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Cloud computing: hype, business enabler or infrastructure cost play?

Author: Andy Mulholland

Publication: Computer Business Review

Date: 28 November 2008

Following CBR’s cover feature on Cloud Computing earlier in the year, Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer at Capgemini, takes a closer look at the implications of this new paradigm for enterprise IT.

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Capgemini simplifies the Amazon cloud

Author: Cliff Saran

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 21 November 2008

Capgemini’s new partnership with Amazon Web Services will help businesses kick-start new IT projects.

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Africa: The last growth frontier

Author: Andrew Baxter

Publication: Financial Times

Date: 17 November 2008

Consulting firms are reporting steady or strong growth in their African businesses, albeit starting from a small base. Jawad Shaikh, a vice-president in Capgemini’s telecom, media and entertainment consulting practice, comments.

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Capgemini eyes growth in challenging 2009

Author: Dominique Vidalon

Publication: Reuters

Date: 13 November 2008

Capgemini confirms its objectives for 2008 and is confident on 2009 sales growth.

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Dorset County Council selects Capgemini's ERP system

Publication: CBR Online

Author: Bhavana Navuluri

Date: 5 August 2008

Matt Howell, Head of Public Sector Technology, Capgemini UK and Barrie Graham Business Development Director for Local Government, Capgemini UK comment on how a new IT system will help Dorset County Council.

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IT upgrade targets £8.6m annual savings

Publication: Computing

Author: Janie Davis

Date: 4 Aug 2008

Dorset County Council has selected Capgemini to implement a new system to provide better value and improved customer focus.

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Alliance & Leicester IT director steps up to unite business and IT

Publication: Computer Weekly

Author: Karl Flinders

Date: 8 July 2008

Paul Pullinger, Head of Retail Banking Sales, Capgemini praises Alliance & Leicester for hiring a senior executive to implement a new banking system.

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MoD to save £35m with online travel service

Publication: Silicon.com

Author: Julian Goldsmith

Date: 19 June 2008

Capgemini has delivered a online travel service expected to save £35m per year for the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

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Fashion boosts online sales in May

Publication: Drapers Online

Author: Emily Seares

Date: 19 June 2008

Anthoula Madden, Vice President, Consumer Products & Retail, Capgemini comments on the results from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.

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Online travel service for British forces launched

Publication: IT Pro

Author: Danielle Nordine

Date: 18 June 2008

Dr.Cliff Evans, Vice President for Defence Sector, Capgemini discusses the launch of 'Defence Travel', a new travel booking system for Ministry of Defence personnel.

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CIOs need to talk

Author: Nick Booth

Publication: CIO

Date: 28 May 2008

CIOs that don't communicate and promote themselves might end up being undervalued by leaders. Andy Mulholland, Global CTO, Capgemini, is interviewed by Nick Booth.

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Capgemini Q1 results remain on track

Publication: Ovum

Author: John O'Brien

Date: 8 May 2008

Ovum comments on Capgemini's

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Credit crunch puts Web 2.0 plans on back burner

Publication: IT Week

Author: Madeline Bennett

Date: 21 April 2008

Steve Sutton, Vice President, Technology Services, Capgemini states that as the credit crunch continues, innovative projects in IT will be the first to be hit.

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Hypertec's SSD line to fly out of the door

Publication: CRN

Author: Nick Booth

Date: 17 April 2008

Una Du Noyer, Head of Infrastructure & Engineering, Capgemini talks about the increasing need to use sustainable IT across businesses.

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Capgemini is profiled in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers

Author: Sarah Merson

Publication: The Times

Date: 28 February 2008

Capgemini has been profiled as number 98 in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers.

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Capgemini eyes more India buys

Author: CNBC-TV18

Publication: Moneycontrol.com

Date: 25 February 2008

Pierre-Yves Cros, Vice President - Group Director of Strategy and Transformation, Chair of UK Country Board talks to the Indian press on a strong outlook for Capgemini in 2008.

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Capgemini profit shows major growth

Publication: Computing

Author: Martin Courtney

Date: 21 February 2008

Capgemini enjoyed a 50% year on year surge in net income in 2008 to €440 million.

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Building a Global Powerhouse

Publication: Business Week

Author: Steve Hamm

Date: 15 February 2008

Paul Hermelin, CEO, Capgemini Group talks to Steve Hamm, senior writer, BusinessWeek on the success of 2007 and the outlook for 2008.

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Virtualisation is not a theoretical risk

Author: Lee Newcombe

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 14 December 2007

Lee Newcombe, Technical Architect, Capgemini writes about virtualisation being a mainstay of the modern IT environment.

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Integrated seasons on IRB table

Author: Staff

Publication: Planet Rugby

Date: 22 November 2007

International Rugby Board (IRB) aims to establish a blueprint for the future growth of the game at a forum managed on behalf of the IRB by Capgemini, the international IT services and business consultancy company.

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From car-borne to carbon

Author: Fiona Harvey

Publication: Financial Times

Date: 19 November 2007

Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini speaks on corporate plans to cut carbon emissions and states that it "is nothing more than a question of common sense and much of the task is simply good practice."

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Good, better, best

Author: Andrew Stone

Publication: The Sunday Times

Date: 11 November 2007

Consulting projects can deliver rapid returns on investement, cut costs and leave an organisation in a position to further capitalise on these improvements. This was exemplified by the work that Hamish McKechnie-Sharma, Capgemini, carried out for the Metropolitan police which saw its procurement processes improved and costs cut. The work carried out by his team has already saved the Metropolitan police up to eight per cent across many procurement categories.

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Don't blame it on the techies

Author: Sarah Bridge

Publication: Sunday Times

Date: 11 November 2007

Nigel Green, an executive consultant with Capgemini, argues that IT does not fully deserve its reputation for missed deadlines and poor communication. He says that: “IT consulting has moved away from the technical space into the business space. The decisions we make aren't really about the IT, but about what fundamental and behavioural aspects in businesses we're trying to support.”

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This year's MCA Consultant of the Year champions - and the ones who came close

Author: Staff

Publication: Sunday Times

Date: 11 November 2007

The Management Consultancies Association has launched the first ever Consultant of the Year Awards in order to find the best performers in six service-line categories and three career stages. Hamish McKechnie-Scharma of Capgemini was the winner in the 'Performance Improvement Consultant of the Year' category, while Capgemini's Nigel Green was runner-up in the 'IT Consultant of the Year' category.

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Council's 83m IT system – ‘a phenomenon’

Author: Richard Youle

Publication: South Wales Evening Post

Date: 7 November 2007

The chief accountant at Swansea Council has praised the authority's new computer system which was part of an GBP83m systems upgrade carried out by Capgemini over a ten-year period. Most of the rest of the remaining sum of GBP65m is to be spent on council IT staff wages and maintenance costs.

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How to move forward from guesswork to hard facts

Author: Stephen Pritchard

Publication: Financial Times

Date: 17 October 2007

Capgemini's Vice President and Global Leader of Business Information Management, Eddie Short says that 'it is a challenge for more organisations to create a business intelligent system to optimise their enterprise performance.

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Capgemini singled out among SAP consultancies

Author: Derek Prior, Research Director at AMR Research

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 05 October 2007

Capgemini is one of eight consultancies singled out by AMR Research as "standing out from other suppliers in being a lot more experienced at enterprise architecture planning for SAP".

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Leaks of sensitive data pose challenge

Author: Ingrid Lunden

Publication: Financial Times

Date: 03 October 2007

Michael Natusch, Executive Consultant, Capgemini Consulting comments on the issues arising from a growth in remote working.

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Google sends a message to Microsoft Outlook

Author: Rhys Blakely

Publication: The Times

Date: 03 October 2007

Google has ramped its challenge to Microsoft office software tools by doubling its storage capacity for corporate e-mail service and signing a partnership with Capgemini.

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GMail to get a refresh

Author: Rosalie Marshall

Publication: IT Week

Date: 28 September 2007

Andrew Gough, SaaS Business Development Manager, Capgemini discusses how consumers' every changing demands for Web 2.0-type features.

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Metropolitan Police targets efficiency with single sign on.

Author: Rebecca Thomson

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 28 September 2007

Capgemini will implement a single-sign on system for the Metropolitan Police Authority's 50,000 employees.

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Capgemini boosts Google alternative to MS Office

Author: John-Paul Kamath

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 18 September 2007

Capgemini's Andrew Gough, SaaS Business Development Manager, believes enterprise users require confidence in moving to hosted office applications like Google Apps.

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How to eliminate duplicated data

Author: Jessica Twentyman

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 13 September 2007

Rob Toguri, Director of Business Information Management, Capgemini discusses the benefits of 'master data management' ensuring current, consistent and accurate data.

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Google Apps and Capgemini: strange bedfellows?

Author: Staff

Publication: ZDNet

Date: 12 September 2007

Steve Jones, Capgemini's Head of SOA and Michael E.Donner, Vice President and Global Head of Demand Generation talk to ZDnet about Capgemini becoming a major deployment partner for Google Apps™.

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Tie-up boosts Google's corporate credentials

Author: Martin Veitch

Publication: IT Week

Date: 10 September 2007

Capgemini's partnership with Google Apps could give access to 48% of all workers who still done have access to emails, according to Richard Payling, Head of Partnerships at Capgemini's Outsourcing Business.

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Capgemini to support Google Apps

Author: Computing Staff

Publication: Computing

Date: 10 September 2007

Capgemini is the first major systems integrator to back the web-based office suite.

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Google in corporate desktop push

Author: Richard Wray

Publication: The Guardian

Date: 10 September 2007

Capgemini is working with Google to focus on corporate customers with its range of desktop applications.

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Boost for Microsoft's rival

Author: Sandra Potter

Publication: The Daily Telegraph

Date: 10 September 2007

Andrew Gough, Capgemini's Head of Business Development comments on Google Apps becoming a true competitor to Microsoft Office.

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Where do we go from here?

Author: Alan Cane

Publication: Financial Times

Date: 11 July 2007

A number of IT experts predict what technology will offer in the future. Andy Mulholland, chief technology officer for Capgemini, explains his theory of predicting the future in terms of technology. He says that upwards from ten years it is more and more difficult to predict as one has only demographics to go on.

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Lloyds TSB banks on SAP SRM, aided by Capgemini

Author: Tim Ferguson

Publication: silicon.com

Date: 12 June 2007

Lloyds TSB has rolled out a new supplier relationship management e-procurement system from SAP which it hopes will reduce costs and make its overall procurement process much more efficient. Capgemini advised on supplier engagement and providing the change management involved in moving staff onto the new system.

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Moving forward

Author: Julian Quillinan

Publication: Financial Sector Technology

Date: 1 May 2007

The finance sector has traditionally blazed a trail when it comes to using telecoms to link offices around the world and clinch deals with customers. Ironically, at a time when everyone else is talking about fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) though, banks and insurers are dragging their heels, citing security and network coverage concerns as reasons for the slow adoption.

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Share and share alike

Author: Andy Favell

Publication: People Management

Date: 15 June 2007

Setting up shared IT services certainly has its financial benefits for retail groups, but how does it affect competitive advantage for individual brands? Andy Mulholland, Capgemini chief technology officer, is quoted.

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Industry trends - Business agility

Author: Hannah Prevett

Publication: Information Age

Date: 16 April 2007

Capgemini's 2007 CIO Survey cited 93% of IT executives agreed that IT agility is critical to business.

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Andy Mulholland speaks to FT Digital Business Editor Alan Cane

Author: FT.com

Publication: Financial Times, Digital Business Podcast

Date: 11 April 2007

Andy Mulholland, Capgemini Global CTO talks to FT Digital Business Technology Editor Alan Cane on what corporate mash-ups are all about.

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Informed choices

Author: Newsroom

Publication: Information Age

Date: 1 April 2007

Eddie Short, Vice President - Business Information Management, Capgemini discusses how executives need to ensure their enterprises are truly information-centric.

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Well-kept data

Author: Ron Condon

Publication: Management Today

Date: 27 February 2007

Companies have to retain ever more information. Ron Condon discusses with Una Du Noyer, Head of Infrastructure and Security, Capgemini point why managers should take more of an interest in what material is held, and by whom.

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The virtues of virtualisation

Author: Linda More

Publication: Computing

Date: 22 February 2007

Una Du Noyer, Head of Infrastructure and Security, Capgemini explains that external factors are influencing the move towards centralised and virtualised storage.

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Face threats head on

Author: Sally Whittle

Publication: Computing

Date: 25 January 2007

This year will see the emergence of new security threats for IT managers to deal with. Robert Jackson, Head of Security Consulting, Capgemini comments on international legislation and relations.

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End-point security: a matter of trust

Author: John Arnold

Publication: Computer Weekly

Date: 3 October 2006

Capgemini's Computer Security Consultant John Arnold comments on businesses being pushed to provide trusted access to their services. He points out that mutually established end-point security facilitates transactions of higher value.

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