Capgemini and Virtustream Expand Their Strategic Collaboration (SCN)
Capgemini and Virtustream have expanded their strategic collaboration to deliver modernization and transformation services for private and hybrid cloud SAP® solution environments. This initiative delivers end to end deployments, distinct service levels at the application layer and cost efficiency for workloads running on SAP software. Customers across North America and Europe, particularly across Consumer Products, Retail and Manufacturing sectors, are expected to benefit from effective automation, cloud migration and deployment experience to help them innovate rapidly. As part of the collaboration, Capgemini has invested in Virtustream-enabled platforms and will leverage them to provide migration, modernization and hosting solutions.
Acknowledging that customers are at different states of virtualization and cloud adoption, Virtustream, Capgemini and their partners offer a full spectrum of services to address different desired customer outcomes. The joint offering announced today delivers modernization services to transform legacy SAP software environments to the SAP HANA® platform and SAP S/4HANA, and transformation services for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA. The transformation services cover platform and application changes, staffing strategies, change management activities, process digitization and redesign for SAP software landscapes including SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA.
Capgemini utilizes innovative, leading private or hybrid cloud, automation, management and virtualization platforms from EMC, VMware and Virtustream that enable clients to improve customer experience, deliver real-time business insights and unlock new business opportunities with distinct service levels.
As part of Virtustream’s Service Provider Select program, Capgemini and Virtustream plan to offer “paired data center”1 capabilities in the UK and France to allow the companies to seamlessly deploy customer workloads across each other’s xStream®-powered cloud facilities2 with distinct service levels in a private or hybrid cloud environment.