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Sopra Steria Group SA
Société Anonyme
Traded as Euronext: FR0000050809
Industry Information technology consulting and services
Founded 1968 (as Sopra)
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people
  • Vincent Paris (CEO)
  • Sunil Goyal (COO)
Revenue €3.4 billion (2014)
Number of employees
 37,000
Slogan Delivering Transformation. Together.
Website soprasteria.com

Sopra Steria Group SA (commonly referred to as Sopra Steria) is a European information technology consultancy established in September 2014 upon the merger of Sopra Group SA and Groupe Steria SCA (commonly refererred to as Sopra and Steria, respectively). Technically, Sopra was the company to adopt the new name, retaining its legal personality.

The primary business areas of the company include consulting services, systems integration and solutions, integration of ERP solutions, implementation of application solutions, as well as subcontracting solutions for providing technical support to users and application maintenanc andoutsourcing services and operation of professional processes.

History

Timeline

  • 1968 – Société de programmation et d'analyses (Sopra; French for programming and analyzes company) is founded
  • 1969 – Société d'étude et de réalisation en informatique et automatisme (Steria; French for company for studying and realization in information technology and automation) is founded
  • 1971 – Sopra designs the first real-time management system for banking operations
  • 1973 – Steria creates creates an IT real-time information transmission system for Agence France-Presse
  • 1986 – Sopra engages in its first major project with the French Home Office
  • 1987 – Steria develops expertise in transportation and mobility through a project dedicated to the automatisation of the RER A in Paris
  • 1990 – Sopra has its initial public offering on the Paris stock exchange
  • 1994 – Steria designs and builds the central command system for inter-bank payments
  • 1996 – Sopra acquires SG2 Ingénierie and grows significantly in France
  • 1999 – Sopra expands operations to the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Germany
  • 1999 – Steria has its initial public offering on the Paris stock exchange
  • 2001 – Sopra creates the company Axway Software and then acquires Viewlocity, Cyclone Commerce and Tumbleweed Communications in the United States
  • 2001 – Steria acquires Bull’s core European IT Services activities
  • 2005 – Sopra develops a Near and Offshore network of service centres in Europe and India
  • 2005 – Steria acquires Mummert Consulting in Germany
  • 2007 – Steria acquires Xansa in the United Kingdom
  • 2011 – Sopra has spin-off, listing of Axway Software on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange
  • 2012 – Sopra founds the subsidiary Sopra Banking Software after acquiring and merging Delta Informatique, Tieto UK and Callataÿ & Wouters with proprietary banking products
  • 2012 – Steria is awarded “best BPO project of the year” by the National Outsourcing Organization for services delivered to the British Department of Health
  • 2013 – Steria signs the SSCL contract designed to consolidate on a single platform the Back-office functions of several Departments of the British government
  • 2014 – Sopra signs strategic partnership between La Banque Postale and Sopra Banking Software for the development of a new Core Banking platform
  • 2014 – Sopra and Steria are merged

Sopra

File:Sopra Logo.png
Logo of Sopra. The motto of the company was Talented together

Sopra was seated in Annecy, France, had a revenue of €1.349 billion (2013) and 16,290 (Dec. 2013) employees. Founded in January 1968 by Pierre Pasquier, François Odin and Léo Gantelet,[1][2] Sopra is one of Europe's longest established IT service companies. From the outset, Sopra positioned itself in all IT service sectors and soon became a key player in the French market. On March 2014, Sopra Group became Sopra. In April 2014, Sopra announced a merger with Steria in an attempt to create the European leader in computer services.[3] Sopra is a consulting, IT services and software development company. Its subsidiary Sopra Banking Software develops and distributes software for the financial services market. Sopra employs more than 16,000 people and generated a turnover of 1.349 billion euro in 2013.

Three complementary business lines:[4]

  • Consulting (Sopra Consulting) Management and Technology
  • Systems and solutions integration
  • Software publishing in the following field :
    • Human resources (HR Access and Pléiades offering)
    • Real estate management (Ulis, Ikos and Altaïx offerings)

Sopra is focused on the following business sectors :

  • Financial services
  • Services, transportation and utilities
  • Public sector
  • Industry
  • Telecom and media
  • Retail

Acquisitions

Sopra's main acquisitions are :

  • In 1996, acquisition of SG2 Ingénierie (650 people).
  • In 2000, acquisition of Orga Consultants, Strategy and management consulting company (200 people)[5]
  • In 2001, acquisition of the Italian company ITI and British CS Rand, both acting in the system integration and consulting fields[6]
  • December 2003, Sopra acquires Inforsud Ingénierie from the Crédit Agricole Group(530 people).
  • In July 2004, acquisition of Valoris, Consulting and IT Services European company(500 people)[7]
  • In July 2005, acquisition of Newell & Budge (UK) and its subsidiaries in Ireland and India, IT services (600 people)[8]
  • In November 2005, Sopra acquires 100% of the share capital of PROFit SA, system integration and consulting company based in Spain and Portugal (700 people)
  • In July 2008, acquisition of CIBF, independent company specialised in portfolio and risks management software development for the banking sector, based in Nantes (60 people)[9]
  • October 2011, acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Delta Informatique, independent company offering financial software solutions[5] · .[10]
  • In February 2012, Sopra acquires the Belgian company Callataÿ & Wouters, specialised in banking software.[11][12]
  • March 2012, acquisition of British subsidiaries of Business & Decision and Tieto[13]
  • In July 2012, Sopra creates Sopra Banking Software consequently to the acquisitions of Callataÿ & Wouters and Delta Informatique[14]
  • In April 2013, Sopra announces the acquisition of HR Access, software solutions for the human resources management industry (900 people)[15]
  • In February 2014, Sopra announces the acquisition of the German company COR&FJA Banking Solutions [16]
  • April 2014, merger with Steria
Axway Software subsidiary

In 2001, Sopra creates its subsidiary Axway to access the EAI market (Enterprise Application Integration) :

  • In 2001, creation[17] of Axway Software (400 people, 50 million euros revenue);
  • In 2002, Axway acquires the integration business of the American company Viewlocity Inc.[18][19] first in Europe, then in Asia and in the US;
  • Early 2006, acquisition of Cyclone Commerce, Inc., an enterprise software US company;[20][21]
  • Early 2007, acquisition in Germany of the enterprise software business of Atos Origin;[22]
  • In September 2008, acquisition of Tumbleweed Communications Corp.

Axway Software splits from Sopra in June 2011 consequently to its stock market launch.[23]

Steria

File:Steria logo.jpg
Logo of Steria

Groupe Steria SCA was founded in 1969, was based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, had a revenue of €1.75 billion in 2013 and had more than 20 000 employees. was a multinational information technology services company headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. It delivers IT enabled business services, focusing on key vertical market sectors: public services, finance, telecommunications, utilities and transport. The company provides consulting services for its clients' core business processes, and also develops and operates their information systems.

Steria has 20,000 employees across 16 countries. In 2013, Steria revenue amounted to €1.75 billion.[24] Steria is listed on the Euronext Paris market and over 20% of its capital is owned by its employees.

Following the merger of Steria and Sopra, Groupe Steria SCA and its subsidiaries are now part of the Sopra Steria Group, a European leader of digital transformation established in September 2014.

Steria was created by Jean Carteron in 1969. Francois Enaud took over as Group chairman and CEO in 1998[25] and Steria listed itself in the Paris Stock Exchange the next year. In 2000, Steria acquired three service and telecom companies in France to become one of top five French service providers. In 2001, Steria started the Fondation Steria,[26] a community support group. In July 2007, Steria acquired the United Kingdom-based IT outsourcing and technology company Xansa for £472 million in cash.[27][28] At the time of the acquisition Xansa had a total of around 8,000 staff, of whom around 5,000 were based in India.[28] According to the terms of an agreement signed with AURELIUS on 20 October 2012, Steria completed the sale of its Spanish subsidiary on 28 November 2012.

Steria has sites in the following locations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Luxembourg, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden and United Kingdom.[29]

The Steria Corporate Center for Real-Time and Embedded Software expertise, located in Aix-en-Provence, France, focuses on aeronautics (Eurocopter, Dassault), defence (DCNS, DGA) and transportaIt uses products including QC (TEST DIRECTOR), SCADE and VAPS.

Services offered by Steria included: Applications management, Infrastructure management, IT service management, Business process outsourcing, Testing and quality, Cloud - Workplace on command, infrastructure on command and Security - Right Security

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is a joint venture between Steria and the United Kingdom's Department of Health. It provides services in finance and accounting; payroll and human relations; family health services; and commercial procurement.

NHS SBS employs over 1,400 people, recovers more than £12 billion of debt, pays 200,000 NHS employees and processes £36 billion of payments per annum for its NHS clients. It works with over 40% of NHS organisations to deliver operational efficiencies, cost savings and improved service quality, and is on target to deliver £250 million of cost savings to NHS trusts and organisations.[30]

Businesses

The primary business areas of Sopra Steria are: consulting services: strategic consulting, implementing of restructuring projects and development towards new technologies, etc.; systems integration and solutions: design and implementation of Internet technology solutions (portals, merchant sites, Intranet and Extranet networks, etc.), integration of ERP solutions, implementation of application solutions (customer relationship management, HR management, etc.). The group also offers subcontracting solutions for providing technical support to users and application maintenance; outsourcing services and operation of professional processes: supervision, administration and operation of IT infrastructures, operation of finance, administration, human resources functions, etc.

References

  1. ↑ Histoire – Les deux derniers grands capitaines de l’industrie des services informatiques encore à la barre de leur entreprise, nr. 218, p1026-1028, iLogiciels & Services
  2. ↑ Pierre Pasquier, dernier pionnier, Olivier Hensgen, 23 maart 2009, La Tribune
  3. ↑ Sopra announces merger with Steria
  4. ↑ Annual financial report – Additional informations on page 6
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rapprochements conseil et SSII : quand l'amont et l'aval ne font qu'un
  6. ↑ Sopra fait ses emplettes en Italie et en Grande-Bretagne
  7. ↑ Valoris se décide pour Sopra
  8. ↑ Sopra settles in the UK by acquiring Newell & Budge
  9. ↑ Sopra se renforce dans le secteur bancaire avec le rachat de CIBF
  10. ↑ Sopra s'offre l'éditeur de logiciels financiers Delta Informatique
  11. ↑ Callataÿ & Wouters racheté par le français Sopra
  12. ↑ Callataÿ & Wouters signe un accord avec le groupe Sopra et formera ainsi un acteur européen majeur
  13. ↑ Sopra annonce la finalisation de deux acquisitions au Royaume-Uni
  14. ↑ Historique de Sopra Banking Software
  15. ↑ ChannelNews – Sopra Group finalises the acquisition of HR Access
  16. ↑ Sopra finalise l’acquisition de COR&FJA Banking Solutions GmbH
  17. ↑ l'EAI prend le chemin de l'independance – Information Builders, Sybase et Sopra ont tous trois regroupé leur activité d'éditeur d'EAI au sein d'une entité distincte.
  18. ↑ Europolitics – SOPRA ACQUIRES STAKE IN AMERICAN GROUP VIEWLOCITY
  19. ↑ Information-Age – Viewlocity backs out of EAI
  20. ↑ Bloomberg Business Week – Cyclone Commerce, Inc. was acquired by Axway Software S.A.
  21. ↑ 4-Traders – Sopra Group: Axway Finalizes Merger with Cyclone
  22. ↑ GARTNER – Axway and Atos Origin Unite to Offer B2B Integration Services
  23. ↑ Euronext – Axway IPO, NYSE Euronext Paris
  24. ↑ Steria - Who are we?
  25. ↑ Steria - François Enaud - Chairman and CEO
  26. ↑ Home Page
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Steria - Locations
  30. ↑ http://www.sbs.nhs.uk/home/working-with-clients retrieved 30/5/2012 11:38

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