At the beginning of this year Sogeti, a global IT services company, took over Capgemini’s former business in Ireland that is now headed by MD Michael Connolly.
Sogeti in Ireland employs nearly 70 people while Sogeti worldwide employs 15,000 and has revenues of over one billion euro. Sogeti is a subsidiary of the Capgemini Group, which is in the top five global IT Service companies with over 75,000 employees.
Sogeti in Ireland will focus on two main areas: application services, or system integration, and infrastructure services. Application services will cover maintenance of information systems, consulting, architecture, development, integration, testing and maintenance of application assets. Infrastructure services or integration management, and systems administration will cover implementation, consulting, architecture, engineering, integration, installation, administration and user support.
Connolly is buoyant about the future development of Sogeti in Ireland, forecasting growth of over 20%.
At a recent press briefing Michiel Boreel, who heads up Sogeti’s Institute for the Analysis of New Technology, said it will be increasingly difficult to build a knowledge economy unless broadband is not only widely available but high speed and competitively priced. He said that, like the industrial revolution that was dependent on advanced road, rail and canal networks, “the core infrastructure in today’s wired world is high speed internet access, and countries like Ireland will unfortunately lose competitiveness without it.”
He went on to explain how progressive companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Lego, IBM, Boeing and Coca-Cola are using the power of the web to harness the intelligence of the masses, recognising that not all the cleverest people in the world work for the respective companies. Tapping into world wide intelligence (or at least those that are connected) has been termed “crowdsourcing” – a method which, when used intelligently, has yielded considerable benefits to the companies that have availed of these previously untapped sources of information.
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