Cloud Computing provides a unique opportunity to ensure greater focus on innovation by reducing IT functions that are high in management and financial cost while developing integration frameworks that bring business, its suppliers and customers into closer collaboration. With these new challenges in mind, enterprise IT platforms need to be smarter and compliant with Cloud characteristics. Sogeti’s Smart Platforms for the Cloud can help your business make this transition smoothly.

Cloud Computing is not a one size fits all solution. A business-focused roadmap drawing on a bespoke IT framework is the surest way to implement a robust and coherent Cloud environment. 

Sogeti’s Smart Platform for the Cloud is a flexible service offering that covers software, hardware and consulting solutions. From design to implementation, our IT solutions are tailored to your business needs. Today, IT environments consist of four main components: application platforms, processing devices, networks and storage.

Each component must be aligned with the key characteristics of Cloud Computing:

• Infrastructure abstraction
• Resource pooling and elasticity
• On-demand self services
• Pay-as-you-go usage
  
  

Advantages in the Cloud

Implementing these principles will lead to:

• Component standardization and rationalization
• Scalable provisioning mechanisms that fit with business activity
• Operational risk mitigation
• The right balance between CAPEX and OPEX
  
• Usage-based billing models

Cloud readiness is based on a platform that fully embraces the characteristics of the cloud (elasticity, standardization, automation …).

Access to the Cloud

With our own Datacenters and those of our partners, Sogeti offers a set of PaaS and SaaS either in private, public or hybrid Cloud to propose various services such as Service Catalog definition, Global Assets virtualization, On-demand Storage provisioning, Application platform and Service Management.

Service Catalog Definition for the Cloud

So that you can make the most of the potential effectiveness of Cloud solutions, Sogeti provides a Service Oriented Architecture approach to define and deploy service catalogs from Business to Infrastructure.

Sogeti uses its own methodology to address the entire scope:

• Catalog structuring
• Service line description
• Service standardization
  
• Service Level agreement
  
• Security and legal require-ments
• Costing Model
  
  

Global assets virtualization for the Cloud

Transforming physical infrastructure into virtual machines, including servers, networks, storage, workstations and applications, can further consolidate operational support and enable greater agility.

Sogeti’s global asset virtualization proposes various services:

• Maturity assessment
• Sustainability impact analysis
• Return on Investment studies
• Definition of a virtualization roadmap
• Technology platform selection and deployment
• Consolidation of existing infrastructure
• Implementation of Dynamic assets provisioning for the cloud
• Day-to-day service operations
  
  

On-demand Storage Provisioning in the Cloud

The need for on-demand storage provision is increasing dramatically. Sogeti has built a solution based on shared storage resources through a pay-per-use model. This specific solution can be implemented using public, private or hybrid Cloud.
The Sogeti solution can be setup in a short amount of time, including service Management, provisioning, security and maintenance. Clients can choose between internal or external hosting.

Application platform solution in the Cloud

The foundations for taking applications onto the cloud lie in standardizing application platforms and thoughtfully applying the principles of cloud computing to your applica-tion architecture patterns.

Sogeti can help you to:

• Choose the best Cloud Technol-ogy platform for your needs
• Build the right application plat-form that can extend easily onto the cloud.
• Implement Cloud-ready Application Architecture best-practices
  
  

Building Service Management in the Cloud strategy

Full and high-level Service Management is the necessary foundation for a robust Cloud Solution.

Sogeti offers an end-to-end set of services based on your Service Catalogues to implement service management, from consulting and design through to implementation and operation:

• Maturity assessment,
• Transversal processes definition,
• Service Management Tool selection and implementation,
• KPI and dashboard definition
• Change management and training
• Governance model and day-to-day operation including quality management
  
  

Why Sogeti?

We have been delivering customized IT services for the last 40+ years, capitalizing on a lot of experiences and best practices which give Sogeti the capability to support a wide range of clients.

As a leader among information technology service providers, Sogeti has developed an ecosystem of strategic partners over time covering a majority of the technologies implemented worldwide.

Sogeti offers an end to end ap-proach for defining, building, deploying and operating Cloud Solutions.

This broad spectrum of knowledge gives a unique edge to Sogeti’s Global Cloud Offering by drawing on solutions which are able to balance innovation and risk to address business complexity.

Adopting cutting edge technologies such as the Cloud requires a knowledge of our clients’ stakes and the ability to translate them into business recommendations. This experience and our belief in your collaboration will be the key to getting the most out of the Cloud.

By understanding what the Cloud can and can’t do for your business, you will be able to make informed decisions on where to focus energies for your business. With our broad expertise, we will be there every step of the way to help you implement a robust, flexible and lasting cloud transformation strategy.