THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Business sensors

The disruption caused by the Internet of Things let us co-innovate with our clients and quickly turn innovations into business benefits. This is the case in manufacturing and energy for instance. Sogeti High Tech is working on ways of leveraging data collected from embedded sensors. Spe- cialized in engineering and technology consulting, this Capgemini subsidiary has created 200 connected object prototypes for its customers in the past two years. In the opinion of Michiel Boreel, head of technologies at Sogeti: 2015 will be the year when our clients will start gaining more commercial benefits from data generated by sensors in real time.

THE ERA OF BIG DATA

Making businesses smarter In the span of a year, we have sig- nificantly enhanced our capacity to make big data a source of growth for our clients. Launched in early 2015, the Insights & Data offering provides a comprehensive methodology to quickly turn data into a decision mak- ing tool. Our approach is to avoid drowning users in a sea of information. The right information is sent to the right person according to predeter- mined criteria. Capgemini also inno- vates with its technology partners to make the most of big data. We have expanded our Business Data Lake offering to allow users to obtain per- sonalized insights. Developed a year ago with Pivotal a US big data and cloud software specialist this eco- system now includes a new partner: Informatica, one of the world s lead- ing independent software vendors. It brings new features that accelerate the transformation of raw data into

usable information. With its technolog- ical ally Cloudera, Capgemini has also designed two new products to facil- itate the implementation of big data for client projects (see page 22). The Group already has 10,000 big data and analytics specialists and we plan to strengthen our skills significantly over the next five years.

In 2014, the Group helped many cli- ents to capitalize on the huge flow of information already available. Capgemini helped the Maharashtra Sales Tax Department in fighting tax fraud, notably by collating data from various external agencies across Maharashtra and as well as the Indian government. For the German pension fund Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK) we developed a robust IT system that takes into account regu- latory changes.

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One priority: big data Today, our clients have no choice but to learn how to bring insights coming from big, fast & smart data to the point of action and disrupt or be disrupted by the fierce competition of those born in data ! JOHN BRAHIM, HEAD OF INSIGHTS & DATA

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