Press releases

Olivier Vallet appointed CEO of Steria France

The Steria group announces the appointment of Olivier Vallet as CEO of Steria France. Olivier Vallet is a member of the Group's Executive Committee.Along with his management team, Olivier Vallet will work to speed up the process of bringing Steria France into line with the Group's overall performance objectives and providing Steria's customers with an ever-higher level of added value and quality.

Suzuki Motor España renews its end-to-end outsourcing contract with Steria for 5 more years

Steria launches in Singapore a new innovation center dedicated to mobility

Within the last 10 years, Steria has deployed numerous innovative services in Singapore, improving the daily lives of 4.5 million Singaporeans and the productivity of the city's businesses.

With 60 Asian and European engineers, the Singapore entity has become Steria's innovation centre for the development of mobility dedicated solutions and services. The centre's expertise lies in its ability to combine the latest communication technologies (RFID, GPS, GSM, M2M...) in order to create innovative services supporting mobility. The vast range of applications covers various subjects such as real time and personalised information for transport times, fleet management, mobility of senior citizens, delivery optimisation and emergency services management.

NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), a unique joint venture between the British Department of Health and Steria, signs up 12 new NHS organisations NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has been awarded new contracts to provide a combination of finance, accounting and payroll BPO services to a further 12 NHS organisations across the country. The contracts, with a combined value of €16.5 million (£13.8 million), will improve the quality and efficiency of services for the 23,000+ NHS professionals working in these administrations.  

Steria recognised for its innovative employee shareholding policy Steria has won the "2008 Employee Shareholding Grand Prize" in the SBF 250 category and the "Special Prize for Best Progress" for its initiatives over the past two years to develop employee shareholding among its staff.

With 16% of its capital held by its employees, Steria was awarded these two distinctions at the Palais des Congrès de Paris as part of the Actionaria tradeshow.

The Employee Shareholding Grand Prize Contest is held by the French Federation of Employee Shareholders and former employees (FAS) with the aim of rewarding companies listed on the CAC40 and the SBF 250, along with non-listed companies as of this year, which promote all aspects of Employee Shareholding.

Steria and Land Registry sign €59m (£50m) partnership Steria and Land Registry have today announced a five year partnership, worth €59 million (£50 million), which will see the European end-to-end IT services company provide a managed ICT (information and communication technology) service for the organisation's Distributed IT Infrastructure (DITI) and Extranet services. The account was awarded to Steria following an eighteen-month intensive procurement process. 

Cleveland Police goes mobile with Steria Steria today announces a new contract with Cleveland Police to deliver mobile working solutions across the entire force of 1,400 police officers. The €9.8 million (£7.9 million) Project CUPID (Cleveland Universal Police Information Device), to be delivered in partnership with Beat Systems Limited, will allow Cleveland Police to access and input information in the field, enhancing intelligence-led policing and letting officers to spend more time on the beat.  

Steria signs €39.5 million (£31m) deal with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

Steria, the European IT enabled business services company, today announces a 12-year,€39.5 million (£31 m) deal with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council to provide ICT, council tax, benefits, customer contact centre, reception and switchboard services. The partnership, which will go live in January 2009, aims to improve efficiencies at the council, provide better services for Welwyn Hatfield's 100,000 citizens and ensure a projected saving of €634,000 (£500,000) per annum.

Whitbread signs finance and accounting outsourcing deal with Steria Steria, the European IT enabled business services company, today announces it has signed a five year contract with Whitbread to provide outsourced finance and accounting (F&A) services. The contract, which will be going live in early 2009, will see Steria provide a comprehensive, timely and accurate F&A service, delivered 100% from its offshore locations. 

Steria signs major BPO extension with O2 Steria, the European IT enabled business services company, today announces an extension to its finance and accounting business process outsourcing (BPO) agreement with Telefónica O2 UK until 2014. The deal builds upon an existing five year relationship between the two businesses and is due to be implemented from April next year.

Steria signs €2.5m (£2m) ICT support deal with Cotswold District Council

Steria has announced a five year ICT support partnership with Cotswold District Council. The contract, worth €2.5m (£2m), aims to improve the effectiveness and overall efficiency of the ICT support services for the council's 500 staff.

BT extends IT service support and development contract with Steria: €92 million over six years (£75 million over six years) Steria, the European IT enabled, business services company today announces the extension of its applications outsourcing contract with BT until March 2014. Steria will continue to support the key applications that underpin BT's UK operations for finance and accounting (F&A) transaction processing, ledger and payroll services. These activities are delivered by Steria through a BPO contract concluded in August 2007.

"Storm," Steria's emergency management system, coordinates the Balearics' 112 service The solution allows for more efficient emergency management in an island context with a high percentage of foreign inhabitants and significant population increases during high tourist seasons.

Metropolitan Police enlists Steria to transform HR services for entire service Steria today announces a new contract with London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) to transform the MPS’s Human Resources (HR) function. The contract will support a significant improvement in the delivery of the MPS’s HR service, and will drive cost savings through the creation of a new HR Service Centre in Central London and implementation of HR business partnering. The MPS expects to generate significant efficiencies to release additional funds for front line policing. In addition, the new system will help the MPS improve the quality and consistency of the service, bring the ratio of HR professionals to employees in line with the public sector, and more effectively support the strategic aims of the organisation.

Sally Robins is appointed as Communication Director of the Steria Group Her mission will be to continue the international development of the Steria brand and to drive proactive communications across the Group, ensuring that all communications (internal and external) support company strategy. She will report to Groupe Steria CEO François Enaud.

Steria launches its Academy - 4 schools of Learning The inaugural programme of the Leadership School, the Certificate of Global Business Leadership is delivered in partnership with U21Global, the world’s premier online graduate school.

Mr. François Enaud, General Manager of Steria Group, Dr. Mukesh Aghi, CEO of Steria India and Mr. Nick Hutton, CEO of U21Global will launch the Steria Academy in Chennai today.

Serge Ferré is appointed as the Steria Group's Project Risk Management Director As part of the Group Operations department, Mr Ferré's mission in addition to risk management is to implement a project management-dedicated programme which includes an internal training and certification course. He reports to Olivier Vallet, Group Director of Operations and Member of the Executive Committee.

Christine Soupizet is appointed as the Steria Group's Performance and Purchasing Director. Ms. Soupizet's mission is to improve the efficiency of the Support functions as well as to head and coordinate the different countries' Purchasing policies with a view to improving performance. She reports to Laurent Lemaire, Group CFO and Member of the Executive Committee.

Steria has been chosen along with IES, representative, and FTPC to provide the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport's centralized IT taxi management system. Steria, an end-to-end IT services provider for companies and public authorities and European leader in the deployment of transport systems with its Taxi Expert expertise, has been chosen, along with IES, representative, and FTPC, to deploy a taxi management system for Aéroports de Lyon. The Taxi LYS system will reduce passengers' taxi wait times and will give the Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport the means to control and monitor access to taxis by optimising flow management.

Steria is to install X-ray diagnostic information systems in all the public hospitals in the Valencia Autonomous Region The X-ray Diagnostic Information System developed by Steria for the Consellería de Sanitat (Health Authority) enables tracing and confirmation of patient appointments, recording of tasks undertaken within each system, composition of the relevant X-ray reports, as well as the generation of statistics on work carried out, all of which is incorporated into the patient’s medical record.

The system is already up and running in five hospitals in the Valencia Autonomous Region.

The contract is valued at 800,000 euros. Steria will, in addition, be responsible for ongoing maintenance over the next two years.

Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth is appointed Group Steria Human Resources Director and Member of the Executive Committee Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth, 47 years old, has been appointed Group HR Director and is responsible for defining and implementing HR strategy for Steria. Steria has grown significantly since the acquisition of Xansa last year and employs 19,000 staff in 16 countries. Valerie will report to François Enaud, General Manager of Steria.

Steria’s expertise in migration of servers: La Poste, the French post office is increasing the performance of its IT system to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Le Groupe La Poste, the French post office group, the number one employer in France, second largest postal services group in Europe and number four in the world, chose Steria to carry out the migration of all its IT resources of its corporate, postal and general public network entities.

Combined General Meeeting 6 june 2008 The electronic version of the invitation to the Combined General Meeting to be held on 6th June 2008 including the legal documentation is available on Steria web site :

STERIA and ELOÏSE, a subsidiary of CIMUT join forces to develop the new APRIA RSA information system "The Starweb® solution is chosen to manage the AAEXA (ATEXA) compulsory insurance plan"

Steria announces the opening of a new Centre of Excellence for Java Agile Development in Luxembourg The Steria Centre of Excellence for Java Agile Development opened its doors on April 28, 2008 in the presence of M. le Ministre de la Justice, Ministre du Trésor et du Budget, Sir Luc Frieden and his Excellency the ambassador of France, Sir Charles-Henri d’Aragon.
The purpose of this Java Agile Development Centre is to reach excellence in the development of high quality J2EE applications. By capitalising know-how and industrialisation of the Java development process, this excellence centre will provide to customers a high level service with high reactivity and mission critical capacities in the area of software implementation.
 

With Steria’s aid the Banque de France has successfully completed migration of the Paris Financial Market to the new TARGET 2 system The Banque de France has just successfully completed migration of the Paris Financial Market to TARGET 2. Steria was a critical player in this migration from TARGET 1 to TARGET 2 in terms of connecting up the Central bank’s internal systems after completing the entire TARGET 2 SWIFT chain.

Mail Distiller and Steria Restore GPs’ Email to Full Health The email system of GPs all over Northern Ireland has been given a clean bill of health thanks to Steria, the end-to-end IT services provider and Mail Distiller, the hosted anti-spam, anti-virus solution provider.

Steria-Agefiph - A partnership agreement for the integration, training and retention of employees with disabilities Steria has decided to follow through with its commitment to the employment of people with disabilities. A working group supported by management and Steria France workers resulted in the signature of a partnership agreement with Agefiph in December 2007. Initiatives are set to be rolled out in France in 2008 and 2009.

Steria wins multi-million pound contract with QCA The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has outsourced its service management operation to Steria, a leading European end-to-end IT services provider. The three year contract will not only see Steria supporting ICT services for up to 700 UK users, it will also introduce innovation and flexibility into the QCA environment. It will enhance the desktop estate to support flexible and mobile working, undertake the migration to a data centre environment, introduce a new telephone system and be responsible for moving QCA’s IT facilities from its headquarters in London to its new offices in Coventry in 2009.

Steria, official supplier to the ING Renault F1 Team, wishes good luck to the team for the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship! As the official supplier of IT consultancy services and application management to the ING Renault F1 Team, Steria is helping to improve the team’s racing performance.
Steria provides consulting services to optimise the effectiveness of the SAP solutions used in the engine development area, and develops software capable of analysing the high volumes of data produced by the car’s on-board systems.
The 2008 season starts on 16 March in Australia.

Steria and Beat Systems launch joint mobile data initiative for UK police Steria together with Beat Systems jointly announce entering into a strategic partnership to launch a mobile data initiative that will transform the way UK police deliver public protection to the local community.
The agreement will see the establishment of a mutual partner arrangement for those Police Forces operating Steria's STORM Command and Control system.

Steria Suisse SA and Dolder SA sign a 5-year IT outsourcing contract Steria Suisse SA and Basle-based Dolder SA, an internationally-active distributer of raw materials, have signed a 5-year IT outsourcing contract. Steria will handle Dolder's information system, including its network, infocentre, telephony and ERP application. Dolder's three IT technicians have been transferred to Steria.

FinanceCom and Steria announce the creation of Steria MedShore, a new nearshore entity in Morocco Steria MedShore is the result of a joint venture held equally by FinanceCom and Steria. Its mission is to provide booming European and Mediterranean markets with systems integration and application management services. Steria MedShore's targets include the banking, insurance, telecommunications and government administration markets.
In addition, its goal will be to eventually propel itself to the number one spot among IT service providers in North Africa, through the complementary contributions of its reference shareholders.
The new entity will create jobs with a planned workforce of 500 people to be recruited by 2012.

Steria boosts its Indian operations to fuel European growth Newly-enlarged IT-driven business services provider, Group Steria SCA [Euronext:RIA], today announced its intention to both expand and rebrand its Indian operations following the recent acquisition of Xansa.

Steria takes part in the 16th annual NASSCOM 2008 India Leadership Forum from 13 to 15 February 2008 in Mumbai

Steria will be participating in the NASSCOM 2008 India Leadership Forum entitled "Shrinking the world, Riding the wave." This world-wide event is organized by the Nasscom association and brings together CEOs, CIOs, government officials and other luminaries from around the globe. This year's debates and discussions will focus on the globalization of the IT-BPO industry and on India's role in this context.
The NASSCOM 2008 India Leadership Forum will provide François Enaud with the opportunity to speak on Steria's acquisition of Xansa, a company the majority of whose employees is based in India. He will also lay out the Steria Group's plan to place India, which is today a driver for the worldwide BPO market, at the heart of his industrialization strategy.

In Spain, the Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha has chosen Steria to implement its new health-card information system By identifying the 1.9 million people living in the region, SESCAM’s new system will improve the quality of service to the public and enable better management of health resources.

In Norway, Steria wins Ministry of Justice contract The Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police has signed a three-year framework agreement with Steria for the future provision of consulting services to the justice sector.

Swedish Social Democrats outsource IT operations to Steria For improved efficiency and greater security, the central office of the Social Democratic Party, located in Stockholm, is outsourcing all IT operations to IT integrator Steria. The aim is for all 26 party districts in the country to then follow suit.

In Switzerland, Steria develops Customer Instruction Application for HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG Steria has developed an application for HSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG which automates, facilitates, standardises and minimises validation turnaround time for customers' instructions. Around 150 users, mostly in German-speaking Switzerland, are currently using this new Business Process Management system.

Steria announces the opening of a new global service centre in Katowice, Poland This cross-functional unit provides support and IT infrastructure management services. Steria offers clients a global production platform using shared tools and processes to provide both local support services and shared expertise centres. The Katowice centre utilises the Group’s infrastructure management expertise. It offers extensive opening hours, multilingual services, and the continuity of service required by companies to support their international development.

Steria creating the data exchange gateway between Sirius 2 and the A86 West Tunnel Steria, the end-to-end IT services provider for companies and public authorities throughout Europe, is contributing to Europe's largest-ever underground motorway construction project, the A86 West Tunnel.