The Jouve Group announces the appointment of Alain Boulekouane to the post of Director of ITS

Alain Boulekouane has joined the Jouve Group as Director of ITS and as a member of the board of directors. He brings his considerable experience into the group with the aim of developing its offerings and optimizing its customer service, with a constant desire to create high value services. A recognised specialist in the implementation of large scale IT projects, Jouve ITS has specialized for more than 30 years in solutions for the management and distribution of information online.

This double expertise allows Jouve to offer a package that is complete, coherent and unique in the IT services market: IT consulting and communication, IT project management support & design, integration, support & maintenance, and outsourcing. During his career within large international IT services firms, Alain Boulekouane has gained considerable expertise in the study and implementation of workflow solutions and information management. Before joining Jouve, he piloted the development strategy of ATOS ORIGIN in the advice and delivery of ECM and BPM (Enterprise Content Management & Business Process Management).

Alain Boulekouane began his career in 1992 as a development engineer within the Alpha Assurances section of the AXA Group. He participated in the establishment of the GED/workflow project which was later expanded to the whole group. An entrepreneur, he created TERA SYSTEMES in 1994 and ran their consulting services for GED, workflow, and knowledge management systems, working for multiple businesses in the banking sector including Paribas and Epargne de France.

Between 1998 and 2003 Alain Boulekouane occupied the successive roles of Managing Director for France and Director of Operations for two subsidiaries of the American group THERMO ELECTRON, Thermo Info France and Telemach Info International. He supervised both the French and international teams and led the policy of external growth at Telemach Info International. He then joined Unilog as the head of development for ECM-BPM. Strengthened by this double training – in management with an MBA in International Business and as an engineer with a DESS in computer engineering, he will put his skills in managing multi-disciplinary teams and his experience into guiding change and development in Jouve ITS.

“I welcome the opportunity to join a group which shares the same human values as I do. This hundred year old business sets itself apart through its constant innovation, which has allowed it to succeed very early in the shift to digital and to develop unique and high value offer around the creation, management, and distribution of content. It helps clients today in their move into the digital economy. Supporting the ambition of the group and driving its developments in ITS represent a real opportunity for me” said Alain Boulekouane.

About Jouve:

As a service-provider, Jouve covers the entire content value chain (creation, conversion, enhancement, distribution in print and electronic formats) and responds to all the needs of companies, institutions and publishers, which produce and disseminate information. At the heart of the digital world and the new media for distribution, Jouve is the leader in eBook conversion in Europe and the United States of America. Strengthened by its industrialised production capabilities, the Jouve Group has recognised expertise in the digitisation of content with unrivalled levels of quality. Digital printing and online solutions via the Jouveprintservices.com have allowed to Jouve to position itself as a major player in the Print on Demand market. Created in 1903, Jouve is a privately held group with a stable shareholding which had a turnover of € 95 million in 2009.

In 2010 the Jouve-Safig group produced a turnover of 143 million Euros with 2,994 employees based in 27 production sites, of which 16 are in France. The Jouve ITS offer covers the whole life-cycle of your content: consulting, assistance with project management, analysis, software development and IT services, maintenance and outsourcing of trade applications. With this expertise, ITS also manage search engines, visualization tools, collaborative solutions (CMS, KM, ECM) and process dematerialization. An internal web agency deals with the creative planning and development issues of information portals, e-commerce sites, e-processes, institutional or crisis communication sites, intranet, extranet, etc.