Capgemini Insights

Please see below selected intelligence about Capgemini.

 

 

June 2016

 

 

• Capgemini announced an alliance with German blockchain specialist, Ascribe, to develop a blockchain database solution, enabling bank customers to combine loyalty points from various programs & redeem in real time.

 

 

 

May 2016

 

 

• Capgemini Group achieved consolidated revenues of €3,092 million in the first quarter of 2016, up 11.8% year-on-year and 13.9% at constant exchange rates. At constant Group structure (primarily the integration of IGATE acquired on July 1st, 2015) and exchange rates organic revenue growth is 2.9%.

   

   

• Capgemini Consulting announced two high profile appointments in Germany. Rainer Mehl joins the firm as head of digital operations for  Germany, Switzerland and Austria, while Kai-Michael Schaper strengthens the Consumer Products and Retail practice. Rainer Mehl joins Capgemini Consulting from NTT Data, where he most recently served as head of manufacturing and played a large role in growing NTT Data’s (global) automotive business. Previously, Mehl worked for PwC, and following the acquisition of PwC Consulting by IBM in 2002, he moved over to IBM’s BCS business unit. He joined NTT Data in 2010, roughly three years later he was promoted to Managing Director of NTT DATA Germany, before taking on his latest role in October 2014. At Capgemini Consulting, Mehl has been named senior vice president and head of digital operations for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, a position which sees him also join Capgemini’s German country board. The 52 year old, who is based in Munich, has been tasked with further growing the firm’s digital transformation footprint, across industries, from manufacturing and energy to retail and automotive. “With his deep industry expertise and his sound knowledge of digital assets, Rainer Mehl will support the services portfolio of Capgemini from strategy consulting.

 

 

 

April 2016

 

 

• Capgemini plans to have 100 blockchain specialists globally in its financial services division by the end of 2016. Through this team the firm will offer blockchain services, to include feasibility studies, business case assessments and full systems integration.

 

 

• Serge Kampf, Capgemini’s founder, died recently in Grenoble at 81. At the time of his death, Kampf was Vice-Chairman of the Board and Honorary Chairman of Capgemini, the firm he founded and built. Kampf, born in 1934, had a dual degree in Law and Economics, and began his career in 1960 at the General Direction of Telecommunications in Paris. He left there to join the Compagnie des Machines Bull, Europe’s first computer company. There, he learned of the emerging computer industry and quickly recognized the implications for business and government. He quit his job at Bull in 1966 in protest following General Electric’s purchase of Bull, and following notice of its intent to market GE mainframes in France. In October 1967, two weeks before his 33rd birthday, Kampf launched Sogeti with three former Bull colleagues in a two-room converted apartment in Grenoble. Kampf likely derived great pleasure when Bull ultimately bought its former parent 25 years later, then-known as Honeywell Information Systems. Sogeti grew organically and via acquisitions over the years, acquiring CAP in ’74, Gemini Computer Systems in ‘75, and later United Research (‘90), Data Logic (‘90), Hoskyns (‘90), the Mac Group (‘91), Volmac (‘92), Gruber Titze & Partners (‘93), Bossard (‘97), Ernst & Young Consulting (‘00), Transiciel (‘03), Kanbay International (‘07) and CPM Braxis (‘10).

 

 

 

March 2016

 

 

• Capgemini has opened a global network of nine innovation spaces, known as Applied Innovation Exchanges, where organisations are able to immerse themselves in the understanding, experimentation and application of all aspects of emerging tech. Working at these incubator-like exchanges, companies also will figure out new approaches to the business disruptions confronting them and their industries, Capgemini said. The newest exchange office opened in San Francisco in February 2016.

 

 

 

February 2016

 

 

• Capgemini acquired Fahrenheit 212, an innovation strategy and design firm. Capgemini says the deal will augment the capabilities of the group’s global strategy and transformation consulting capabilities within Capgemini Consulting to provide new innovation, business transformation and digital customer experience services. Fahrenheit was founded in 2004 and is based in New York City and London. Fahrenheit has around 50 professionals globally, primarily in New York.

 

• Capgemini signed a three-year collaboration deal with Artificial Intelligence specialist, Celaton, to license and use its inSTREAM cognitive learning technology. The three year contract, signed between Capgemini and Celaton, will extend Capgemini’s already strong automation capabilities, help to drive further efficiencies and add Artificial Intelligence to Capgemini’s Business Services solution portfolio.

 

 

 

 

January 2016

 

 

• Capgemini acquired Oinio, one of Europe's leading Salesforce partners. This transaction is designed to augment Capgemini's capabilities in providing digital transformation services around the Salesforce solutions and platform across Europe and Asia. This bolt-on acquisition fits into the group's digital growth strategy. Based in Munich, Oinio has become one of the major European players in the consulting and deployment of Salesforce cloud based CRM and digital marketing solutions. As an elite Salesforce Platinum Cloud Alliance partner, oinio has established itself as a key provider in this market with more than 600 projects for a portfolio of international clients in life sciences, manufacturing, financial services, high tech and utilities. The company has proven rapid growth in the last 5 years. It employs over 100 people in Germany and China.

 

 

 

November 2015

 

 

• The Capgemini Group achieved revenues of €3,04bn in Q3 2015, up 17.2% at current Group structure and exchange rates compared with the same quarter in 2014. At constant group structure and exchange rates, organic revenue growth was 1.5%. For Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO of Capgemini Group: "Customer demand was mainly driven by innovation, as evidenced by the 21% increase in revenues in SMAC. The Group has successfully launched its "Cloud Choice" offering during this quarter and multiplies new deals in digital, imposing itself as one of the key partners in this field".

 

 

 

October 2015

 

 

• Capgemini announced a global alliance partner relationship with Fortinet®, a leader in high performance cybersecurity solutions. Through this relationship Capgemini will further reinforce its cybersecurity services portfolio leveraging Fortinet products to help reduce customer cybersecurity costs and increase the resilience of clients’ infrastructure and applications. This alliance allows enterprise organisations to benefit from the combination of Fortinet’s expertise in innovative and effective security products and Capgemini’s cybersecurity services, on a global scale.

 

 

 

July 2015

 

 

• Capgemini completed the acquisition of IGATE Corporation, a New Jersey-based provider of technology services with $1.3 billion in 2014 revenues and a staff of 31,000 globally. The acquisition makes North America Capgemini’s largest market for services with IGATE’s geographical client revenue distribution factored-in.

 

 

• Capgemini announced it will boost its presence in its premier technology outsourcing destination, Poland, recruiting up to 300 IT specialists over the next 2-3 years for its Software Solutions Center in Poznan.

 

 

 

May 2015

 

• Capgemini published its 2014 annual report.

 

 

 

April 2015

 

 

• Capgemini and IGATE entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Capgemini will acquire IGATE. IGATE is a prominent US-listed technology and services company headquartered in New Jersey, with revenues over US$ 1.2 billion, double-digit growth, 19% operating margin in 2014 and a global employee talent capital of 33,000. The transaction will amount to $4.04 billion and is expected to be immediately accretive to Capgemini’s operating margin and Earnings Per Share.

 

 

• The Capgemini Group generated consolidated revenues of €2,764 million in the first quarter of 2015, up 10.5% at current group structure and exchange rates compared with the first quarter of 2014. At constantgGroup structure and exchange rates, the growth of revenues was up 1.5%. According to Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO of Capgemini: "In a slightly improved economic environment in Europe and despite the anticipated revenue decline generated by a major contract of the Group, Capgemini achieved a solid performance in the first quarter 2015."

 

 

• In India, Capgemini is planning to double the size of its Insights & Data practice from the current 4000 staff. The firm currently has 30 Insights & Data centres globally, with 9000 staff. Capgemini’s Insights and Data Vice President, Venkat Iyer, said, “Our growth ambitions are quite high. And the fact that we have launched a global practice is to enable that growth for us as well as for our customers. You can expect a lot from Capgemini in this space for sure.”

 

 

 

March 2015

 

 

 

• Dee Burger was named North America Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consulting arm of Capgemini Group. Mr. Burger has held a number of positions in his 22 years at Capgemini and EY. He was the global sector lead for the Telecom, Media and Entertainment practice from 2011 to 2013. Prior to Capgemini’s acquisition of EY’s consulting practice 15 years ago, Burger held positions as a Vice President in that firm’s Telecommunications practice, and he also previously led Gemini Consulting’s Telecommunications practice - details.

 

 

• The Polish unit of Capgemini is planning to employ up to 700 people till the end of the current year, the Polish Press Agency reported. The current staff in two offices in Katowice and Opole numbers 1700.

 

 

 

February 2015

 

 

• Capgemini published its 2014 full-year and Q4 results. Highlights: revenues of €10,573 million, up 3.4% like-for-like on last year and 5.5% in Q4; bookings up 13% year-on-year and 14% in Q4; operating margin rate of 9.2%, up 70 basis points on 2013; profit for the year attributable to shareholders of €580 million, up 31% and organic free cash flow of €668 million.

 

 

• Capgemini introduced a consolidated security service called Cybersecurity Global Service Line, integrating its expertise in cybersecurity. The service line includes 2,500 consultants, ethical hackers, auditors, architects, and R&D specialists from the company, along with its network of five Security Operations Centres and technology partners. The new portfolio is designed to allow organisations to use SMACT technologies (social, mobile, analytics, cloud and internet of things) in a better way and embrace the digital transformation.

 

 

• The European Commission bolstered the cause of a pan-European approach to open data with the award a three year contract to a consortium led by Capgemini for a work programme that includes the development of a new Open Data Portal. Dinand Tinholt, vice president and EU lead at Capgemini Consulting, told UKAuthority that it hopes to have the first version of the new portal running by November of this year. The project is aimed at upgrading the service available from the EU's existing publicdata.eu portal, harvesting data from national sources as users request it, and making it easier to aggregate data sets.