The story behind EMASPHERE, as told on Canal Z

Canal Z looks back at how EMASPHERE was founded and at its mission: freeing up time for finance teams.

What if you could save 80% of your time and focus fully on analysis and informed decision-making? Canal Z put the spotlight on EMASPHERE, founded by former CFO Hugues Vandepeutte in 2015. With more than 10,000 client companies today, our mission is to simplify the (sometimes needlessly complicated) lives of finance professionals. Here is a look back at the report. 

Does building your reporting keep you up at night? EMASPHERE is your solution! To prove it, our platform for finance professionals had the honor of being featured in a TV report on Canal Z, for the program “Les entreprises dans le viseur” (Companies in the spotlight). The channel took a closer look at the story behind the company, which was not founded by chance. 

The backdrop to this story is the many problems finance professionals face every day, such as time-consuming tasks that keep them from doing their job to the fullest. “When you look at the market, you see that many people still work in a very manual way, with Excel files that are sometimes very heavy and very hard to share”, says Jean-Charles Hebbelinck, Regional Director at EMASPHERE. 

“When you look at the market, you see that many people still work in a very manual way, with Excel files that are sometimes very heavy and very hard to share”

Jean-Charles Hebbelinck, Sales Manager

“This creates a huge amount of stress and sometimes delays in decision-making, because the information simply isn't there. The real added value is the analysis, so you can deliver truly reliable figures to senior management, who can then make informed decisions together with the executive committee”, he continues. 

Our CEO Hugues Vandepeutte came to the same conclusion several years ago, when he was a CFO. That is when the idea became obvious. He needed to create a reporting platform with a threefold promise: 

• Save time for finance professionals
• Reduce the risk of errors
• Get rid of unnecessary stress 

“Last week, a client called me and admitted that he has felt less stressed since he started using EMASPHERE.

Alexandre van den Hove, Customer Manager

And the bet has clearly paid off for our scale-up, which now serves more than 10,000 client companies. “Last week, a client called me and admitted that he has felt less stressed since he started using EMASPHERE. He woke up in the morning, opened the platform and was ready for his meeting”, says a delighted Alexandre van den Hove, Customer Manager.

EMASPHERE is a scale-up founded in 2015 that has started expanding internationally. The company has offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (headquarters), Ghent and Paris.