About Up ! Company

Up ! Company is a modern and dynamic venture fo which here is the profile:

Mission

To allow each enterprise, each individual, to create the wealth that is important for him, to valorize it and to transmit it to future generations.

Positioning

Building, developing and selling the Up ! Application System application system to consolidate existing information system of large firms.

Up ! Application System is based on:

Up ! Workbench
The strategic diagnostic making, aligning, integrating and piloting workbench for the information system.
Up ! 5th Generation Language.
Language to specify and animate business components that rely on fulcrum formats to automatically integrate techniques and technologies of the state of art.
Up ! Virtual Business Machine.
One bank of generic business components for every firms. Banks of business components dedicated to major business lines. Cross components delivering economical services.

Trade

Technical software designing and selling.
Business software designing and selling.
Consulting to align the information system on the corporate strategy.

Values

Innovation.
To be distinguished from the competitors.
Listening.
To fit the awaiting of the environment (clients, distributors, employees, etc.).
Work.
To self invest on long term.
Return.
To create value for each stakeholder, especially investors.
Respect.
Each collaborator has his own personal choices that we should conciliate with his professional life.

Methods

Entrepreneurship.
At the hearth of the business development of the group.
Participation to the Success.
To award the efforts that were done and to be faithful to employees.
Corporate Governance.
To anticipate the changes of the environment and to detect deviations from what was planed.
Delegating Management.
Project oriented management inside autonomous, dynamic and clever profit centers.
Rigorous Management.
Forecasted budget by semester for each cost center, monthly local and consolidated reporting.

Founder

Jean-Pierre DUVAL - 35 years old - is the founder and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Up ! Company. He found the original concept of Up ! Application System, while observing the information system policy of large firms. He designed Up ! 5GL, high-leveled, pseudo-natural, extensible and self-defined language. He also wrote the first releases of Up ! Compiler and Up ! Virtual Technical Machine.

With a mind of Business Developer, his objective is to build a strongly famous and worldwide-oriented group for its products and its services and creating value for each stakeholder.

Jean-Pierre DUVAL was graduated from the National High School in Applied Mathematics in Grenoble (ENSIMAG) in 1991 - National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG).
He got also the same year a Enhanced Degree (DEA) in Artificial Intelligence (IA), specializing him in automatic programming and expert systems.
He was also graduate with an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) from EM Lyon while attending the part-time education program between 2001 and 2003. He received the special award Major in Corporate Restructuring.

Before creating Up ! Company, Jean-Pierre DUVAL was partner in Kallisto Informatique - bought out by the Adulis group in January 2003. Member of the Board, he was the Director of the Business Unit dedicated to Ksl Reports, the reporting and printing solution for large firms.