Samsung SDS Europe and LAFI enter strategic partnership to advance secure enterprise mobility in France
Samsung SDS Europe is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with LAFI, a leading French IT integrator and technology solutions provider. The agreement brings Samsung SDS's enterprise mobility technology to LAFI's extensive customer base across private industry, government agencies and local authorities, and marks the beginning of a long term collaboration focused on secure, sovereign digital infrastructure for the French market.
A partner across the full IT lifecycle
Founded in 1988, LAFI supports private and public organizations in their digital transformation initiatives and has built a reputation as an efficient and long lasting company, offering customers reliability and stability. Its portfolio spans Digital Workplace, cloud services, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, managed services, financing solutions and professional services, delivered as end to end solutions rather than isolated products.
With a nationwide presence and a strong ecosystem of technology partners, LAFI helps organizations design, deploy and manage secure and innovative IT environments. Its expertise covers the full lifecycle of IT projects, from consulting and procurement through integration, deployment and ongoing support. On the procurement side, the company's EPROO platform provides one of the largest bases of IT products available online, backed by a global network of more than 1,500 suppliers that allows customers to centralize their IT purchasing and realize significant management savings. Alongside it, LAFI's engineering teams deliver complex infrastructure projects including technical deployment, system migration and SAN installation.
The core: Enterprise Mobility Management
At the heart of this strategic partnership is Samsung SDS's Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, which LAFI offers its customers as a dedicated, on premises framework.
The solution is purpose built for enterprises, critical infrastructure operators and government entities that require the highest levels of protection. By keeping device management, identity access and policy enforcement within the customer's own environment, the on premises model addresses the data sovereignty and control requirements that characterize regulated and mission critical sectors. For organizations managing large scale mobile deployments, it provides centralized oversight without compromising on security posture.
A joint solution and shared expertise for customers in France
The purpose of the partnership is to bring both organizations together behind a single offering for the French market. Samsung SDS contributes a globally proven enterprise mobility solution and decades of experience in secure IT architectures, while LAFI adds its integration capabilities, nationwide presence and long standing relationships across the public and private sectors. Customers receive the combined result: a solution that is consulted on, integrated, deployed and supported by teams who understand both the technology and the operating environment it runs in.
"Through our new partnership with Samsung SDS, we look forward to delivering even greater value to our customers by combining LAFI's integration capabilities with Samsung SDS's expertise in enterprise mobility, security and digital innovation," says Alexandre Soulier, General Manager at LAFI. "This collaboration enables us to support organizations in addressing their evolving business and cybersecurity challenges with best in class solutions, deployed entirely within their own environment where that is what their obligations require."
"LAFI's position in the French market and its command of the full IT project lifecycle make it an ideal partner for us," says Celestin Blache, Technical Account Manager at Samsung SDS Europe. "By combining our enterprise mobility expertise with LAFI's integration capability and nationwide reach, we can bring secure, sovereign mobility management to organizations where the standard of protection is not negotiable."
Through this partnership, Samsung SDS continues its commitment to working with strong European technology providers, pairing local market knowledge with global leadership in secure mobility and enterprise device ecosystems.
