Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Douai: Liberscol, software that tracks your students … – La Voix du Nord

Offside, at home, on its northern lands – Pas-de-Calais. Alain Savary, CEO Apnos, did not have the privilege to equip digital work environment (ENT) transit, Edgar Morin excellence High School visited this afternoon by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister Education. Neither the school nor the 590 other regional institutions included in a tender passed by the Region in 2014.

Apnos Douai is a group of eighteen employees plus the two leaders established 1990 located avenue du Maréchal Leclerc. It federates several companies in the field of information technology and communications, including Tetra Computer.

In high schools and colleges in the region, Internet exchanges between actors in the educational sphere ( teachers, students, administrators, parents) on various digital features (text book, phonebook, schedule, calendar, directory of students, sharing documents and resources, videoconferencing, etc.) are from K -d’école, the company’s software Nantes Kosmos retained by the Region. A beautiful market. “ Three million per year over three years ,” says Alain Savary, who has still not recovered from his bad fortune, claiming to have with Liberscol, a competitive software – “ we are on Linux, a free operating system and other Microsoft “- and proven.

In fact, the software team for several years all general high schools, professional colleges and Burgundy. “ Maybe we did was afraid that my company was not big enough to cope with such a market ” if he asks. Before adding: “. I would have immediately hired five employees ” In Burgundy, the Regional Council appreciates the ENT Liberscol. It costs 4 € / year per student for high school students. And it makes invaluable services, “ In Burgundy, for example, a Russian professor assures its course in three colleges at a time, about thirty kilometers away. Given the size of establishments (200 students), they had to be closed. With Liberscol technology, they will not. “

An e-Citizen program in the study

Liberscol deploys the latest technology languages ​​ “says A. Savary, highlighting the perks of free software Liberscol: the teacher can plan its course, enrich freely in any media resource of choice. Furthermore, in Dijon, Tetra Computer piloting a robot class that registers the course for it to be broadcast to students absent for medical reasons, for example. In his briefcase, the Douai company also has a multimedia suitcase to primary schools. Cost: 1-2 € / student / year. Alain Savary also seeks another public: the urban communities of more than 200,000 inhabitants. The objective is to provide home key information by hand. Celebrations, work, etc.

The Government numerically

The digital plan college, presented in May by President of the Republic, provides one billion euros of investment for the state in three years to support the efforts of local authorities, continuing education, resources and a generalization of the learning coding. In this autumn one, some six hundred pioneers establishments will experience new forms of teaching and learning through digital tools before the plan starts the first phase of general deployment in the coming year. For example, in 2016, a set of digital textbooks will be offered at three levels of cycle 4 (5th, 4th, 3rd) in five disciplines: French, math, history and geography, modern languages ​​and science

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In figure

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In millions of euros, net Apnos’s business group (Tetra Computer). “In 2010, we made 1.6 M €. We progress of 3 to 4% per year, “said Alain Savary. With a sharp turnaround in recent years. “70% of revenue is provided by the provision of services and 30% from the sale of equipment, he said. Before, it was the opposite. “This has saved Apnos. “Today, a company no longer any margin by selling computer equipment. “



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Its direct competitors: Logica, Kosmos, Atos, Bull

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