DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
What is Alstom’s strategic plan for 2025, and what are the two major challenges it aims to address?
Alstom’s strategy is to advance towards smarter sustainable mobility by leveraging cloud technology and digital innovation. The Group addresses the urgent need to mitigate the climate crisis by promoting a modal shift in transportation preferences, making rail options more appealing and financially accessible.
How does Alstom plan to enhance its innovation policy and contribute to making trains greener and more digital? And why is Capgemini the partner of choice in helping Alstom achieve this?
By focusing on digital solutions across operations, maintenance, and passenger experience, Alstom plans to introduce iterative, customer-centric technologies. This includes transforming industrial practices and adopting a SaaS model, ensuring robust cybersecurity, and integrating AI capabilities to boost operational efficiencies and address customer needs. By extending its scope into technical areas such as cloud management and DevOps, our partner Capgemini provides crucial cybersecurity support and leverages its close relationships with our clients to understand and solve the challenges of digital transformation.
What is Onexis Cloud, and how does it contribute to Alstom’s digital transformation goals? What part did Capgemini play?
Onexis Cloud stands as a pivotal operational hosting platform within Alstom, tasked with managing essential applications such as train monitoring and predictive maintenance systems. This initiative marks a significant shift towards focusing on the intrinsic business value of applications, as opposed to their IT management. This transition is facilitated by Capgemini’s involvement and core competencies with Microsoft.
What is the business impact of the partnership between Alstom and Capgemini, particularly with regard to the Onexis Cloud platform?
Capgemini enhances Alstom’s service delivery and innovation capabilities, and supports the rapid expansion of industry operators using Alstom’s services. While it’s difficult to quantify specific figures due to the integration of Onexis Cloud within larger contracts, this partnership has notably accelerated the time to market for our offerings, and we aim to integrate around 25 standardized application services.