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| Sogeti Group wins 2008 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Corporate Citizenship for its work with PlaNet Finance |
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| Business Partner contributes expertise to help alleviate poverty |
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| Dayton, OH, May 07 2008 – Sogeti Group, a leading international provider of professional IT services, has been named winner of the ‘Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Initiative’, an IBM Beacon award for 2008, for its work with PlaNet Finance. PlaNet Finance is an international non-governmental organization that is committed to fighting poverty around the world and to promoting micro-finance initiatives. These awards provide industry recognition to winners and finalists for their innovative approaches to solving business issues and outstanding delivery of value to clients during the previous year. |
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| Sogeti has worked with PlaNet Finance since its creation in 1998 and is now a vital support to the organization, providing a sound infrastructure base, helping it to grow and to concentrate on its real mission – alleviating poverty. Sogeti helps this international organization by providing technological expertise and assistance and critical IT systems support. As an example, Sogeti is currently working to restructure their IT system to make it more efficient, enabling the organization ultimately to help more people around the world. Sogeti also plans to allow more of its employees the opportunity to go abroad in order to fulfill an IT auditing mission enabling them to witness first-hand the work that PlaNet Finance does. |
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| Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance commented: “PlaNet Finance has a long way to go in achieving its ambitious goals, as the scale of our task is immense. But, with the support of companies such as Sogeti, we can step up our work in the field more quickly and effectively and raise awareness in the professional sector. |
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| Luc Francois Salvador, CEO of Sogeti Group added: “I am delighted that Sogeti’s contribution to PlaNet Finance’s unique work has been recognized. PlaNet Finance’s mission is an inspiration to everyone within Sogeti and our collective involvement means that Sogeti has a better sense of how a large corporate enterprise can help micro-entrepreneurs in some of the poorest parts of the world.” |
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| Judges remarked: “T he IT expertise and employee commitment that Sogeti provides to PlaNet Finance is critical to the success of their micro-finance initiative.” Winners are selected by leading industry journalists, analysts, and IBM executives. |
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| Sogeti is an IBM Premier Business Partner recognized as having expertise in multiple areas of the IBM software portfolio. Sogeti Group has just leveraged IBM’s technology for its online collaborative Brainstorm that aims to foster an open, real-time innovative ideas exchange among its 18,000 employees over a three day period in April. |
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| Sogeti Group has also been named winner of the Most Valuable Partner for Rational Excellence in Software Delivery; Recognized by the Beacon Awards, Sogeti has significantly improved the software development capabilities of their clients, leveraging the IBM Rational software development platform. |
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| About Sogeti Group |
Sogeti Group specializes in Professional IT Services focusing on three key complementary business areas: IT Application Management, IT Infrastructure Services and High Tech Consulting. Working closely with our clients, we enable them to leverage global technological innovations, and achieve above average results from their IT programs. Sogeti Group employs more than 18,000 people in over 200 locations in Europe, the US and India. The Sogeti Group is a division of the Capgemini Group.
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| About the Sogeti USA |
| Sogeti USA is a premier provider of information technology services to businesses and public-sector organizations. Operating in 23 U.S. locations, Sogeti’s business model is built on providing customers with local accountability and flexible delivery options. Sogeti is a leader in helping clients develop, implement, and manage practical IT solutions to help run their business better. With over 40 years of experience, Sogeti offers a comprehensive portfolio of services including Applications Management, Business Consulting, Enterprise Technologies, IBM and Open Solutions, Managed Testing, Microsoft Solutions, Packaged Based Solutions, and Project Consulting Services.
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| About PlaNet Finance |
| PlaNet Finance is an international solidarity organisation which specialises in the development of global microfinance. PlaNet Finance works with the private sector (banks, financial institutions), international organisations and governments to accelerate the perpetuation of the microfinance sector. Based in Paris, PlaNet Finance is active in more than 60 countries with an international network of affiliated organisations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Arab World.
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| About IBM Beacon Awards |
| The IBM Beacon Awards 2008 attracted over 725 nominations across 37 award categories. IBM Business Partners Winners will be honored at the IBM Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles April 30-May 2, 2008.For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including descriptions of the winning entries, please visit
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