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Press release:
Paris, 28 February 2005 |
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COMPUTER SECURITY AND DIGITAL IDENTITY: SOGETI-TRANSICIEL ANNOUNCES THE SIGNING-UP TO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PUBLISHER ACTIVCARD |
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Sogeti–Transiciel and the publisher ActivCard® announce a European collaboration to support |
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The partnership between Sogeti–Transiciel and the publisher ActivCard is the result of thinking about the changing needs of businesses, with a view to increasing their level of security by combining logical and physical accesses.
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The combination of technical and project management skills in Sogeti-Transiciel’s realm of security and ActivCard’s Card Management System solutions ensures a response that is appropriate to the problems faced by businesses.
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“Sogeti-Transiciel’s positioning, added value and security expertise with respect to large accounts provide us with a strategic plus and the expertise necessary to meet the requirements of the business security market” avers Marc Hudavert, ActivCard Europe’s General Manager. “Sogeti-Transiciel’s European presence provides a locally-based relationship, which is essential to understanding the needs of major groups.” |
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The publisher ActivCard combines server software solutions with portable authenticators designed for business network users in order to access confidential data with complete security. ActivCard’s solutions for businesses, financial institutions and Governments ensure easy and secure access for authorised users to networks and applications – while allowing a combination of physical access and digital identity of individuals by progressively tackling single signature concepts using Single Sign-On (SSO). |
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Michel Berjamin, Sogeti-Transiciel’s CEO, states: “Both Groups’ common vision concerning interoperability and compliance of e-security standards solutions facilitate the development of our clients’ infrastructure needs. The strategic partnership with ActivCard reinforces a common desire to respond better to the demands for strong identification and Single Sign-On functionalities. Card Management solutions represent tremendous opportunities for our clients to centralise and to simplify management of their employees’ digital identity, while ensuring a significant return on investment.” |
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About ActivCard
ActivCard® is a leader in the publishing of identity and authentication management solutions for secure remote access, single sign-on and business badges. Our strong authentication and multi-application chip card solutions are now deployed among 6 million users. Armed with the trust of businesses and governments throughout the world, ActivCard solutions optimise your ROI, thanks to increased security, a reduction in costs and simplicity of use. |
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About ActivCard Card Management System
ActivCard CMS provides a complete and flexible solution for managing the issue and administration that are necessary to ensuring the success of a deployment of cards. The system manages the cards and the information relating to such throughout its life cycle, such as data, applications, digital identifiers (including PKI certificates), etc. ActivCard reduces the time and the costs associated with the deployment and maintenance of digital identifier cards, and constitutes an ideal platform for managing employees’ badges, national and government identity cards, university cards and virtually any other form of chip-card based identity card.
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ActivCard CMS facilitates use of a number of complex technologies by combining supply, support and administration of authentications, digital authentifiers and data associated with users through a simple and intuitive web-based management interface. This architecture enables one to ensure, in complete simplicity and security, the functions of issue, management and support for employees whatever their geographical location and from everywhere in the world. |
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About SOGETI-TRANSICIEL’s ESEC (European Security Expertise Center)
Sogeti-Transiciel is reinforcing its E-security strategy on the basis of a real concept of E-confidence, of services with strong levels of commitment, and of results in a sensitive environment. The offers have been dealt with for the past five years by ESEC, a transversal structure for Sogeti-Transiciel’s different business lines. Strong authentication is well-known by large accounts for its application in remote connection processes for business. It will develop towards a more comprehensive treatment of the issues of logical and physical access security. The publisher ActivCard has a firm grasp of this development within Single Sign-On type technological solutions, with the mutualisation of identification media: tokens (chip-card, USB key, etc.). |
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About the Sogeti-Transiciel Division
The SOGETI-TRANSICIEL (subsidiary of Capgemini) Local Professional Services Division offers locally-geared information technology services for large companies based on three business segments: |
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Consulting and integration of management applications solutions (Application Services),
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Technical infrastructure and exploitation of information technology production (Infrastructure Services),
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Scientific engineering, technical and industrial information technology, mechanics and electronics in major industrial R&D projects (High Tech Consulting). In total, SOGETI-TRANSICIEL now combine 14,000 staff in 11 countries.
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PRESS CONTACTS
Joyce BERANGER - SOGETI-TRANSICIEL Communications manager - Tel: +33 (0)1 58 44 57 21
Anne BAYLAC –SOGETI-TRANSICIEL press relations - Tel: +33 (0)1 58 44 57 23
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