OREANDA-NEWS. Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced the launch of Automation Drive, a unified suite of automation services designed to help clients enhance efficiency, productivity, quality and agility at a reduced cost to the business. The suite brings together the capabilities of automation experts across Capgemini, as well as four major Centers of Excellence (CoE) acting as automation hubs.

Consolidating Capgemini’s innovative Automation services, tools and digital transformation expertise under one unified suite, provides enterprises with an end to end solution that can be integrated into every process and application, to allow increased competitiveness and profitability across their business and operations.

Patrick Nicolet, Group Executive Board Member, Competitiveness and India at Capgemini said: "Our consolidated approach to enabling automation delivers quality and efficiency gains that result in numerous business outcomes, which can translate into new sources of revenue, actionable insights, reduced time to market and lower costs."

Automation cuts release cycles from months to minutes at Kadaster in the Netherlands
Capgemini delivers several Enterprise Integrated Platform as a Service (EIPaaS) offerings to Kadaster, the Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency. This has enabled Kadaster to transform into an Agile DevOps organization. Currently, more than 80% of Kadaster’s full workload is running on services delivered by this Professional Linux Platform. The Solution is fully automated and contains central logging and monitoring with self-service use:

Charl Vermeer, IT Manager for architecture and innovation at Kadaster says: "Automation technology has been a key enabler for our transformation into an Agile DevOps organization. Release cycle times went from 6-9 months to minutes when required. The zero-maintenance systems management is fully automated. This has not only resulted in a higher availability of key production applications and improved application quality, but also in an enhanced end user experience and satisfaction."

The Automation Drive Suite consists of three established components plus four CoEs with automation expertise that include strategy innovation, application services, business services, as well as infrastructure and cloud services, allowing organizations to realize the business benefits of trusted technologies, tools and processes.