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Who runs MEGA HOPEX GRC — the published case studies

MEGA's published customer stories for HOPEX GRC include B2V Groupe (the French social-protection group) and the European Investment Bank — the references most people searching "B2V HOPEX GRC" or "MEGA HOPEX GRC client EIB" are looking for. Both are exactly the profile HOPEX serves best: regulated European institutions with dedicated GRC teams, multi-year governance programmes, and six-figure tooling budgets. The case studies live on MEGA's own site; our notes on what they signal about deployment scope and timelines are in the write-ups below.

If that is your scale, HOPEX is a credible choice — see "When MEGA HOPEX is the right choice" further down. If you are researching those stories because you need GRC-grade compliance evidence without an EIB-sized programme, that gap is what the rest of this page is about.

GRC platform vs architecture-to-code platform

MEGA HOPEX (headquartered in Paris) is a combined Enterprise Architecture and GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) platform. It excels at large-scale governance: business process modelling, data governance, risk assessment, regulatory compliance management, and architecture documentation. Major European banks and insurers use HOPEX for their GRC programmes.

Archiet is not a GRC platform. It is an architecture-to-code platform that happens to include compliance assessment as one of its outputs. The compliance engine maps ArchiMate elements to control frameworks — it does not provide the full governance lifecycle (risk registers, control testing, audit management) that HOPEX offers.

The key difference: HOPEX is a governance tool that includes architecture. Archiet is an architecture tool that includes compliance. If your primary need is GRC governance, HOPEX is deeper. If your primary need is generating code and compliance evidence from architecture models, Archiet is purpose-built for that.

When MEGA HOPEX is the right choice

Keep HOPEX when: GRC governance is your primary driver (risk registers, control testing, regulatory reporting). You need full BPMN business process modelling. You are a large European enterprise that needs on-premise deployment and French-language support. Your GRC/EA budget is $60K+/year.

Choose Archiet when: architecture-to-code is your primary need. You want AI-assisted modelling instead of manual diagramming. 7 compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, DORA, NIS2) is sufficient coverage. You need results in days, not months.