{"id":246801,"date":"2024-02-06T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devoteam.com\/success-story\/sg-societe-generale-takes-on-the-challenge-of-cloud-transformation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:02:39","slug":"sg-societe-generale-takes-on-the-challenge-of-cloud-transformation","status":"publish","type":"success-story","link":"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/be\/success-story\/sg-societe-generale-takes-on-the-challenge-of-cloud-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale Takes on the Challenge of Cloud Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, a leading European financial services provider, embarked on a significant cloud transformation journey to modernise its IT infrastructure and support its digital strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The bank faced the complex challenge of migrating a substantial portion of its application portfolio to a hybrid multi-cloud environment, involving both public and private cloud components.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To achieve this, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale partnered with Devoteam, leveraging their expertise to implement a structured transformation program encompassing application migration, financial management, change management, and skills development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale is a leading French bank founded in 1864. With over 25 million customers and 117,000 employees in 66 countries, it stands as a European leader in financial services. In the current landscape of constant evolution,  Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale must remain a technological leader in its field. Therefore, the Group is implementing a Cloud-focused strategy to foster innovation, digitalization, increased data usage, and the modernization of its information system. Following an initial migration to its first-generation private cloud between 2014 and 2020, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale has decided to accelerate its cloud transformation to become a bank with one of the most efficient information systems in Europe by 2025, in line with its 2026 strategic plan.<\/strong> To achieve this significant goal, the bank has chosen to partner with Devoteam, an agile or strong player in digital transformation and cloud platform adoption<\/strong>, to assist some of its IT teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale initiated the second phase of its cloud transformation globally. A shift across all seven of the entire group  IT departments. The goal is ambitious: to migrate half of its application portfolio to a hybrid multi-cloud, with one part on the public cloud (shared between AWS and Azure) and the other on the second-generation private cloud, featuring a highly automated and secure operational model. This cloud transformation, involving over two thousand applications<\/strong>, will significantly optimise IT spending. It  will serve as a foundation for Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale’s digital transformation<\/strong>, with the bank aiming to leverage all the advantages of the cloud, including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n