You don’t run a multinational with Paint and Word. Not even an SME. Most companies use business software. Professional applications, capable of managing stocks, schedules or data of all kinds in real time. In this flourishing field, the trend is towards “low code”, or even “no code”: more and more “software” is being created without touching computer programming, which is tedious and obscure. We no longer get our hands dirty, everything is intuitive.
According to a study published in 2021 by theGartner agency, specializing in business consulting, by 2025, 70% of new professional software will use these very simple technologies, which have the advantage of being faster, cheaper… and more operational, while the shortage of developers growls. Montpellier, YooSoft is a hope of “no code”. This start-up offers companies, both small and large, to tailor software adapted to their activity, without touching the code.
“There is an unparalleled reactivity”
It was Eric Quivy, founder of Colombus, software adopted by 500 chain stores around the world, former information director at Orchestra-Prémaman, who founded Yoo Soft. Today, her baby is overwhelmed by fundraising. “I implemented a lot of software, and I realized that we were always redeveloping the same functions,” he confides. Developing software is expensive. So companies are reluctant to develop new ones. Some are very old, and no longer meet the needs of the trades, which have evolved. If software was developed in the 1990s, it did not take the Internet into account. And now it’s all about the Internet! »
Yoo Soft thus offers entrepreneurs the possibility of creating any kind of professional software, in just a few hours, and of making modifications to it in a few clicks, as soon as the company has new needs. “There is an unparalleled reactivity, it completely changes the relationship we have with software,” notes the entrepreneur.
Without typing a single line of code
The simplicity of the solution invented by the Yoo Soft team is such that companies can, if they wish, intervene themselves, directly, in the modifications to be made to their platforms. Without typing a single line of code, of course. The other big plus is that the applications created with Yoo Soft are tailor-made. Because most of the time, companies work with software that has not been designed specifically for them and which often gets a little stuck at the corners. “As a general rule, 80% of the needs are standard, and 10 to 20% are specific to companies, explains Eric Quivy. And often that 10% to 20%, they’re very important, because that’s what your business exists for, that’s what makes you different. »
This promising start-up, hosted at Bic, Montpellier’s highly prized business incubator, was one of the winners of the I-Nov State competition in January.