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INNOV DS

The founders

Sixteen years of projects delivered together.

Long before founding INNOV DS. It is the one thing that separates a partnership from an encounter.

16
years of projects delivered together
43
years of combined experience
4
deliveries carried out as a pair

Why two

A client does not buy a component. He buys a solution.

And a solution has two sides: what it must do, and how it does it. We each hold one of them — that is the only reason there are two of us.

Mohamed Yahiaoui — the business solution

  • The organisation, the processes, the functional design.
  • Scoping, the contractual commitment, change management.
  • What the system must do, and for whom.

Zouhir Hanafi — the technical solution

  • The architecture, the software components, the technical design.
  • The foundation, the executable guardrails, code review.
  • How it does it, and for how long.

What we have delivered together

We did not become partners in order to found a company. We had already been delivering together for sixteen years.

  • At INNOV DS

    The industrial ERP — 2010

    The first project run as a pair, at a previous employer: an integrated management system (ISO 9001) for a construction-industry manufacturer. Live since 2012, it is still running — and its rebuild into microservices is now carried by INNOV DS.

    Mohamed Yahiaoui
    Leads the project, the business design and the processes.
    Zouhir Hanafi
    Designs and builds the system, then architects its rebuild.
  • At INNOV DS

    FlowSpace — workspace management

    Booking of desks, rooms and parking spaces, interactive floor plans, presence and team dashboards. Platform delivered and validated in client acceptance.

    Mohamed Yahiaoui
    Project direction, scoping and business acceptance.
    Zouhir Hanafi
    Solutions architect, DDD design, code review.
  • At INNOV DS

    The multi-brand after-sales service

    Service tickets, warranty registry by serial number, distributor portal, public forms per brand. Went live in June 2026.

    Mohamed Yahiaoui
    Project direction, design of the service journey and of the service levels.
    Zouhir Hanafi
    Architect and designer, breakdown into business domains.
  • At INNOV DS

    Nexflow — telecom field service management

    Import of operator tickets, dispatch of field crews, mobile execution, work statements and billing. Platform in production.

    Mohamed Yahiaoui
    Project direction, business scoping, facilitation of client workshops.
    Zouhir Hanafi
    Solutions architect, DDD design, event-driven architecture.

Co-founder · CEO

Mohamed Yahiaoui

Programme Director — Business solutions architect

25 years of information-system projects run end to end. The industrial ERP he led in 2010 is still running — and the same client relationship has lasted sixteen years.

25
years directing information-system projects
16
years of unbroken client relationship on the same system
7
client engagements directed since INNOV DS was founded
4.5
years heading an outsourced technical support centre
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Co-founder · CTO

Zouhir Hanafi

Architect of the IDS platform

Eighteen years in the field, nearly ten of them as an architect. An industrial ERP he designed in 2012 is still running today — and he is the one rebuilding it.

18
years of software engineering
500,000
users on a platform he re-architected
14
years in continuous production for the ERP he designed
9
domain platforms designed at INNOV DS
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