All IT is becoming a `service’

Capgemini, thewell-known provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and viurtualisation specialist, VMware have decided to expand their existing strategic partnership. The plan is to jointly develop new solutions that pitch at moving both the service provision industry, and its predominantly large enterprise customers, towards the idea that all aspects of IT can now be considered as a service.

The move will extend Capgemini’s service integration, aggregation and orchestration platform by leveraging VMware’s industry leading cloud management offerings. This expanded partnership reflects Capgemini’s and VMware’s vision of how IT organisations are evolving in the cloud era.

The new solutions will help customers pitch at delivering IT as a Service by improving the way they manage cloud consumption across multiple providers. This allows them to build policy-based service provisioning, data sovereignty protection and improved time to value for cloud adoption.

The expanded partnership brings together VMware’s virtualisation and cloud management solutions with Capgemini’s expertise in service integration, aggregation and orchestration. The new solutions will help enterprises worldwide simplify cloud management complexity, maximise operational efficiency and increase IT and business agility, while improving quality of service.

“I am excited about our joint investment and strategy, which will span across multiple business and technology practices, and will provide unique and differentiated value to the industry and our enterprise customers.”

The new solutions are a key component of Capgemini’s Orchestration Platform, and will combine the company’s market-leading service integration, service aggregation and orchestration solutions, with VMware vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Operations Management Suite and VMware IT Business Management Suite. Capgemini also plans to use this combination of tools to provide a robust set of pre-packaged solutions designed to align with overall business policies and specific marketing needs.  This is expected to eliminate time-consuming background research, procurement and provisioning.

As a result, enterprises will be able to create and deliver new business services more rapidly while transforming their IT infrastructure and modernising their existing applications.  

In addition, the joint solutions are designed to improve financial and service level management of cloud services and providers via a real-time dashboard. This help CFOs manage LOB usage and IT spend, and CIOs control overall application usage and collaboration across the enterprise ecosystem.

“In order to support a globally connected workforce, cloud solutions that are efficient, effective and bring real-time business insights are essential,”said Raf Howery, Senior Vice President and Head of Infra Strategy and Ecosystem for Capgemini. “Expanding our VMware partnership with the introduction of our new business cloud solution is a key part of our cloud orchestration strategy, allowing enterprises to better manage the complexity of their IT transformation journey. It will enable them to transition to cloud with greater flexibility and simplicity and to obtain resources across legacy, public, private or hybrid environments. They will see an immediate business impact.”