OREANDA-NEWS. Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced that it is the recipient of the SAP® North America Partner Excellence Award 2016 for Industry Services. The award recognizes Capgemini’s strength in developing, marketing, and selling innovative industry solutions to help digitally innovate and transform customers’ business operations through the use of SAP technology, evidence of customer success and its commitment to continued market development efforts.

Capgemini has about 16,000 professionals skilled in SAP solutions, with more than 10,000 dedicated to collaborating with companies of all sizes. Capgemini is helping companies today to adopt, apply, sustain and excel at digitally reinventing their businesses across sectors such as retail and consumer products, oil and gas, manufacturing, public sector, financial services, energy and utilities. As a global SAP partner, Capgemini has experience in delivering value across the complete lifecycle of SAP solutions, including licensing, implementation, infrastructure, cloud hosting and management, and application management.

“This award recognizes our progress working with SAP to drive our customers’ digital transformation efforts as we help businesses innovate and grow by running more simply with SAP solutions,” said Tim Bridges, CEO of Application Services, North America, for Capgemini. “I’m proud of our team’s momentum, which has carried over from last year after winning the SAP North America Partner Excellence Award for Platform Solutions.”

Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards were presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas.

“SAP congratulates Capgemini as the recipient of the SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2016 for Industry Services,” said Rodolpho Cardenuto, president, Global Channels & General Business, for SAP. “This award is a testament to the amazing work and value that Capgemini continues to deliver. Together with our partners, we deliver simple solutions for growing companies. As we move into 2016, we look forward to continuing to support our partners to grow their opportunities with SAP and to jointly deliver value for our customers.”

Capgemini Vice President and Global Partner Executive Jerry Lacasia, and Eric Yuan, Vice President, North America SAP Alliance Leader, accepted the award on Jan. 26 during the SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting in Las Vegas, an annual gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees and partners. It is SAP’s largest yearly sales meeting, intended to gain and exchange information on SAP’s strategy, sales methodology, business growth opportunities and product innovations as well as drive success during the upcoming year.

About Capgemini

With more than 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion (about $13.2 billion USD at 2015 average rate). Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.