Matthieu Lentz, CMO of JEMS, and Alexis Uzan, VP Channel, were interviewed at the latest Google Summit. In 3 questions, discover our vision on GenAI, Bard, and our ambition with Google!
So what we saw this morning, during the plenary session, is that we have a market that isn't mature on GenAI. The Director of E-commerce at Carrefour was talking about it: she sells potatoes and her concern is selling potatoes, not necessarily AI. At JEMS, this is pretty much what we're observing with our clients too. We support roughly a hundred projects per year and people aren't mature on artificial intelligence. Even less so on GenAI!
The announcement I liked best this morning was indeed Google's intention to train everyone in the company on GenAI, from business roles to developers. And I think that's a very positive point for the market.
It's true that Bard, there was a lot of talk about it as a direct competitor to ChatGPT. The European Commission blocked it because the data protection conditions weren't sufficient. That's also a good thing: I think that as Europeans, we also need to push our own vision of artificial intelligence.
Nevertheless, it's good to have competition to all these models in a capitalist market. So both announcements, even with the delay of ChatGPT in the market which will be pushed back to the autumn, is also a good thing.
So Google and JEMS, it's first and foremost a very strong relationship of trust. It's both the foundation and the driving force of this partnership. Secondly, it's a unique, proven, and shared delivery methodology. Finally, it's an absolutely worthwhile co-selling strategy: our sales teams work wonderfully well together.
Around this partnership, we have three major objectives. The first is to extend our value proposition to all our clients. Regardless of their size, their sector, or their geographical location in Europe. The second is to replicate what we have done with some of our clients – Renault, for example – around Looker and its semantic layer thanks to our Looker Centre of Excellence. And finally, the third is to address our clients' sovereignty challenges with S3ns, which naturally builds on Google products.
