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An Outsourcing Challenge by Schneider Electric

Overview Schneider Electric, strategically focused on automation and electricity management, is a recognized world leader in its field. Having witnessed strong organic growth, the Group faced challenges of harmonizing processes across its heterogeneous legacy organizations and optimizing global IT costs. Management sought a partner who could bring real value by helping the Group to transform its IT infrastructure, consolidate a portfolio of data centers serving 31 European countries and standardize operating systems through a group-wide implementation of SAP. Schneider Electric and Capgemini have a history of successful partnership over many years. As a result, discussions were successfully concluded in November 2004 with both companies signing a 10 year contract worth ? 1.6 billion.

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Publisher	Capgemini	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2005	Downloads	5
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Data Center, Services

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