ALTRAN

The Altran Group is a French management consulting company with a focus on innovation and technology consulting.

Profile

The Altran Group is a global consulting and engineering services company, which is mainly specialized in high technology, IT and innovation consulting. In this area, the company claims to be the worldwide market leader.

Altran assists its customers in the design and development of new products and services and advice for over 30 years market leader in the fields of automotive, energy, finance, healthcare, aerospace, rail, transportation, and telecommunications. Altran in tune with his consulting offers all stages of project development from, from strategic planning through to production stage and can draw on extensive technological know -how of four Solutions: Innovative Technologies, Sustainability Products, Sustainability Concepts and Sustainability Enterprise Performance. At the global level, the consulting firm is specialized in the five Industry Practices Automotive, Infrastructure & Transports ( AIT), Aero, Space & Defense ( ASD), Energy, Industries & Life Sciences ( Eilis ), Financial Services & Government (FSG ), and Telecom & Media (TEM).

In Germany took place in 2009, a merger of different engineering daughters under the title " Altran Technologies " instead.

Corporate Development

The listed corporation was founded in 1982 in Paris. Today, the Altran Group is a worldwide network of some 100 subsidiaries in 20 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America. A total of approximately 20,000 employees for Altran, including more than 18,000 consultants. In 2012, sales amounted to EUR 1.45 billion worldwide.

Altran has been present since 1996 in the German market. The Altran GmbH & Co. KG, based in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 2009. It emerged from the former German subsidiary company Altran CIS, ASKON Consulting Group, BERATA and EUROSPACE. Since 2009, these companies appear under the brand Altran.

The company is represented in Germany at the following 12 locations: Bonn, Bremen, Chemnitz, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Hamburg, Ingolstadt, Koblenz, Munich, Stuttgart and Wolfsburg. Each year, the company has a 400 engineers from diverse disciplines. Since 1 January 2013, the company IndustrieHansa heard with 1900 employees and an annual turnover of 163 million Euros (2012 ) of the Altran Group. With the acquisition Altran has moved into the top 5 of the best-selling engineering service provider in Germany.

Projects

A main focus in Germany is on the automotive industry, where the company is a partner of numerous automotive manufacturers and is currently heavily involved in the development of hybrid vehicles. In addition, Altran engaged in the development of future technologies at the International Motor Show ( IAA) in Frankfurt, Altran before the fastest claims to electric car in the world, about which numerous German media reported. Furthermore, in 2012, Altran is an official partner of the team PEUGEOT RCZ NOKIA for this year's participation in the fortieth 24 -hour race at the Nürburgring and the VLN Endurance Championship. In addition, the advisory group at the interface between electronics, IT and Automotive involved.

Altran also for some time engaged in motorsport. The company is, since October 2009, "Official Partner of BMW Motorrad Motorsport ." As part of this sponsorship Altran is in the engine control work at BMW Motorrad Motorsport and support in the development of the control unit.

In the field of aerospace is Altran partners of different companies. Altran is certified as a Group A E2S Supplier of Airbus and for example, was involved in the development and production of the A380. In the scope of technology consulting the coordination of all electronics work on site in Toulouse, his participation in the cockpit design, the development of a water and sewage system and an interphone panels, a communication link between the cargo compartment and the cockpit of the A380 freighter fell. In addition, Altran official preferred supplier at OHB and thus indirectly involved in the construction of the European Galileo project.

In addition, Altran is Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard involved in the realization of the project, under which an aircraft is being developed that will perform exclusively with solar energy, a circumnavigation of the globe. Altran supports the project, among others, in the areas of project and risk management, and provides its expertise in the fields of aviation, renewable energy and sustainable development. Altran has already participated in the realization of a flight simulator for the development of flight strategies (adapting the route to the weather conditions) and on the optimization of aircraft design and the subordinate systems.

In addition, Altran provides consulting and developing active in issues of energy technology. The Company is involved in various renewable energy projects and energy grid technology.

The clients include companies such as Airbus, Audi, BMW, Carl Zeiss, Continental, Daimler, German Bank, German Telekom, Porsche, Postbank, Vodafone, Volkswagen and Siemens.

Altran Foundation for Innovation

The charitable foundation Altran Foundation for Innovation was founded in 1996 in Paris and writes annually to a current topic of an international prize. The company wants to fulfill its social responsibility to promote technological developments in the service of the public. The further development of the winning project is supported by the consultants management consulting over the duration of one year professionally and strategically, the consideration of this consulting is up to 1 million euro. In addition, the winner will receive a prize of 16,000 euros.

2006 was the competition under the theme " Technological innovation and energy ". The winner is the project " Maxxun " from the Netherlands with a solar system based on the technology Luminescent Solar Concentrating (LSC ). The theme of the Prize 2007 was: " construction site man. Medical progress through technological innovation. " Winner was the French eye specialist Professor Sahel with its project to produce an artificial retina that blind patients can return the eyesight under certain conditions.

The theme for the Award 2008 was CO2 reduction: the technological challenge of our time and was aimed at applicants with projects in various technology areas (energy, transport, Building, Manufacturing Industy, Aeronautics ... ). Won it, the Spanish architecture scientists Francisco Gallo Mejia with his project the " habitable carbon sink".

In 2012, the competition has been awarded the nationally and performed in Germany in cooperation with the magazine Business Week. For the first time companies have been admitted to the idea of ​​competition, under the theme of 2012 - was " Sustainovation the key to a better and better eco - efficiency ". The first prize was won by Volkswagen AG with its "Think Blue. Factory "strategy. One of the core ideas of the strategy envisages that by 2018 all of the Volkswagen Group production sites worldwide consumption of energy, water, waste, and emissions of CO ₂ and solvents in the production by 25 % per vehicle and will reduce component part.

Awards

Altran was awarded in 2012 by the Society for Nature Conservation Germany (NABU ) of the Environmental Award " Green Fleet " for environmentally friendly fleet management. In addition, Altran was in 2011, 2012 and 2013 certified as a " Top Employer" by the CRF Institute.