Vendor Analysis
published on Nov 30, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Expleo's offerings and capabilities in quality engineering services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's quality engineering services profile on Expleo is a comprehensive assessment of Expleo’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of software testing/quality assurance/quality engineering, and application services/ADM
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector and examining growth areas within IT services.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Expleo’s quality engineering and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Expleo’ offerings and capabilities in quality engineering
Expleo is the organization resulting from the 2018 acquisition by Assystem Technologies (ATG), an engineering and R&D services (ER&D) vendor, and of Software Quality Systems (SQS). Germany-headquartered SQS was, until Q1 2018, the largest QA/software testing service pure-play globally.
Expleo is active in both ER&D and QA. NelsonHall estimates that Expleo had in 2020 revenues of €920m. Its headcount is 13k. Expleo has ~250 clients. Airbus is its largest client.
Expleo provides QA services through its Quality Management Consulting (QMC) practice, the former SQS. After several years of flat growth, QMC is back to high growth, thanks to a buoyant market and its service portfolio refresh.
An essential change in the portfolio strategy of Expleo was the decision to expand beyond quality assurance to digital and agile. The company expanded its capabilities to growth markets such as low-code/no-code, agile development (selectively), process automation (RPA), cybersecurity, data, and cloud computing. Despite its service expansion, NelsonHall estimates the QMC derives 70% of its revenues from QA.