Didier Lambert, the Director of information (ISD) of the number one global spectacle Essilor lenses systems, ceded his position as Chairman of the computer Club of large French companies (Cigref) Bruno Ménard, Vice-President of the world giant of the Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical industry, in charge of information systems.
His term starts in financial turmoil to which 128 "large accounts" French namely, almost all of the CAC 40 and an annual computer and telecoms expenditure of approximately 150 billion euros are not insensitive. Far from it. "The current crisis will have an impact on the budgets of the ISD in most sectors", said the new President, in an interview given to "Echos" just before the annual general meeting of Cigref to yesterday. "The budgets of the information systems (is) increase slightly as we work our efficiency to finance innovative projects." "That said, it is expected that the functions if are put to contribution, as all the functions of the company, to deal with degraded economic situation", recognizes.
Cooperation agreement
The major donors of order Total, mail, EDF, Société Générale, Danone, Bollore, Bouygues, or even the State hear step review to decline their it investments. "The control of budgets if relies now on solid practices: shared management of the portfolio of it projects, identification of critical internal skills, selective outsourcing, consolidation of technical architectures, framework contracts, etc.", ensures.
On this last point, Cigref has just signed a cooperation agreement, "non-financial", which makes office and "Charter" between the association and its members for a renewable period of one year with Google. "Google here for its capacity for innovation and its joint position on the consumer market and the company." Private and professional uses converge. "Google presents a credible alternative offer with existing publishers, particularly in the field of Office Automation," explains Bruno Ménard. And to clarify: "our motives are the same as with the other providers with whom we have established similar agreements SAP since last may;". Microsoft, signed in 2002 and renewed in October 2007; Oracle, signed in January, Editor's note. It is to help our partners better understand the functioning and organization of large business models, to improve their offers, and to adapt their business organization.
Google as Microsoft could grow in large enterprises through the rental of accessible applications via the Internet according to their needs. "It is a trend to follow for the upcoming years, although this market is still marginal," said the President of the association. In addition, does not hide its concern about the increase in the rates of support and maintenance of SAP ("Les Echos" from 02 October). "This tendency to the increase in maintenance costs is quite widely among software publishers." "This is clearly a pressure increase on our fixed costs, with a direct consequence on our ability to initiate new projects and plan our activities, and the corresponding resources in the long term," he said. He denounces the crossing "the trade policies of its partners which are extremely complex. Software and computer services sector, it is growing and the crisis could spark movement.
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