There is an enormous latitude for innovation

It is part of the "clan". One of the elders of Business Objects (BO), bound for always by the tremendous success of the French software editor which they were the linchpins. Eric Brégand, proclaimed in 1993 as "product manager", became the patron of the research and development in 1999. He succeeded Alex Dayon, with which, student at Supélec, he attempted the Challenge Renault (Renault 5 Turbo run). Together, they had to wipe the good and bad times: the delays of a product, in 1995, precipitated the lowest stock market of the company. "This is the man is taken to manage the product, its new versions." "He knows the quality", says Alex Dayon.

Brown, almost invisible glasses, impeccably tie tied, it looks more like a banker to a "geek". Yet, "part of this first generation of French managers in the software that can lead a company with a vision product", said Eric Archambeau, venture capitalist at German Wellington. Ten years of experience in BO, then two years at XRT, led him in Temis, a publisher specializing in the "text mining". If it is not the founder, became President, a few months only after fact coming to deal with partnerships and indirect sales... and even his forty years before.

"He had helped us on the strategy in 2002-2003, by ad hoc missions." "It could hire him after our fundraising in 2004," explained Charles Huot, co-founder of the company. At this time, Eric Brégand left BO, no longer has to work for a living, collaborates with various venture capital companies and between the Board of several start-up companies. "We had enormous building before us." Need someone who knows the technology and management. "It was chosen as President", says Charles Huot.

Rely on its networks

Deemed easy to live, capable of creating a good group dynamics, he knows how to make things. "On the market of access to information, Google did that a little not", so says Eric Brégand. There is an enormous latitude for innovation. "Temis is a piece of cake. Created by alumni of IBM who then relied on Xerox technology of Temis Tools transform free text into analyzable data. "You can search a database of articles that speak of such protein in relation to such molecule." "It can to show the relationship between the content of various documents," explains Eric Brégand.

The market is not huge, between 500 million and EUR 1 billion, but it is already captured by the Americans, Inksight and Mahalo. "The American venture capitalists have doubled their investments last year on the market of access to information", says, optimist, the pattern of Temis. The start-up, whose turnover is less than EUR 4 million (the balance is planned for 2007), has been lift again 2 million to its investors. It is time better structuring the product range and to tackle the United States. To achieve this, Eric Brégand account not only on its teams, but also on its networks, those that it is incorporated in the world of venture capital and with the high-tech leaders. Dreams, stated simply, seem easy to do: move the bars of the 5 and 10 million euros of turnover to Temis, afford the sailboat he fell in love last year at the boat show and travel with his wife and two children.