Breaking Ground with Google Apps

Capgemini is the first major professional services vendor to enter the Google Enterprise Professional Program. We have brought Google Apps Premier Edition to our well-established desktop services practice. This enables you to leverage our years of experience incorporating new applications into existing IT infrastructures and move freely between Microsoft Office, Exchange/Outlook and Google Apps environments.

What the Analysts Say

On September 11, 2007, Gartner analyst Ben Pring issued a report titled “Google Strengthens GAPE Offering through Capgemini Tie”. Enterprise Management Associates also reported on Capgemini’s support of Google Apps in “Bridging the SaaS-Integrator Gap: Capgemini Adds Google Apps to Desktop Solutions”.

Our Google Apps Offer

Capgemini offers a simple but powerful proposition:

• Drive new business value by focusing on collaboration and providing employees with the right applications to do their work
• Lower desktop support costs by drawing on Capgemini’s global support network
• Get started faster than with traditional solutions. Capgemini can have users provisioned and working in under 30 minutes when using Google Apps
• Reduce your company’s carbon footprint by eliminating the need to procure hardware to host your in-house collaboration and productivity tools

To see how Google Apps and other Software-as-a-Service solutions can be leveraged as part of wider efforts to create a greener workplace, visit Capgemini’s interactive Green Office.

Modular Solutions that Reduce Costs

We recognize the value of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) desktop solutions. Google Apps does not require local software installation or maintenance, so it significantly reduces IT infrastructure costs and downtime.

You can avoid superfluous costs by adopting our flexible pricing model to adapt license commitments to fit usage and fluctuating business needs. By moving to our global delivery model and leveraging the resulting economies of scale, clients typically save 30-50% on desktop support costs.

We deliver modular solutions that accommodate individual user requirements within an industrialized framework. Our scalable solutions range from readiness assessments and transition planning to support services and fully managed desktop outsourcing. Capgemini has extensive experience providing round-the-clock support in 35 languages to more than 1 million end users.