Inovia

Inovia is a company specialized in Web Engineering. It has offices in Paris and San Francisco.
It was founded in 2007 by Eric Raffin and Baptiste Manson.
History
Beginning - 2007 to 2008
Started as an association of to help IT students to support their innovative ideas, Inovia soon became a bootstraped small company with a few commercial contracts.
After advocating for modern development methods to the startup scene in Paris, like Limonetik or CHD, Inovia core team has been noticed by large corporations looking for web expertise. Inovia participated in the Fighting Back Plan from the Société générale Corporate and Investment Banking to regulate after the Kerviel affair and has been seen since as the "Tech firemen". At this stage, Baptiste Manson and Eric Raffin were the sole workers at Inovia, with most of the contracts executed in their living room at the 225 rue de Crimée, Paris.
"Le 13" period - 2009 to 2013
End of 2008, Inovia moved from a garage startup to a small office shared with Limonetik, Novapost, MyLittleParis and a few others future successful French tech companies. Le "13 Rochechouart", named given to this shared office was the first of its kind in Paris, sharing resources, people, skills, and ideas.
A strategic contract has been established with the French Postal service La Poste, building a strong expertise in Big Data and adding the expert Pierre Cornic to the board. This reference attracted several clients, like Ubeeqo or Technomic notably from USA.
The values of the company are established 'Technical Excellence, Solidarity and Durability'. The staff reaches 20 members.
The 2 Silicons period - 2013 to 2014
After the demise of several large French tech companies from 2009 to 2012, Inovia recruited skilled engineers in larger numbers and support a steady development. The risk is taken to expand in USA, with Baptiste Manson opening an office in San Francisco in the Silicon Valley. In France, the office moved to the heart of the Silicon Sentier, founding the SteamHouse, a co-learning and working consortium on the basis of the experience of the "13 Rochechouart".
The staff reaches 35 members, with a small office of 4 people for the US activity.
Approach
Inovia uses the StrongHold methodology, that is an Agile methodology based on Risk management, particularly adapted to the startup context. Its divisions operate under this post SCRUM/LEAN methodology that has been improved for 7 years by the founders.
The three technical divisions of Inovia work all together, and are specialized in Information systems, Big Data and User Experience. The mostly used and mastered technical languages by web engineers are PHP and PostgreSQL, though they have very good knowledge in HTML, AngularJS, Javascript, Solr, Talend, Apache, Salesforce, PostGIS, MySQL, Magento, Bootstrap...
Over the years, the company established a growing technical expertise on PHP, particularly on Zend Framework 1&2 and has been Zend Partner for 2 years.
Steam Learn
Steam Learn is a technical (and non technical) conference delivered weekly at SteamHouse in Inovia’s offices. The objective of such conferences is to keep training Inovia’s web engineers for two reasons :
improve skills continuously to deliver technical excellence, and for personal development.
Open Source
Inovia contributes to open source projects on AngularJS, PostgreSQL and Zend Framework 2, and on specific projects such as:
*PHPAnalytics: a Zend Framework lib to build PHP analytics
*Transl8: an in-page translator for your web apps
*PGBench: a collection of scripts to benchmark PostreSQL
Publications
* http://inovia.fr/inovia-at-zendcon-europe-2013/
* http://inovia.fr/inovia-labs-now-opened/
* http://inovia.fr/window-functions-basics/
* http://inovia.fr/auto-partitioning-on-postgresql-part-1/
* http://inovia.fr/auto-partitioning-in-postgresql-part-2/
* http://blog.inovia.fr/search-engine-vs-database-in-bi-part1-data-structure/
* http://inovia.fr/search-engine-vs-database-in-bi-part-2-structure-is-value/
* http://blog.inovia.fr/the-importance-of-optimism-in-a-project/

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