What Element61 does

Element61 NV/SA is a privately held Belgian Analytics & AI consultancy founded in 2007 and headquartered in Brussels, employing approximately 140 Analytics & AI experts serving large Belgian and Benelux enterprise and public-sector customers. The company positions itself as vendor-agnostic, with competence centers and active partnerships across Microsoft (Azure, Fabric, Power BI), Databricks, Qlik, SAP, IBM Cognos, Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik, Vena, Anaplan, Prophix, Fivetran and TimeXtender. Its delivery model spans strategy-to-production advisory, implementation, managed post-Go-Live support via a cloud-based Service Desk, and an Academy training programme, all wrapped around an internal 'elementary' Business Analytics methodology and a library of Out-of-the-Box Solutions / Acceleration Kits.

The commercial engine combines time-and-materials consultancy (8-hour consultancy day, half-day minimum, PC200 yearly indexation) with licensed Acceleration Kits (GenAI Kit, BXT Framework, Vena starter kits, Anaplan Belgian GAAP starter kit), recurring Service Desk and AI capability subscriptions, and per-course Academy training. The firm monetises seven core service competences — Analytics & AI Advisory, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, AI Solution Development (the 'AI Factory'), Data Science & Analysis, Data Governance and ESG Reporting — and has begun productising proprietary AI IP including the Ralph agentic AI colleague for Data Engineering and an Agent Store of reusable agentic capabilities.

Customer evidence is concentrated in Belgian enterprise logos (ASML, bpost, Brussels Airlines, Atlas Copco, Daikin Europe, Elia, Umicore, Unilever, Lotus Bakeries, Mediahuis, KU Leuven, National Bank of Belgium, NMBS) across manufacturing, media, financial services, public sector, food/retail and life sciences. The company is privately held (no disclosed funding, IPO, or M&A), with the Data Protection Officer contact routed through [email protected] suggesting operational integration into the Moore Belgium professional services network, though no parent entity is named in the source material.

Name

Element61

Legal name

element61 NV/SA

Website

https://element61.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Element61 is a Brussels-based, vendor-agnostic Analytics & AI consultancy with 140 experts serving large Belgian and Benelux enterprises across BI, Performance Management, AI, Data Science, Data Governance and ESG, monetising consulting, licensed Acceleration Kits, and recurring Service Desk subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Analytics and AI Consulting

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Model Development & Training Platforms (AutoML, Notebooks, Feature Stores) (HDAEANAB), Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC)

Keywords

• Business intelligence consulting
• Performance management consulting
• Data analytics services
• AI solution development
• Data governance advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consultancy / Professional Services: Time-and-materials / fixed-scope consultancy sold by the day (8-hour consultancy day, half-day minimum). Surcharge of 100% applies to overtime (weekends, public holidays, nights 22:00–07:00). Yearly indexation applied automatically under the PC200 (Paritair Comité 200) formula.
2. Training & Academy services: Education services across a broad curriculum: Power BI, Azure, Databricks, Qlik, SAP BPC, TimeXtender, CCH Tagetik, Data Science, Generative AI and learning paths for Business Analyst / Data Analyst / Modern Data Lakehouse / Data Scientist / Vena Power User. Sold on a per-course basis per the standard Order Form terms.
3. Out-of-the-Box Solutions / Acceleration Kits (licensed): Pre-packaged sets of best practices, code, scripts and automations licensed to customers (GenAI Kit, BXT Framework, Vena starter kits, Anaplan Belgian GAAP starter kit, Real Estate starter kit, etc.). Software code is protected by copyright law; customers receive a non-exclusive, non-transferrable right to use, and must restrict third-party consulting/software firms from copying the Solution.
4. Managed Services — element61 Service Desk: Recurring "post-Go-Live" support delivered through a cloud-based service desk application. Customers log tickets and requests are routed to the right expert and handled within agreed Service Levels, spanning functional process, application layer, data and master data, software versions, database, OS and hardware.
5. Subscription-style Solution subscriptions: Recurring element61 Solution subscriptions (e.g., GenAI Kit, AI capability store, Service Desk subscriptions) referenced as separate from one-time Solution purchases, with cancellation terms that differ from standard consultancy cancellation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Element61 is a vendor-agnostic Belgian Analytics & AI consultancy that delivers strategy-to-production solutions across Business Intelligence, Performance Management, AI Solution Development (AI Factory), Data Science, Data Governance and ESG Reporting. It sells consulting engagements, licensed Out-of-the-Box Solutions and Acceleration Kits, subscription-based Service Desk managed support and Academy training to large Belgian and Benelux enterprises, anchored by its proprietary elementary methodology and IP such as Ralph (agentic AI colleague for Data Engineering) and the element61 Agent Store.

Product overview

Element61 delivers its Analytics & AI portfolio as a service-oriented platform-plus-modules architecture rather than a single packaged product. The core offering is built around seven Service Competences — Analytics & AI Advisory, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, AI Solution Development (the AI Factory), Data Science & Analysis, Data Governance, and ESG Reporting — combined with a post-Go-Live element61 Service Desk for support, the element61 Academy for training, and the elementary methodology for delivery governance. Sitting on top of this service foundation is a growing portfolio of proprietary AI products and IP: the Ralph agentic AI colleague for Data Engineering, the element61 Agent Store for agentic capabilities, the GenAI Kit (Generative AI Acceleration Kit), the BXT Framework for AI use case prioritization, and a library of Out-of-the-Box Solutions & Acceleration Kits (e.g., Vena for SAP, Real Estate starter kit, Anaplan Belgian GAAP starterkit) that pre-package best-practice code, scripts, and automations. Together these competencies, services, and proprietary AI/automation products form a coherent end-to-end offering that helps Belgian enterprises move from analytics strategy through AI-enabled production solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ralph: element61's Agentic colleague for Data Engineering (hosted at ralph.element61.be).
• element61 Service Desk
• element61 Academy
• elementary
• Bi-kipedia

Products and services

• Analytics & AI Advisory Strategy consulting service that helps organisations build reliable reporting, define Analytics & AI roadmaps, set up Analytics Competence Centers, and define methodology and implementation plans using the elementary methodology.
• Business Intelligence Business Intelligence service covering Data Warehousing & Data Modeling, Data Integration (ETL), Strategy Management & Scorecarding, Big Data architecture, OT/IoT integration, and Modern Data Platform delivery on Microsoft Azure.
• Performance Management Corporate Performance Management service delivering Financial Planning & Analysis, Sales & Operations Planning, Financial Reporting & Consolidation, Regulatory Reporting for Global Minimum Tax, and Interim Consolidation & Group Reporting services.
• AI Solution Development (AI Factory) AI Factory offering that designs, builds and embeds AI that works in production — covering AI technology, monitoring, scaling via Agentic OS, Generative AI use cases, AI Lifecycle Management, the BXT Framework and the element61 Agent store.
• Data Science & Analysis Data Science practice covering ML use case co-development, churn prediction, customer segmentation, demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, quality control with image recognition, AI in Supply Chain, and data visualisation.
• Data Governance Data Governance service offering Data Catalog & Business Glossary, Data profiling & Data quality, and Master & Reference Data management, leveraging Microsoft Purview and Ataccama.
• ESG Reporting Environmental, Social & Governance reporting service covering automated ESG disclosure reporting and CCH Tagetik ESG & Sustainability for CSRD and Carbon Emissions.
• Ralph — Agentic AI colleague for Data Engineering Element61's proprietary Agentic AI colleague for Data Engineering, surfaced via a dedicated landing page (ralph.element61.be) and designed to autonomously support data engineering workflows for clients.
• element61 Agent Store Curated catalogue of reusable AI agents and capabilities that customers can adopt within their environments as part of the AI Factory offering.
• GenAI Kit (Generative AI Acceleration Kit) Pre-packaged Generative AI Acceleration Kit that jumpstarts deployment of Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot solutions across business domains, leveraging best practices, code and scripts.
• element61 Service Desk Cloud-based post-Go-Live managed support service for analytical applications spanning Azure Modern Data Platform, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, CCH Tagetik, Qlik, TimeXtender and IBM Cognos, with ticket logging, expert routing and SLAs.
• element61 Academy Training organisation offering structured Learning Paths (Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Modern Data Lakehouse on Azure, Vena Power User) and courses across Business Analytics, CCH Tagetik, Data Science, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power BI, SAP BPC, TimeXtender and Qlik.
• Out-of-the-Box Solutions & Acceleration Kits Pre-packaged sets of best practices, code, scripts and automations licensed to customers to jumpstart deployment of Analytics, Performance Management and AI platforms; software code is copyright-protected under element61 T&Cs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 140 Analytics & AI experts delivering strategy-to-production engagements across Belgium and Benelux
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers58 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration24 records

AI capability16 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship / core, core, strategic and minor.

• Microsoftflagship / coreTechnology or Integrationelement61 lists Microsoft as one of its leading analytics & AI vendors and runs a dedicated Microsoft Data Platform competence center covering Microsoft Azure (Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Functions, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Machine Learning, API Management, Blob Storage, Data Lake, Cosmos DB, Batch), Microsoft Fabric, Power BI (Desktop, Pro/Premium, Embedded, Reports Server, Governance), Microsoft Purview Unified Data Governance, TimeXtender on Azure and SAP BPC on BW/4HANA. Microsoft logos and a dedicated /en/competence/microsoft-business-intelligence-analytics page are surfaced site-wide.
• Databricksflagship / coreTechnology or Integrationelement61 has a dedicated Databricks competence covering Databricks on Azure, Databricks Delta, ML on Databricks, BI on Databricks, Databricks Best-practices, Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks Marketplace, Databricks Workflow / managed orchestration for the lakehouse, DatabricksIQ and Unity Catalog governance. Surfaced prominently on the homepage logo strip and via /en/competence/databricks.
• QlikcoreTechnology or Integrationelement61 lists Qlik among its leading analytics & AI vendors and operates Qlik Analytics, Qlik Talend Data Integration, the Qlik Modern Data Platform, Qlik Data Optimization Assessment, Qlik Out-of-the-Box Solutions (HR Analytics, CRM Analytics, Sales Analytics, Field Usage, FIT) and Qlik Agentic AI. Qlik QMC, Qlik Sense Enterprise, Qlik Cloud Designer/Developer/Administrator, and Qlik Talend Cloud training are part of the Academy.
• SAPcoreTechnology or Integrationelement61 is listed as having skills and a competence center for SAP, with deep offerings across SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP HANA SQL Datawarehousing, SAP BusinessObjects (BI and EIM), SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BPC (including BPC embedded, BPC 11, BPC 10), SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting, SAP BusinessObjects Disclosure Management, SAP Strategy Management and Reporting on S/4HANA using CDS views.
• IBMcoreTechnology or Integrationelement61 lists IBM as a leading vendor and runs an IBM Analytics competence covering IBM Cognos Analytics 11 (BI Audit, Upgrading & Migration, Architecture, Performance Tuning, Implementation), Cognos 8/10, Cognos Series 7, Cognos Express, ReportNet, Cognos Planning, Cognos Controller, Cognos Disclosure Management, Cognos TM1, Planning Analytics, Watson Analytics, Watson Data Platform, SPSS, Governance/Risk/Compliance and Information Server (InfoSphere DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, Metadata Workbench, Business Glossary, FastTrack).
• CCH Tagetik (Wolters Kluwer)coreTechnology or Integrationelement61 has a dedicated CCH Tagetik competence covering Budgeting/Planning/Forecasting, Statutory & Management Consolidation, Disclosure Management, ESG & Sustainability (CSRD, Carbon Emissions), Global Minimum Tax, Production Cost Planning & Control, Advanced Analytics, the Analytical Information Hub and CCH Tagetik on SAP HANA. A full CCH Tagetik training track is offered in the Academy.
• Vena SolutionscoreTechnology or Integrationelement61 lists Vena Solutions as a leading analytics & AI vendor and runs a dedicated Vena Solutions competence covering Out-of-the-Box Vena for SAP, a Real Estate starter kit, Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint, and an interactive management reporting workshop. A Vena Power User Learning Path is offered in the Academy.
• Anaplan (formerly Fluence Technologies)coreTechnology or Integrationelement61 is listed as having a competence center with Anaplan, including Anaplan Consolidation (formerly Fluence Technologies) and the Anaplan Belgian GAAP starterkit. Surfaced via dedicated competence page and footer.
• Prophix / SigmaConsocoreTechnology or Integrationelement61 is listed as a partner of Prophix and SigmaConso, running a dedicated Prophix competence for Financial Consolidation, Planning (FP&A) and One Lease Management.
• FivetranstrategicTechnology or Integrationelement61 lists Fivetran in its leading analytics & AI vendor stack and exposes a dedicated /en/competence/fivetran page that links from the homepage logo strip.
• TimeXtenderstrategicTechnology or Integrationelement61 operates a dedicated TimeXtender competence center with TimeXtender Core Product Training and TimeXtender element61 Best Practices courses in the Academy; Principal Analytics Architect Peter Jensen is a TimeXtender Solutions Architect, was named TimeXtender Xpert Consultant in 2023 and leads the TimeXtender team within element61.
• TargitstrategicTechnology or Integrationelement61 is explicitly a partner of Targit and offers consulting services in this technology. element61 helps deploy Targit Decision Suite on top of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) for OLAP-style reporting and analysis.
• Moore Belgium Strategy & OperationsstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerMoore Belgium Strategy & Operations co-designed and set up the Supply Chain principles for the Meat&More project alongside element61, which then designed the AI forecast engine. The joint delivery is referenced as part of the case study.
• Plant a FlagminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPlant a Flag is credited in the website footer of element61 with UTM-tagged attribution (utm_source=element61.be&utm_medium=website_credits&utm_campaign=customer_website), indicating a marketing or web vendor relationship.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Xebia: Benelux-origin IT consultancy with deep Microsoft Azure, Databricks and DevOps capabilities and a vendor-agnostic data/AI delivery model; comparable in service breadth, vendor-stack focus and target customer (large European enterprises) to element61.
• Slalom: US-headquartered, region-delivered consulting firm with a strong Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Fabric and AI/GenAI practice and a vendor-agnostic stance; a structural analogue to element61 in business model (localised, vendor-neutral, strategy-to-production analytics delivery), though it is materially larger and global.
• Incentro: Dutch-headquartered digital transformation and data/analytics consultancy with strong Microsoft, Azure and Power BI practices; serves large Benelux enterprises with vendor-agnostic BI and modern data platform work, making it one of the closest functional analogues to element61 in the region.
• delaware: Belgian end-to-end IT services and consultancy firm with comparable size and a strong enterprise customer base across Belgium and Benelux; offers Microsoft, SAP and analytics competencies and competes with element61 for large Belgian enterprise BI/analytics and ERP-adjacent transformation work.

Broad incumbents

• Capgemini (Belgium): Global systems integrator with a significant Belgian business serving large enterprise and public-sector clients; overlaps with element61 on Microsoft Azure data-platform, AI/GenAI and performance management work, but at a much larger scale and with broader service lines.
• Cognizant (Benelux): Global IT services giant with a sizeable Belgian and Benelux practice covering Microsoft, Databricks, AI/GenAI and enterprise BI; competes with element61 on large Belgian enterprise digital and analytics transformations, though typically on larger multi-year programmes and at higher price points.
• Deloitte (Belgium — Analytics & AI): Big Four firm whose Belgium Analytics & AI practice competes with element61 for large Belgian enterprise BI, EPM, data governance and AI/GenAI mandates; notable overlap given element61's senior leadership (Peter Jensen, Sven Bracke) both came from Deloitte.
• SAS Institute: Long-established analytics, BI and EPM software vendor that also delivers professional services and an authorised partner channel; competes with element61 in the Belgian and EU enterprise analytics and performance-management market, but from a software-vendor rather than pure-services position.

Regional players

• Cegeka: Benelux-headquartered IT solutions provider with a broad data, cloud and analytics practice serving large enterprises in Belgium and the Netherlands; competes with element61 for Belgian enterprise data-platform, BI and managed-services engagements, though Cegeka is larger and more diversified into infrastructure.
• Cronos Groep: Belgian IT group with a network of specialised subsidiaries covering data, analytics, cloud and application services; several Cronos labels (e.g. involved companies focused on Microsoft and BI) target the same Belgian enterprise customer set as element61 and are comparable on size and delivery model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@element61channel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/214442
• Xx.com/element61

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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