Groupe Rocher enlists Google Cloud for major IT implementation project

Google Cloud and Groupe Rocher, the parent company of cosmetics, home improvement, and textile brands such as Arbonne International, Yves Rocher, and Petit Bateau, have announced a five-year agreement to accelerate the latter’s digitisation and foster its sustainability strategy through IT.

Groupe Rocher is undertaking an extensive IT implementation, including API management to SAP migration and data analytics, to help its brands tap the cloud and to boost its e-commerce and social selling initiatives.

It will leverage Google Cloud technologies to support the digital growth of its brands. It intends to deploy globally its data platforms, modernise its e-commerce platform, and use data analytics to build better customer omnichannel journeys.

Groupe Rocher will also develop a new API management approach and move a majority of its workloads, as well as its SAP applications, to the cloud.  

The collaboration will also enable Groupe Rocher to leverage Google Cloud’s infrastructure and sustainability efforts to cut its own carbon footprint by deciding which Google Cloud region to use based on its carbon free energy percentage. 

The company will also be able to leverage Google’s investments in sustainable energies, its recycling approach, and use of renewable, and, increasingly, carbon free, energy to power its infrastructure.

Groupe Rocher will track the data related to its impact with Google Cloud against its own sustainability goals

“We consider Google Cloud as a real partner on our road to sustainable innovation and growth,” says Stanislas Duthier, Groupe Rocher’s CIO. 

“We will be working together to ensure that the development of our brands can benefit from the resilient, innovative, and reliable cloud technologies and digital expertise of Google, while making sure that our brands also accelerate steadily towards their own sustainability objectives.”