Who we are · Montréal, QC

Your contacts in Montréal, the group in 11 countries.

An engagement handed to Symetis stays in the same hands: scoping, architecture, development, operations. Behind the Montréal team sits the ACENSI group, founded in 2003, with 2,500 specialists and ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.

  • Paris ⇄ Montréal axis
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// 01 APPROACH

Understand the business before the technology.

Every engagement starts with your business challenges - not with a tool. Our Montréal consultants then work across the whole chain: scoping, architecture, development, operations.

In practice, an engagement begins with a scoping phase alongside your business and IT teams to frame the real problem, moves on to an architecture or a proof of concept, then to iterative delivery - with the same point of contact from the first workshop through to day-to-day operations.

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2500 Consultants - group Across 21 offices, 11 countries, 3 continents.
$350M 2024 revenue ACENSI Group, all activities combined (CAD).
57 Active clients in Québec More than 435 engagements delivered in the province.
12+ Years established in Québec Led 100% locally, backed by a global group.
// 02 EXPERTISE

Which IT practices does ACENSI Canada bring together in Montréal?

01 Data
02 Artificial intelligence
03 Business consulting
04 Cybersecurity
05 Digital Factory
06 Infrastructure & cloud
07 ERP & CRM
Data

Reliable, governed and usable data: business intelligence, big data architectures, information quality and traceability.

250+ data & AI experts across the group Learn more →
Artificial intelligence

From AI literacy to production: generative and predictive AI embedded in real business use, controlled and responsible.

250+ data & AI experts Learn more →
Business consulting and product management

Audit, IT governance, product management and change management - concrete recommendations, aligned with your constraints.

400+ project & product experts across the group Learn more →
Cybersecurity

Detection, protection and response to cyber threats: audit, compliance, infrastructure security and identity management.

250+ cybersecurity experts across the group Learn more →
Digital Factory

Design, development and application maintenance: UX/UI, prototyping, agile delivery and a complete testing strategy.

500+ digital factory experts across the group Learn more →
Infrastructure & cloud

Administration, modernisation and migration to the cloud - hybrid, public or sovereign - with end-to-end security and compliance.

650+ infrastructure & cloud experts across the group Learn more →
ERP & CRM

Enterprise software integration: SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce - from rollout to real business adoption.

200+ ERP & CRM experts across the group Learn more →
// 03 THE GROUP

An international group, rooted locally.

One legal entity signs the contract: ACENSI Canada, the Montréal office of the ACENSI group, founded in 2003. Symetis is the name its sovereign AI offering carries, hosted in Québec. Same team, same offices, one point of contact.

Certifications & accreditations
ISO 9001 Quality management ISO 27001 Information security ISO 14001 Environmental management EcoVadis Gold CSR - Top 5% Numérique Responsable Level 2 Controlled Goods Controlled goods compliance
International presence
Headquarters Montréal · Paris · Singapore · Mauritius
Offices Toronto · Boston · Vancouver · Brussels · Luxembourg · Milan · Bordeaux · Lyon · Lille · Niort · Orléans · Rennes · Tours · Singapore
Delivery centres Mexico City · Monterrey · Lisbon · Bucharest · Casablanca · Mauritius
FLAGSHIP OFFERING - POWERED BY ACENSI

Symetis: sovereign AI, hosted in Québec.

Specialised AI agents, open-source models installed on your premises or hosted in Québec, and AI development teams. Your data stays in Québec - compliant with Law 25, the GDPR and PIPEDA.

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symetis · qc-ca-1 example
gpu-cluster-01 78%
inference-prod 92%
vector-db-01 64%
storage-qc 41%
Law 25SOC 2: readiness supportISO 27001Hosted in Québec
// 04 SECTORS

Which sectors does ACENSI Canada support in Québec?

SECTOR 01

Distribution and wholesale

Branch networks, sharp seasonality, margins earned on service rather than price. These engagements deal with demand forecasting, stock visibility between locations and an ERP customised over many years.

SECTOR 02

Industrial and manufacturing

Shop floors, machine fleets, and IT systems that never kept pace with production. The work starts with an inventory of the equipment and of the real material flows, before any application is replaced.

SECTOR 03

Aerospace and defence

Traceability and cybersecurity requirements imposed by prime contractors and passed down to their suppliers. These engagements are as much about proving what is in place as putting it there: audit evidence, access management, segregated environments.

SECTOR 04

Energy and utilities

Cybersecurity for industrial environments, production data and compliance for Québec producers. The priority: securing OT systems without interrupting production, through phased network segmentation.

SECTOR 05

Telecommunications

Modernising the IT systems of Montréal operators: network data, billing, business-critical applications. These engagements often involve legacy systems living alongside recent platforms.

SECTOR 06

Banking, finance and insurance

Core banking migrations, data governance and security for financial institutions across Greater Montréal. These projects typically unfold as phased migration paths, to limit operational risk at each step.

// 05 PARTNERSHIPS

The right technologies, the right allies.

AI expertise, plus delivered engagements on the leading cloud and enterprise software platforms.

Anthropic Generative AI
Azure & Microsoft 365 Cloud & productivity
AWS Cloud
Google Cloud Cloud
Salesforce CRM
SAP ERP
// 06 PERSPECTIVES

The thinking behind the work.

editorial examples - articles coming soon
2026-07-03 Compliance Law 25 and data residency: what your AI roadmap must anticipate Consent, privacy impact assessments, hosting: the Québec obligations that shape every generative AI project.
2026-06-18 Cybersecurity Securing OT environments in the energy sector without stopping production Segmentation, detection and identity management in industrial infrastructure: a phased approach proven in the field.
2026-06-02 Finance Modernising a core banking system: three migration trajectories seen in Montréal Progressive rebuild, encapsulation or replacement: how to choose the path that fits your application estate.
// 07 FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The site's frequently asked questions are gathered on a single page: AI agents, services, data sovereignty and ACENSI Canada.

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// 08 OFFICE

Our Montréal office.

The ACENSI Canada team works from Montréal, at the heart of Québec's technology ecosystem. Let's meet, in person or by video call.

261, rue Saint-Jacques, bureau 500 · Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1M6 commerce@acensi.ca
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