Digitalising an industrial SME, without jargon or empty promises.
Industrial CRM, field service jobs, AI meeting minutes, LinkedIn communication: our analyses, head-to-head comparisons with the competition and first-hand experience, written by a team that uses its own tools every day.
Alternatives to Praxedo: the decision grid
What you really need to compare before switching field service software, and who each option on the French market suits.
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The real cost of a technician's hour
Fully loaded salary, vehicle, non-billable hours: the complete method for calculating the cost price of a billable hour.
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The periodic inspection calendar
Inventory, applicable regulation, frequency, person responsible, proof: the five-step method for meeting the inspection deadlines across your equipment base.
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Which software should you choose to digitalise an industrial SME in 2026?
CRM, field work, meetings, LinkedIn: the complete comparison of software for digitalising an industrial SME in 2026, category by category.
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CMMS software won't fix a culture of corrective maintenance
Buying a tool is not enough to get out of corrective mode. What a genuine discussion between maintenance professionals reveals.
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The figure that really matters in maintenance: not closed work orders, but the preventive/corrective ratio
A large number of closed work orders can hide preventive maintenance that was never actually carried out.
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Excel or CRM? The real test for a small industrial team
A good spreadsheet is sometimes perfectly adequate. The 3-function test to find out whether your team really needs a CRM.
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Why half of all CRMs in industrial SMEs die within a year
Enthusiastic purchase, training, then quiet abandonment: the typical life cycle of an oversized CRM.
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The data entry that kills adoption: what a good CRM should never ask you to type
It is not a lack of features that kills a CRM; it is the data entry time after every call.
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Field sales reps: why your CRM should live in a pocket, not on a desk
An industrial sales rep works on the road, not behind a desk. Why mobile is not optional.
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CRM: why nobody believes online comparisons any more
AI avatars, top-5 lists that recommend everyone: why trust is eroding, and what an honest comparison has to own up to.
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Customer follow-up: your industrial SME's real competitor is silence
Most lost quotes are not turned down: they are forgotten. Why follow-up is the most profitable — and most neglected — link in industrial sales.
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Field service management software: moving on from the notebook and Excel
Illegible notebook, out-of-date Excel file, report re-keyed in the evening: how dedicated field software solves these problems, one by one.
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Industrial CRM or general-purpose CRM? What really changes for an industrial SME
Technical quotes, installed base, after-sales service, geolocated sales rounds: why a real industrial CRM looks nothing like Salesforce or HubSpot.
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Automatic AI meeting minutes: the guide for industrial teams
Technical meetings, customer appointments, site meetings: AI writes your minutes automatically, with guaranteed European hosting.
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Why an industrial company needs to be on LinkedIn
Why an industrial SME needs to be on LinkedIn, and how to publish content from the shop floor without spending your evenings on it, thanks to Flux-Link.
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Stator-CRM or Rotor-FSM? The difference between sales management and field service
Stator-CRM or Rotor-FSM? The clear line between sales management and field service, with real-world cases to help you choose.
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The real cost of software sprawl for an industrial SME
Why stacking up a CRM, Excel, WhatsApp and video calls costs more than it seems — and what a connected suite really changes.
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From first contact to customer report: how Stator, Rotor, Vector and Flux work together
How Stator, Rotor, Vector and Flux connect, from the first quote to the LinkedIn post, with no re-keying and no information lost along the way.
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Vector-MOM vs Granola, Fireflies and Otter.ai: which AI meeting minutes tool should you choose?
Vector-MOM, Granola, Fireflies or Otter.ai for your meeting minutes? An honest comparison: price, hosting, speaker identification, French-language support.
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Stator-CRM vs Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Sellsy: which CRM for an industrial SME?
An honest comparison: Stator-CRM vs Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and Sellsy. Real prices, and the only genuinely built-in tracking of the installed base and after-sales service.
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Rotor-FSM vs Praxedo, Organilog and Kizeo Forms: which field service software should you choose?
Praxedo, Organilog, Kizeo Forms or Rotor-FSM? An honest comparison of price, solo use and VGP specialisation (France's mandatory periodic equipment inspections) to choose the right field tool.
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Flux-Link vs Taplio, Supergrow and Podawaa: which tool for posting on LinkedIn without writing?
Taplio, Supergrow, Podawaa: which AI tool should you choose to post on LinkedIn without writing? An honest comparison, with real prices and the risks included.
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Small and mid-sized industrial companies: why adopting business software changes your growth trajectory
Why an industrial SME that sticks with Excel and a notebook caps its own growth — and what each piece of business software changes, in the short and long term.
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Why Indusiax uses its own software every day — and what that changes for you
Why Indusiax uses its own software day to day: dogfooding, data sovereignty and long-term customer trust.
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Business card scanning: where do your contacts end up?
Four families of tools compared on three concrete criteria: the account, the network, and where the contact ends up.
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Forty cards in your pocket: why half of them will never get a call back
The show went well, and three weeks later the pile is still on the desk. The gap between the conversation and the CRM, and the three simple steps that close it.
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Badge scanner, app, manual entry: the real cost of a trade show contact
Four ways of capturing a contact on a stand, compared on the only two criteria that count: the delay before you call back, and whose hands the data lands in.
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A free scanning app: where do your contacts go?
A business card holds the personal data of the person who handed it to you. The four business models behind “free”, and the five questions to ask before you install.
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NFC business cards: how they work, and what they don't do
What is in the chip, what happens on an iPhone and on an Android phone, the five cases where it does not work, and the six questions to ask before ordering.
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The real cost of a paper business card
The printer's quote is only the beginning: the reprint cycle, the dead stock at the back of the drawer, and the out-of-date card circulating without you knowing.
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