Vendor Analysis
published on Jan 08, 2024
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Sopra Steria's offerings and capabilities in Industry 4.0
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s Industry 4.0’s profile on Sopra Steria is a comprehensive assessment of Sopra Steria’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of digital, industrial IoT, and industrial IT services
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector and examining growth areas within IT services.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Sopra Steria's Industry 4.0 service offerings and capabilities and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base, including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization, including the delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Sopra Steria is heavily involved in digital transformation services, particularly within the aerospace industry, where it collaborates closely with Airbus. Its vertical unit, Aeroline, supports product engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain functions. The company employs proprietary methodologies and technology accelerators, such as the Predictive Intelligent Framework, in its Industry 4.0 offerings.
Sopra Steria Next, the consulting division, focuses on digital transformation initiatives in manufacturing industries. The division's services cover strategic framing, business case development, and deployment, focusing on technologies like metaverse, industrial automation, IoT, data analytics/AI, and cloud/edge computing.
Sopra Steria provides consulting and implementation in IoT services, including device management, data processing, and connectivity. The company refrains from creating specific intellectual property, instead relying on client intimacy.
The firm's systems integration services span application management, cybersecurity implementation, and infrastructure management for Industry 4.0 systems. Sopra Steria also offers services related to connected devices, including coordination, project management, and underlying applications.
Sopra Steria has a Smart Industry framework, offering technology accelerators and a methodology for assessing, designing, and deploying smart manufacturing capabilities. Sopra Steria has supported research and academic institutions, particularly in Artificial Intelligence, addressing social acceptability, vehicle certification, and human-robot collaboration in Industry 4.0.