COUNTRY FOCUS: FRANCE
Companies in France across a
range of sectors are utilising the
cloud to enhance the services
they offer to customers.
Their use of cloud technology
is enabling them to gain an
advantage over competitors.
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Cloud innovation
improves enterprise
efficiency
P
aris-based Metori Capital Management
relies on its own proprietary algorithms
to manage assets worth more than
€350 million in the Epsilon fund. Metori
needed to build an enterprise platform that
could support its ambitious growth goals
and deliver high value to investors, so it
chose Microsoft Azure to host its Epsilon
management service. Now, Metori has the
enterprise capabilities it needs at less cost
and a shared data environment that helps it
deliver seamless service and high value. a fund called Epsilon. Pension funds and
other institutional investors rely on Metori to
manage and grow assets worth more than
€350 million. support these algorithms, meet compliance
and safeguard data. And to keep pace
with its ambition, Metori also wanted easy
scalability and reliable business continuity.
Spun off in 2016 from Lyxor Asset
Management, a subsidiary of the French bank
Societe Generale, Metori is a medium-sized
fund manager. The Metori principals know
the Epsilon fund well and with the fund’s
historically strong performance, the company
expects to scale quickly and globally. In the dizzying world of hedge funds, money-
market securities and medium-term debt
instruments, Paris-based Metori Capital
Management focuses its efforts on growing Metori relies on sophisticated technology
and proprietary algorithms to help it buy,
sell and manage assets in Epsilon. It needed
to build an enterprise platform that could Metori chose Microsoft Azure cloud services
to support its Epsilon management service.
“We wanted a solution that would help
us to compete, scale and innovate, while
controlling costs and system management
burden,” said Nicolas Gaussel, CEO at Metori
Capital Management. “The upsides to
Microsoft cloud services were all so big that
we anticipated Azure was the right choice.”
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The company Chief Technology Officer, Loïc
Guenin, worked with Microsoft Consulting
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