Interview ·
Nicolas Siegler, Maif: ‘we choose European solutions in more than 50% of cases’
Original title, in French: “Nicolas Siegler, Maif : « nous choisissons des solutions européennes dans plus de 50 % des cas »”
- Publication
- IT for Business (France)
- Author
- Reynald Fléchaux
- Published on
- 2 October 2026 · read in the page structured data · updated on 3 October 2026
Summary
In this interview, Nicolas Siegler, deputy managing director for IT at Maif, details the integration, around a year ago, of a sovereignty criterion into the mutual insurer's calls for tender. This criterion, which is not eliminatory, has nevertheless led to European solutions being chosen in more than 50% of large calls for tender, including the Scaleway-Mistral pairing for generative AI and Diabolocom to replace Genesys in customer relations. The criteria examined include the location of the head office, ownership of the capital, R&D and data centres. Siegler also discusses AI-driven code automation, still at the experimental stage, and the in-sourcing of developers (around 150 in-house), which makes it possible to challenge proprietary software vendors facing significant price increases.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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50 %
share of large calls for tender resulting in the choice of European solutions
Maif, calls for tender over the past year
« Ce qui m’a le plus étonné lors de cette période, c’est de voir que nous avons abouti, dans plus de 50 % des cas sur les gros appels d’offres, au choix de solutions européennes, sans avoir à forcer le destin. »
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150 people
number of in-house developers at Maif
Maif
« Maif dispose d’environ 150 développeurs en interne, NDLR »
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Scaleway (supplier), Diabolocom (supplier), Mistral (supplier), OpenAI (cited), MAIF (deploys AI), Genesys (cited)
- Keywords
- digital sovereignty, generative AI, sovereign cloud, call for tender, customer relations, mistral
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