Simplicité

What Simplicité is

Simplicité is a low-code application platform for business software, published by a company that signs its pages "Simplicité Software" and describes itself as "one of the pioneers of low-code" with activity "since 2006". The English home page calls it "The IA low-code platform for all your business applications", IA being the French order of the letters AI, and promises coverage "from the simplest to the most complex requirements: model, configure, integrate, deliver and you're done." A separate product area called Simplicité AI carries the line "Transform your applications".

The site speaks to 3 groups: low-code makers ("Make your life easier"), business teams ("Innovate quickly") and IT departments ("Master your IT"). The strapline "Made by developers for developers" tells you where the center of gravity sits. This is a platform for an IT organization that wants to build many business applications under its own control, more than a tool for a founder wiring up a weekend project. The French version adds a nuance in its own words: the IT department line reads "Maitrisez votre SI" (master your information system), which is the language of a CIO rather than a startup.

The site is published in French and English, and the copyright line on the French home page runs from 2006 to 2026.

What you build and how

The home page organizes the product around 4 verbs, which double as a walk through the life of an application.

Build. The English page heading reads "Expand" and the French one "Développez". You "specify according to your needs and visually build your applications using drag and drop", then "test and evolve with ease." The editor is visual, and the stated flow is model, configure, integrate, deliver: you describe the business objects and screens your application needs, set their behavior through configuration rather than code, connect them to the systems around them, and hand the result to its users. The vendor's own summary of the product is a "complete" platform "for the development of all your applications", which signals that it is meant to carry a whole portfolio rather than one app.

Connect. The copy reads "Your environment, your applications, you are in control", on "all types of cloud (private, public, on-premise)". For a regulated organization the on-premise option is the part that matters: the same application platform can run inside the company's own data center or on a cloud provider of its choosing, so data location stays a decision of the customer rather than of the vendor.

Use. The finished applications are meant for "your customers, your employees, your partners", described as "efficient, high-quality applications, in complete safety". One platform is pitched for applications facing customers, staff and partners alike. The example the site leads with is Alstom, which "saved €15 million thanks to its low-code information system mapping application", a figure the company gives for that one customer project.

Exploit. Once an application is live, the platform lets you "supervise your flows and alerts, automate your tasks and analyze the logs and your uses for complete control of your applications". That puts operations inside the same product as building: monitoring data flows between applications, reacting to alerts, scheduling automated tasks and reading usage logs to see how people actually use what was built.

Beyond the four verbs, the home page lists what the company thinks the platform buys an IT department. You can increase productivity "with fewer IT resources". You can test new ideas and scale them up. You can "mutualize" by capitalizing on earlier application work and "ensure the sustainability of your applications for many years", so the second application reuses what the first one built. You can reduce technical debt and master shadow IT, the unmanaged tools that business teams build on their own, by developing applications that the page calls sustainable and able to evolve. The line "API on all floors" says every business application can be connected to every ecosystem around it, and the last item says the platform helps with the shortage of technical staff for application development.

The AI side of the product is presented under the Simplicité AI name, with the promise to transform existing applications. The home page frames the whole platform as an AI low-code platform rather than treating AI as an add-on, and the French page labels the area "Simplicité IA".

Around the product sit training and community resources: documentation, training courses and certifications ("Benefit from our expertise"), a community for beginners and experts, a guide for business apps, an FAQ and a lexicon of low-code terms. The company also runs a partner network, described as "There to support you", and a customers section headed "They use it on a daily basis". For an IT department planning to train its own makers, the certification track and partner network are the practical route to building internal skills.

Results and customer stories

The home page prints three headline claims as large numbers: "8x cheaper than a classic development", "100% your business and development needs covered" and "10x faster to develop applications". These are the company's own figures, and the pages give no method or sample behind them.

Three customers are quoted by name and title.

• David Ohana, whose title the page gives as "Directeur SAV France & FSA" at StanleyBlack&Decker, says Simplicité brought the technical side through low-code technology, and that after 2 days, on both the front and back ends, the vendor "were able to offer us something very similar to what we have in service today".
• Jean-Marc Jaillet, Global Enterprise Architect at the DSI (the IT department) of Alstom, describes references scattered across the group's branches that gave a fragmented view of the information system. That made a cost rationalization campaign difficult, and even finding the cause of a problem in one application was hard. A common frame of reference "became urgent". He found Simplicité while looking online for "a simple and agile solution", and "the method won us over".
• Alexandra Hallard-Busteau, "Directrice Développement Commercial - IT-CE / Groupe BPCE", says on the French page that the appeal of the tool lies mainly in being "largement paramétrable à la main du client" (widely configurable by the customer), and that it is "souple, évolutif, et user friendly" (flexible, scalable and user friendly). The application supports the sales process end to end, and every exchange is traced to improve customer knowledge. The English page prints Jaillet's words under her name, so the French page carries her actual quote.

The site also cites an analyst figure from Forrester, spelled "Forester" on the page, that almost three quarters of new enterprise applications will use low-code, against 25% in 2020. The English page puts that point at 2025 and the French page at 2027. It is industry context, not evidence about the product.

On commercial terms, the site has a Pricing section, but the home pages carry no plan names or prices. The call to action on every page is "Request your demo", which points to a sales-led process where terms are set after a demonstration.

Who it suits

Simplicité fits an IT department or digital team in a mid-sized or large company that has a backlog of business applications, some developers on staff, and a need to keep control of where things run. The private, public and on-premise hosting line, the emphasis on supervision and logs, and the three named enterprise customers all point that way. It also fits organizations trying to consolidate scattered internal tools, as in the Alstom story, where a shared reference of the information system was the goal, and teams rebuilding an application already in service, as in the StanleyBlack&Decker story, where a working equivalent appeared within 2 days.

Business teams get a place too: the site addresses them directly with "Innovate quickly", and the BPCE story shows a sales department running its whole commercial process on an application configured to its needs.

It is a poor match for a solo founder who wants to publish something this week. The entry point is a demo request rather than a self-serve signup, and "Made by developers for developers" is the vendor's own framing. A marketing team that wants a quick form or a one-off email automation without involving IT is not the reader these pages are written for.

One caution for a buyer: the speed and cost multipliers on the home page are the vendor's own and come without a method, so a reference project of comparable size is the better measure during a demo.