Capgemini services for Microsoft users

SharePoint

Office 365

Windows Azure

Win7 Optimized Desktop

ERP+

SharePoint: the best adoption roadmap for your business goals

Microsoft SharePoint has already been widely implemented. While some implementations have been completed to great effect, other businesses are struggling to meet their goals, or are still contemplating how best to start.

The arrival of SharePoint 2010 has caused a renewed surge in interest. Organisations want to understand what’s different and how SharePoint 2010 can help them achieve their goals, either on-premise or in the cloud.

We understand how to deliver real value with SharePoint, and can show you how to realise business value within your organisation. Our Microsoft clients are already obtaining tangible benefits from SharePoint.

Office 365: cost-cutting efficiency and value-creating productivity

More and more organisations are moving IT operations to the cloud because of the opportunity to lower IT costs. Capgemini streamlines the transition using Microsoft’s Office 365, which provides familiar Microsoft Office productivity and collaboration applications via the cloud. It enables access to email, web conferencing, documents and calendars from any location, allowing employees to work together easily without geographical constraint.

Office 365’s many business benefits include:

• Up-to-date technology and software capabilities: take advantage of the latest technology without the need to install or maintain on-premise servers and software
• Robust security, reliability and availability: Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guarantee 99.9% uptime
• Flexible implementation: our hybrid migration model enables you to move to the cloud at a pace to suit your business needs and objectives

Windows Azure: speeding time to market and reducing TCO

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform enables organisations to build, host and scale applications in the cloud. Capgemini can help you to:

• Plan your transition to the cloud: Capgemini can assess your application portfolio and determine which applications should be implemented on Windows Azure. We can help you navigate regulatory and legislative issues and build a business case demonstrating lower TCO.
• Modernise legacy applications: Migrate old applications to run in the cloud and add web extensions to on-premise systems, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft. Migrate your own Microsoft Access and Excel applications to SQLAzure.
• Adopt hybrid approaches to the cloud: Not every application is suitable for the cloud. Our expertise in AppFabric and BizTalk Server means we can seamlessly integrate Windows Azure with your on-premise IT assets.
• Integrate Microsoft Azure with SharePoint 2010: Run custom code in Azure that is surfaced in SharePoint. Use Azure to run code that won’t execute under Office 365 SharePoint Online.

Win7 Optimized Desktop: productivity and hassle-free migration

Microsoft Windows 7 is a powerful solution that helps businesses manage the complexity of their IT infrastructure. However, migrating to this platform can be costly and complicated. Capgemini guides organisations through the migration process, optimising desktop computer use and reducing TCO.

The Win7 Optimized Desktop is designed to make your Windows 7 migration as smooth as possible. To achieve this, we provide:

• Migration and testing for third-party products and custom desktop application code, to ensure these applications run successfully on Windows 7
• Managed services to reduce TCO
• A proven security approach that uses new Windows 7 features to guard against desktop security challenges
• Branch optimisation: we help you design a standard branch office infrastructure architecture and deploy it along with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
• New custom workloads combining improved Windows 7 usability and interface features with secure, reliable access to enterprise information and applications

ERP+: increasing ROI by integrating with Office and SharePoint

Capgemini’s ERP+ offering helps our clients to realise the full potential of their investments in Microsoft and SAP. Capgemini’s industry-proven expertise and extensive capabilities can help organisations integrate SAP’s structured workload with Microsoft’s unstructured workload. The result is increased productivity and reduced time to market.

In addition, Capgemini has developed a methodology and accelerators that help build a strong business case for SAP and Microsoft interoperability. With ERP+ you can increase adoption of SAP data and business processes and make them accessible to a broader range of users, ensuring compliance and reducing TCO.

We have been at the forefront of SAP and Microsoft interoperability from its very beginning, and have worked closely with SAP and Microsoft to ensure that clients get tangible benefits from that interoperability.

In partnership

Naming Capgemini as Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Partner of the Year in June 2010, Mark Hill, Microsoft’s Vice President of the Enterprise Partner Group, said, “Capgemini and Sogeti help customers transform their businesses through the innovative use of Microsoft technology. In addition, Capgemini and Sogeti offer solutions based on Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite for communications and collaboration thereby helping our customers realize the benefits of Cloud technology.”

Capgemini is also one of Microsoft’s elite group of Gold-Certified Partners, who “represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.”

We are certified in the following competencies:

• Application Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Customer Relationship Management
• Data Platform
• Desktop
• Identity and Security
• Midmarket Solution Provider
• Mobility
• Portals and Collaboration
• Server Platform
• Small Business Specialist Community
• Software Development
• Web Development

The partnership gives Capgemini insight into the latest Microsoft software, often before it is released. That means we can help enterprises achieve future-proof solutions with low TCO.

Capgemini also has direct access to Microsoft resources via our Premier Support and Microsoft Consulting IT Architecture and Planning services, as well as local and global dedicated account managers.

The collaboration offers clients a reassuringly solid basis for exploring new technologies such as cloud. Here, joint activities include Business Productivity Online, where a client can move an existing investment in, say, SharePoint or Exchange into a cloud environment, and Azure, which provides on-demand capacity to address peak loads.

Capgemini’s system integration expertise and business knowledge plus Microsoft technology is a winning combination, as our joint track record proves.

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