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Capgemini is GitHub Partner of the Year –
This is More Than Just a Trophy

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Sometimes the news hits your inbox, and you just stop for a second, smile, and think: “Yes. That’s exactly where we wanted to go.”

GitHub has officially named Capgemini the 2025 EMEA Services and Channel Partner of the Year. This award recognizes partners that drive innovation, collaboration, and real impact for developers and enterprises across the region. And this year, Capgemini is on that list. The GitHub Blog

For me as “Mr. Microsoft” inside Capgemini, this is not just a nice badge for the company website. It is a very clear signal: our strategy around Microsoft Cloud, GitHub, and AI-powered development is working. For our teams and for our clients.

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Why this award is a big deal for our clients

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On the surface, “EMEA Services and Channel Partner of the Year” sounds like something mainly for partner managers and sales decks. Underneath, it tells a very practical story for CIOs and engineering leaders:

You can build your entire modern software factory on GitHub – strategy, tooling, process – and have a partner at your side who knows how to industrialize it at enterprise scale.

For our clients, this recognition means:

• We have proven experience rolling out GitHub across large, complex organizations. Not just small pilot teams.
• Capgemini knows how to align GitHub with Azure, Microsoft 365, and security requirements. Instead of treating it as a “standalone dev tool”.
• Our experts help teams go beyond source control and use the full GitHub platform. Actions, Advanced Security, Packages, Copilot, and now more and more AI-powered DevSecOps patterns.

In other words. This award is not about us. It is about the trust that enterprises can place in a joint GitHub plus Capgemini plus Microsoft story.

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Developers, GitHub, and the Microsoft cloud

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If you look at where software engineering is heading right now, one thing is obvious. The center of gravity has moved to GitHub.

Code lives there.
Collaboration lives there.
Security feedback lives there.
AI-assisted development lives there.

GitHub is the place where modern engineering teams spend their day. Microsoft Azure is where those workloads run, scale, and connect into the rest of the enterprise. Being recognized as GitHub’s EMEA partner of the year means we are trusted to connect those worlds and make them work as one coherent platform.

That includes topics like:

• Designing end-to-end CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps where needed, and Azure as the target runtime.
• Bringing GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud together into one security narrative.
• Rolling out GitHub Copilot in a way that fits each client’s compliance, governance, and developer culture.

For teams, this is where the magic happens. Less context switching, more automation, and a development experience that really feels “cloud native” instead of stitched together.

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What this means for me as “Mr. Microsoft”

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On a personal level, this award feels like a checkpoint on a longer journey.

For years I have been talking to clients about moving from “just using Git” to building a real developer platform – with GitHub, Azure, the Microsoft intelligent cloud, and now increasingly AI agents and Copilot in the mix.

When GitHub now says, in effect, “Capgemini is one of our key partners for EMEA,” it reinforces exactly that mission:

Help enterprises transform how they build software.
Make the developer experience first-class.
Anchor everything in a secure, scalable Microsoft Cloud foundation.

Inside Capgemini, it is also a huge motivation boost for all our Microsoft and GitHub practitioners. From the engineers who automate the pipelines, to the architects who design secure landing zones, to the change managers who help teams adopt new ways of working – this award belongs to all of them.

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Where we go from here

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An award is nice. What really matters is what we do with it.

For me, the next steps are clear:

• Double down on GitHub plus Azure as the default backbone for application modernization and greenfield builds.
• Bring more AI into the development lifecycle in a responsible way: Copilot, AI-powered security, and eventually fleets of AI agents running on Azure that support engineering teams instead of replacing them.
• Share more stories, patterns, and lessons learned from real client projects – so that others can build on them.

As “Mr. Microsoft,” I will continue to focus on exactly this: connecting the dots between GitHub, Microsoft Cloud, and concrete business outcomes. This award is a strong sign that we are on the right track – but the most interesting work is still ahead of us.

Stay clever. Stay collaborative. Stay shipping.
Your Mr. Microsoft,
Uwe Zabel.

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