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We are the people who find data flows genuinely interesting

65+ specialists, 3 offices, 21 years on the part of IT that only becomes visible when it breaks.

A word from our CEO

I have spent 21 years watching companies buy strategy and then discover that nothing moves, because the data never left the system it was born in. That is the problem we solve. It is not glamorous work and it does not fit on a poster, but when a payment settles on time or a container clears customs without a phone call, someone on our team built the thing that made it happen. I want Satisco to stay the firm that is honest about which of those things it can do, and excellent at the ones it claims.
Alain Kunnen — CEO, Brussels
Alain Kunnen, CEO, Brussels
Alain Kunnen — CEO, Brussels

How we got here

From a middleware specialist to a data partner

Satisco started in 2005 as an integration specialist, at a time when connecting two systems meant an ESB, a lot of XML and a very patient project manager. We got good at it. Banks in Belgium and Luxembourg, asset managers, shipping lines and public institutions handed us the flows they could not afford to break.

Then the questions changed. Clients stopped asking only whether the message arrived and started asking whether they could trust it, prove it, and feed it to something that makes decisions. That is why our portfolio now covers three pillars instead of one: moving data, making it reliable, and putting it to work. The engineering underneath is the same engineering. The conversation is wider.

What has not changed is the kind of work we take on. If it involves a critical flow, a protocol with a specification, a deadline set by a regulator, or a migration that cannot lose a record, it is ours.

Key figures

  • Founded 2005, 21 years
  • 65+ certified experts
  • 3 countries: BE, LU, FR
  • 150+ critical migrations delivered
  • 20+ technologies mastered

Alan Allman Associates

  • 4,000+ talents
  • 17 firms
  • €366M revenue (2023)
  • 3 continents

Delivery model

  • Advisory — audit, architecture
  • Development — build and mapping
  • Production — delivery, testing, quality
  • Maintenance — optimisation, releases
  • Training — client teams, technology watch
  • Satisco LAB — cloud, AI, prototypes

The team

Specialists, and unapologetic about it

Certified where it counts

65+ experts holding certifications on IBM, Axway and WSO2 platforms. We are the only certified WSO2 partner in Europe, which says something about how narrow and how deep we go.

3 career tracks, no dead ends

Technical, consulting and commercial paths that run from junior all the way to Principal Architect or Expert. Nobody has to become a manager to progress here.

Technology watch is in the job

Following what changes in the platforms and protocols we live in is a delivery axis, not a hobby somebody does at the weekend.

French inside, English out

We work in French internally and in English with international clients, across 3 countries and several regulators. Every specification, test dossier and audit report gets written in the language the reader actually works in.

Team photographThe delivery team in the Brussels office, working, not posing.

The honest version

Things we argue about over lunch

  • Whether ISO 20022 solved anything or just moved the problem into an XML schema.
  • The correct number of retries before you wake a human being up.
  • Whether a nightly batch is ever still the right answer in 2026. Sometimes it is, and we will say so.
  • EDIFACT segment terminators. Yes, still.
  • Whether "the mapping is documented" and "the documentation is current" mean the same thing. They do not.
  • Who broke the test environment, and whether that person is in this room.

Not a euphemism

The unglamorous parts we actually enjoy

  • Certificate rotationNobody thanks you for it, and everybody notices when it is missed. There is a quiet satisfaction in a calendar that never surprises anyone.
  • Reconciliation reportsTwo independently developed pipelines, compared line by line, and a difference count of zero. That is a good afternoon.
  • The 3am escalationNot the incident. The moment you find the malformed field, and it is exactly where the specification said it could not be.
  • Reading a specification properlyThe edge case that breaks a mapping in production is usually described on page 140 of a document nobody opened. We open it.

Satisco LAB

We test our ideas on ourselves first

The LAB is where we build the tools our own engineers use. If something earns its place internally, it earns the right to be offered to clients.

Technical Migration Tool

Analyses and automates technical migrations between integration platforms.

Transformation as a Service

On-demand data transformation without standing up heavy infrastructure.

Move to Cloud assessment

Technical analysis to prepare and sequence cloud migrations with the risks made explicit.

Satisco AI assistant

A retrieval assistant over 2,000+ pages of IBM documentation, used daily by our engineers.

Where the edges are

What we do not claim

A credible portfolio has edges. We do not position ourselves as a data science or predictive modelling practice, we do not publish a proprietary analytics platform, and we do not give legal advice on regulatory compliance. We build the data foundation those things depend on, and we work alongside the specialists who own them. Saying so up front has never once cost us a project we would have enjoyed.

Data synchronicity model

6 levels, from fragmented to resilient

Data synchronicity is the continuous harmonisation of data across systems, so decisions are taken on the most current version of the truth. We use this model to place a client honestly and to sequence the work. You do not buy level six, you climb to it.

Level 1 · 0–20%Fragmented, isolatedNo integration, proprietary formats, spreadsheets, no governance.
Level 2 · 21–40%Connected, reactiveA basic bus, first B2B and API flows, manual indicators.
Level 3 · 41–60%Automated, standardisedFlow automation, a centralised data platform, governance rules.
Level 4 · 61–80%Integrated, governedRobust platform, virtualisation, advanced security, quality tooling.
Level 5 · 81–95%Intelligent, predictiveReal-time data, event-driven design, anomaly detection, augmented analytics.
Level 6 · 96–100%Resilient, data-centricSovereign architecture, instant adaptation, generative AI integrated.

Technology partners

Certified on IBM, Axway and WSO2, and still designing for your target architecture

We hold partner status on the platforms that carry our clients' critical flows. We still design for your target architecture rather than for a licence.

IBM — Business Partner

App Connect Enterprise (ACE) · MQ · WTX / ITX · Sterling B2B Integrator · Financial Accounting Hub · Event Streams · DataStage · Watson

Axway — Partner

Amplify API Management · SecureTransport · CFT · AMFT Flow Manager · B2B Integration

WSO2 — certified partner

The only certified WSO2 partner in Europe, for open API management and integration architectures.

Microsoft and open source

Azure Service Bus, Data Factory, Logic Apps, Fabric, Power Platform, Power BI, Purview · Apache Kafka, Airflow · Databricks, Snowflake, Qlik, Denodo

Curious where you sit on the model?

A short maturity assessment places your organisation on the six levels and names the two moves with the best return.

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