Software firm Pivotal has announced a new strategic partnership with Capgemini.

The partnership will combine Capgemini’s expertise in business solutions for big data and analytics with Pivotal’s data platform technologies.

The companies said they will innovate together around big data and analytics, starting with “Business Data Lake”. This aims to bring a new approach to combining big data volumes from new sources with legacy data, to provide business relevant analytics capabilities on a robust platform.

The Business Data Lake aims to transform how information is leveraged within the enterprise, moving away from a single centralized view. It enables a broad base of business users to create their own personal perspectives on all data: structured and unstructured, stored and streamed and from inside and outside their organization.

The end result will provide agile and relevant analytical insight to a broad community of business users, and through real-time technology integrate those insights directly into business processes.

Paul Martiz, CEO of Pivotal, said companies “must co-innovate” to solve problems for their customers as the world enters a new era of information-centric technology.

“This new offer (with Capgemini) represents our belief that the future of information insight within enterprises requires a new operating model, as both data volumes increase and real-time intelligent-response becomes a necessity of doing business,” Martiz said.

Capgemini and Pivotal said they are working together to establish a "dedicated" Pivotal Center of Excellence (CoE) within Capgemini’s Business Information Management (BIM) center in India, which will scale to 500 Pivotal product experts by 2015.

The CoE has access to over 8,000 information management practitioners and 6,000 Java developers.