(AOF) – Claranova has published a net profit for the first half of its 2021-2022 financial year of 4 million euros, a decrease of 59% over one year. Normalized current operating income and revenue stabilized at 23 and 281 million euros respectively, as did the current operating income margin, at 8.2% (-0.1 point).
“We managed to stabilize our results in an unprecedented context, in particular for PlanetArt, faced with the cumulative effects of deconfinement, the continuation of logistical constraints during the end-of-year holidays and the structural transformation of customer acquisition channels. “, comments Pierre Cesarini, CEO of the IT group.
Indeed, PlanetArt achieved a turnover of 227 million euros, down 3% at real exchange rates and 6% at constant exchange rates (-10% organically). Its current operating profit fell by 11% to 17 million euros.
The Avanquest division, for its part, experienced growth of 22% to 51 million euros, for a current operating profit of 8 million (+56%).
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Software publishers: several acquisitions in healthcare
According to market research firm IDC, the healthcare industry is expected to spend more than $15 billion on software and cloud servers by 2023. After Microsoft took over the company Nuance, which mixes voice recognition and telemedicine, for 16 billion dollars, it is Oracle’s turn to carry out the largest acquisition in its history by taking over Cerner, number two in the distribution of medical software in the United States. The amount of this operation, carried out in cash, amounts to 28.3 billion dollars. Cerner, which recorded $5.5 billion in revenue in 2021, could allow Oracle to strengthen its positions in the cloud as the American group struggles to grow as much as its main rivals like Google, Microsoft or Amazon. Web Services.