Capgemini and VMware to create business cloud orchestration solutions

PALO ALTO, USA: Capgemini and VMware announced they have expanded their strategic partnership to jointly develop new solutions. The move will extend Capgemini's service integration, aggregation and orchestration platform by leveraging VMware's cloud management offerings.

The new solutions will help customers more easily achieve IT as a Service by improving the way they manage cloud consumption across multiple providers and operators with policy-based service provisioning, data sovereignty protection and improved time to value for cloud adoption.

The expanded partnership brings together VMware's virtualization and cloud management solutions with Capgemini's expertise in service integration, aggregation and orchestration.

These new solutions, which are a key component of Capgemini's Orchestration Platform, will combine Capgemini's service integration solution, as well as Capgemini's service aggregation and orchestration solutions, with VMware vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Operations Management Suite and VMware IT Business Management Suite.

As a result, enterprises will be able to more rapidly create and deliver new business services while transforming their IT infrastructure and modernizing their existing applications.

For instance, an enterprise marketing director seeking a new application for business analysis and operations management will have the ability to access a robust set of pre-packaged solutions that align to overall business policies and specific marketing needs, eliminating time-consuming background research, procurement and provisioning.

Through the end-user service portal, the marketing director will be able to select the best provider and solution in accordance with business goals, policies and budget requirements. This enables IT and the business to more effectively manage usage, quality and costs of available services, while dramatically improving time to market.

In addition, the joint solutions are designed to improve financial and service level management of cloud services and providers via a real-time dashboard, that can provide CFOs with visibility into LOB usage and IT spend.

Similarly, CIOs will gain transparency into overall application usage, allowing for greater control over the support of business processes and enabling true collaboration across the enterprise ecosystem. The platform will also allow businesses to consume services in a rapid and efficient manner.