The physical environments of Rain are complimented by a virtual environment that allows organizations to model business processes with plug-and-play applications and a modular infrastructure. The Rain environments will bring organizations along a journey that envisions the future, unleashes the business from IT constraints and ultimately helps transform the business model.
Capgemini and Intel believe organizations must apply service-orientation to more than software. SOEs modernize software and hardware, streamline business processes and use technology to define the future competitive landscape. This focus on software, hardware, processes and business value helps organizations make a fundamental shift from the "business as usual" of the past to a future built on innovative service-oriented business processes supported by a modular, manageable IT infrastructure.
"Together, the Service-Oriented Enterprise concept and Rain act as the gateway to the emerging intelligent economy," said Joe Thomas, Global Head of New Business development for Capgemini.
Rain will have a sector orientation that initially focuses on three industries where the need for service orientation is most acute: utilities, retail and manufacturing. Global clients will be invited to an "Insights Day" at the Cupertino hub on October 26 to discover first hand the methodology that Capgemini and Intel have outlined to bring the Service-Oriented Enterprise to life. Capgemini and Intel are the founding partners of Rain, and they are joined by ecosystem partners. The Rain environment is vendor agnostic and welcomes the participation of infrastructure and application partners.
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