Frédéric Royer, Founder and CEO of Doriane
GARDENING
PHOTOGRAPHY
AGRONOMY
Agronomy and software engineer, Fred founded Doriane in the 1980's to bring researchers the tools to handle data and optimize processes. At the cutting-edge of technologies, he guides Doriane technically and startegically on the course of continual improvement and international development.
PAINTINGS
BOTANY
TRAVELLING
Florence ROYER (Doctor of Pharmacy graduated from the University of Paris V with a diploma in product developement and marketing C.N.A.M)
- Since the creation of Doriane in 1987, she has participated in the commercial developement of RnDExperience™ products
GAMING
HIKING
FENCING
With both a background in biology and in computer sciences, David Zinn has been part of the consulting team for over 7 years.
Analyzing client needs, setting up our solutions, training and assisting users, auditing settings and making them evolve.
JAPAN
CLIMBING
VIDEO GAMES
With my experience in infography and game programming, I joined Doriane to take new challenges and bring innovative solutions to RnDExperience software suite.
AIKIDO
FREE CAMPING
SINGING
Maxime is the system and network administrator in charge of maintaining and developping Doriane's IT system, through a work-study contract.
SOCCER
GARDENING
DIY
RnDExp project manager for implementation of integrated solutions for our customers, Business processes audit. Strong collaboration with the Editor team and Doriane Commercial team.
SPORTS
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
BIOLOGY
Thanks to an agronomy & IT Background, Rudy manages affairs from the prospecting to the selling.
He takes at heart to enhance R&D in plant sector with new technologies.
OPEN-MIND
NATURE
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Justine deals with internal administrative management and accountings of the company. She’s fond of wide-open natural spaces. She likes meeting new people, spending evenings with friends and helping others.
ANIMALS
TRAVELLING
READING
In its last year of Mathematics engineer studies, Mathilde chose Doriane's consulting team for her internship, she improves statistical and graphical tools in RnDExp software.
EXPLORING
READING
SNORKELING
Sarah has a general background in systems engineering, software and web development. She enjoys learning and evolving in a constantly changing technological world and offering solutions meeting customers’ needs.
ENTOMOLOGY
BALCONY GARDENING
HUMOUR
Naturalist fond of Insects, Romain prepares the communications for clients and organizes the promotion of RnDExperience on congresses and on the Internet, with a penchant for RnDExpMobile. He is fond of :
DJ-ING
TRAVELLING
BIKES
Analyzing customers needs, setting up, technical support and maintenance of our solutions, SQL databases management, Business Intelligence, software quality control, administrators and end users training.
LATIN DANCES
TRAVELLING
BOTANY
Tristan has an Agronomy and IT background. He is responsible for sales activities and its development.
He found in his international professional missions the way to bring technological answers to diversified needs in plant research.
In 1985, Fred and Florence Royer buy the first computer Olivetti M24 with 3 other associates for various professional projects, among them building a R&D software to centralize agronomical data with a strong statistical heart. 1986 saw the beginnings of DORIANE and the appearance of its first products in the field of agronomy. On the picture you can see Fred during a work experience on Millet (setaria italica) breeding at the end of his studies (Masters Degree in plant improvement with Pr Pernès, Paris - Orsay University in France).
Doriane presents its first software AgroEx at the Salon de l'Agriculture de Paris, and the product wins the SINFAGRI 1991 Prize of Innovation !
First standard agronomy testing software under DOS environment, AgroEx™ was mainly designed for monitoring agronomy experimentation.
Click here to see how it looked like !
Click here for more details on the CatchKey™ brochure
Rewriting the code of our products every 15 years or so is part of Doriane's methodology: We call this "following the software life cycle".
Already used in many seed companies and cooperatives in France, including multinational organizations such as RAGT, Maïsadour and Vilmorin, Doriane starts to export its solution in Europe: We have installed successfully our software in the research departments of:
Microsoft partner since 2000 to comply with software highest standards.
Attaining a gold competency demonstrates our proven ability to exploit the most innovative features and functions of the current Microsoft platform.
Click here to read what this yearly certification process brings to Doriane
In 2001 the software runs in a Windows environment, thus becomes easier to install and to connect with external devices. Moreover, it combines Testing software and Breeding software features.
Click here for more details in the LabKey™ pdf brochure
At the same time, Doriane releases a new version of the data collection software CatchKey™.
Click here for more details on the CatchKey™ brochure
Rewriting the code of our products every 15 years or so is part of Doriane's methodology: We call this "following the software life cycle".
After a total revamping of the data collection CatchKey™, Doriane releases a brand new software with better performances and a better integration to the Windows operating software.
Click here for more information of LabKey-Mobile brochure
Rewriting the code of our products every 15 years or so is part of Doriane's methodology: We call this "following the software life cycle".
At the end of the 2000's decade, researchers are using Doriane software all around Europe, and we already attend several Seed Trade congresses in the USA such as the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego (read our scientific publications) and the American Seed Trade Association Seed Expo in Chicago. We start to install our software in breeding and testing departments of american organizations:
LabKey V3 is the result of a complete revamping of the standard software, notably for the Windows XP interface and features. Rewriting the code of our products every 15 years or so is part of Doriane's methodology: We call this "following the software life cycle".
Since 2010, the whole team Doriane is quality certified by the internationally recognized quality management system standard ISO 9001:2008 edition. And since 2018 we are certified ISO 9001:2015.
Click here to read why following quality processes leads us to improve the quality of RnDExp™ applications, services we deliver to customers as well as all internal processes such as software edition, administration and sales.
Since 2013 and the installation of RnDExperience breeding software at DBN Biotechnology Center, two other Chinese organizations have been equipped with Doriane's IT system to handle their breeding and testing data: The cotton leader Bio-T in 2015 and the seed company JSNH in 2016.
On this occasion of the 2016 software update integrating a new system to help users share experiences, Doriane's applications have changed their name into RnDExperience™.
At the same time, this website has been completely redesigned with new concepts and a whole new interface which is more intuitive, lighter and easier to use.
Consulting firm specialised in organisational management and operational architecture, Aberdeen services contributes to the deployment of RnDExperience on some projects.
Trusted cloud services enabling to build, manage and deploy applications securely, Microsoft Azure provides servers and services to enable our customers to access RnDExperience tools and services remotely.
Trusted cloud services enabling to build, manage and deploy applications securely, OVH provides servers and services to enable our customers to access RnDExperience tools and services remotely.
Partner on some projects, Geneflow provides software products and services to further the understanding and application of genetic information: Genetic diversity, interactions and components of complex phenotype.
Terralia is a French competitiveness cluster on vegetal agriculture, agri-food and technology. They support innovative R&D projects, and have certified Doriane to provide IT solutions for the seed industry.
Hiphen designs, develops and operates high-end plant phenotyping system in field. They propose a unique combination of skills on sensors, data processing, plant physiology to extract pertinent physiological traits from high throughput measurements. More information: http://www.hiphen-plant.com/
CybeleTech proposes tools, software and services for yield forecast, optimization of crop or forest management and breeding based on a strong expertise in digital technologies. More information https://www.cybeletech.com/en
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