The interview
Q: What is your name?
I'm Hervé Rannou, CEO of SenX
Q: What is your product?
Warp 10, a data storage and analytics toolkit for sensors data (Time Series).
Q: Is it SaaS? PaaS? IaaS? Other?
A bit of everything. We offer SaaS, PaaS, On Premise and Edge solutions.
Q: Do you provide your technology to cloud operators?
Yes
Q: Are you a market leader? Who do you consider leader in your market? Does GAFAM play any role in your market?
No, but our solution is ranked in the top 10 Time Series solutions.
Q: What are the unique selling propositions of your product? Is your solution different or better than competing solutions?
The product has significative value added compared to the competitors.
- Performance (clients with more than 100 millions measures / second),
- Warp 10 addresses Time Series and Geo Time Series for all data that are geolocalized,
- A unique open source library of 1300 off the shelf function (Cleansing, synchronisation, calculation of simple or complex KPI for fusion of numerous series,
- History Files (HFiles) : High Density Compressed files for Times Series to keep data for all historic years and to access to any data for data analytics and ML,
- AI Enabler to benefit from Machine Learning on historical data.
Q: Which free and open source software solutions do you use?
The solution is Open Source. Only additional components are under licence.
Q: What components did you develop yourself?
All components of Warp 10 have been developed by SenX.
Q: Can you name users or clients of your solution? Preferably in the CAC40, DAX30, Fortune500, European governments?
For example EDF, Total Energy, Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Thales.
Q: Why did this client choose your solution rather the solution of the market leader or GAFAM?
Because the solution is much better than the one proposed by the GAFAM.
Q: What European policies do you suggest to ensure sustainable development of your technology and its adoption?
Time Series is going to become a strong tech issue due to the tremendous increase of Time Series. However, no one really pays attention to this subject in the European Commission. It deals with more visible subjects and experts in charge of selecting projects are not familiar with this kind of technologies.
Q: To what extent are the interoperability projects financed by France and Europe likely to guarantee the development of European cloud technologies?
It's not a priority for us at the moment.
Q: Can you give us an idea of sales/staff/clients/end users over the last 3 years?
2022: 0,9 M€, 8 emp, 25 client
2023: 1,5 M€, 12 emp, 45 clients
2024 : 2,5 M€
Q: Tell us about a successful implementation. How did you implement it, why was it a success, where is this implementation today? Plans for the future? How is the relation with the client? Did the client help you get other clients?
Aircraft Manufacturer. After a long period of tests and benchmark, he decided to choose our technology for a new generation of connected aircraft.