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Scalian
Humans and technology to scale up sustainable performance
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Overview

Established in 1989, the Scalian Group has nearly 5,000 employees in France and abroad. It is organized into 3 business lines specializing in Digital Transformation, Digital Systems and Operations Performance.

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Number of Employees

1,001-5,000

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Consulting

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Regions

Africa, Europe, North America

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Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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Year of foundation

1989

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Structure

Privately Held

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Problems we solve

The Challenges We Were Built to Take On

Our clients come to us when the complexity of their systems, programmes, or transformation challenges exceeds what a generalist can absorb. In Aerospace, we address shrinking certification cycles, growing programme complexity, tightening sustainability constraints, and multiplying sovereignty requirements — environments where the margin for error is near zero. In Defence, we help leaders modernise platforms and capabilities at a pace that matches the speed at which threats evolve, managing the intersection of ageing infrastructure and increasingly complex replacement technology. In Energy, we support operators who must decarbonise, modernise, integrate new sources, and secure critical infrastructure — all simultaneously, without compromising safety or continuity. In Financial Services, we help institutions move at the pace of digital disruption while satisfying regulators and meeting the experience expectations of their customers. In Mobility, we navigate the architectural disruption of electrification, the safety implications of software-defined vehicles, and the delivery pressure of rail modernisation programmes. Across all industries, we tackle the challenge of embedding AI meaningfully into industrial operations, managing the security vulnerabilities that come with digital transformation, turning sustainability obligations into operational advantages, and ensuring that large, critical programmes are delivered with the performance and rigour they demand.

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Consulting Solutions By Industry

Aerospace

Certification cycles compress while program complexity grows. Sustainability constraints tighten while sovereignty requirements multiply. In aerospace, the margin for error has never been smaller, and the scope of what must be mastered has never been wider. Meeting these challenges requires a partner who commands the full chain: from certification and systems design to supply chain performance and intelligent operations. Full-spectrum expertise spans aviation and space, from architecture to operation — covering next-generation aircraft design and certification, mission-critical software and embedded systems, supply chain and manufacturing performance, program efficiency and industrial transformation, digital continuity and intelligent operations, and space systems and ground segment engineering.

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Defence

Threats evolve faster than programs can respond. Sovereignty imperatives intensify. Platforms age while the technology required to replace them grows more complex. Defence leaders face a modernization challenge of unprecedented scale. In defence, the distance between technological ambition and operational reality is where programs succeed or fail. Decades of mission-critical systems, embedded software and autonomous technologies delivered in sovereign environments where qualification standards and process knowledge are non-negotiable. The scope covers systems engineering and IVVQ for defence platforms, embedded software for critical platforms, simulation and digital training environments, autonomous systems and intelligent drone swarms, AI-enhanced decision support and combat simulation, and program efficiency and defence transformation.

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Energy

Decarbonizing, modernizing, integrating, securing: the energy transition asks operators to transform everything simultaneously, without ever compromising safety standards or operational continuity. The energy transition is not a technology problem — it is an execution challenge. Solutions address it from within the value chain: from nuclear control systems and embedded software to smart grid transformation, backed by the NuclearXP program built specifically for the industry's most demanding operational environments. Capabilities span nuclear safety and critical systems maintenance, renewable energy integration and grid resilience, AI and predictive maintenance for industrial assets, digital transformation and IS modernisation, and operational performance and supply chain excellence.

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Financial Services

Financial institutions are asked to move at the pace of fintechs, comply with the rigour of regulators and deliver the experience of tech giants. Meeting all three expectations at once defines the challenge of modern financial services. The pace of innovation and the weight of regulatory compliance are rarely in harmony. AI industrialization through the Veyra framework, regulatory transformation under DORA, IRB and CSRD, supported by a governance model calibrated at every level of the organisation. Offerings cover Big Data platforms and data lake architecture, AI-powered applications and intelligent automation, master data management and information architecture, agile transformation and digital organisation, and mobile and digital product engineering.

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Mobility

Electrification is rewriting embedded architectures. Software-defined vehicles are redefining safety standards. Rail modernisation is compressing delivery timelines. The automotive and rail industries are navigating a transformation that no single discipline can absorb alone. No mobility program today is purely a hardware challenge, a software challenge or a safety challenge — it is all three at once. Thirty years of expertise in railway supervision and control, multi-skilled teams across seven countries, and rigorous mastery of Cenelec SIL4, ISO 26262 and ASPICE standards underpin solutions spanning embedded software and ADAS development, connected vehicles and digital services, ASPICE compliance and process excellence, rail systems engineering and safety certification, and digital transformation and data-driven operations.

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Consulting Solutions By Capability

Digital Solutions

Software development, cloud and platform engineering, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity services supporting clients' digital transformation. Delivers custom application development, cloud-native architecture design, AI/ML capability implementation, and security-by-design solutions across enterprise digital initiatives.

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Operations Excellence

Advisory and delivery services covering supply chain planning, programme and project performance, and sustainability for industrial organisations. Encompasses network design and optimisation, integrated planning and fulfillment execution, programme delivery assurance, and sustainability integration into operational performance.

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Scalian Consulting

Strategy and transformation consulting that brings sustainable, high-impact initiatives to life for industrial and service-sector clients. Combines corporate and digital strategy development with end-to-end transformation execution, embedding sustainability and ESG considerations throughout strategy formulation and implementation.

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Systems and Software Engineering

End-to-end engineering of critical embedded software, simulation, supervision, test benches, and unmanned systems for complex industrial programmes. Covers the full lifecycle from requirements definition through systems architecture, verification and validation, and industrialisation of embedded systems and autonomous solutions.

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Digital Solutions By Capability

Avionics products (EDAT and EBTF)

A suite of dataloading and computer-monitoring software tools for validating avionics computer compliance with aeronautical standards. Provides automated validation, compliance checking, and monitoring capabilities for avionics systems to ensure adherence to regulatory standards such as DO-178C and DO-254.

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Business Security Tool

An ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control) authorisation engine providing centralised, auditable, fine-grained access-rights management across enterprise applications. Enables granular permission controls based on user attributes, roles, and contextual conditions, with full audit trails for compliance and security governance across distributed systems.

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Generic test bench

A scalable, PXI-based hardware and software test solution offering 256+ multiplexed test points for embedded equipment validation in aeronautics, defence, space, and rail environments. Provides flexible, industry-standard test platform enabling rapid configuration and execution of complex validation scenarios across multiple critical-application domains with high-channel-count multiplexing capabilities.

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Simulation solutions (SIMSON, SEAMOTION, MOCEM)

Customisable simulation software products for synthetic environment modelling, crisis management, virtual reality, and scientific computing. Delivers configurable simulation platforms supporting immersive synthetic environments, emergency scenario planning and training, and computational modelling for scientific and industrial applications.

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SWING

A hardware-software product enabling multi-site interconnection of system test benches with real-time data exchange for remote testing across geographically distributed locations. Facilitates collaborative testing and validation across remote facilities with synchronised data exchange, reducing downtime and enabling geographically dispersed engineering teams to operate integrated test environments.

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Digital Solutions By Industry

Technology & Other Industries

Technology companies, telecoms operators, healthcare organisations and service businesses share a common pressure: the speed of digital transformation is outpacing their capacity to deliver it with genuine engineering depth and long-term operational quality. Industrial engineering rigour is applied to technology, telecoms, healthcare and services. The methods developed in the most demanding environments translate directly into software delivery, cloud platform engineering, AI industrialization and transformation programmes that hold up in production. Capabilities cover software product engineering and DevOps, cloud platforms and infrastructure modernisation, AI-driven applications and data transformation, agile transformation and organisational performance, and digital continuity and systems integration.

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