Article published the 19/11/2002 


ECONOMY - Multi-media 

Magelis cultivates the art of the setting in scene 


To ncian architect and to originator of prototypes of software of town
planning, Joseph Rabie is one of the pioneers of the multi-media one. In
1992, a noticed interactive comic strip and a first cédérom "Panic with
the screen" invite Joseph and Sylvie Rabie to create their own company
of multi-media, Magelis. A team work which leads quickly to famous
Charivari, ludo-educational CD-Rom diffused by Ubi-Software. But the
constraints of the market push the creators to widen their work with the
support one-line. Less required, expensive and especially more difficult
to distribute, CD-Rom gradually will leave the place to the Web, so that
today the tendency was reversed. 

Since their first customer, Spot Image, in 1995, many companies and
local communities made confidence at the company: CNES (CD-Rom and
site), aerospatiale, Arpe, Show of the data base of Colomiers, the Zebda
group, to quote only them. Joseph Rabie conceives the construction of
his product "a little like a building" with, as Master word, the art of
the "scenarisation". Far from being an only artistic step, this will to
develop the contents and the ludic aspect of ergonomics on the
all-technique corresponds to the second generation of the multi-media
one. 

The company suffered from the economic recession these three last years
but posts stable CA of 460.000?. "There is much competition on the
Toulouse market. For us, the solution was of going elsewhere ".
Currently, magelis answers the national invitations to tender and works
more with Parisian customers (Ministry for Foreign Affairs, APCM) that
local customers. Even if the market has begun again for a few months,
the company does not have visibility in the very long term, but makes a
point of preserving its ten paid not "to prune its identity". An
eloquent term completely in the spirit of its founders. 

Corinne VUILLAUME