PUBLISHED DATE: 2025-08-13 17:35:55
Cloud Acceleration Platform (CAP)
Offering Summary
Publicis Sapient, in partnership with Google, offers a comprehensive set of services to help your organization transition to a cloud-native structure. Our Cloud Acceleration Platform (CAP) on Google Cloud accelerates cloud adoption and migration, reducing the process from months to days so enterprises can quickly harness the power of the cloud. With a pre-built landing zone, tailored guidance throughout the process, and a suite of custom resources, CAP enables you to focus on your business and customers.
Publicis Sapient and Google: Fast-Tracking Your Cloud Journey
Establishing a cloud infrastructure is often complex and challenging. Multiple teams have unique requirements, and with hundreds of cloud products and services available, it can take months or even years to create and launch a fully integrated cloud platform. Publicis Sapient’s Cloud Acceleration Platform (CAP) is a ready-made toolkit for leveraging Google Cloud, providing modular and scalable configurations to ensure the right landing zone for each workload.
What is the Cloud Acceleration Platform (CAP)?
- Executable Product
- Foundation design blueprints and code repositories for each Google Cloud service family, including DevOps and Security.
- Roll-out Model
- A proven methodology for foundation roll-out, including operating model design.
- Capability Uplift
- Enables capability improvement through rapid onboarding, learning, and development.
CAP is designed to reduce the time, effort, and risks associated with cloud adoption and migration. Built on our expertise in delivering secure cloud platforms in collaboration with Google Cloud, CAP accelerates the creation of “cloud landing zones.” This allows clients to move production workloads to the cloud faster, more safely, and at a lower cost:
- Industry-ready and opinionated landing zones for various workload types, built on a strong set of Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
- Security guardrails derived from CSA CCM and CIS
- Reusable, extensible design and code assets for immediate use
Features and Benefits of CAP
- Executable Product
- Industry-tested CAP foundation blueprints, designs, architectures, code, and QE scripts, with documentation
- Built with input from Google and industry alliances
- Benefits: Greatly shortens foundation rollout time from months to weeks; delivers higher quality program and deployment artefacts
- Roll-out Model
- Proven deployment methodology for foundation roll-out, stakeholder identification, and program design (including operating model design)
- Dashboard for monitoring progress and landing zones across engineering, risk, finance, and compliance
- Benefits: Significantly reduces delivery timelines and risk; base implementation can be operational in 2 weeks (50% faster); self-service capabilities enable a “Cloud as Service” model; enhanced cost and resource management
- Capability Uplift
- Documented suite of designs, architectures, and code with simple “how-to” guides
- Broad service coverage across all major Google Cloud resources and APIs
- Benefits: Enhances people through best practice usage and collaboration; enables rapid onboarding, learning, and development
Publicis Sapient’s SPEED Philosophy for Digital Business Transformation
- STRATEGY: Developing and testing your hypothesis on priority value pools
- PRODUCT: Evolving at pace and scale
- EXPERIENCE: Enabling value for customers
- ENGINEERING: Delivering on your promise, at pace and at scale
- DATA & AI: Validating your hypothesis and uncovering insights for constant iteration
Together with Google, we help you achieve significant benefits:
- Reduce your cost/income ratio with optimized cost structures, improved economics, and faster time-to-market
- Drive cultural change, new ways of working, and a digital operating model and mindset to respond to customer needs
- Reduce risk and better manage your infrastructure, people, technology, security, and finances
- Maintain a balanced infrastructure portfolio, including private/hybrid cloud needs
- Drive business innovation, new business models, and revenue streams
- Better integrate with the platform economy and introduce intelligence and automation
- Reduce the overall carbon footprint associated with applications and infrastructure
How We’ve Made an Impact
Large UK Bank: Building for the Future with the Largest Google Cloud Foundation in Europe
The imperative for change:
The bank’s pace of delivering incremental changes was not aligned with modern digital paradigms. A significant portion of the IT budget was spent on operational activities rather than innovation. Existing policies and procedures were rooted in a legacy data center mindset, and the bank risked losing top engineering talent due to a lack of modern technology opportunities.
The transformative solution:
- Implemented the largest Google Cloud foundation platform in Europe, with landing zones for nearly all archetypes (PaaS and IaaS) and comprehensive monitoring and controls
- Defined security and operational controls aligned with the bank’s cloud risk framework (cloud agnostic)
- Built an entire bank on Google Cloud, including a new data platform for applications and analytics/ML (Kafka/BigQuery, Spanner), a new core banking platform (Thought Machine), new fraud detection (Feedzai), IAM (Ping Identity) SaaS, and a new payments gateway (Form3)
- Co-created and implemented a security Target Operating Model (TOM) for the cloud retail banking platform, including modern data analytics
The business impact:
- Dramatically reduced cost-to-serve by streamlining core business functions through automation and migrating processing to the cloud
- Accelerated pace of change through test-and-learn and continuous deployment
- Enabled differentiated propositions through more flexible product structures, open data, and hyper-personalization
Fully Digital Corporate Bank: Creating a New Digitally Enabled Trade Finance Bank 100% on Cloud
The imperative for change:
An opportunity was identified to disrupt the UK and UAE trade corridor and provide improved services to the SME market. The organization aimed to launch a truly digital bank with a unique business and service offering, operating on an aggressive timeline to capitalize on market opportunities. They sought to build a lightweight, cloud-based platform for lean business operations.
The transformative solution:
- Built a flexible, modular platform to integrate “best-of-breed” capabilities, providing core banking in the cloud
- Created a single source of truth to avoid reconciliation and conflict
- Developed a platform that is easily upgradeable, has a clean architecture, and is structured for AI and machine learning
- Designed for the future with secure, resilient, and flexible technology
The business impact:
- Established the MVP bank proposition from scratch in 6 months, including team mobilization, banking license approval, and complete technology stack procurement, build, and deployment
- Enabled technology and process choices without legacy constraints, aiming for a “zero operations” model
- Created an ecosystem of partner solutions supported by best-of-breed vendors
- Dramatically reduced operating costs (100 times less than competitors), enabling the provision of trade finance to underserved SMEs
What Sets Publicis Sapient Apart?
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