CLIENT STORY

Sogeti accompanies the Dutch postal company PostNL in its 100% Cloud strategy PostNL, the Dutch postal organization, is on the way of transferring most of its current IT systems into the Microsoft public cloud (called Azure). Migration started in 2013 and will finish by the end of 2015. With the volume of letters and other mail items declining, while having to cope with a huge growth in the parcel business, PostNL had to reduce costs and gain flexibility. Sogeti, a 100% owned subsidiary of Capgemini, helped to define its roadmap to migrate more than 30 applications and now operates its plat- form Cloud. The company has reduced costs by more then 20% and gained flexibility in handling volume variances. Gerrie de Jonge, in charge of the project at PostNL, shares his tips for a successful migration: Be bold and move to the cloud, because that s where the future of orga- nizations lies. Thoroughly assess your IT landscape. Lastly, find out which supplier suits you best and can give you the right added value. You have to have the con- fidence that you can jointly solve whichever prob- lems you encoun- ter on the way.

In 2020 programmers won t worry about storage, but IT infrastructure will still be key for agility. Gunnar Menzel, Information Transformation Services, member of Expert Connect(1)

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THE CLOUD: A NEW AGILITY LEVER

Enable companies to focus on what matters the most: value creation For companies that have decided to adopt the cloud for all or part of their IT systems, the advantages are numerous: the wide choice of software available and the anytime, anywhere, pay-as-you-go flexibility. But the offer is so vast that it can be difficult to make the right decision or even be sure how best to use the cloud. That is why, in this market, we position ourselves as an orchestrator, aggregating and inte- grating services for our clients. And we have notched up several successes. We used the cloud to renew the plat- form of services and applications used by the Lloyd s Register, which wanted to improve customer service while reducing costs. In 2014, we further strengthened our added value in the field of cloud. With our technology partner VMware an American leader in cloud infrastructure and virtualization we now provide pre-packaged solutions. Clients sim- ply choose the services and suppliers best suited to their needs. Capgemini

then manages on their behalf the mul- titude of vendors involved in providing the cloud solution, freeing up the cli- ent to focus on what matters most: value creation.

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Our market is not only changing very fast with the shift towards Cloud and as-a-service solutions, but also becoming more global and complex, as our clients are digitally transforming themselves and expanding into new countries and new business areas. SALIL PAREKH, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, APPLICATION SERVICES ONE (2)

(1) Expert Connect allows clients to interact with Capgemini experts on social media. (2) North America, UK, Asia-Pacific and Financial Services. 55CAPGEMINI2014 ANNUAL REPORT