Altran Group

Altran Praxis is an expertise centre within the global Altran group.

Created in 1982, Altran is now the European leader in innovation consulting. In 2010, the Group’s turnover reached €1.44 billion with over 17,000 employees in 26 countries.

Altran’s mission is to bring our customers’ ideas and projects to life and to increase their performance, through technology and innovation.

In 2010 Altran announced a business transformation programme, aimed at enabling Altran to offer new higher value services to customers on an international basis.

As a result of the transformation, Altran is now structured in three dimensions, indicated by the diagram.

1. Geography: Altran has always maintained a strong geographic focus, Altran operates in 15 countries in Europe, in Asia and in the Americas.
2. Industry: Five industry leaders integrate Altran’s global activities in key market sectors, with responsibility for ensuring the demands of customers in these market sectors are serviced and met at an international level. The market sectors are: Automotive & Transport; Aerospace & Defence; Energy; Industry & Healthcare; Finance & Government; Telcoms & Media.
3. Solution Practice: Five solution leaders integrate Altran’s global activities in strategic services, with responsibility for the development and delivery of existing and new services and technology at an international level. The solution practices are: Innovation Management; Mechanical Engineering; Embedded & Critical Systems; Information Systems; Enterprise Performance.

The Altran Praxis Managing Director, Keith Williams, is the Group Executive Director for Altran’s Embedded & Critical Systems Global Solution Practice.

The scope of the Embedded & Critical Systems Solution includes the following engineering disciplines: Systems, Software, Hardware and Electronics, Safety and Security. The types of system which the Embedded & Critical Systems Solution addresses include:

• Connected: creating and improving the connections of people, systems, networks and machines;
• Intelligent: automating and enhancing the execution of complex and demanding tasks;
• Green control: optimising and controlling the environmental performance of technology and systems;
• Critical systems: enabling and assuring the safe, secure and dependable operations of systems and enterprises.

The combination of Altran Praxis’ international capability in Embedded & Critical Systems, and the Altran Praxis Managing Director’s role as Altran’s Executive Director for the Embedded & Critical Systems Global Solution Practice, places Altran Praxis as a key asset within the Altran Group.

For information on all aspects of Altran visit the group website at altran.com