In March 2026, EMAsphere and Akuiteo formalized their partnership with a clear objective: to develop a reporting and analytics solution directly integrated into the Akuiteo ERP. The result? Nexight: a white-label solution designed for service companies.
In this article, we take you behind the scenes of this co-development: why this partnership, how the solution was built, and what it concretely brings to users.
Akuiteo is the ERP solution designed to cover the full range of management and control issues faced by service companies managed on a business or assignment basis, including CRM, planning, invoicing and accounting management. With over 35,000 users in France and abroad, the platform has established itself as a benchmark player among SMEs, ETIs and major accounts.
However, service companies have a need that goes beyond management: to analyze their data in real time, identify weak signals, and make fast, informed decisions. This is precisely what EMAsphere has been doing for over 10 years: transforming raw data into actionable insights.
The complementary nature of the two solutions was obvious. And the partnership was a logical one.
"Our ambition with EMAsphere: to offer our customers a clear, controlled vision of their data, combining plug & play indicators and fully customizable dashboards."
Julien Costerg, Director of Operations, Akuiteo
"This partnership perfectly illustrates our mission: to offer editors an integrated reporting and analytics solution to centralize their customers' data and transform their reporting into a lever for growth and recurring revenues."
Jean-Charles Hebbelinck, Associate Director, EMAsphere
The fruit of this collaboration is Nexight. A module dedicated to visualization and advanced analysis, offered to Akuiteo customers.
This is what we call embedded analytics: a powerful analytical layer, integrated into existing software.
In concrete terms, this module gives access to ready-to-use dashboards on financial, sales, business and resource data. No complex implementation projects, no manual exports, no intermediate Excel.
"It offers Akuiteo's customers the possibility of quickly collecting data, structuring it in an automated way and making the right decisions thanks to much simpler steering, and much faster to set up."
Jean-Charles Hebbelinck
To understand how Nexight was built, we spoke to Bastien Vandepeutte, Product Manager at EMAsphere, who guided us through the major stages of co-development.
Before the first line of code was written, the Akuiteo and EMAsphere teams pooled all their experience to define the real needs of users: which indicators should be used to monitor the profitability of a project, how to track time spent, and how to link project purchases to margins.
Once the requirements had been defined, the technical teams developed an automatic integration between the two platforms. A connector retrieves data from Akuiteo and integrates it into the EMAsphere data model, smoothly and transparently, without any manual intervention.
Based on the available data and the defined framework, the EMAsphere teams built a library of standard dashboards, which can be activated at the time of subscription (finance, treasury, customer/supplier, income statement). This approach eliminates the time-consuming setup phase on the client side: as soon as the user opens Nexight, the key metrics are immediately operational and based on data from the ERP.
A good dashboard doesn't just display figures. It must enable them to be understood and verified. In Nexight, each indicator is interactive: the user can click on any figure to go back to the original data: the invoice, the time spent, the accounting entry. This is known as drill-down.
At the same time, a dedicated module displays the complete loading history: date, time, volume, status. If there's any doubt about the freshness of a dashboard, the user knows exactly when the data was synchronized from Akuiteo.
The solution is deployed on a white-label basis. Nexight is fully customized to Akuiteo's graphic charter, to offer users an experience that is familiar and consistent with the environment they are already familiar with.
This is a central question for many software publishers faced with the "Buy vs Build" dilemma. In practice, developing a robust and secure analytics solution requires several years of R&D.
By relying on EMAsphere, Akuiteo was able to integrate a technological platform already proven with hundreds of customers, thus avoiding starting from scratch on a business different from that of an ERP.
"Choosing EMAsphere means capitalizing on over ten years of expertise in reporting and decision support. ERP and analytics platforms respond to totally distinct business logics and issues. In addition to customized support and specialized technical teams, EMAsphere offers a set of advanced functionalities that would be very heavy to develop in-house: dynamic dashboards, drill-down, consolidation, multi-currency management and data historization via situations."
Bastien Vandepeutte, Product Manager, EMAsphere
Nexight is part of EMAsphere's Embedded Analytics strategy: enabling software editors to enrich their offering with a powerful, integrated analytics layer branded to their image, without massive R&D investment.
For software editors, it's a concrete opportunity to bring more value to their customers, differentiate themselves in their market, and generate new recurring revenues.
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