Capgemini SE launched Perform AI, a new portfolio of solutions and services to assist organizations in achieving and sustaining tangible business outcomes by building and operating enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) at scale. The portfolio provides customers with a complete set of solutions to infuse AI in their organizations, delivering operational excellence and business innovation for immersive, highly personalized experiences. Leveraging the full capabilities of the entire Group - from strategy and design through to global implementation and management - Perform AI brings together people, process, data and technology to realize superior, sustainable and trusted business performance. A publication from the Capgemini Research Institute highlighted that a mix of anxiety and ill-informed opinion is obscuring the risks and opportunities of implementing AI. Organizations therefore need a pragmatic approach to move forward. In terms of anticipated demand, IDC forecasts cognitive and AI spend will grow to $52.2 billion in 2021 and achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46.2% over the 2016-2021 forecast period. Perform AI has been designed to address the real opportunities and the critical challenges which companies confront present, whatever their maturity on data management and AI: Applying AI at scale: Moving beyond proofs-of-concept and isolated deployments to industrialize AI across the enterprise, scaling the business benefits throughout the organization. Empowering people: Proactively managing the impact of AI initiatives on augmented workforces and seeking the best interactions between people and AI. Transforming operations and beyond: Applying AI-based technologies to assist, augment or automate operations, right through to reimagining business processes. Embedding ethics: Applying AI with an ethical and responsible approach; one that is transparent to users and customers, embeds privacy, ensures fairness, and builds trust. Spurring innovation for competitive advantage: Leveraging AI to introduce entirely new business models, ways of working, products, services, and experiences, offering legacy enterprises the opportunity to leapfrog their current market positions to ones previously reserved for digitally native enterprises only. AI ACTIVATE: Creates the strategic direction and the organization and technology platforms for where and how AI should be applied and adopted in the enterprise for maximum impact. AI TRANSFORM: Delivers AI-infused performance improvements to optimize existing business processes and to create the springboard for long term growth by introducing the right AI technologies and solutions among the vast and rapidly expanding volume of tools and solutions. AI REIMAGINE: Draws upon the strategy and innovation capabilities within Capgemini Invent and Capgemini's network of Applied Innovation Exchanges to help organizations envision new products and services, customer experiences, operating and business models, and revenue streams. AI ENGINEERING: Provides foundation services to ensure the enterprise's data estate and governance deliver trusted AI solutions in production and at scale. AI Engineering addresses the operating core of AI - data underpins every stage of the transformation.