Case Study: Sopra Steria achieves automated, secure, cloud‑ready DevOps and operational efficiency with GitLab

How GitLab became the cornerstone of digital enablement for Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria, a European IT services and consulting leader (45,000 employees), faced a large‑scale migration from SVN to Git and needed a unified, cloud‑ready DevOps platform that supported SSO, built‑in CI/CD and security. In 2017 the organization selected GitLab (GitLab Premium) to standardize workflows, enable developers across the group, and accelerate its digital transformation.

GitLab delivered a single‑application DevOps platform with integrated CI/CD, security and compliance templates, SSO and multi‑cloud deployment (Azure, AWS, GCP). The result: roughly 10,000 GitLab users, full software builds in about 6 minutes and 0 developer time spent setting up CI/CD, while improving software quality, operational efficiency and developer satisfaction.

Sopra Steria

Yves Nicolas

Group CTO Office