Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria is a European IT group that provides consulting, digital services and software development. It formed from the combination of two French IT firms, Sopra (which dates from 1968) and Steria. The company says it has about 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries. This page covers its aeronautics practice, Aeroline.

Aeroline, the aerospace organisation

Aeroline is the group's organisation for the aerospace sector. The company says it has more than 5,500 experts in 10 countries and more than 20 years of work in aeronautics. Its service lines, as described on its website:

• Engineering: data continuity between design, manufacturing and maintenance, simulation and model-based systems engineering, digital twins, and protection of connected products
• Manufacturing and supply chain: SAP S/4HANA deployment, production line visualisation and cybersecurity for industrial environments
• Customer services: maintenance planning with its AeroWEBB tool, the OLATU training platform, technical documentation management and data analysis for fleets (about 1,200 experts)
• Air traffic management: control centre virtualisation, system integration, cloud migration and use of ATM data

Wider IT services

Across the group, services listed on the site include consulting (Sopra Steria Next), artificial intelligence, systems integration, software, infrastructure management, business process services and cybersecurity. Aeronautics, defence and security, space and transport are among its listed industries.

Company facts

• Aeroline SUSTAIN Programme: an initiative on responsible digital technology for lower-carbon aviation
• Country websites for France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, India, the USA and others