Novallia is 20 years old!

Novallia was born one fine day in 2003!

2003 – Il était une fois…la rencontre de 2 expertises

20 years ago, Patrice Gabus and his partner set up their first engineering firm, MC2P.

The pioneering concept: combining legal and operational know-how, legal and engineering expertise. Initially focusing on environmental issues, the office grew rapidly and soon turned its attention to safety and industrial risks.

2007 – Growth, branding and training

After 4 years of significant growth, MC2P joined forces with 2 other design offices and created a new company. “Novallia Conseil & Formation”, the result of the merger of three specialist consultancies, is born.

🔵 The pretty name Novallia, a contraction of “new” and “alliance”, perfectly reflects the vision evoked. Novallia is an innovation-driven company, drawing on the skills and expertise of its employees to offer ever more effective solutions. A powerful vision even then, because these two attributes are still relevant today!

👉 Committed to working with manufacturers, Novallia’s primary mission was to control environmental, energy and human impacts and risks. This is achieved through consulting services and training courses.
👉 The founders are convinced that risk management is a major challenge not only for companies, but for society as a whole.

This new entity will rapidly be broken down into skill clusters: 🟢 Novallia Environnement, 🟡 Novallia Énergie and 🔴 Novallia Sécurité.

2010 – Innovation!

2010 marks a turning point in the history of #Novallia.
👉 Together with its partner Enablon, the company is developing the first web-based regulatory watch application. This revolutionary tool contains regulatory texts on Environment, Health & Safety, Industrial Risks, Public Facilities and Food Safety. It is regularly updated by Novallia engineers and supports them in their consulting services. The application is quickly catching on, as it makes the task of keeping up to date with regulations considerably easier for sites, whatever their ICPE classification or certification status.
📊 At the time, the tool already contained a statistical and control approach thanks to a series of indicators…
💻 The digital revolution is underway!

2011-2012 Novallia becomes a software publisher

The web application is attracting increasing interest from HSE managers, and Novallia is winning major contracts with key accounts such as EDF, LVMH, l’ORÉAL, GDF SUEZ…
2011 – It’s a magnificent year of growth, recruitment and abundance! A strategic direction was taken: reinvesting this handsome capital in R&D to develop our own application.
🗓 In 2012, the first web application developed by Novallia saw the light of day and was called NV SITE, at the time designed with IBM Cognos technology. A great adventure made of design thinking, web development, search for investors, UX and web design mobilizes the teams!

🌀 It was also in this year that Novallia adopted a new visual identity to accompany this change of strategy. For the visual identity, we had to move away from an image focused on the environment and broaden it to include the concept of digitalization.
A more “digital” image, but also a different way of communicating from our competitors. The concept: just because we’re talking about serious, serious things doesn’t mean we have to be sad about it. So let’s make way for illustration and color!

2014-2015 International expansion

Sales of the NV SITE web application have been exceptional, with the company posting 20% growth between 2013 and 2015! And it hasn’t faltered, despite internal storms between shareholders at the start of 2014… a situation often experienced by SMEs… Life goes on, and the NV SITE application continues to evolve thanks in particular to co-design – > Novallia invites its major customers to co-construct their application and suggest improvements. In this way, the regulatory watch tool is as close as possible to the concerns of its users.

Following a restructuring of the shareholder base and the company, Novallia adopted a new strategy, turning to international markets. The aim is to create structures to support our major groups, which are also international, in their foreign subsidiaries.

The parent company is transferred to Switzerland and the Tunisian entity is created. Novallia can now offer its customers the same services and tools in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as well as in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Novallia’s units in Switzerland, France, Tunisia, Morocco and Senegal now employ more than 25 people who work closely together within a single organizational structure.

2016 – Evolution of the computer language of our NV SITE application

In 2016, Novallia developed NV Site 2.0, a new version in Angular language, revolutionary in terms of ergonomics and functionality. The tool focuses on multi-site management and its compliance & action plan modules. Because, of course, the whole point of digitizing regulatory monitoring is to be able to comply with any deviations from the regulations.
Novallia is also continuing its international expansion by setting up a subsidiary in Morocco in partnership with GQC, one of the country’s leading management systems consultancies.

2017-2019 Novallia, general compliance specialist…

Novallia’s initial focus was on controlling environmental, industrial and human risks, and it has gradually become a benchmark in the field of regulatory compliance. In recent years, she has extended her expertise to general compliance. The many uses of its web applications and the expertise of its engineers enable customer companies to manage their overall compliance with all kinds of requirements, notably normative – the famous ISO standards – but also their internal group requirements, or the action plans that follow an audit.
From 2017 to 2019, we will focus on improving the application, consolidating our services and our customer relations.

2019 – 2023 Opportunities from the COVID period to the present day

It’s clear that covid has had a huge impact on many companies, but it has also shown us the opportunities and paths we can take. For Novallia, this has meant a strengthening of regulatory expertise and associated consultancy. Indeed, during this period, numerous laws and regulatory adjustments were created to compensate for staff absences in companies. Novallia was at the forefront of ensuring regulatory compliance for its customers, and also shared this with its community in numerous articles and Linkedin posts.

A number of strategic areas were highlighted:

• Development of digital services: e-learning, webinars, site visits assisted by digital tools.
• development of the Swiss and African markets with the creation of a subsidiary in Senegal and the strengthening of the Swiss team
• web app improvements
• strengthening communication

It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, and after covid, in 2022, Novallia is facing new challenges on the IT side. The company bounced back by reinvesting time and resources in a new app called NV Compliance, and remains competitive, constantly at the cutting edge of technology.

Novallia is 20 years old this year, and we’re proud of how far we’ve come! Thanks for reading this far!