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2021: Working with Dassault Systèmes to help customers at every stage of their intellectual transformation

Capgemini and Dassault Systemèmes on September 3, 2021 announced an expansion of cooperation to transform companies into smart enterprises.

Striving to increase efficiency will help organizations unlock the potential of smart technologies across the value chain.

The partnership combines the company's extensive experience in various industries, including high technology, and expertise in data processing with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes. Thus, cooperation is designed to help customers of companies at every stage of their intellectual transformation.

To achieve competitive advantages, enterprises need to take the initiative and continue to implement digital transformation, rethinking the products offered, the methods of their production and approaches to doing business. The goal of such transformations is to increase the customer orientation of companies. Many organizations use legacy systems with disparate data and disjointed processes, and do not have a clear strategy for continuous innovation. Capgemini and Dassault Systemèmes intend to pool their resources to help customers identify the value of the business at all stages of its transformation, as well as increase its performance by offering opportunities in the following areas:

Digital Engineering Lifecycle Management (DELM) is a future-oriented expansion of traditional product lifecycle management solutions (Product Lifecycle Management,) PLM using end-to-end modeling technologies and. digital doubles

Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) supports cross-disciplinary collaboration throughout the system lifecycle with models, which improves collaboration efficiency.

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) helps you create enterprise-wide data logging and optimize information flows.

Advanced Analytics (ADA) enables you to unleash the engineering potential for innovation, improve in-house buying or building decisions, accelerate response to quotation requests, and better leverage enterprise purchasing power.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) offers customers a range of tools to solve complex tasks in logistics planning and personnel allocation, allowing them to use the required resources in the right amount and at the right time.

Thus, combining the functional capabilities of the companies will allow Capgemini and Dassault Systèmes to offer a full range of services for the formation of industries.

In 2020, we worked closely with Capgemini to agree on the overall strategy of our companies, "said Florence Verzelen, executive vice president of Dassault Systèmes for sustainable development, industry solutions and marketing. - We are pleased to present to our clients achievements in the field of value-oriented transformation of various industries and look forward to demonstrating that our joint developments can change the industry for the better.

By combining Capgemini's achievements in digital transformation and the company's rich industry experience with a data-focused platform and Dassault Systèmes software portfolio, we help our customers fully realize the enormous potential of data, accelerate product launch, optimize operational performance and create revenue streams through services and data monetization, "said Roshan Gia (Roshan Gya), Managing Director of Intelligent Industry at Capgemini Invent.

2019: Purchase of Altran consulting company for 3.6 billion euros

On June 24, 2019, Capgemini announced the acquisition of the consulting company Altran Technologies for 3.6 billion euros. The buyer will pay 14 euros for each share of the absorbed consulting company, which is 22% higher than the rate of quotes by the close of the exchange before the announcement of the merger of French companies. More details here.

2018

Buying a Leidos Cyber Division

In June 2018, Capgemini announced the purchase of a cybersecurity unit from Leidos Holding. More details here.

Capgemini employees were furious over lack of salary growth

In April 2018, Capgemini employees staged a protest on the Internet against the fact that the company is increasing revenues and building optimistic financial forecasts, but does not increase staff salaries.

Hashtags# CapgeminiBetraysEmployees,# Capgemini-BetraysEmployees and some other similar hashtags appeared on the social network Twitter, which, translated from English, mean that Capgemini betrays its workers. The latter claim that the company increased salaries by a maximum of 0.5%, and someone did not even get such an increase. At the same time, for the first quarter of 2018, the IT services provider reported revenue growth of more than 7% and announced a forecast for accelerated revenue growth and profitability, as well as for achieving free cash flow in the amount of more than 1 billion euros.

In April 2018, Capgemini employees staged a protest on the Internet against the fact that the company is increasing revenues and building optimistic financial forecasts, but does not increase staff salaries

IT specialists working in Capgemini began to publish messages on social networks about dissatisfaction with the lack of wage growth. Some were clearly not shy in terms, someone saw in the company's actions the intention to reduce the staff "naturally." Capgemini gave an official response at the request of The Economic Times:

The remuneration of our employees is determined in an objective process in accordance with market standards and customer needs, business priorities and the overall development of the industry. The annual increase is formed based on individual indicators and potential, as well as the business tasks of the company.

According to the publication, citing analysts familiar with wage issues in the IT services market, many such companies raise salaries by an average of 3-4%, and the most productive employees can increase by 8%. In addition to Capgemini, public complaints about unwillingness to increase earnings or do so are slightly received from Tata Consultancy Services workers.^[1]

Buying LiquidHub

In February 2018, the Capgemini Group announced the purchase of a service provider. IT Consulting LiquidHub The value of the transaction is about $500 million. More. here

2016: Death of the Chairman of the Board

March 15, 2016 it became known about the death of Serge Kampf. He was 81 years old. The death of the founder of Capgemini was reported by the press service of the company. Kampf died after a continuing illness in his hometown of Grenoble, France.