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Strategic Alliances

Strategic partnerships for the success of your projects

We rely on these technological partnerships to offer you innovative and reliable solutions to support your transformation and modernization projects. These alliances complement and strengthen our own banking, HR and real estate solutions as well as Axway's hybrid integration platform.

Based on close rapport with our partners, our alliance strategy allows our experts to acquire a high level of competence in solutions and technologies. We rely on training programs, feedback and our expert communities to support you in your industrialization process.

To make the most of emerging technologies, we contribute to investments in Research & Development. As we have access to demonstration and development platforms, we execute projects and innovate in collaboration with our partners, so that we can prepare you for your future needs.

APPIAN

Sopra Steria is a partner and integrator of the APPIAN solution to meet the Digital Transformation challenges of its clients in Switzerland. A local team ensures its implementation and supporting closely its customers.

APPIAN is a Case Management and Low-Code development platform enabling the rapid creation of business applications.

The APPIAN solution enables Business Process Automation (BPM), Dynamic Case Management and Digital Process Automation (DPA). This combination of assets allows Sopra Steria to quickly optimise and transform our customers' business operations.

SAP

As a partner of SAP for over 15 years, Sopra Steria supports your digital transformation by optimising the contribution of innovative SAP solutions to your application assets.

In addition to deploying and maintaining the Business Suite (S/4 HANA, S/4 HANA CLOUD, and their previous versions) that we manage along with you, our demonstrations provide in-depth insight into the added value of the latest SAP applications when integrated with an existing ecosystem.

For example:

Simulating the impact of a required change in Business Model for an organization in a risky financial situation with SAP Cloud solutions (SAP Digital Boardroom, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Build, SDK SAP Cloud Platform for iOS, SAP Leonardo)
Designing an agile application environment with SAP in order to identify the solution, accelerate the repair of grounded aircraft, and update technical documentation, by simultaneously collaborating with multiple remote teams (SAP Leonardo, Blockchain, AI, Axway API Management, AWS, Mobile Application, Microsoft Office 365, Hololens)
More holistic approach on governance of your data with SAP DataHub and our Hyperscalers partners

In this context, we have 2,500 SAP Consultants in Europe and India who hold SAP licenses (for both on premise and Cloud solutions) and we have the infrastructure to implement your PoCs in our SAP Solution Lab.

Our consultants also use it to improve their skills by collaborating in a single network. Other tools are also available to them, such as the SAP Learning Hub. Since it is managed globally, our SAP ecosystem provides every consultant with privileged access to all our expertise. An organization like this proves to be an effective accelerator for your projects, especially when your challenges require a high level of innovation.

Finally, as Sopra Steria has a European network of branches, our SAP expertise is always close to you and will support you in deployment operations. Our Service Centres and NearShore/OffShore capabilities are also always available to you, whenever you need them. They are an important factor in our industrial strategy.

Please contact us for more details about our collaborative SAP solutions

PEGA

For over 15 years, our teams have been working with PEGA to set up new customer experiences by digitizing, simplifying and industrializing operational processes.

As one of the leaders in Europe, Sopra Steria's offer is based on 4 pillars:

We help your teams to provide the business teams with adequate and efficient responses resulting from Case Management as a Business Automation solution
We support you in automating complex processes using the Business Process Management (BPM) provided by the PEGA solution.
We deliver CRM solutions for a multi-channel “Contact Center”, to automate sales forces, design and execute marketing campaigns and integrate the feedback in the underlying processes.
Together with your operational staff, we study opportunities to take advantage of robotics integrated into the solution, by analysing the metrics of repetitive tasks for maximum ROI.

Our offer will allow you to make an informed choice between Cloud and on premise.

Our experts in PEGA technologies are distributed across several skill centres in Europe and India. In collaboration with PEGA, a Test Industrialization Kit has been developed with a DevOps approach.

Together, let us develop your customer service excellence through the combination of PEGA solutions and our expertise.

RedHat

Platforms and technologies are changing the customer and employee experience. As a Red Hat partner, we support customers in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Scandinavia in this transformation. With our industry expertise, tried and tested experience in consulting and management and recognised expertise in systems integration, we drive the use and optimisation of Red Hat technologies. As a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, we offer long-term support and a tailored maintenance offering.

Success Stories

We have set up an SAP HANA TDI on Power infrastructure platform for various customers in Switzerland. The core components of these setups essentially consist of IBM Power hardware, IBM PowerVC as a deployment tool for managing LPARs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the basis for SAP HANA databases.

Google Cloud (Premier Partner)

As an EMEA Premier Partner, Google Cloud recognises Sopra Steria as a preferred partner in Europe, which enables us to offer our customers new opportunities for innovation, to accelerate their time-to-market and improve their professional effectiveness. Sopra Steria is a member of the global Partner Advisory Council, which enables us to convey the expectations of our customers at Google’s headquarters in California for influencing future road maps.

We are one of 12 companies worldwide to have been certified as “Cloud Managed Service Provider” in Google Cloud and we are a key partner in Google Cloud Anthos, a modern platform based on containerisation of applications in local hosting and/or hosting in any public cloud over the long term. This recognition allows us to offer robust, secure and flexible services that meet the needs of your target users, enabling you to transform a progressive approach from on premises to multi-cloud.

We use our expertise to help your transformation and to ensure your migration:
We focus on maximum utilisation of your data by relying on Artificial Intelligence and in particular Machine Learning and data analysis solutions.
We are continuously developing our skills in AI on Google Cloud so that we can integrate this innovative dimension to your new projects.
We combine our SAP and Google Cloud expertise to add value to your data when migrating your SAP solutions to the Cloud.

Together, let's master the path of your migration to the Cloud by using innovative managed services and ensuring the integrity of your data.

Sopra Steria has become a Managed Service Provider (MSP) for Google Cloud and has launched its Sopra Steria Cloud Services for Google Cloud offer

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AWS

As a European AWS partner, Sopra Steria will support you in every stage of your migration to AWS Cloud. We will help you to select, set up, deploy and manage your Cloud infrastructure. Our teams would also work together with your teams to design, maintain services and train your teams.

We have developed a well-known strong expertise on the AWS Cloud. In particular, we have one of the highest levels of certification in the market for developing Cloud solutions that are secure, reliable, efficient and effective with optimized operating costs. Recognised as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) and AWS Well Architected Partner, our teams take full responsibility of proactive management of services in AWS Cloud and support companies in diagnosing, implementing best practices and improving their infrastructure.

In order to support your transformation hundreds of experts are brought together in a Cloud Center of Excellence spread across regional service centres in France and Europe.

Together, let us reduce your IT costs and develop agility in your migration projects to Cloud AWS.

Salesforce

The platform companies are transforming the business of commerce. Therefore, it has become indispensable to develop your customer service excellence. At Sopra Steria, we offer you a dedicated offer in partnership with Salesforce.

As a Salesforce Gold Partner, we are present in several European countries including France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia, especially through our European service centre based in Milan.

We rely on our industry expertise, on proven change management practices and on our recognized ability to integrate information systems technologies to drive and optimize the use of Salesforce technologies. Thus, we provide you long-term support. Let us define a special maintenance offer for you using this Cloud technology.

Together, let us reinvent your customer and employee experience.

Micro Focus

Using our association with Micro Focus, unleash the full power of DevOps, migrate your IT services to the Cloud and turn your data into accurate information.

For more than 20 years, Sopra Steria has been a prescriber and user of Micro Focus Software solutions. We have integrated the ALM (Quality Center) solution into our own activities and have one of the largest platforms in Europe based on their Service Management tool. As testers for offers related to mobile user experience, we have developed a strong expertise on Mobile Center solutions.

Finally, our teams will support you in all your application security testing, software security management and application self-protection.

Together, let us ensure the security of development and delivery of Micro Focus software in your information systems.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systems, Sopra Steria's strategic partner for PLM services.

As our subsidiary CIMPA specialises in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), we are accredited partners in the Service Partners program of Dassault Systems, as Consulting and System Integration partner, education partner and CAA software partner.

Using our in-depth knowledge of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its various technologies, we can help you to organise and enhance the value of your PLM system based on these solutions and meet your business needs.

We have also set up a skill centre for application development and can provide training on all 3DExperience solutions.

Together, let us design digital transformation programs tailored to your sector: aerospace, defence, energy and transportation.

Oracle

As an Oracle platinum partner for 25 years, we support our customers in their functional and technological transformation with solutions and platforms. With 2,000 experts and more than 100 Cloud-certified employees spread across France, Spain, United Kingdom, Italy and India, we work along with you to make your Iaas/Paas and Saas application technology transformation a success.

Our expertise in Management Cloud Services is validated through the MSP Program Oracle certification, which allows us to ensure Cloud support recognized by the Software Publisher. Moreover, we have also won the award for best ERP Cloud 2019 project.

Together, let us transform your Oracle application and technology landscape to Cloud Generation 2.0.

IBM

As a long-standing partner of IBM, Sopra Steria has also become IBM’s global GSI Partner.

We are offering our complete expertise in the broad portfolio of IBM offerings: Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Cloud, Blockchain, EAM, Cybersecurity...

Our goal is to help you define and implement new services and at the same time optimise your profits.

Our ESA resale contracts allow us to offer turnkey solutions based on the technologies of the software publisher.

We have set up an ongoing investment program with IBM to enhance our work. All these factors enable us to:

Offer co-innovative and scalable solutions: for more than 5 years, we have been a major partner on Watson. Our Watson Botify offer is a real accelerator for our customers who wish to integrate chat bots
Develop in-depth expertise and create technical and business accelerators
Share knowledge and skills through IBM development programs
Mark our presence through our banking solutions in the IBM Client Center in Montpellier

Closely track the latest developments of our partner IBM. We will also help you to optimize its software portfolio for Red Hat Open Shift (Cloud Pak).

Together, let us place cognitive information technologies, hybrid cloud and open source at the heart of your transformation.

Axway

Now, data is at the heart of any organization. So it has become important to ensure access to the numerous systems hosting the data. Therefore, your IT Department is a very important medium for innovation. It must also guarantee the agility of information systems and design applications in order to adapt to business processes. Implementing hybrid solutions, which are often specific, also becomes essential when integrating them with your existing assets. This leads to certain security challenges.

For more than 15 years, Sopra Steria has partnered with Axway to deploy new uses and technologies for your transformation. We help you to differentiate yourself by accelerating your time to market and anticipating changes in both uses and systems. We help you to carry out appropriate actions, thereby allowing business stakeholders to become more autonomous in compliance with a high security level, and have the necessary agility to support the changes expected by your users.

As an Axway Preferred Partner (the highest level of recognition), our teams have the tools needed to make your projects a success.

At Sopra Steria, we make use of Axway solutions ourselves. Moreover, we are committed to an essential co-innovation approach in the banking sector (to create Sopra Banking Software's open and connected DXP - Digital eXperience Platform). Finally, from our sites in India, we contribute to Axway's support activities for its Asian clients.

Our teams make use of the reference environments in our Service Centres in Europe and India, to execute the Proof of Concept and thus offer you the most appropriate solutions.

Together, let us accelerate your time-to-market with Axway.

Microsoft (Gold Partner)

For over 15 years, Sopra Steria has been a Microsoft Gold Partner to help you to maximise the benefit from a Cloud strategy. We support you to optimize your costs and implement innovative and secure services.

By combining our complete offer with a DevOps approach, we adopt a proactive approach that provides you with a tailor-made offer, adapted to our customers' expectations. So, we work along with you in order to:

Accelerate the development of native Cloud services.
Support you in your Go2Cloud approach.
Help you build your own platforms.

We provide you an offer based on the hybrid platform Azure/Azure Stack from Microsoft, to implement Cloud services quickly with the best performance and best suited to your business scenarios. Our sovereign Cloud solution helps to meet the regulatory and security requirements of your data.

Thanks to this partnership, we have also developed a well-established expertise in consulting, integration and outsourcing of Digital Workplaces. As a major player in the implementation of Microsoft 365 and Power Platform with 780 certified employees, we are pioneers in these technologies as illustrated in our many references.

Through this partnership, our mixed reality expertise is also recognized as the first digital service company to be part of the Mixed Reality Partner Program for Hololens.

Together, let us accelerate your migration to the Cloud with Microsoft Azure.

Sopra Steria and Microsoft announce their partnership to launchan hybrid cloud services offering