SaaS (Software as a Service) is not only an issue for information technologies, it is above all an organisational issue that affects large companies. Beamy is an SaaS governance platform, with a business operating model in which software is installed on remote servers rather than directly on the user’s machine.
Beamy was co-founded in 2017 by Edouard Dossot, a 2013 graduate of the ITEEM. The company has just raised €8 million for its development with a view to doubling the workforce, accelerating and strengthening the international market, and developing the brand and its global recognition by the market and analysts.
In the early stages of this undertaking, the two founders were already working with clients such as Fnac Darty, Decathlon, BNP Paribas and Macif, among others. This allowed them to develop their own platform very quickly: “an SaaS platform to govern SaaS applications”. Its collaborative governance platform automatically detects the SaaS applications used within the company so that it can best manage that company’s SaaS ecosystem, reduce GDPR risks, manage security breaches and optimise spending on applications.
“SaaS tools (such as Gmail, Slack, Zoom, etc.) are revolutionising the business world; their number is exploding, their automation and efficiency power is phenomenal, however in traditional companies, IT departments are seemingly blind to this transformation and completely losing control” explains Edouard.
Entrepreneurship always beckoned for Edouard, even on the ITEEM benches, where he was able to build a solid base and network to run his own company. “Today it’s much more straightforward to create a business, but much harder to make a success of it. You have to get straight down to business, be in contact with the market and customers, listen to problems and rotate your model accordingly”, he notes.