Ganacos is a decision-making software. Data is thus centralised in a single tool.
More details with Grégoire Spiers, founder of Ganacos.
[FrenchWeb] : What is the need for your service?
Grégoire Spiers, founder of Ganacos: In most companies, information and data processing systems are divided in two: on the one hand, there are the "corporate" tools, often bought at a high price from software publishers and allowing information to be structured, and on the other hand, the spreadsheets with which users enjoy manipulating this data on a daily basis.
This gap poses problems in terms of productivity, data traceability and team collaboration.
What is your value proposition?
Aware that the adoption of a tool by users depends on its simplicity and its proximity to existing tools, we offer companies a decision-making software inspired by the flexibility of spreadsheets and built with modern business intelligence technologies.
The result is a multi-dimensional tool that allows planning, forecasting and management issues to be dealt with in a very free manner but with the data traceability that is essential for this type of tool.
Who are the users of your solutions?
The users of Ganacos are primarily operational managers in medium-sized companies who currently use "classic" spreadsheets (involving technical problems and errors). They are looking to provide their operational teams with a reliable, collaborative and fast calculation tool in order to save time and make the right decisions for the company.
To date, the main uses of our customers are as follows:
- Budget preparation, monitoring and reporting
- Production planning
- Sales forecasting
- Maintenance planning
- Forecasting purchases
What is your development plan?
Our main focus is to continuously strengthen the core of the software's computational engine by enabling more and more data to be processed on servers of fairly standard size and configuration. In the long term, this work is strategic in order to maintain a competitive offer to our customers.
Our objective is to gradually open the software to other verticals during 2018. This work will be done primarily through partners with strong expertise in these areas and whose Ganacos software can be integrated as an ideal complement to their product or service offering.
What are your challenges?
The development of such a tool is guided by two main issues.
The first is the ability to handle ever-increasing volumes of data while maintaining a smooth and fast interface for our customers and low hosting costs.
The second is to be able to satisfy all the demands of our customers while maintaining a simple navigation and parameterisation interface. The software can be used without any special training and this feature must be maintained.
Who are your competitors?
Our competitors are very diverse, the main one being the Excel spreadsheet, which is present in almost all companies and used in very different and sometimes unconventional ways in organisations. We have designed Ganacos to be natively more collaborative than Excel and to address the various sources of error caused by the use of Excel.
Specific planning or forecasting software are also our competitors, even if they only cover part of the capabilities of our tool.
Finally, BI software is further away: it allows little or no data entry and is not a powerful calculation tool. They are focused on "visual" rendering.
Key data:
- Founder: Grégoire Spiers
- Date of creation:2015
- Fundraising: yes
- Headquarters: Paris