Berger Levrault

What Berger Levrault does

Berger-Levrault is a France-headquartered software publisher organized as a SAS (Société par Actions Simplifiée) under French law, with headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt and a corporate history dating to 1463 as a publishing house. The company employs approximately 2,200 staff across 27 office locations in seven countries (France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Canada, Morocco) and serves roughly 40,000 clients in public administration, primary/secondary and higher education, healthcare and medical-social organizations, and private enterprises, claiming presence across five continents.

Its product portfolio is structured around three core families plus acquired brands and infrastructure services. COBA covers HR/payroll, financial management, and pedagogical administration (K-12, collegial, activities) for educational institutions. CARL delivers CMMS/EAM capabilities for asset and maintenance management, including IoT-enabled monitoring for predictive maintenance. INFOSILEM (Academic, Campus, Exam, Sectioner) provides higher-education scheduling, integrated with Ellucian Banner via the Ethos platform since August 2023. Acquired brands include Expertiz Santé (Digital Patient Record), Médialis (medical-social), Escort Informatique (fire/rescue and state public service), Segilog, Neolink, Sigems, and Aytos Berger-Levrault. Infrastructure services include the BL.pilot IT platform (supervision, security with Bitdefender Gravity Zone, backup cloud using Dell EMC AVAMAR deduplication, helpdesk) and BL.system care for outsourced IT, plus TIER 3-certified sovereign cloud hosting with HADS (Health Data Hosting) accreditation since 2010, ISO 27001, and ENS Alta in Spain, delivering 99.982% availability to 6,500+ hosted clients.

Revenue is generated through software licenses and subscriptions, cloud hosting and managed services, professional services, and support and maintenance, with the company reporting 25% of revenues reinvested in R&D. Distribution combines direct enterprise sales in each operating country with channel partners (Atturra in Australia/New Zealand, Axino in Germany, TruePoint Solutions in North America), and pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is privately held with share capital of €12,614,510.44 and no disclosed parent or institutional investor; Antoine Dumurgier has served as Chairman and CEO since October 1, 2022, succeeding Pierre-Marie Lehucher.

Name

Berger Levrault

Legal name

Berger-Levrault SAS

Website

https://berger-levrault.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Berger-Levrault is a France-based software publisher (founded 1463, ~2,200 employees) selling ERP, HR/payroll, CMMS/EAM, and pedagogical scheduling software to roughly 40,000 public-administration, education, and healthcare clients across seven countries and five continents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Sector Enterprise Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Application License Advisory, Vendor Management & Optimization (BPAEAGAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Software/Application Support (SaaS, Enterprise Apps) (BPAAACAC), IT Asset Discovery, Inventory & CMDB Services (BPAEAOAE)

Keywords

• Public sector software
• Enterprise asset management
• HR payroll software
• Education management systems
• Healthcare data hosting

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulogne-billancourt

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices27 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses and Subscriptions: Annual subscription and license fees for COBA, CARL, and INFOSILEM software suites delivered as SaaS or on-premise to public administrations, educational institutions, and private enterprises.
2. Cloud Hosting and Managed Services: Revenue from sovereign cloud hosting (IaaS/SaaS mode) in TIER 3 certified data centers, including infrastructure management and backup services. Over 6,500 clients hosted.
3. Professional Services: Customized support services including implementation, configuration, training, and ongoing support for software deployment.
4. Support and Maintenance: Technical support, software maintenance, and updates for installed client base across 40,000 clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Berger-Levrault develops and sells integrated enterprise software for public administrations, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and private enterprises. Its core portfolio includes the COBA suite (HR, payroll, financial, and pedagogical management), CARL Source (CMMS/EAM for asset and maintenance management), INFOSILEM (higher education scheduling), and BL.pilot IT (IT infrastructure monitoring, security, and backup cloud). The company also operates HDS-certified TIER 3 sovereign cloud infrastructure delivering SaaS and IaaS hosting to over 6,500 clients.

Product overview

Berger-Levrault is a software publisher offering a comprehensive, modular portfolio organized around three main product families: COBA (HR/payroll, financial, and educational management), CARL (CMMS/EAM and asset management including CARL Source, CARL Touch, CARL Flash, CARL Maps, and CARL IoT), and INFOSILEM (higher education scheduling solutions including Academic, Campus, Exam, and Sectioner). The company also provides IT infrastructure management through the BL.pilot IT platform (with Supervision, Security, Backup Cloud, and Helpdesk sub-modules), cloud hosting services (TIER 3 certified), and continuity/security solutions. Additional specialized solutions include educational management software (COBA K-12, COBA Collegial, COBA Activities), healthcare records management (Expertiz Santé), and medical-social sector solutions (Médialis). The portfolio serves municipalities, public administrations, educational institutions, healthcare establishments, and businesses across 5 continents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CARL: EAM/CMMS software solutions for asset and maintenance management serving municipal, education, and business sectors
• COBA
• INFOSILEM
• BL.pilot IT
• BL.pilot IT Backup Cloud
• BL.numea
• BL.system care
• Expertiz Santé
• Médialis

Products and services

• COBA HR and Payroll
• COBA Finances
• COBA K-12
• COBA Collegial
• CARL Source
• INFOSILEM Academic
• INFOSILEM Campus
• BL.pilot IT
• BL.pilot IT Backup Cloud Externalized cloud backup solution with encrypted data protection, deduplication via AVAMAR software, and storage in ISO 27001 and HDS certified French datacenters; offers evolutive storage space up to several terabytes and a 30-day free trial.
• Hosting Service TIER 3 certified cloud hosting with 99.982% availability, providing SaaS and IaaS modes for software hosting and infrastructure management in sovereign French datacenters; over 6,500 clients hosted with 16,000 daily peak sessions.
• Continuity of Service and Security Comprehensive security and service continuity solutions including incident management, automatic software/hardware reporting, PKI production, and outsourced backup in HADS certified cloud.
• Expertiz Santé Digital Patient Record management solutions addressing dematerialization and interoperability challenges in healthcare institutions; acquired by Berger-Levrault in February 2020.
• Médialis Medical-social sector solutions reinforcing Berger-Levrault's position in providing digital solutions for proximity relationships with vulnerable populations; acquired October 2021.
• Escort Informatique Solutions for Departmental Fire and Rescue Services and State Public Service segments, consolidating group position in emergency services sector; acquired July 2021.

Quantifiable outcome

• 25% of revenues reinvested in R&D driving continuous product innovation
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• TruePoint SolutionsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 August 2022TruePoint Solutions and Berger-Levrault formed a strategic alliance to introduce CARL Source Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions to North American local government agencies through TruePoint's expertise in analysis, distribution, and implementation services.
• AtturraminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 April 2022Atturra distributes Berger-Levrault's INFOSILEM solutions dedicated to higher education institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, supporting international expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.
• AxinominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2022Axino serves as Berger-Levrault's partner for deploying EAM/CMMS offerings in Germany, extending market presence to a seventh country following Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Morocco, and Canada.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• OVHcloud: European sovereign cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in France; overlaps with Berger-Levrault's TIER 3 hosting business as a potential partner or competitor for regulated public sector and healthcare workloads.
• Docaposte (La Poste Group): French digital services and sovereign hosting subsidiary of La Poste serving public sector, healthcare, and regulated industries; comparable in sovereign cloud and digital trust services for French public administration.

Direct peers

• Civica: UK-headquartered public sector software specialist serving central and local government, healthcare, and education; similar vertical depth and sovereign cloud delivery model to Berger-Levrault.
• Sopra Steria: Major French-headquartered IT services and software group with deep public sector, defense, and ERP practice across Europe; competes most directly with Berger-Levrault in French municipal, education, and government software deals.
• Inetum (Gfi Informatique): French IT services and software vendor serving public administration, healthcare, and local government with vertical ERP and case-management solutions; closest French peer in domain focus and customer profile.
• Ellucian: US-headquartered higher education software specialist and partner of Berger-Levrault (Infosilem integrates with Ellucian Banner/Ethos); directly comparable in the higher education scheduling and SIS-adjacent market.
• Cegedim: France-based healthcare software and data group providing practice management, EHR, and hosted infrastructure to healthcare professionals; directly comparable to Berger-Levrault's healthcare software business (Expertiz Santé, Médialis).
• Tyler Technologies: US-listed vertical software vendor focused exclusively on the public sector (municipalities, courts, schools, public safety); a clear direct comparability model for Berger-Levrault's vertical public-sector software thesis.

Broad incumbents

• Capgemini: Global IT services leader with a major European public sector and digital transformation practice; overlaps with Berger-Levrault in large-scale public-sector modernization programs.
• CGI Group: Large Canadian-headquartered IT services and systems integrator with a substantial European public sector practice; comparable as both systems integration partner and software vendor to governments and healthcare organizations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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