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Rolls-Royce has awarded a key IT contract to Capgemini UK plc as it finalises its move from a single-partner to a multi-vendor strategy. The three-year outsourcing contract has an option to extend to five years. In the newly created role of service integrator, Capgemini will work with Rolls-Royce to ensure that the specialised IT outsourcing services provided by a number of vendors will operate effectively together to deliver the best possible support to Rolls-Royce operations in 50 countries worldwide. Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in global markets – civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine, energy and nuclear. Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services.
The new contract is seen as key to the success of a pioneering IT strategy at Rolls-Royce in which a single main supplier is being replaced by a number of specialised outsourcing vendors able to provide ‘best-of-breed’ components in the company’s overall IT environment, enhancing quality, flexibility and responsiveness. Capgemini’s role in the newly created service integration function involves working with Rolls-Royce to ensure that the different vendors and solutions are fully aligned, smoothly integrated and centrally controlled so that some 40,000 Rolls-Royce IT users around the world can benefit from a seamless and high-quality service. In addition to its role as service integrator, Capgemini will also be responsible under the new contract for supporting a number of key business applications at Rolls-Royce, including the majority of the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and supply chain software systems.
Simon Ricketts, Chief Information Officer at Rolls-Royce, said: “It is vital that our world-class products, services and people are supported by equally world-class IT and that is what our new strategy is designed to achieve. Capgemini as service integrator will be at the centre of this strategy and we look forward to working in close collaboration with them in the years ahead.”
He added that Capgemini was selected, following competitive bids from several global IT leaders, because of its proven ability to manage multi-vendor IT environments on behalf of large multinational companies and major public sector organisations. Another attraction was Capgemini’s expertise and experience in data security and secure systems, supported by its work with police, aerospace, defence and security organisations and tax authorities in the UK, US, France and elsewhere. Other factors included Capgemini’s collaborative style of working, its track record of success on individual IT projects at Rolls-Royce, and its delivery model which aims to provide its clients with the right combination of cost, quality and expertise.
Christine Hodgson, Chairman of Capgemini UK, said: “Rolls-Royce has a clear vision of an IT ecosystem based on multi-sourcing from best-of-breed vendors, and we are delighted to be helping them make that vision a reality, enabling world-class service and support for every one of their end-users, at all times and throughout the world.”
The Capgemini contract, which is a win for the company’s Infrastructure Services and Application Services teams, will begin after a period of transition that is scheduled for completion by end-2012. The Capgemini teams delivering services under the contract will be based mainly in the UK, US, Poland and India.
The Rolls-Royce contract reflects Capgemini’s market leadership and strengthening capabilities in service integration, and follows other new business recently won by the company in this emerging area. Capgemini says that service integration will be a major and increasing focus of its outsourcing offerings throughout 2012 and beyond.
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The Capgemini Group reported total 2011 revenues of €9,693 million, up 11.4% on published revenues (i.e. at current group structure and exchange rates), representing a growth of some 2 points above what the company set at the beginning of the year. On a like-for-like basis, revenues rose 5.6%, with the difference between these two rates primarily due to the consolidation of CPM Braxis (Brazil) and Prosodie (France), acquired in October 2010 and July 2011, respectively.
Bookings during the year totaled €9,903 million, down on last year (-8.4% like-for-like) during which a large number of Outsourcing Services contracts were renewed. Conversely, Technology Services, Local Professional Services and Consulting Services reported 6.2% growth in bookings and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.12, confirming the dynamism of these markets.
The operating margin is up in each of the Group’s four businesses and totals €713 million, or 7.4% of 2011 consolidated revenues, compared to 6.8% in 2010. In line with the objective set by the Group, the operating margin rate for the second-half of 2011 increased one point on the second-half of 2010 to 8.6%. Operating profit increased 21.7% to €595 million.
After a net financial expense of €105 million (compared to €87 million last year) and an income tax expense of €101 million (compared to €124 million last year), Group profit for the year is €404 million, up 44.3% on last year.
Outlook for 2012
Strengthened by investments in recent years, the Group is implementing strategic priorities that enable it to approach 2012 with a certain degree of confidence. The good demand levels witnessed at the end of last year have not weakened at the beginning of 2012 and activity trends remain positive in several major markets including North America.
However, due to reduced visibility and the uncertain macro-economic environment, the Group currently expects to report limited organic growth in revenues (taking account in particular of the public sector cost cuts introduced in the majority of European countries) and an increase in the operating margin rate.
For Paul Hermelin, Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini Group: “Strengthened by its good results, the Group will continue to focus its offering on high value-added services, anticipating in this way the new needs of its customers, and step-up the industrialization of its production model, in order to reinforce its position among global leaders in its business sector.”
Operations by region
France – which retains its number-one spot among the Group’s regions in terms of revenues – saw this latter surge 10.7% on 2010 published figures, that is taking account of the acquisition of Prosodie. Like-for-like growth is 4.9%, thanks to the good performance of Technology Services and Local Professional Services. The operating margin rate for the region increased 2 points on 2010 to 8.7%.
The United Kingdom and Ireland reported like-for-like growth of 2%, despite substantial cost cuts in the public sector. At 7.1%, the operating margin rate fell 0.8 points on 2010.
North America reported marked growth in revenues (+11.5% like-for-like), driven by project and consulting activities. With an operating margin rate of 8.8% – up 3.6 points on 2010 – North America became the Group’s most profitable region.
Benelux remains a difficult market for the sector as a whole, where the Group reported a contraction in revenues (-4.4% like-for-like) and an operating margin rate of 7.4%, down 2.3 points on 2010.
In the other regions, revenue growth (+10.9% on average, like-for-like) was marked by a business recovery in the Nordic countries and improved performance in Central Europe. The average operating margin rate of these regions is 7.9%.
Operations by business
Technology Services enjoyed sustained like-for-like growth of 8.4%, reflected by a high level of recruitment and an operating margin rate of 6.8%, up slightly on 2010. The situation varied across the Group’s regions, with North America reporting a significant increase in profitability while the United Kingdom and Benelux reported downturns;
Outsourcing Services reported like-for-like growth in revenues of 3.0% and an operating margin rate of 7.7%, up 0.6 point on 2010;
Sogeti reported like-for-like growth in revenues of 6.3%, with an operating margin rate (10.9%) up significantly on 2010 (+1.7 points);
Consulting Services, the business most heavily affected by the public sector cost cuts, reported a slight increase in 2011 revenues (+1.2% like-for-like) and even growth of 9.2% in the fourth quarter. The operating margin rate increased over one point to remain – at 12.0% – the highest of the group’s four main businesses.
Headcount
The group recruited nearly 33,000 employees in 2011, including just over half in what Capgemini calls onshore countries.
At December 31, 2011, the total headcount had increased over 10% to 119,707 employees, compared to 108,698 at the end of the prior year. This headcount includes 44,468 offshore employees (including 35,728 in India), representing 37% of the total compared to 35% last year.
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Capgemini UK plc, part of the Capgemini Group, has been selected as Unilever’s global business intelligence partner, to work alongside Unilever IT and business teams in delivering a major transformation programme over the next three years. Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, with 2 billion people using its products every day across 180 countries, and this major global programme will create its first Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), providing real-time data on its customers, markets and operations worldwide to support decisions on all the company’s plans and activities.
The programme will involve migrating legacy data warehouses into the new EDW and providing new data-mining and analytical tools to support Unilever management at all levels in achieving fast, informed and fact-based decision-making based on comprehensive and up-to-date data. It is also expected to deliver significant sustainable cost savings both in IT and across Unilever business operations worldwide.
Willem Eelman, Unilever’s Global Chief Information Officer, said: “This programme is one of our top strategic initiatives, not just for IT but for the Unilever business worldwide. It will transform the way our businesses around the world access and use information, bringing enhanced insight and consistency. Capgemini was the natural partner for us given their strong global Business Information Management experience and understanding of our business.”
The programme reinforces Capgemini’s position as one of the world’s leading Business Information Management service providers. Capgemini was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders’ quadrant for Global Business Intelligence and Performance Management Service Providers (27 January 2011). Capgemini’s global Business Information Management (BIM) service line was established in 2009 with the aim of serving its global customers better, and brings together over 7,000 specialist consultants supporting a global BIM delivery model.
Paul Nannetti, Capgemini’s Global Leader for Business Information Management, said: “Unilever is already one of our most important global customers and we are delighted to be working with them to deliver this new and critical programme which aims to release the full power of information to the benefit of their business. We look forward to applying our experience of global BI transformations to this programme combining our skills in technology, programme management and business consulting.”
Capgemini was selected by Unilever following competitive bids from several leading multinational IT providers. The main reasons include Capgemini’s in-depth knowledge of global BIM challenges and proven BIM methodology, its track record in major BIM assignments and in the consumer goods sector, and its five-year history of successful engagements at Unilever in finance business process outsourcing. Capgemini’s proven commitment to sustainability, matching that of Unilever, was a further important point in favour.
Capgemini will deploy its Rightshore global delivery model on the Unilever programme. The Capgemini team working on the project will be led from the UK and based at a number of locations around the world including Continental Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and with core support from a development centre in India.
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Capgemini Group reported Q3 2011 consolidated revenues of €2,378 million, up 13.0% on published revenues for the same period last year.
Like-for-like growth is 4.7%, with the difference between the two rates mainly due to acquisitions by the Group during the last 12 months (particularly CPM Braxis in Brazil and Prosodie in France).
Capgemini said Consulting Services, Technology Services and Local Professional Services continued to report sustained growth, 6.1% on average, with the greatest increase recorded by Technology Services – 7.2%. Outsourcing Services reported an average rise of 2.7%, while BPO enjoyed remarkable growth of 20%.
North America revenues increased by 5.0%; France – which retains its position as the Capgemini’s leading country – reported improved revenue growth of 7.8% on the first-half of the year; the United Kingdom and Ireland region, still affected by public sector spending cuts, reported more moderate growth of 1.3%, while the other regions reported average growth of 10.4% (12.4% for the Nordic countries). Benelux was the only region to report a contraction in revenues (-5.7%), reflecting the economic crisis which continues to affect the Netherlands.
Bookings in the third quarter 2011 totalled €2,208 million: Outsourcing Services recorded a slight decrease in bookings (although it should be noted that Q3 2010 levels benefited from the early renewal of several major contracts), while Consulting Services, Technology Services and Local Professional Services saw their bookings increase 6.4% on average.
With respect to recruitment, Capgemini maintained the balance between the “historical” regions and “offshore” countries of the company, while focusing particularly on young graduates who accounted for half of all recruitments in the third quarter. The company had 43,931 offshore employees (including 35,413 in India) as of September 30, 2011, representing 37% of the total headcount at this date of 117,428 employees.
Despite current uncertainties regarding the economic environment in the coming quarters, Capgemini maintains its objective for fiscal year 2011 of • 9 to 10% growth in revenues on published figures (and of at least 5% like-for-like), and an improvement in the operating margin rate of over 0.5 points on 2010.
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Bill Cook has been appointed to lead Capgemini Consulting in the UK. Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consultancy, is part of the Capgemini Group, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Cook, who moves to his new post this month, will lead one of the UK’s largest teams of strategy and management consultants, with a strong reputation for delivering significant transformation from strategy to execution across the private and public sectors.
Cook will lead a team that is helping leading organisations respond to the challenges of the new digital economy. Digitisation can extend the reach of organisations, improve management decisions, and speed the development of new products and services. At the same time, the excessively rapid adoption of technologies can disrupt traditional business models. Capgemini Consulting works in partnership with clients to deliver Digital Transformation, with a concrete strategy to harness its strengths and mitigate its challenges.
Cook brings a strong track record in consulting to clients. He previously worked at Ernst & Young, where his consulting career started in 1988, progressing to partner. He also brings extensive senior management experience from roles at Capgemini in the UK, including head of sales, commercial director and chief financial officer. Tom Blacksell, who currently leads the Capgemini Consulting team in the UK, moves to take up an international role as Global Head of Market Development at Capgemini Consulting.
Pierre-Yves Cros, Global CEO of Capgemini Consulting, said: “These are exciting times for Capgemini Consulting as we spearhead the response to digital disruptions and innovations through Digital Transformation. In the UK we have a talented and ambitious team of consultants, and I am sure that with Bill’s proven leadership experience, the team will go from strength-to-strength.”
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The partnership will first focus on the UK, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Brazil.
Capgemini and Microsoft plan to offer accelerated cloud services in 22 countries
Capgemini Group, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Microsoft Corp. announce a global plan that will bring the expertise of Capgemini’s consulting, technology and outsourcing services to help deploy customer solutions on the Windows Azure platform. As part of the agreement, Capgemini will market and deliver services around Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, mobilizing Capgemini’s full lifecycle capabilities in orchestrating, designing, developing and running cloud-based application services.
As a business priority for both firms, the joint plan will offer Windows Azure solutions across 22 countries with a first focus on the UK, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Brazil. There will be targeted market offers across sectors including financial services, the public sector and energy & utilities. The Windows Azure platform delivers highly cost-effective development and deployment options on a flexible platform that offers increased speed to market. The joint plan will also provide advice to businesses on how to develop a cohesive, enterprise-class cloud strategy, giving new alternatives to deal with legacy and M&A challenges. Capgemini will furthermore work with Microsoft as an ecosystem coordinator among software providers that have created solutions on the Windows Azure platform for specific markets.
“Capgemini already has a very strong alliance with Microsoft and this further strengthens our relationship. We have a long history of customer collaboration and deep sector specific expertise and Microsoft offers innovative solutions to meet customer needs in the quickly growing domain of the cloud. Together we are well positioned to deliver cloud services that will help customers keep ahead of the technology curve, while at the same time reducing costs,” said John Brahim, Capgemini’s Application Services Europe Deputy CEO.
Capgemini and Microsoft will jointly invest in sales, technical training and various marketing activities. Together the firms have agreed to produce a future global study into the issues of data quality, security and sovereignty in the cloud. Capgemini will also:
• Train 1,500 architects and developers globally on the Windows Azure platform
• Develop a dedicated offshore center of expertise through building up the Windows Azure Center of Excellence in Mumbai, India
• Migrate selected solutions to the Windows Azure platform
• Actively drive ecosystems of third-party suppliers of Windows Azure-based solutions in targeted sectors
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Capgemini UK plc has achieved a triple success in the Business in the Community (BITC) annual ‘Awards for Excellence’ for responsible business practice. The company has won the BITC’s prestigious ‘National Big Tick’ in three categories: Climate Change, Sustainable Travel (ways2work) and Healthy Workplaces (WorkWell). The awards recognise inspirational programmes that are making a positive impact on the community, the environment or wider society.
The Capgemini programmes for Climate Change and Sustainable Travel were also shortlisted for the title of ‘Example of Excellence’ – the overall winner – in their respective categories.
Christine Hodgson, chairman of Capgemini UK, commented: “We are delighted to win three Big Tick awards this year in recognition of our sustained and effective approach to corporate responsibility. We are committed to sustainable and responsible business practice, and winning these important awards is a great way to demonstrate that commitment.”
Stephen Howard, chief executive, Business in the Community said: “I congratulate Capgemini on achieving their Big Ticks. It is a challenging time for business, but this is a sign that companies are not losing their focus and are transforming their businesses to make a positive impact on people and society and are prepared to lead by example.”
Capgemini will be presented with its Big Tick awards this month. The company will find out if it has won the Example of Excellence for the Climate Change and ways2 work categories at the Awards for Excellence Gala Event on 5 July.
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Capgemini Group reported published consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2011 of €2,350 million, up 14.5% on the same quarter in 2010. On a like-for-like basis growth was 6.4%, with the difference between the two rates mainly due to acquisitions performed by the Group throughout 2010, primarily to strengthen its positions in emerging countries (i.e. CPM Braxis in Brazil).
All cyclical activities (Technology Services, Consulting Services and Local Professional Services) reported sustained growth of 8.0%. Technology Services enjoyed remarkable growth in revenues of 9.5%, primarily driven by the excellent performance of financial services. Local Professional Services reported an increase in revenues of 6.7%, Consulting Services enjoyed a return to growth (+1.2%) and Outsourcing Services increased 3.8%.
North America enjoyed growth of 10.2%. In France, where over 900 new employees were recruited during the quarter, revenues increased at a rate of 7.4%. Conversely, revenues remained stable in the United Kingdom and Ireland region and the Benelux region, with the first region affected by substantial cuts in public sector purchases and the second region still marked by two years of economic crisis. Overall, the other regions of the Group enjoyed growth of 12.3%. Several countries enjoyed a return to double-digit organic growth and CPM Braxis surged 19%.
Bookings in the first quarter 2011 totaled €2,422 million, up 5.4% on the same period in 2010. Continuing the trend already observed in the fourth quarter 2010, the businesses most sensitive to the economic environment (Consulting Services, Technology Services and Local Professional Services) enjoyed double-digit growth of 12.5%. The book-to-bill ratio for these three businesses was 1.09 for the Group as a whole and 1.38 for North America alone.
Nearly 9,000 individuals joined the Group in the first quarter. The Capgemini group had a total headcount of 112,127 employees as at March 31, 2011, representing a surge of over 20% in one year, including 41,344 offshore employees (33,510 in India).
Capgemini confirmed its objective of revenue growth on published figures of between 9 and 10% and an increase in the operating margin rate of between 0.5 and 1 point compared to that realized in 2010, with a gradual improvement in the operating margin rate throughout the fiscal year.
Paul Hermelin, Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini Group, commented on the results: “Our good performance confirms the return to a steady rate of growth, already witnessed at the end of last year. This growth is primarily driven by the success of our major global service lines which focus on the most promising sectors of the market, as well as a recruitment drive enabling us to adapt our capacities in line with the requirements of our clients. Furthermore, this growth highlights the success of the active targeted acquisitions policy implemented since 2010.”
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Cornwall Council has signed a contract with Capgemini UK plc for a new business system that is intended to save £20m over the next five years by streamlining internal services such as finance, purchasing and human resources.
The Capgemini Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, based on Oracle software, will replace the largely paper-based processes that Cornwall Council inherited from the old county and district councils with a single integrated online system that will cut duplication, bureaucracy and costs. At the same time the Council will introduce new and more efficient industry standard business processes to further streamline its operations.
The award of the £7 million fixed-price contract follows a rigorous competitive procurement process. The contract will be delivered over the next 15 months and includes implementing hundreds of industry-leading best practice business processes. The costs of ERP will be offset by the anticipated £20m in savings that are intended to be generated over the next five years and the potential to generate income by taking on finance and human resources services for other public sector organisations.
Michael Crich, Cornwall Council’s Corporate Director, Resources, said: “The ERP system and new business processes will make an enormous difference to the way we work. At present we have staff across the organisation processing the same types of paperwork in different ways using the various systems that belonged to the old councils. Because many processes are manual, there can be double or even triple handling.
“Things are overly complex and time consuming. The old systems weren’t designed for an organisation the size of Cornwall Council, are very out of date and were scheduled for replacement several years ago.
“The ERP system will modernise our processes, bringing us in line with other large councils across the country and make us much more efficient. It will also help us to make considerable savings that will reduce the overall running costs of the Council, leaving more money for frontline services.”
Council Leader Alec Robertson said: “As a council we have an ambition to create a Big Cornwall where public sector agencies work together to deliver efficiencies over and above those required by Government. The ERP system will mean that in the longer term we could run finance and human resources services for other public sector partners in Cornwall or even public sector organisations further afield. There is scope to join up services locally and to bring income into the area, both of which would greatly benefit Cornwall.”
Barrie Graham, Business Development Director at Capgemini UK, said: “ERP systems are the backbone of businesses and organisations in all industry sectors, including local government. They are used to run office processes like finance, purchasing, payroll and human resources and to provide performance management information. Of the 150 largest councils in the UK, 130 are already using the market leading ERP solutions from Oracle or SAP, and we are naturally delighted to be entrusted with the vital task of bringing ERP efficiencies to Cornwall.”
The Capgemini UK team implementing the new system will be based at the Cornwall Council HQ in Truro.
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| Capgemini Financial Services, a global business unit of the Capgemini Group, has been selected in the competitive bidding to supply IT outsourcing services to the UK Financial Services Authority in a framework agreement covering applications development and applications maintenance for the four-year period 2011-2014.
Under the agreement Capgemini will work with the FSA on strategic projects involving the IT applications required to support the FSA’s regulatory responsibilities. The framework agreement has been designed to give the FSA value for money and the flexibility to address the regulatory change agenda for the next four years. Capgemini will work in close collaboration with the FSA and its suppliers to help the FSA ensure that its systems remain fully attuned to regulatory reform in the UK as well as any changes that are introduced at EU level. The systems in scope will also support the transition to the new regulatory structure in the run-up to 2013 and beyond. The agreement, known as the Strategic Outsourcing Framework Agreement (SOFA) follows a mandatory competitive bidding process under EU procurement directives. The FSA says that Capgemini was successful because of its in-depth knowledge of financial sector regulation, its collaborative ethos and its cost-effective proposals based on its delivery model, with the Capgemini FSA delivery teams located in the UK and India. Gareth Lewis, Chief Information Officer at the FSA, said: “Capgemini have a longstanding relationship with the FSA and during this time have demonstrated their understanding of the regulatory environment. My team and I look forward to working with them over the next four years.” Capgemini has worked with the FSA since 2006 and has successfully designed and built a number of its core systems including its Mandatory Electronic Reporting System (MER) which has simplified regulatory reporting for the financial services industry while tightening compliance for the FSA. Andy Lees, Head of Capgemini Financial Services UK, said: “We look forward to working with the FSA during a period of significant change for financial industry regulation in the UK as it migrates to the twin peaks model, and to helping them address the challenges and opportunities involved.” |
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