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Rapid Innovation for the Service-Oriented Enterprise

A joint collaboration between

Rain. RApid INnovation is a dynamic, open environment dedicated to helping clients discover, develop and deliver sustainable new business models using collaboration and innovation to build their Service-Oriented Enterprise. Capgemini and Intel are committed to helping Rain clients transform the way they do business to become faster, flexible and more responsive.

Welcome to the end of business as usual.

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Welcome to Rain

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new approach for organizing and isolating application functionality, built on a flexible and reusable foundation of services. It has the capacity to expand the reach of the enterprise by enabling services to define and transform relationships and, in so doing, expand the scope of what Information Technology (IT) can make possible. In short, SOA means the end of business as usual.

However, it can only be achieved if leaders possess the knowledge, the imagination and the roadmap to make optimal use of it. Services are not drivers of business change. The transformations promised by service orientation will not happen without the adoption of a new culture and innovative business models. Collaboration and a willingness to establish your organization as open for business are the keys to success with SOA. In recognition, Capgemini, one of the worlds foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, and Intel, the world leader in technology platform and silicon innovation, have combined their intellectual powers to create the Rain environment. Short for RApid INnovation, Rain is a series of global, service-oriented environments uniquely designed to help organizations envision and embrace the future. Its goal is to help companies unleash business value from the constraints of traditional IT, transforming the business model for customers, employees and shareholders.

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Welcome to the End of Business as Usual To compete in the global intelligent economy, enterprises must make a fundamental shift to a future built on innovative service-oriented business processes and new approaches around the use of technology.
Rapid Innovation for the Service-Oriented Enterprise

Rain provides comprehensive, rapid, sometimes radical, and continuous service-oriented solutions to help organizations become Service-Oriented Enterprises.
Rain is a physical and virtual experience that supports the building of ServiceOriented Enterprise (SOE) innovations globally by leveraging current and future waves of technology developments. It models future scenarios by industry sector and focuses on areas of transformation that will make the most impact on businesses in the short and medium term. Rain helps clients find their own answers to such key questions as: How can the energy and ideas of outsiders be harnessed to help clients businesses? How can companies bring their customers closer to their core business process? How can their relationships with suppliers be strengthened? How can IT support employee innovation instead of holding it back? How can businesses best structure their IT resources to reflect the needs and new capabilities of SOA? By becoming an SOE, your business can reorganize and execute to become faster and more responsive to changes in the marketplace. Above all, service orientation focuses on the business imperative and offers opportunities to approach business issues in a different way. Intel technologies and platforms provide this basis end-to-end infrastructure for SOE. In this context, SOA provides orchestration: automated assistance to set up and coordinate all of the interactions required by highly integrated business systems. The SOE infrastructure is based on industry-standard hardware and software building blocks, and delivered as complementary, interoperable services interacting via standard web protocols. In this context, service not only spans entire enterprises, but also integrates multiple business units within the enterprise and across to external partners and customers.

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Rain helps organizations re-define their IT as a service through the radical development and adoption of new technologies and business services, enabled by Intel platforms. In collaboration with Capgeminis Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), Rain facilitates the end of business as usual through a three-step process: Discover, Develop and Deliver.

The Rain methodology

The culture that meshes best with SOA is one of empowerment and flexibility. For SOA to achieve its potential, many assumptions that have ruled business and IT must be abandoned. The Rain collaborative environment is designed to help organizations foster just that kind of culture. It can provide companies with the complete picture from infrastructure (SOI) to application services (SOA), to business processing (SOE).

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Discover

The SOE journey starts with a detailed analysis of the competition, the clients distinctive IT operations and recent technology and industry trends. This will accelerate the convergence of business and technology challenges to create the solution roadmap.

Develop

Rain uses the latest SOA/SOI methodologies across various reference architectures to expedite custom development of software and hardware platforms, conforming to your unique SOE vision.

Deliver

Rain leverages pre-built vertical solutions and starter kits with fast prototyping capability to quicken the SOE implementation. The wave of business transformation starts here.

At the end of this process, organizations will have a clear roadmap to becoming a Service-Oriented Enterprise. Companies that seek to make many of their core business processes plug and play, have the ability to turn raw data into real-time intelligence, and to prioritize seamless integration between suppliers, customers, and employees.

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Rain Deliverables Customized roadmap from business process assessment to service analysis and development to infrastructure migration. Launch strategy for executives to get internal organizational alignment. Live demos and proof-of-concepts for rapid, customized prototype development. Reliable reference architecture for clients to deploy SOE solutions using industry standards in both software and hardware technology. Real-time, continuous access to all deliverables via innovative collaboration tools.

The Value of Rain Companies who visit Rain will create long-term strategic advantages measured by: Market leadership through rapid and radical development of new products and services to meet changing business needs. Faster time-to-market and reduced development cycles. Flexibility and agility of IT to meet business demands and address market changes. Utilization and re-use of core IT assets and information. Cost reductions via time, staff, and technology capital efficiencies. Effective alignment of business and IT objectives. Increased creation and use of information services by end-users. The end of massive, disruptive implementations. Ongoing innovation leadership and development via Rain.

The Rain methodology

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The Rain Process Discover Develop Deliver

Bringing decision-makers to the table and providing the environment for rapid decision making and design.

Faster solution build by prototyping and leveraging 24/7 assets to rapidly deploy solutions.

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Rain Deliverables
Partner Solutions Ecosystem
Rain core offerings
Business
Business cases competitive analysis Vertical focused pre-configured demos, prototype solutions SOA readiness assessment SWOT Integrated Architecture Framework Enterprise Architecture analysis Enterprise process

Information
Rapid integration solution-sets (integration express) Legacy data integration components Quick-win projects Master Data Management

Application Systems
Pre-defined service layers on legacy back-ends Quick-win projects NetWeaver upgrade

Technology Infrastructure
Server consolidation Pre-packaged infrastructure solutions

Data/information process

IT solutions

Platforms

Real-time collaboration
Accelerated Solutions Environment Solution partner SOE tools Rightshore solutions and prototyping

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Accelerated Solutions Environment The ASE is Capgeminis cutting-edge, creative workspace, configured to inspire group genius. It is a technology-enabled, collaborative design studio for developing strategies and solutions to capitalize market opportunities and solving complex business issues, enabling organizations to make business decisions in hours and days rather than months and years. Imagine a place where your decision makers, implementers, project team members, and subject matter specialists are brought together to focus on one thing: attaining your strategic business objectives without disruptions. With centers located around the globe, the ASE and its proven approach has successfully conducted over 1,000 sessions with over 500 different clients, including 52 of the Fortune 100 and 44% of Business Weeks Top 100 Global Brands.

For SOA to work, businesses need to remove barriers and put the right tools in the hands of the innovators. Rain achieves this with the aid of five key differentiators.
Continuous Access Because Rain is a physical and virtual experience, companies have 24/7 access and visibility into their customized deliverables via innovative collaboration tools. Using the Rain Virtual Interactive Environment (Vie), Rain customers have access to their specific roadmap, prototypes, simulations, best practices, and our SOE knowledge database long after they leave the center. In addition, they work virtually with a cast of subject matter experts, partners and customers with the right level of security to ensure they access the right information. This continuous, virtual environment speeds up access to knowledge, enables interactive problem-solving, and provides searchable databases for their queries, creating a collaborative landscape that grows and expands based on your wants and needs. Rain Collaborative Network Rain delivers industry-specific roadmaps that come alive through the research, development and testing power of our partner ecosystem. These organizations populate Rain centers around the globe with real-world scenarios and business solutions. Rain customers are part of a customized virtual network that utilizes current and emerging methodologies, processes and technologies to decrease costs and improve project efficiency. Building SOE success requires IT solutions and innovations built on world-class platforms and emerging technologythe assurance and investment protection embedded in Intel SOE platforms and focused via Capgemini SOE knowledge.

What makes Rain unique?

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Rain Collaborative Network

Technical leadership Application awareness

Rain ecosystem

Intel

Hardware Reference Architecture, Sizing, Technical leadership

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Rain Client

Capgemini

Collaboration tools Business analysis Thought leadership

Industry Focus The issues, challenges and opportunities relating to SOE vary from sector to sector. Different markets have different requirements and different cultures. To ensure Rain delivers true added value to its clients, the environment is equipped with the added dimension of extensive industry expertise. Focusing on Utilities, Consumer Products/ Retail & Distribution and Manufacturing, Rain offers custom-developed solution prototypes, market analysis, competitive data and business modelling tools. Both the physical and virtual environments draw on Capgemini and Intels industry experience, together with that of the Rain Collaborative Network.

SOE Expertise from Capgemini There are many reasons why Capgemini is an acknowledged leader in transforming businesses into Service-Oriented Enterprises: Unique and proven Integrated Architecture Framework. Leads the field in developing open standards. Key member of both The Open Group and OASIS. Own Infrastructure Design Framework and a proven roadmap for developing a Service-Oriented Infrastructure. Capgeminis track record in delivering SOE success stories for a broad range of organizations across a broad range of industries speaks for itself.

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Rain focuses on business transformation and its intense industry focus and expertise has major support from some of the worlds leading companies: The future of the automotive enterprise is all about dealing with globalization, growth, regulations, security and departmental issues in real-time. Becoming a Service-Oriented Enterprise holds great promise and we applaud the industry focus of Rain to help our ecosystem of technology partners enter this brave new world armed with practical solutions. Major Automotive Company

Execution in challenging markets and driving real performance improvement is a hallmark of the best industrial companies, and we believe the creation of Rain can help many diverse utility industry stakeholders take advantage of the best future thinking and real-world solutions for moving the industry forward to customers, employees and investors. Leading Energy Supplier Capgemini has a proven track record of working with leading retailers to overhaul operating models and information systems to support future growth. Were well on our way to becoming a Service-Oriented Enterprise, and the creation of a Retail center of excellence inside Rain is a step forward for our industry. Major Fashion Retailer

Rain makers

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Intel and Capgemini challenge business leaders and IT organizations to move beyond infrastructure and incremental concerns toward becoming a service-oriented enterprise. Take the next steps in this journey by visiting Rain, our physical and virtual environment that brings together the best and most creative resources to create SOE leadership worldwide. Capgemini is already recognized as a world leader in the Service-Oriented Enterprise area by all major industry analysts. To consolidate this global leadership position, in collaboration with Intel Corporation we launched the first of our RApid INnovation (Rain) environments in Cupertino, California. Rain is dedicated to helping client organizations evolve into Service-Oriented Enterprises and reshape the very industries in which they operate. In addition to drawing from the entire spectrum of our own capabilities, Capgemini and Intel are collaborating with some of the worlds leading technology companies to bring the very best content to Rain clients. Patrick Nicolet Group Sales Director, Executive Committee Member Capgemini

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About Intel Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, is helping accelerate the transition to SOE by designing its market-leading platforms to deliver new capabilities that benefit both IT and end-users, including Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, Intel Virtualization Technology, and Intel Active Management Technology. To further support SOE, Intel partners with leading independent software vendors and solution services providers to bring the most advanced solutions to our business customers. www.intel.com About Intel Capital Intel Capital, Intels strategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communications, the Intel Capital team seeks out and invests in promising companies worldwide working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive Internet growth and advance the computing platform. www.intel.com/capital About Capgemini As one of the worlds foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, Capgemini is an acknowledged leader in developing and implementing service-oriented approaches. We are leading the field in developing open standards and our own Integrated Architecture Framework. We are able to leverage our broad alliance network and are influential members of both The Open Group and OASIS. Above all we have the business focus to make SOA real. www.capgemini.com

Rain contacts at Intel Robert Ferguson robert.ferguson@intel.com Robyn Shean robyn.shean@intel.com

Claim your future with Rain

Rain Brochure v1 10 02 2006

Rain contacts at Capgemini Andy Mulholland andy.mulholland@capgemini.com John Zielonka john.zielonka@capgemini.com

Capgemini, Intel and Intel Capital are the founding partners of Rain. Our ecosystem of SOE experts will provide thought leadership and solutions. www.nextgenerationinsights.com

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