Capgemini gives fillip to automation adoption, drives training initiative

With India being the significant offshore base for employees, the company is driving the skilling initiative in the country on a large scale

IT services and consulting firm Capgemini, which has half its global employee base in India, is training its staff here in automation technologies, as it sees huge opportunity in the field.

The company said the reason for the move is that majority of the automation projects, in which Capgemini’s role was primarily to provide advisory and consultancy services, were getting converted into deployments. With India being the significant offshore base for employees, the company is driving the training initiative in the country on a large scale.

“About 2-3 years back, most of their automation-based projects were in advisory or in