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CACD2 - Crédit Agricole S.A. Group's Digital Manufacture
To support the digital evolution of its businesses, the Crédit Agricole S.A. Group is transforming a former printing plant into a structure entirely dedicated to digital production: CACD2.
CACD2 provides the Crédit Agricole S.A. Group with digital development capabilities. Its mission is to design, develop and industrialise digital services and products for all entities of the Crédit Agricole S.A. Group, around major topics such as finance, real estate, health and safety.
WHAT ARE CACD2’S OBJECTIVES?
1/ Internalise:
- Internalise skills (target: 60 people) which are currently external and which generate external expenses of several tens of millions of euros.
- Be faster in the development of digital projects, due to proximity to the entities (improvement of "time to market").
- Internally create the equivalent of the mobile development services currently used (e.g. Backelite, Niji, Valtech, SQLI, etc.).
- Develop an employer value proposition adapted to digital expert profiles.
These digital development capacities for the Crédit Agricole S.A. Group are coordinated with the system that CATS has set up in Montpellier, the “Mobile Centre”.
2/ Create:
- Provide Group entities with a hard core of experts to carry out end-to-end projects (mobile, web, front and back office, etc.), train entity teams in agile methodologies and support them in delivering projects.
- Coordinate the use of external service providers and assist in recruitment.
CACD2 LOCATIONS
Created and fitted out by Crédit Agricole Immobilier, the premises are located in the heart of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, halfway between the Montparnasse Centre and the Montrouge Centre, in a former industrial building of 1,500 square meters divided into ideation spaces, co-working rooms, event areas, user test rooms.
SERVICE OFFER:
CACD2 operates based on three modes of action:
- End-to-end digital projects: production in agile mode, design, architecture, development, testing and deployment for POC (Proof Of Concept), MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or more elaborate products.
- Expertise: agile coaching, design service, ad hoc technical support.
- Co-construction: added value through the involvement of a number of players with Group entities in the development and implementation of a digital project.
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Blockchain, artificial intelligence, mobile applications, customer portals, digital architecture, cloud and security, data engineering, digitalisation of processes, etc.
THE TEAM
To produce concrete results and innovate every day, CACD2 has brought together digital talents with rich and varied profiles:
- The developer : develops prototypes, produces web and mobile applications and sets up unit tests;
- The product owner : is responsible for the product backlog, is the main contact for a project;
- The UX designer : designs the user experience (journeys, personas, wireframes) for the various customer projects;
- The UI designer : designs the user interfaces (visual identity, colours, graphic elements, typography, etc.);
- The motion designer : is part of the Design team and bring his/her vision of movement and designs videos and animations;
- The agile coach : has the role of guide to support change, runs training sessions and workshops;
- The digital architect : is an expert on cloud, dockerisation, databases, PIC web and mobile questions.
Click on the image to view the interactive CACD2 brochure