On February 10, VINCI Energies announced the acquisition of Bluescale, a data engineering specialist that supports companies in the digitalization of their business processes with services and global solutions for data valuation. Bluescale will strengthen the data analytics offer of Axians France, an ICT brand of VINCI Energies, which guides its customers in the evolution of their infrastructures and digital solutions.

Created in 2003, the VINCI Energies group supports the digital and energy transformations of companies and organizations. This international group has strong local roots thanks to its 1,800 companies, each of which is an expert in one of its four business segments: infrastructure, industry, building solutions and ICT.

Axians, VINCI Energies’ dedicated ICT brand

In the field of Information and Communication Technologies, VINCI Energies has created the Axians group, which is present in 25 countries. The group’s offerings cover telecom, cloud and data center infrastructures, corporate networks, digital workspaces, data analysis and business applications, as well as cyber security solutions. Axians France will benefit from the acquisition of Bluescale.

To enrich Axians’ Data Analytics offering, VINCI Energies had acquired, in January 2020, Appex, a French pioneer in big data and AI, renamed Axians IA, and in 2021, Setra Conseil, a company specializing in the consolidation of structured data, renamed Axians Database. To complete its data analytics offering in France in order to manage the entire data value chain, Vinci Technologies has announced the purchase of Bluescale. Yves Pellemans, CTO and Director of Data Analytics at Axians Communication & Cloud, states:

“Thanks to Bluescale’s know-how, we will offer a global Data Analytics solution, capable of managing the entire data value chain (Data Pipeline), from capture to business applications.”

Bluescale

Founded in 2014 and co-founded by Nicolas Minelle and Franck Bellenger, Paris-based Bluescale supports its customers from data collection to data exploitation. The 80 engineers on the team help companies with the technological transformation of their information systems and support the training of their teams. Together, they design and implement Big Data projects. From the company’s data, the engineers create new AI models but also operational Data-Driven business applications, and integrate the latest Data Vizualization tools. Major groups have put their trust in them: Crédit Agricole, Darty, Havas Media, RATP, Technip, Total, Museum, France Télévision. Renamed Axians Data Engineering, Bluescale joins the Axians group. The co-founders, Nicolas Minelle and Franck Bellenger declare:

“We are very proud to join Axians, a VINCI Energies brand. We made this choice in order to be backed by an industrial company of international size and scope. By leveraging the power of our Data Analytics offering, our ambition is to become, with Axians, a key player in the digital transformation of companies.”

The acquisition of Bluescale, with revenues of €10 million, brings Axians’ revenues in France to €30 million and the number of employees to 150 as the Bluescale team joins Axians’ team. Axians’ services are primarily aimed at the industry, energy, banking, insurance, education, research, retail and healthcare sectors.

Translated from VINCI Energies acquiert la société Bluescale, spécialisée dans le Data Engineering, pour renforcer sa marque Axians