Capgemini

Cap Gemini S.A.

Type Société Anonyme (Euronext: CAP)

Industry IT services, IT consulting
Founded 1967
Founder(s) Serge Kampf
Headquarters Paris, France
Area served Global
Serge Kampf (Chairman), Paul Hermelin
Key people
(CEO)

IT, business consulting and outsourcing

Services
services
Revenue €8.371 billion (2009)[1]
Operating income €333 million (2009)[1]
Profit €178 million (2009)[1]
Total assets €9.213 billion (2009)[1]
Total equity €4.213 billion (2009)[1]
Employees 100,856 (2010)[2]
Website www.capgemini.com

Capgemini (Euronext: CAP) is a major French company, one of the world's largest IT
services,[3] transformation and management consulting, outsourcing and professional
services companies with a staff of over 100,000 operating in 36 countries. It is
headquartered in Paris[4] (Rue de Tilsitt) and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the
current chairman, in Grenoble, France. CEO Paul Hermelin has led the company since his
appointment in December 2001.

Capgemini's regional operations include North and South America, Northern Europe &
Asia Pacific and Central & Southern Europe.[5] Services are delivered through four
disciplines; Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing and Local Professional Services. The
latter is delivered through Sogeti, a wholly owned subsidiary.
They employ 30,000+ (2010) people in India with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore,
Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Delhi/NCR.

History
Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967[6] as an enterprise management and data
processing company. The company was inaugurated as the Société pour la Gestion de
l'Entreprise et le Traitement de l'Information (Sogeti).

• In 1973 Sogeti acquired a majority stake in its major European IT services

competitor, CAP.
• In 1974 Sogeti acquired Gemini Computers Systems, a US company based in
New York.
• In 1975, following the two major acquisitions of CAP and Gemini Computer
Systems, Sogeti renamed itself as CAP Gemini Sogeti.
• In 1981, Cap Gemini Sogeti launched US operations following the acquisition of
Milwaukee-based DASD Corporation, specializing in data conversion and
employing 500 people in 20 branches throughout the US. Following this
acquisition, The U.S. Operation was known as Cap Gemini DASD.[7]
• In 1986, Cap Gemini Sogeti acquired the consulting division of US-based CGA
Computer to create Cap Gemini America.[8]
• In 1991, Gemini Consulting was formed through the integration of two
management consulting firms (United Research and The MAC group).
• In 1996, the name was simplified to Cap Gemini with a new group logo. All
operating companies worldwide were re-branded to operate as Cap Gemini.
• In 2000, Cap Gemini acquired Ernst & Young Consulting. It simultaneously
integrated Gemini Consulting to form Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
• In 2002, Cap Gemini re-launched its Sogeti brand, creating a new legal entity
bearing the original name of the company, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
The new company is focused on delivering IT services to a more limited range of
markets.
• In 2003, the firm acquired Transiciel and merged the two practices into Sogeti-
Transiciel (later consolidated within Sogeti in 2006).
• In April 2004, the Group reverted to Capgemini (its current name).
• In the summer of 2005, due to heavy financial losses, Capgemini sold its North
American healthcare consulting practice, including both payer and provider
practices, to Accenture but retains its life sciences practice.
• In September 2006, Capgemini acquired a 51% shareholding in Unilever India
Shared Services Limited (Indigo), a provider of financial shared services and
Sarbanes-Oxley compliance services to the global Unilever Group. Indigo has
operating centres in Bangalore and Chennai and employs approximately 600 staff.
[9]

• In October 2006, Capgemini agreed to acquire Kanbay International for US$1.2

billion in cash ($29 per share). The acquisition will increase Capgemini's India
 staff to 12,000+(which is grown to 26,000+ in mere 4 years of time) employees.
[10]
The acquisition was completed on 8 February 2007.
• On 8 February 2007, Capgemini announced the acquisition of Software
Architects, a US-based consulting company, to expand its US business.[11]
• On 25 July 2008, Capgemini announced the acquisition of Getronics PinkRoccade
Business Applications Services BV [12] of the Netherlands. The acquisition
amounted to an equity value of €255 million paid in cash.
• In June 2010, Capgemini announced the acquisition of Strategic Systems
Solutions, a small company specializing in the capital markets.[13]
• In June 2010, Capgemini announced the acquisition of Plaisir Informatique, a
French company specializing in complex data migrations in the banking and
insurance sector.[14]
• In September 2010, Capgemini announced the acquisition of CPM Braxis, the
largest brazilian IT consultant company.
• In November 2010, Capgemini announced that it has acquired the India-based IT
services company, Thesys Technologies Private Limited (“Thesys”), a Temenos-
Certified Services Partner that provides banking implementation solutions to the
global financial services industry.[15]

Acquisitions
• Sesa in France (1987)
• Hoskyns Group plc|Hoskyns in the UK (1990)
• United Research in the US (1990)
• Mac Group in the US (1991)
• Volmac in the Netherlands (1992), developers of Cap Gemini SDM
• Programator in Scandinavia (1992)
• Gruber Titze and Partners in Europe (1993)
• Bossard in Europe (1997)
• Ernst & Young Consulting (2000)
• Transiciel (2003)
• Indigo (2006)
• Future Engineering in Germany (2006)
• Plecto AG in Germany (2006)
• Kanbay International (2006)
• Software Architects (2007)
• Maxeda IT Services in the Netherlands (2008)
• Getronics PinkRoccade Business Applications Services BV (2008), developers of
Business Information Services Library
• Vizuri Ltd (2008)
• Empire in Czech Republic (2009)
• Nu Solutions in Australia (2009)
• IBX in Sweden (2010)
• Strategic Systems Solutions Ltd in the UK (2010)
• CPM Braxis [Brazil] (02-09-2010)
• Capgemini Acquires Thesys Technologies (India) (Nov - 2010)
[16]

Partnerships
• IBM - Limited Partnership
• TXU - Limited Partnership
• Intel - Limited Partnership
• SAP - Limited Partnership
• QinetiQ - Limited Partnership
• JDA - Limited Partnership
• Teradata - Limited Partnership
• Microsoft - Limited Partnership
• The Open Group - Platinum member (since 2005)

Sogeti

Sogeti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capgemini.[17] It is an international information

technology consultancy specializing in local professional services. Sogeti employs
20,000 people in 14 countries. Sogeti developed Test Management Approach.

The name Sogeti has its origins in France and is the name of origin for the entire
Capgemini Group, founded by Serge Kampf in 1967. The name was an acronym for
"Société de Gestion des Entreprises et de Traitement de l'Information" which, roughly
translated, means "Company for the Management and Processing of Information".
Through the years many names have been used, for instance Cap Gemini Sogeti, Cap
Programator, Cap Gemini and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. In 2002, the Cap Gemini
Group founded a subsidiary called Sogeti in six countries to focus on the growing local
IT market. Today the Sogeti Group employs 20,000 people[18] in 14 countries: Belgium,
Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Ireland, Luxemburg, Norway, Spain,
Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, UK and the U.S. The IT consultancy is a full-range
provider of IT and mangagement services with focus on Application Services, Software
Control Testing, Infrastructure Services and High Tech Consulting.

Sogeti has reached the highest level of partnership with giants Microsoft and IBM on a
global level.