Temenos and Capgemini have announced
that they have entered into a strategic alliance to significantly
enhance the global sales, service and delivery capabilities for
Temenos core banking solutions .

The new alliance combines Capgemini’s
expertise in systems integration and management consulting with
Temenos’ products, methodologies and tools to provide existing and
prospective clients with a comprehensive global delivery
platform.

The agreement also allows Temenos to leverage
Capgemini’s data migration, testing and project management
expertise to support Temenos’ existing client base of more than
1,000 financial institutions around the world.

The relationship will capitalise on
Capgemini’s global infrastructure capabilities to benefit new
Temenos clients through local market insight, domain knowledge and
consistent and comprehensive services for Temenos
implementations.

“Globally, we are seeing an increasing demand
for packaged core banking platforms as banks seek to acquire the
efficiency gains, cost reductions and product delivery capabilities
to fuel business growth,” said Aiman Ezzat, chief executive officer
of Capgemini’s financial services global business unit.

“Temenos is an internationally- acclaimed core
banking software specialist with a significant installed base. This
relationship gives clients confidence in a consistent methodology,
implemented by Temenos specialists and certified Capgemini
professionals. Working together, we will help to significantly
mitigate project risk whilst delivering certainty and quality to
clients.”