Capgemini to acquire Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm to accelerate enterprises’ digital transformation through real-time 3D technology
22 Februar 2024 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Capgemini and Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for
creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced
an expansion of their strategic alliance that will see Capgemini
take on Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm. Per the
agreement, Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services team will
join and embed within Capgemini, forming one of the largest pools
of Unity enterprise developers in the world. The transaction will
accelerate the iteration and implementation of the market leading
real-time 3D (RT3D) visualization software for the industrial
application of digital twins. It will allow end users to envision,
understand, and interact with physical systems - a key enabler for
intelligent industry. The deal is expected to close in the second
quarter of 2024.
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Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services team has worked with
many companies over the past five years to develop real-time 3D
solutions to drive business results. As more and more enterprises
seek to combine the physical and digital worlds, clients are
looking for the RT3D software capabilities coupled with business
transformation, design, and engineering expertise to realize value
from the industrial application of digital twins at scale. Today’s
agreement will extend the reach and scale of Unity’s software
through Capgemini, allowing more organizations to further push the
boundaries of this technology through the acceleration, adoption,
and application of RT3D to build and scale immersive
experiences.
“Unity’s real-time 3D technology is the unequivocal industry
standard for visualization across platforms and devices. As such,
it is a key component that will impact the value-chain of
intelligent products - from R&D to manufacturing, operations,
and services,” comments William Rozé, CEO of Capgemini Engineering
and Group Executive Board member. “This new agreement with Unity
will allow Capgemini to embed 3D visualization software
capabilities into our end-to-end business transformation services,
to help clients realize the immediate and longer-term benefits of
intelligent industry.”
“Unity has reached a point in its growth where the opportunity
for us in the enterprise market has outpaced our ability to scale
fast enough to meet client demand,” explains Jim Whitehurst, CEO,
Unity. “With its scale and breadth of services – from design and
engineering to business transformation and data expertise,
Capgemini is well placed to unleash the full potential of Unity
technology for enterprise clients across industries with specific
use cases.”
As part of this agreement Capgemini plans to scale a range of
sector-specific solutions that are currently in high demand.
Particularly relevant for automotive, consumer products &
retail, energy & utilities, aerospace & defense, healthcare
& life sciences, and industrial products/manufacturing,
tailored offerings are expected to include:
- Simulation: A digital representation of an asset,
facility or product that emulates its real-world counterpart
through advanced modeling to provide real-time insights and
simulate future scenarios.
- Human Machine Interfaces: Interactive experiences for
in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), meters (gauge clusters), and
additional screens.
- Immersive Training: Engaging training experiences in
interactive 3D or augmented or virtual reality (AR and VR) to
enable better knowledge transfer and safer workplaces.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation
partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition
to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact
for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group
of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong
over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to
unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of
their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions
leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all
fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data,
combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.
The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
Get The Future You Want | www.capgemini.com
About Unity
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and growing
interactive, real-time 3D ("RT3D") content and experiences. Our
comprehensive set of software and AI solutions supports content
creators of all sizes through the entire development lifecycle as
they build, run, and grow immersive, real-time 2D and 3D content
and experiences for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and
augmented and virtual reality devices. For more information, visit
Unity.com.
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