Sopra Steria & OVHcloud build trust for their customers’ move to the cloud – Yves Nicolas, Deputy CTO, Sopra Steria Group
What does cloud mean to you ? Three things : Feature richness, flexibility, and scalability. I often say that you cannot get on-premise today what you can get on the cloud. I take the example often of denial of service. You take that for granted when you take your cloud services. If you try to do that on-premise, that requires a lot of work. Flexibility is that you want a service, you get it in the cloud. So it's the perfect match when you work in agile mode. And scalability, the fact that the cloud services and resources will adapt to your customers, to the actual usage of your service. That's it. So feature richness, flexibility, scalability.
Digital trust is a big challenge. And digital trust, you need to address that both on the application level and in the data level. Application, to be able to move business-critical applications in the cloud. And data trust, so that you can be secure and sovereign on your data.
We have been working with OVHcloud in the last two years on working on these trusted services. And the result is an ecosystem of services around what we call the trusted digital platform. Which helps us, together with OVHcloud, propose to our customers to both take advantage of the cloud services with flexibility, scalability, while meeting their requirements on security and sovereignty. And I'm talking not about services which are going to be available in six months. I'm talking about services you can buy today.
Well, at Sopra Steria, our business is to help our customers design, deploy, and maintain their digital services. And for that, cloud services are essential. But our customers, they also need some security and sovereignty. And OVHcloud is key because it's the only partner that we have that can end all both, which is the feature richness and scalability you get in the cloud, together with the secure and the digital trust.
I would probably say artificial intelligence. And the reason is, artificial intelligence is both things that you can do today. When you take computer vision, prediction on time series, or natural language processing, you can bring value today. At the same time, we have key challenges to be able to deploy that at scale with our customers. And once again, together with OVHcloud, we have been working on designing new services and a complete roadmap on AI. Where we can bring our customers these services that enable them to deploy AI at scale in a trustworthy environment.