Founded by Serge Kampf in Grenoble in 1967 and led by CEO Paul Hermelin since December 2001, Capgemini has become one of the top five IT services and consulting companies worldwide.
Our Story
Our long-term growth and the accompanying expansion of our service offering has depended on both acquisitions and organic expansion. Among our most notable acquisitions are Sesa in France (1987) and Hoskyns in the UK (1990), which gave Capgemini a foothold in the outsourcing market, as well as Volmac in the Netherlands (1992) and Programator in Scandinavia (1992), which established a solid base in Northern Europe.
In the 1990s, Capgemini built a world-class management consulting practice, partly through the acquisition of United Research (1990) and the Mac Group (1991) in the US and Gruber Titze and Partners (1993) and Bossard (1997) in Europe. The acquisition of Ernst & Young Consulting in 2000 tripled the size of Capgemini’s operations in North America—the world’s leading market for IT services—and strengthened the company’s position in Europe as well.
Continuing Evolution
As the global IT market has evolved, we have increased emphasis on two of our businesses: local professional services and outsourcing. The acquisition of Transiciel in December, 2003 enabled us to double the size of our local professional services unit. Today, the Sogeti-Transciel unit contributes 15 percent of Capgemini’s total revenue.
We have also developed an approach we call Rightshore®, which relies on both offshore capabilities (including 12,000 people in India as of February 2007 with the acquisition of Kanbay) and near-shore resources in countries including Poland and Spain.
