Sopra Steria


Sopra Steria Group SA is a European information technology consultancy established in September 2014 upon the merger of Sopra Group SA and Groupe Steria SCA. Technically, Sopra was the company to adopt the new name, retaining its legal personality.
The primary business areas of the company include consulting services, systems integration, integration of ERP, implementation of applications, as well as providing technical support to users and application maintenance and outsourcing services and operation of professional processes.
Sopra Steria has been accused of exploitative behaviour towards those seeking UK status.

History

Timeline

2019 - Acquisition of CX-partners, leaders in user experience design and consulting

Sopra

Sopra was seated in Annecy, France, had a revenue of €1.349 billion and 16,290 employees. Founded in January 1968 by Pierre Pasquier, François Odin and Léo Gantelet, Sopra is one of Europe's longest established IT service companies. In March 2014, Sopra Group became Sopra. In April 2014, Sopra announced a merger with Steria in an attempt to create the European leader in computer services. Sopra is a consulting, IT services and software development company. Its subsidiary develops and distributes software for the financial services market. Sopra employs more than 16,000 people and generated a turnover of 1.349 billion euro in 2013.
Three complementary business lines:
Sopra is focused on the following business sectors :
Sopra's main acquisitions are :
In 2001, Sopra creates its subsidiary Axway to access the EAI market :
Axway Software splits from Sopra in June 2011 consequently to its stock market launch.

Steria

Groupe Steria SCA was founded in 1969, was based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, had a revenue of €1.75 billion in 2013 and had more than 20 000 employees. was a multinational information technology services company headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. It focuses on public services, finance, telecommunications, utilities and transport. The company provides consulting services for its clients' core business processes, and also develops and operates their information systems.
Steria has 20,000 employees across 16 countries. In 2013, Steria revenue amounted to €1.75 billion. Steria is listed on the Euronext Paris market and over 20% of its capital is owned by its employees.
Following the merger of Steria and Sopra, Groupe Steria SCA and its subsidiaries are now part of the Sopra Steria Group, a European "leader of digital transformation" established in September 2014.
Steria was created by Jean Carteron in 1969. Francois Enaud took over as Group chairman and CEO in 1998 and Steria listed itself in the Paris Stock Exchange the next year. In 2000, Steria acquired three service and telecom companies in France to become one of top five French service providers. In 2001, Steria started the Fondation Steria, a community support group. In July 2007, Steria acquired the United Kingdom-based IT outsourcing and technology company Xansa for £472 million in cash. At the time of the acquisition Xansa had a total of around 8,000 staff, of whom around 5,000 were based in India. According to the terms of an agreement signed with AURELIUS on 20 October 2012, Steria completed the sale of its Spanish subsidiary on 28 November 2012.
Steria has sites in the following locations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Luxembourg, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden and United Kingdom.
The "Steria Corporate Center for Real-Time and Embedded Software expertise", located in Aix-en-Provence, France, focuses on aeronautics, defence and transportaIt uses products including QC, SCADE and VAPS.
Services offered by Steria included: Applications management, Infrastructure management, IT service management, Business process outsourcing, Testing and quality, Cloud - Workplace on command, infrastructure on command and Security - Right Security
NHS Shared Business Services is a joint venture between Steria and the United Kingdom's Department of Health. It provides services in finance and accounting; payroll and human relations; family health services; and commercial procurement.
NHS SBS employs over 1,400 people, recovers more than £12 billion of debt, pays 200,000 NHS employees and processes £36 billion of payments per annum for its NHS clients.
In May 2018, UK's Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Nokes, announced significant changes to the visa application submission process. In her statement, she announced the government would be outsourcing the immigration application process to Sopra Steria Group by October 2018.,

Controversy

In the UK, the National Audit Office found that SBS first recognised in January 2014 that patients might have come to harm as a result of what was, at the time, a fast-rising backlog of undelivered paperwork. Although staff raised concerns, the company had not alerted the department or NHS England until March 2016 – a delay of 26 months. The NAO concluded that the company had then been “obstructive and unhelpful” with regard to the subsequent inquiry launched by NHS England. In 2017 a UK Commons public accounts committee was informed that at least 12,000 missing papers – possibly including patient records and cancer tests – had not been processed by the company.