BE 5.0 - SALON INDUSTRIES DU FUTUR MULHOUSE 2025

Eurêka From Mulhouse, Eureka Solutions asserts its position as a trusted IT publisher

We continue our presentation of exhibitors at the Be 5.0 - Industries of the Future trade show in Mulhouse, France, on November 26 and 27, with this focus on Eureka Solutions. This employee-owned SME is successfully pursuing a long-term model combining in-house expertise in ERP software and partnerships in related offerings. At the same time, it believes that it can make even greater inroads than it has so far, in and around its base in South Alsace. In an IT world where many players claim to have the answer to everything on their own, Eureka Solutions has chosen to stay the course: as a publisher of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, “we are and remain”, as Emmanuel Estèves, Director of Research and Development, points out. The recipe that has been tried and tested for some forty years continues to prove its worth. From its base in Pfastatt, near Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), supplemented by a branch in Nantes-Saint-Herblain, Eureka consolidates and continues to enrich a portfolio of 200 customers. In its specialist field, however, the SME (50 employees, sales of 4.2 million euros in 2023, expected to remain stable in the current financial year) claims to be omniscient. Its “Eureka ERP” can be deployed for purchasing, sales, inventory management, production, finance, human resources management and payroll, with the option of purchasing the entire solution or just one or a few modules. 

 The publisher believes it offers guarantees of security and reliability thanks to its in-house expertise. It relies on a 12-strong R&D team - a quarter of the workforce - for design, and on developers “who know their respective businesses inside out. What's more, we install the solutions ourselves, without going through third-party integrators,” notes Emmanuel Estèves. Eureka Solutions also gains in responsiveness through its organization, with its R&D director citing the example of a company used to one of the market's major ERPs, for which the Mulhouse-based service provider implemented a new solution from A to Z “in three months”, something that its global competitor “was incapable of achieving”. 

Targeting large SMEs and ETIs

 The Alsace-based company has no pretensions to titillating the giants among the multinationals that form their strongholds. On the other hand, “our core targets are large SMEs and ETIs (intermediate-sized companies), with user numbers ranging from 100 to 2,000 per customer. In these segments, competitors are rarer than with smaller structures, which is where we can best deploy our know-how”, analyzes Emmanuel Estèves. Installed on IBM servers, the Mulhouse-based software package is divided into three branches, respectively geared towards industry and trade in all their diversity, and towards “projects”, tailor-made responses to custom requests. To complete its offering, Eureka Solutions has built up a network of partners specializing in related services such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management), EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), EDM (Electronic Data Management) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) for warehousing/logistics. Eureka Solutions is also developing its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) offering for in-house production management. “This is clearly one of today's hot topics, which is gaining momentum and which we consider to be an integral part of our core business”, notes Emmanuel Estèves.

Installed on IBM servers, the Mulhouse-based software package is divided into three branches, respectively geared towards industry and trade in all their diversity, and towards “project”, tailor-made responses to custom requests. To complete its offering, Eureka Solutions has built up a network of partners specializing in related services such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management), EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), EDM (Electronic Data Management) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) for warehousing/logistics. Eureka Solutions is also developing its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) offering for in-house production management. “This is clearly one of today's hot topics, which is gaining momentum and which we consider to be an integral part of our core business”, notes Emmanuel Estèves. Over the past five years, the company has almost doubled its workforce, and can also point to the independence of its shareholder base: since 2021, it has been entirely employee-owned.

However, Eureka Solutions remains a discovery for many of the region's manufacturers, “we are proportionally, and paradoxically, less present locally”, notes Emmanuel Estèves. In addition to highlighting the company's new MES offering, one of the aims of its presence as an exhibitor at Be 5.0 - Industries of the Future at the end of the month is to raise awareness of the company in the vicinity of its Mulhouse headquarters, “a local trade show as we were looking for”, observes the manager.