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Camille Costanzo
Sogeti USA
732-938-3239
camille.costanzo@us.sogeti.com

Dayton, Ohio, July 31, 2007 – Sogeti today announced the opening of its SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Center of Excellence (CoE). Based in Chicago, the SOA CoE will provide guidance and IT expertise to organizations that are implementing SOA, now quickly becoming the IT architecture of choice. The SOA CoE offers organizations the benefits of Sogeti’s expertise and practical experience in SOA.

Sogeti launched the SOA CoE to:

• Respond fast and flexibly to business change
• Drive and enable business and technology innovation
• Deliver IT solutions rapidly, reducing cost of delivery and time to market
• Increase productivity through standardized technology frameworks, methodologies and tools
• Provide enterprise-level, real-time process integration and information access
• Enable organizations to focus on business processes and alignment, instead of the underlying technology infrastructure

Said Jean-Marc Gaultier, Sogeti IBM Worldwide Alliance Leader: “Sogeti launched this CoE to support organizations with their SOA initiatives and help them achieve tangible business results. Through this new CoE, clients will receive the benefits of Sogeti’s thought leadership in the SOA space that is built on real world experience.”

Sogeti offers organizations:

• Practical experience – Demonstrated SOA experience both externally (for other clients) and internally (within Sogeti)
• Best practices – Use of structured methodologies for creating, planning, designing, constructing, prioritizing, integrating and managing SOA solutions
• Application, industry and process experience – Architectural drivers, combined with contextual best practices and modeling experience
• Solution Accelerators – Pre-fabricated process models, frameworks, tools, component repositories and adapters that are readily available

Sogeti also has SOA CoEs in the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain, and recently published a book on the topic entitled, SOA for Profit: A Manager’s Guide to Success with Service Oriented Architecture . The book is available for purchase on the Internet.

Sogeti won the 2007 IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award for Overall Technical Excellence in an IBM Business Partner, in recognition of its ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on demand business solutions.

Sogeti USA is a premier provider of information technology services to businesses and public-sector organizations worldwide. Operating in 23 U.S. locations, Sogeti builds strong relationships with organizations in the local business community, primarily serving Fortune 2000 organizations. As innovators with a sophisticated command of business and technology, and strong project management experience, Sogeti is a leader in helping clients to develop and implement practical IT solutions to run their businesses better. With 35+ years of experience, Sogeti offers a comprehensive portfolio of services that includes Applications Management, Business Intelligence, IBM Solutions, Microsoft Solutions, Project Delivery Services and Software Control Testing. For more, visit www.us.sogeti.com.

Sogeti (member of the Capgemini group), leader in IT services and R&D outsourcing, offers a range of local professional services in High Tech Consulting and Information Technology for large companies through these three complementary areas:

High Tech or High Tech Consulting

Research & Development with the maintenance in operational conditions: Outsourcing Research and Development and Innovation Advice. Scientific and technical research and developments, mechanical design, development of complex systems.

Control and industrial data processing.

Application Services or systems integration

From the conception to the maintenance of the information system: consulting, architecture, contracting owner’s assistance, development, integration, testing and maintenance of application assets.

Group of services and solutions for the performance, optimization and management of IT infrastructures: architectural design, technical projects, ensure the implementation, display and operations of infrastructures.

In total, Sogeti has more than 16,000 professionals in 13 countries.