Sogeti Group wins 2008 IBM Beacon Award for Rational Excellence in Software Delivery
Sogeti’s Business-Driven Test Management Solutions powered by IBM Rational software delivers client results
Paris, April 21 2008 – Sogeti Group, a leading international provider of professional IT services, has been named winner of the IBM Beacon award for Rational Excellence in Software Delivery for 2008. These awards honor IBM Business Partner winners and finalists for their outstanding delivery of value to clients and innovative approaches to solving business issues during the previous year. Winners are selected by leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives.
As the largest testing service provider in Europe and USA with 2,500 dedicated test professionals in 14 countries worldwide, Sogeti’s portfolio of business-driven testing solutions, powered by IBM Rational Quality Management software, includes outsourced testing, structured test management and process improvement assessments. Sogeti provides a quality assurance and testing service that is designed to enable clients to realize improved reliability, predictability and achievement of their desired business goals. Sogeti’s testing industry expertise and structured test methodology TMap®, complemented by Rational software, enhances team efficiency and traceability across the software lifecycle.
By focusing on process improvement, standardization and quality automation through the project lifecycle, Sogeti’s services deliver real results for clients, such as improved quality with as much as 50 percent reduction in defects, less rework from test automation and faster time to market by at least 15 percent.
Judges remarked that, “Sogeti is a strong proponent of the Rational portfolio and has sustained an excellent Business Partner relationship with IBM that has achieved higher and higher yield for both companies.
"Recognized by the Beacon Awards, Sogeti has significantly improved the software development capabilities of their clients, leveraging the IBM Rational software development platform," said Ravi Marwaha, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "Sogeti has set the standard for business excellence by delivering strong results for clients.”
Hans van Waayenburg, CEO of Sogeti Europe and Head of Testing worldwide, commented: “I am delighted that Sogeti has been recognized by IBM for our results-oriented testing solutions, endorsed by client testimonies. As the largest testing services provider in Europe and USA, and having developed industry-leading methodologies, TMap® and TPI®, our comprehensive solutions have proven to deliver the quality and value clients demand.”
Sogeti is an IBM Premier Business Partner recognized as having expertise in multiple areas of the IBM software portfolio. Sogeti Group is also leveraging IBM’s Jam technology for its online collaborative Brainstorm that aims to foster an open, real-time innovative idea exchange among its 18,000 employees over three days in April. Sogeti Group was also named winner of IBM’s ‘Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Initiative’ award for its work with PlaNet Finance – an international non governmental organization (NGO) that aims to alleviate poverty worldwide through the development of microfinance. During 2007, Sogeti provided technological expertise and assistance to PlaNet Finance.
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Contacts:
Sogeti Deutschland GmbH: Klaus Kilvinger + 49 89 615 344 70
For Interviews:
Sogeti Testing: Stefan Gerstner: + 31 654 932 665
IBM/Sogeti: Jean-Marc Gaultier: + 1 301 256 5193
Notes to Editors
About Sogeti Group
Sogeti Group specializes in Professional IT Services focusing on three key complementary business areas: IT Application Management, IT Infrastructure Services and High Tech Consulting. Working closely with our clients, we enable them to leverage global technological innovations, and achieve above average results from their IT programs. Sogeti Group reported 2007 global revenues of 1.4 billion euros and employs more than 18,000 people in over 200 locations in Europe, the US and India. The Sogeti Group is a division of the Capgemini Group.
Sogeti is a world leader in innovative, business-driven quality assurance and testing services. As independent and objective testing specialists, our clients benefit from the identifiable results from our innovative testing solutions: Managed Testing Services, TMap®-based project and program testing, and TPI®-based Test Process Improvement. As the largest testing service provider in Europe and USA, with over 2,500 test professionals in 14 countries worldwide, we help organizations achieve their testing and QA goals.
For more information about Sogeti worldwide: www.sogeti.com
http://www.sogeti.com
In Germany Sogeti is focused on quality assurance and testing services and we are offering a complete range of testing services, from “onsite” to “offshore”.
For more information about our services in Germany: www.sogeti.de
About IBM Beacon Awards
The IBM Beacon Awards 2008 attracted over 725 nominations across 37 award categories. IBM Business Partners Winners will be honored at the IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles April 30-May 2, 2008. For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including descriptions of the winning entries, please visit http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/2008_awards.html
