PHRI ASSOCIES

What PHRI ASSOCIES does

PHRi Associés is a privately held French IT consulting firm (cabinet de conseil) headquartered in Paris, founded around 2007 by a principal identified publicly as "Philippe." The firm positions itself around 100% open-source IT solutions and operates as a boutique advisory targeting French PME (small and medium enterprises) that lack an in-house CIO (DSI) capable of making strategic systems decisions. Core service lines include part-time DSI placement (minimum 4-month engagement, half-day to 2 days per week), interim IT management ("management de transition") priced at 96K€ for a 6-month senior-executive mission followed by 12 months of coaching at 3 hours per week, and IT coaching for incumbent managers. All engagements are sold directly to PME clients, with pricing negotiated on engagement basis rather than licensed product terms.

The firm's technical differentiator is an industrial certification process applied to a curated open-source stack — Linux, Asterisk (telephony), typo3 and DotNetNuke (CMS), YAWL (workflow), OpenOffice, OpenXchange (collaboration), Compiere (ERP), phpBB, and phpMyVisites — delivered under a CMMI Level 5 consulting methodology. Selected client work includes CarrierEmploi (employment site), CVFirst (e-commerce for employment services), Redac.Info (collaborative press agency on typo3/Asterisk/YAWL), and CapitalTest (automated multi-testing platform). Marketing is conducted through an educational blog at phriassocies.com and a single direct-contact email ([email protected]).

The business model is pure professional services revenue: project/engagement-based fees with multi-month minimum engagements. No funding rounds, no institutional investors, no partnerships, no patents, no awards, and no M&A activity are documented. The firm operates with 11-50 employees (per the headcount band) and confines its geographic reach to France. Source documentation concentrates in 2007-2008, and there is no verified evidence of activity post-2008, which materially limits visibility into current operating scale or trajectory.

Name

PHRI ASSOCIES

Legal name

PHRi Associés

Website

https://phriassocies.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Paris-based French IT consulting firm specializing in 100% open-source deployments for PME. Provides part-time CIO placement, interim IT management at 96K€ per 6-month mission, IT coaching, and certified open-source enterprise stack delivery (Linux, Asterisk, typo3, YAWL, OpenOffice, Compiere).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT Consulting Services: Professional consulting services including part-time IT Director (DSI) placement, interim management, IT project coaching, and technology deployment. Services are provided on a project/engagement basis with typical duration of 4-6 months minimum.
2. Management de Transition: Interim management services providing experienced managers for project launches and IT direction setup. 6-month interim management missions at 96K€ followed by optional 12-month coaching engagement at 3h/week.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

PHRi Associés provides IT consulting services to French small and medium enterprises (PME), including part-time IT Director (DSI) placement, transition/interim management, and IT manager coaching. The firm deploys and certifies 100% open source solutions across servers, workstations, telephony, workflow, CMS, ERP and collaboration, operating under CMMI Level 5 methodology. Engagements typically run a minimum of 4 months and span strategy, deployment, and ongoing support to free clients from proprietary software vendor dependency.

Product overview

PHRi Associés is an IT consulting firm specialized in 100% Open Source professional solutions. The company offers consulting services including part-time IT Director (DSI) placement, transition management, IT coaching, and project management for SMEs. PHRi Associés certifies and references multiple open source industrial standard applications including content management systems (DotNetNuke, typo3), VoIP/telephony (Asterisk), workflow automation (YAWL), office suites (OpenOffice), web analytics (phpMyVisites), collaboration tools (OpenXchange), operating systems (Linux), ERP systems (Compiere), and forums (phpBB). These certified solutions form a complete enterprise open source ecosystem covering administrative management, real-time applications, high availability, and telecommunications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IT Consulting Services End-to-end IT consulting for small and medium enterprises (PME), covering strategic IT alignment, project management, ROI estimation, personnel delegation, solution installation, and audits; delivered under CMMI Level 5 methodology with a 100% open source stack.
• Part-time DSI (CIO) Service Provision of a part-time Director of Information Systems (DSI) for French PME to lead strategic IT decisions alongside internal project teams, with a minimum 4-month engagement and flexible scheduling from half a day to 2 days per week, including coaching of the client's IT manager.
• Transition Management (Management de Transition) Interim/transition management placing experienced senior managers for 6-month project launches and IT direction setup, including definition of a strategic master plan; designed as a cost-effective alternative to permanent senior hiring with ROI typically within the first year (priced at €96K vs €150K/year for a permanent senior manager).
• IT Coaching (Coaching DSI) Coaching for client IT managers to ensure sustainable implementation of methods, with a minimum 12-month support period at 3 hours per week following an interim or part-time DSI engagement.
• Certified Open Source Solution Deployment Deployment, configuration, integration, training, maintenance, and support of PHRi-certified 100% open source solutions across Asterisk (PBX/VoIP), YAWL (workflow), typo3 and DotNetNuke (CMS), OpenOffice (office suite), OpenXchange (collaboration), phpMyVisites (web analytics), phpBB (forums), Linux (operating system), and Compiere (ERP); covers administrative management, real-time applications, high availability, telephony, and web workloads.

Quantifiable outcome

• ROI achieved within first year compared to traditional hiring
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• HPE Pointnext Services: HPE Pointnext is the global services arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, providing infrastructure consulting, integration and managed services. It competes with PHRi's infrastructure and hosting deployments as part of a much broader portfolio targeting enterprise and mid-market clients.
• Sopra Steria: Sopra Steria is a major French-headquartered IT services group delivering digital transformation, infrastructure and application services. It competes for the same French enterprise open source integration budget as PHRi, though as part of a much wider portfolio.
• Devoteam: Devoteam is a European IT consultancy with strong open source and cloud capabilities across its French operations. It is a comparable incumbent competitor for open source integration work but serves a much broader enterprise customer set than PHRi.
• Capgemini: Capgemini is a global IT services leader with deep French roots and broad open source, cloud and digital transformation practices. It competes with PHRi at the upper end of the French SME market but operates at vastly greater scale and with a full services portfolio.
• Red Hat (IBM): Red Hat is the global leader in enterprise open source software (Linux, OpenShift, Ansible). Its partner ecosystem and direct services compete indirectly with PHRi's Linux and infrastructure deployment offerings, though at much larger scale and with proprietary extensions.

Direct peers

• Worteks: Worteks is a French open source services specialist focused on infrastructure, cloud and DevOps consulting. It is comparable to PHRi in its open source-only positioning and French SME target market, though oriented more toward cloud infrastructure than business applications.
• Smile: Smile is the largest French open source integrator, offering end-to-end deployment of CMS, ERP, CRM, IoT and digital workplace solutions. It is the most directly comparable peer to PHRi Associés in terms of 100% open source focus and French SME/mid-market customer base, but at significantly larger scale.
• Alter Way (Smile Group): Alter Way was a French open source hosting and managed services specialist that merged with Smile. It directly mirrors PHRi's combined open source consulting, hosting and managed services positioning for French SMEs and is one of the closest historical peers.
• Linagora: Linagora is a French open source software and services firm offering collaboration (OpenPaas), messaging, telephony and AI solutions. It overlaps directly with PHRi's certified Asterisk, OpenXchange and CMS deployments, serving similar French enterprise and public-sector clients.

Regional players

• Itekia: Itekia is a French open source integrator and IT services firm serving SMEs and mid-market clients with similar open source deployment capabilities. It is comparable to PHRi in scale and customer profile, and competes in overlapping regional pockets of France.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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