Sopra Steria Group SA

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Business Description

Sector

Information Technology

Industry

Technology

Headquarters

France FR

Employees

51 275

IPO date

Mar 29, 1990

Sopra Steria Group is a European technology and consulting company that helps large organizations design, build, and run their digital systems. It plans and delivers IT projects, writes and integrates software, manages infrastructure, and supports areas like cloud, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing. Its work is mainly for big companies and public-sector clients that need help modernizing old systems or keeping critical operations running.

The company makes money by charging for consulting work, project delivery, software development, maintenance, and long-term managed services contracts. In some areas it also sells proprietary software, especially for banking and related back-office needs. That gives it a mix of one-off project revenue and steadier service revenue.

What makes Sopra Steria different is its role as a practical builder and operator inside the technology stack, not just a software seller. It often steps in where clients need both technical expertise and day-to-day support for complex systems, which creates sticky relationships and repeat business. This puts it in the middle of enterprise IT spending, where trust, domain knowledge, and delivery capability matter as much as the code itself.