Capgemini’s leadership in IT innovation, SOA architecture and technical delivery can help you achieve your aims in all of these areas. We deliver value to our clients by enabling them to make the right decisions about IT investments, whether they relate to Enterprise Architecture, underlying technical architecture, support and outsourcing strategy or managing for effective TCO.

This section contains:

• Benefits of IT Innovation and Excellence
• Capgemini’s approach
• Capgemini’s capabilities
• Success stories

Benefits of IT Innovation and Excellence

We help you transform IT from a support function into a true strategic partner for the business. We do this by providing insight into the latest technologies and innovations, helping you to understand their applicability to your business environment, and then collaborating with you to adapt your IT operating model to deliver better results.

Our integrated range of services means that we can help with every aspect of this journey. We can collaborate with you on your ERP strategy and architecture, provide build and run offerings, investigate the applicability of cloud and utility type computing, and help design a business enterprise framework that really is an enabler of business growth and differentiation, rather than a constraint on it.

Capgemini’s approach

Our aim is to help you achieve accelerated value delivery through innovative solution offerings.

For example, our “Optimising the Core” approach maximises the return on your SAP investment by delivering solutions quickly and cost-effectively to market using CRESCENT, our CPG Centre of Expertise, together with our SAP best practice process and solution template. Accelerate speed to value by utilising this approach to enhance the integrated functionality delivered to the business. At the same time you can introduce meaningful processes and measures that make a difference and address key business pain points.

Capgemini’s capabilities

Our capabilities in this area include:

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design to deliver infrastructure flexibility and exploit opportunities to lower your costs, including the new opportunities with cloud computing. The challenges of a shared environment and security are already being tackled by Capgemini in this exciting area of IT innovation.

Offshore Development Factories for cost-effective delivery of services and solutions. Our Rightshore® delivery model enables us to provide a flexible and dynamic offshore service to clients, using Capgemini’s centres of excellence in India, China, Argentina and across the globe. This approach can continue to drive down delivery cost without increasing risk or compromising quality. A standard delivery methodology, DELIVER, provides a common language and toolset across our global operations.

Rapid Design Visualisation (RDV), our proprietary method of quick solution visualisation. This enables us to engage the business users and help them visualise the “to be” scenario, making it possible to tailor the solution to the business needs before we start building it.

Success stories

Cadbury

Capgemini helped Cadbury set up a global IT architecture function and establish the foundations for a service-oriented IT architecture. By the late 1990s, Cadbury Schweppes (as it was then) was maintaining 25 different SAP systems. The company established a programme to move to three regional SAP systems worldwide and standardise processes around those systems. It selected Capgemini to help it deploy an approach based on the latter’s Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

By taking an SOA approach, Cadbury reduced the degree of risk generally associated with large rollouts and established greater flexibility and the ability to adapt more easily and quickly to change. Cadbury can now track the number of services developed and the reusability of the services. In addition, the establishment of an architecture office enables the company to develop its own SOA capabilities as an ongoing process rather than as a one-time project.