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YOMANI wins ‘German Savings Bank Association’ payment terminal competition
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An outstanding performance makes YOMANI, an Atos Worldline contactless payment terminal, most convincing, thanks to a tried and tested configuration, its USB connectivity, its catching design and user-friendly, large colour display.
Decisive product features
This is the conclusion drawn by the judges of the German Savings Bank Association (DSGV), who awarded their 2013 prizes to the winners of the DSGV “contactless payment” payment competition in Berlin, and declared YOMANI the winner in the “Best Terminal Performance” test category.
Entered in the competition jointly by Atos Worldline and REA the terminal was a runaway winner over the competition with such features as “high speed in contactless payments,” and “loading with PIN at the point of sale,” as well as its “user guidance.”
Growth surge in payment transactions
Endowed with prize money totalling €275,000, the competition was organised by the German Savings Bank Association as a reward to promote contactless payments and thus to give card-based payments an additional growth surge in the coming years. Ten winners in all were declared in three categories: “Projects,” “Terminal Performance,” and “Innovation.”
Even better derived products
The YOMANI first generation NFC terminal takes up very little space, has an integrated PIN privacy shield, and simple and clear user guidance. The current performance will in future be topped with a new, faster processor type in the new YOMANI generation -- YOMANI ML and YOMANI XR -- which are about to be launched on the market.
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11 April - Atos awarded with ICT Project of the Year in Finland
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Municipal ERP project brings Atos a second consecutive win
Together with its customer Tiera, Atos in Finland has been awarded with the ICT Project of the Year accolade in Finland. Atos and Tiera were awarded for their work in creating a SAP Financial System for the city of Lahti. Atos provided the infrastructure for the system. The winning project was chosen by a panel of top CIO’s in Finland.
Nationwide new approach
The pilot project in Lahti is part of a wider Municipal ERP venture aiming to create common, shared systems and solutions for cities and municipalities across the entire country. Instead of each city producing their own IT systems, they can save in effort and expenses by letting Tiera produce services on a larger scale together with its partners, including Atos.
“The award acts as an encouragement for more cities and municipalities to consider the way they use ICT in enhancing productivity”, the awards panel commented in their verdict. “As in most other developed countries, the population in Finland is ageing and more and more services will be required in the near future. The SAP Financial System project in Lahti shows that investing in new approaches does pay off”, the panel concluded.
Second consecutive win for Atos
This year’s ICT Project of the Year award was already a second consecutive win for Atos. Last year Atos was awarded for the green data center in Helsinki’s Suvilahti district. The eco-friendly center reuses excess heat to provide heating for nearby homes in Helsinki. “We are proud to receive this award from such a notable panel of experts, for the second time in a row. There’s also an interesting link between these two awards: the SAP Financial System of Lahti is run from the Suvilahti green data center, thus warming the homes of our capital”, comments Timo Knuutila, CEO of Atos in Finland.
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27 March - Atos Scoops another ‘Great Place to Work’ Award in Poland
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For the 2nd year Atos in Poland has been recognized by the Great Place to Work® Institute (GPTW). Climbing one place higher to #2 Best Place to Work on the list of best companies in Poland. Atos is the only IT Company in the GPTW list. This time they have climbed one place higher to #2 Best Place to Work on the list of best companies in Poland. Atos is the only IT Company in the GPTW list.
Dariusz Baran Country Manager for Poland commented; “Externally, the Atos name is widely recognized in Poland which means our customers, key stakeholders, recruitment consultants and candidates see us as a company that aims to find the best people who want to stay with Atos and who will always do the best they can for their customers. It means a great deal to me that employees here value our Wellbeing@work ambition as much we value them and I am very proud to lead such a great team!”
This award confirms that HR policy conducted by Atos is satisfying to our employees says Kinga Bloch HR director. “ The fact that we have been certified for the second time keeps us going – we do care about our people and concentrate on their potential and talent management. Till the end of this year we will hire about 300 employees. “.
Philippe Mareine, EVP General Secretary at Atos said; “I’m delighted that Poland has won again! To win a second Great Place to Work award in Poland is a testament to the commitment of our Polish employees in giving us their valuable feedback. The criteria surveyed included our management’s credibility, respect and trust from employees and they have scored well in all these areas. I am delighted because this award shows that as a leading IT company, we are starting to achieve our goal to create the right working environment and conditions for our employees to develop and achieve their best.”
Last year, the 1,200 strong team in Poland who work across four locations in Bydgoszcz, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Gdansk received the Great Place to Work 2011 award for being one of three best places to work in Poland among companies employing over 500 people.
The Gala Awards Ceremony took place in Warsaw at the Warsaw Stock Exchange and was attended by Dariusz Baran, Country Manager, Kinga Bloch, Head of HR and Magdalena Pastor, Project Manager for GPTW, who proudly accepted the award on behalf of everyone in Poland (Pictured left to right opposite).
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6 March - Canopy Wins Global and EMEA Awards at VMware Partner Exchange 2013
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Canopy, an Atos company and a market-leading one-stop shop for Cloud services, today announced that it has been named the recipient of a Global and EMEA VMware Partner Network Award in the vFabric™ Competency Partner of the Year category by VMware. The award was presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2013, VMware’s annual partner event, on Feb. 26 in Las Vegas.
“We are pleased to recognize the outstanding achievements made in 2012 by members of the VMware partner ecosystem, particularly those partners serving our global customers,” said Colleen Kapase, senior director, Partner Readiness, VMware. “VMware Partner Exchange is dedicated to educating and equipping our partner ecosystem with the resources and insights they need to help deliver first class solutions for the software-defined datacenter in the coming year. We congratulate Canopy on winning a VMware Partner Network Award and we look forward to our mutual success in 2013.”
“We are thrilled to be recognised as the VMware vFabric™ Competency Partner of the Year for both EMEA and globally,” said Darren Ratcliffe, SVP PaaS Business Unit at Canopy. “We believe that the vFabric based, Canopy Complete Development Environment is a game changing platform for the development community and our partnership with VMware is enabling us to deliver differentiated cloud offerings based on vFabric and Spring technologies.”
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Purchase, New York, 28 February 2013 - INTERalliance recognizes Atos in North America for community leadership as a founding sponsor
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Atos has been awarded a Founding Sponsor Award by the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati in recognition of its sponsorship, vision, and support to the Greater Cincinnati community (in North America) by supporting and underwriting the establishment and ongoing success of this not-for-profit corporation. Since 2005, Atos has provided in-kind support in the form of executive-on-loan services of Doug Arthur as executive director and central office facilities, as well as direct program support of the INTERalliance and its career camps, internships, and conferences. INTERalliance recognized Atos at TechOlympics Expo 2013 for eight years of community service as a founding sponsor, along with Procter & Gamble and the University of Cincinnati.
This Founding Sponsor Award was presented to Cindi Kornegay, Atos Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, North America Managed Services, by Jim Scott, CIO of KnowledgeWorks and board chairman of the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. The award was presented to Ms. Kornegay after her keynote address to more than 500 students from 42 regional high schools at TechOlympics Expo 2013, the annual three-day career conference at the Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati hosted by the INTERalliance and sponsored by Kroger, Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati CIO Roundtable, and 30 other companies in addition to Atos North America.
Mr. Scott was eager to share with a crowd of nearly 800 students, volunteers and sponsors the gratitude of the Board of Directors of INTERalliance that includes the CIOs and senior directors from Kroger, P&G, Fifth Third Bank, GE Aviation, Great American Insurance, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions, and KnowledgeWorks. Said Scott, “The eight years of contributions by Atos, not only of Doug’s time, but of their facilities, a place for the Board of Directors to meet, and active participation hiring interns and sponsoring career camps and conferences, have made the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati possible. We are all very grateful to Atos for this commitment.”
Said Cindi Kornegay, “We are very proud of the contribution the INTERalliance has made to the Cincinnati community, and we at Atos are honored to be a part of this important work that improves the quality of life for our company and our community.”
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Mumbai, 15 February 2013, Atos wins the 2013 NASSCOM Process Innovation Award
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Atos has won the 2013 NASSCOM Process Innovation Award for its Cloud Orchestration Platform which enables organisations to integrate business processes across multiple applications, clouds and smart devices
The Cloud Orchestration platform has been designed by Atos business technologists to help organisations cost effectively and securely manage the increasingly complex cloud environment.The platform has already been implemented at several global, large, blue-chip organisations
As organisations accelerate their move to the Cloud, so will their need for cloud orchestration services increase. It is estimated that by 2016 cloud orchestration services will represent about 30% of the predicted $100 billion Cloud IT revenue.
Milind Kamat, CEO for Atos in India, said; “We are delighted to receive this award from NASSCOM, which recognises how through our innovative solutions and services, we create business value for our clients.”
Launched in 2004, the NASSCOM Innovation Awards recognizes companies that have made innovation a part of their organizational DNA, and have used the innovation engine to reinvent their processes, marketing and product development strategies.
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Mumbai, 14 February 2013, Atos Receives SAP® Regional Partner Excellence Award 2013 as “Top Partner - Database & Technology” in Germany
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Atos received the SAP® Regional Partner Excellence Award 2013 in the category “Top Partner – Database & Technology.” The award represents Atos outstanding contributions that impact overall SAP sales and pipeline-generation goals.
"It’s a great recognition of our long-term partnership with SAP which got strengthened following the integration of Siemens IT Solutions and Services“, said Dr. Ulrich Förster Director of Business Unit SAP at Atos in Germany. “This recognition now needs to be leveraged for further profitable growth of our SAP business in Germany as well as globally."
"A thriving partner ecosystem is central to SAP’s success“, said Jochen Wießler, head, Ecoystem & Channels, Germany, SAP DACH. “As a recipient of the SAP Regional Partner Excellence Award 2013 in the category Database & Technology we recognize Atos commitment to bring innovative SAP products especially SAP HANA to market."
Atos received the award during the SAP EMEA & DACH FKOM 2013, an annual gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees and partners. FKOM is SAP’s largest yearly sales meeting, intended to drive success during the upcoming year.
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Atos in China Awarded “SAP APJ Partner Excellence”
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Atos in China has won the Top Channel Partner Marketing Best Practices Award at the SAP APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) Field Kick Off Meeting (FKOM) in Singapore on January 15th, 2013.
FKOM is one of the largest internal conferences dedicated to SAP field employees and partners. The APJ Top Channel Partner Marketing Best Practices Award is one of SAP’s Regional Partner Excellence Awards and recognizes those SAP partners who have made a clear impact in helping SAP achieve its sales and pipeline goals. The award categories include sales, innovation, technology and solutions.
“It is a very positive message for our SAP partnership. Well done and let's keep up the good work moving forward”, said Eric Kwok, GM of Atos in China. Yves Mallein, SAP Global Partner Director, also conveys his congratulations, “This will certainly contribute to strengthen our joint activities in the region”.
The candidates for the Marketing Best Practices in APJ are nominated by individual countries in SAP APJ in recognition of their marketing capability, marketing effectiveness and integrated marketing approaches. The shortlist is then reviewed by the SAP APJ Management for final appraisal. After two rounds of fierce competition, Atos seized the honor as it has shown significant increase in marketing capability and substantially improved its level and quality in executing marketing strategy. Atos demonstrates the ability to implement different marketing tactics in an integrative manner from events-focused to an integrated marketing approach.
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London, 6 December 2012 - Frost & Sullivan name Atos winner of the 2012 Global Visionary Innovation Award
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Atos was named the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2012 Global Visionary Innovation Award for its Zero Email TM Program. Thierry Breton, Atos Chairman & CEO, launched this initiative in Februay 2011 in recognition that the volume of emails sent and received internally, was becoming unsustainable for business.
The award which recognizes companies that have achieved world-class performance within their industries was presented at the Excellence in Best Practices Awards Banquet held in London last night.
Archana Amarnath, Program Manager, Visionary Innovation Research Group at Frost & Sullivan said: “We applaud Atos for successfully deploying innovative tools and propagating collaborative social media tools and enterprise communication networks for communication, documentation and project management. This ambitious “Zero email TM” initiative of Atos, indeed, removes all externalities of electronic mail while still maintaining a sustainable business model and greater innovation for clients. We are sure that its progress will be closely followed by many organisations equally keen to find an alternative to end the email overload. Atos is taking a pragmatic approach to achieving its vision and we look forward to seeing them achieve their success.”
Ursula Morgenstern, UK CEO at Atos said: “Our Zero email TM ambition has been embraced by our employees, who are eager to find a smarter way to work. Those who have been involved in the first pilots are finding that social collaboration is more effective than email and are reporting better productivity, team working, knowledge sharing and sales synergies.”
The Atos Zero email TM ambition forms part of the Company’s Wellbeing at Work programme and is on track to replace internal email by the end of 2013. Atos has Zero email Certified™ flagship processes including those for Security Identification and Event Management (SIEM) at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the operations of its Global Executive Committee.
Atos is also rolling out the latest “ZEN” release from blueKiwi, Europe’s leading social software company which Atos acquired in April 2012. ZEN by blueKiwi provides a Facebook-like work environment employees can collaborate to work smarter, share information, find experts and build their own network.
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22 November - Atos picks up top industry apprentice scheme award
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Atos has won a top industry award for its modern apprenticeship scheme at the 2012 Modern Apprenticeship Awards, organised by Skills Development Scotland (SDS).
The awards showcase businesses that have demonstrated initiative, enterprise and outstanding commitment to the improvement of skills development within the Scottish economy, through their involvement in modern apprenticeships.
Through the initiative, Atos has provided employees with the chance to build a career in IT using formal training and development programmes and a number of industry recognised qualifications, offering an alternative option to the more traditional University route.
Atos is committed to continuing to bring talented people onboard through the modern apprenticeship scheme and plans to continue the scheme in 2013.
Gavin Thomson, Atos Senior Vice President in Scotland, said: “We are delighted to pick up this prominent award for being part of a scheme that has allowed us to attract talented and driven individuals to our company.
“Our apprentices are a testament to our investment in future talent and we look forward to working with an increasing number of gifted individuals through the modern apprenticeship scheme in the future.”
The initiative offers people over the age of 16 paid employment combined with workplace training and off-the-job learning helping them build and develop their skills and gain qualifications relevant to their career.
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05 November 2012 - Atos rated a leader in Identity Management by KuppingerCole
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Atos has been given top ratings for its DirX Identity solution by the analysts at KuppingerCole. In KuppingerCole's new "Identity Provisioning" report, Atos was listed among the top companies in the "Overall Leadership" and "Product Leadership" categories. The company also received an excellent rating in the "Innovation Leadership" category.
KuppingerCole evaluated identity management solutions from a total of 21 international providers. "Identity Provisioning is the automatic management of identities and associated access rights for applications, and is therefore one of the central elements of the identity management market", explains Martin Kuppinger, co-founder of KuppingerCole. "With DirX Identity, Atos is able to offer an established and mature solution."
DirX Identity has been a successful product on the identity and access management market for many years now. The latest version (V8.2) is a comprehensive, process-oriented, cloud-enabled, scalable and highly available solution. Its features include user lifecycle management as well as role-based, platform-independent access management in real-time. DirX Identity ensures that customers are able to comply with all legal and regulatory requirements (compliance) for identity management.
KuppingerCole was particularly impressed with the role- and rule-based approach of the Atos solution and the consistent use of Web services to ensure interoperability. "KuppingerCole's positive rating shows that long-term experience is a critical factor in creating customer-oriented solutions", says Herbert Blaauw, head of the Security Competence Center at Atos in Germany. "We therefore see the new report as a recognition of our efforts".
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18 October 2012 – Atos receives honorable mention at the IT Gala in Slovakia
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Atos received an honorable mention at the IT Gala in Slovakia for its IT employment services system, which has been implemented at the Department of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family. It provides data storage and automated processing as well as improving the quality and accuracy of client data.
The prestigious award ceremony is now in its 12th year and aims to reward the professional and managerial efforts of personalities and companies in IT and telecommunications, as well as most innovative projects implemented during the year. The judging panel includes journalists as well as IT and telecommunications professionals
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25 September 2012 - Atos Positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrants for Help Desk and Desktop Outsourcing, Europe 2012
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Atos, an international IT services company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the ″Magic Quadrant for Desktop Outsourcing, Europe″ i and “Magic Quadrant for Help Desk Outsourcing, Europe” ii based on “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.”
Atos leading Adaptive Workplace offering is a comprehensive portfolio of services that map across all aspects of the workplace including advisory, design, implementation and ongoing management, to serve as a true end-to-end capability focused on a usercentric workplace and facilitating business outcomes.
Eric Grall, Executive Vice President of Managed Services at Atos said:" We are pleased with the positioning of Atos in the leaders quadrant as we feel it affirms our vision and roadmap for workplace services. At Atos we recognize that today’s workplace is changing rapidly and a new way of working is emerging. With the Adaptive Workplace we are confident we have a set of services and solutions that we can meet the demands of the workplace both today and in the future."
About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
i Gartner : “Magic Quadrant for Desktop Outsourcing” by Frank Ridder, Claudio Da Rold and GianlucaTramacere, 21 August, 2012
ii Gartner: “Magic Quadrant for Help Desk Outsourcing” by GianlucaTramacere, Claudio Da Rold and Frank Ridder, 29 August, 2012
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6 September 2012 - Atos Positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrants for Help Desk Outsourcing and Desktop Outsourcing Services, North America
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Atos has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Desktop Outsourcing Services, North America” and the “Magic Quadrant for Help Desk Outsourcing, North America 2012” .
“Industry competition and economic drivers continue to demand more of IT outsourcing. We believe our dual positioning as a Leader in both the Desktop and Help Desk Outsourcing quadrants is an affirmation of our innovative and consistent approach to meeting client challenges,” said Cynthia Kornegay, Vice President, End User Services, Atos. “We believe Gartner’s evaluation, combined with direct client feedback, demonstrates that our Atos client focused approach offers the optimal blend of knowledge and service orientation proven to be effective.”
In the market leading reports, Gartner analysts evaluated technology providers in two areas, Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. For the Ability to Execute analysis, Gartner positions each service provider based on its success in delivering results, and on its preparation to deliver results in the future. In the Completeness of Vision analysis, Gartner’s positioning reflects each service provider's potential for success as evidenced by its view of the market, service operating model, and strategic plans for growth and service improvements.
About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
IGartner "Magic Quadrant for Desktop Outsourcing Services, North America" David Edward Ackerman, Helen Huntley, Bryan Britz, William Maurer, July 24, 2012
II Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Help Desk Outsourcing, North America" Helen Huntley, David Edward Ackerman, Bryan Britz, William Maurer, July 24, 2012
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30 August 2012 - Atos Positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, Europe 2012
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Atos has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, Europe 2012 1” .
Atos has been positioned based on “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.” Gartner defines its leader’s quadrant as including service providers that are “performing skillfully. They have a clear vision of the market's direction and are developing competencies to maintain their leadership position. They shape the market, rather than follow it.”
Eric Grall, Executive Vice President of Managed Services at Atos said: “Atos has built a reputation in the IT sector with over 20 years’ experience at the forefront of IT outsourcing. We see that competition and economic drivers continue to demand more of IT outsourcing and believe that our positioning in the Leaders quadrant is proof of our continued focus on innovation and ability to meet our client’s demands.”
About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
1 Gartner: “Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, Europe 2012 » |
13 August 2012 - Syclo recognizes ENERGY4U as its 2012 Partner Of The Year
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Syclo, a leading provider of enterprise mobile solutions, named ENERGY4U, a leading Systems Integrator (SI) for SAP implementations, as the winner of its annual Partner of the Year Award 2012. ENERGY4U, an Atos company, earned this recognition for several global deployments including multiple products and consistently delivering on time and within budget. “The bottom line is that ENERGY4U gets the job done, performs at a very high level and regularly goes over and beyond the call of duty,” said Terri Snell, Syclo’s SVP Alliances. “Their ability to scale globally working with a wide range of Syclo products, coupled with their vast knowledge of SAP puts the company in an elite group of SIs. We thank and congratulate ENERGY4U for their solid teamwork and commitment to Syclo as we look forward to many more years of successful client implementations together.”
The core team at ENERGY4U comes from SAP and has extensive experience deploying SAP mobile solutions, which has positioned the company to succeed at a very high level when working with Syclo. Over the past 12 months, ENERGY4U has worked with Syclo on dozens of implementations in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Customers deployed in the last 12 months include Aquarian Water Company, PSEG, RheinEnergie, Roche Diagnostics, Stadtwerke Duisburg, Strata, Dubai Electric and Water Authority and Energie Steirmark.
“The combination of ENERGY4U as our implementation partner and Syclo as the software vendor was key for the success of the project,” says John Norko, Utility Services – Technical Lead with Aquarion Water Company. “Now the notification processing is five times faster than our old solution. Thanks to ENERGY4U and Syclo our technicians are finally enjoying the best mobility.”
“We are very excited to work with Syclo and SAP on a day-to-day basis,” said Florian Ganz, Business Unit Manager, for ENERGY4U. “The company’s enterprise mobile solutions are the best in the industry and to be recognized as the 2012 Partner Of The Year, is a real honor. We look forward to many more successes together - the future is going to be very prosperous for everyone involved."
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30 March - Atos ranked ‘Best Workplaces 2012’ in Poland
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Paris was named Best Workplaces 2012’ in Poland. This award endorses the Company’s ‘Wellbeing@work’ global transformation program. Set up in 2010, the programme aims to design working environment of the future where people aspire to work., At the heart of the programme is how technology can enable new ways of working that both support a better work-life balance for our employees and also make the business more efficient.
During a Gala ceremony at the Warsaw Stock Exchange organized by Great Place to Work Institute Poland, representatives of Atos in Poland received the award as ‘one out of three best places to work for in Poland’ for companies employing over 500 people. The only one IT services company in the 2012 list.
The ‘Great Place to Work’ rank is based on two processes, an in-depth survey and culture audit. Criteria that are surveyed include the management’s credibility, respect and trust to employees and to the organization they work for. For the past four years Great Place to Work Institute has awarded only a small number of companies in Poland that comply with these high standards of work culture.
“As a leading IT company, we are focussed on creating the right working environment and conditions for our employees to develop and achieve their best. We are proud to have received this important award which highlights the success of our Wellbeing@work initiative. Our ambition is to be recognized as one of the best companies to work for. To become a company that attracts the best talent and anticipates the needs of the next generation. We are a responsible employer and are committed to ensuring the wellbeing at work, encouraging personal development and pioneering new ways of working through the use of innovative IT technology,” said Philippe Mareine, EVP General Secretary at Atos.
Dariusz Baran, country manager for Atos in Poland: “ Participation in Great Place to Work program offers an opportunity to verify results of our initiatives and to compare them with other companies. We encourage suggestions from our employees so we can improve our working environment continuously and thank them for being ranked ‘Great place to work’ in Poland”.
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Helsinki, 16 March 2012, Atos awarded with ‘ICT Project of the year’ for green cloud data center
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Atos and its partners, Academica’s and Helsingin Energia’s received a prestigious award for their green cloud data center. The center provides the city of Helsinki with energy based on heat recovery and received the ICT Project of the Year award during the 600 Minutes Executive IT event that took place in Finlandia Hall, the evening of 14 March. The CIO Jury said that the project improves the IT industry's image, shows a genuine spirit of innovation and has demanded a strong partnership between different actors.
The prize-winning Atos cloud data center is part of Academica’s 5000 m2 Suvilahti data center. Atos goal was to set up a strategic global data center eco-efficiently, energy-efficiently and cost-effectively, and it selected partners Academica and Helsingin Energia that had built the highly eco-efficient Uspenski data center earlier. Suvilahti is a unique place in that it is located in district cooling loop and transfer points at the intersection, next to the plant and growing area of Kalasatama.
This eco-efficient data center will serve European customers and is one of the many initiatives to achieving Atos sustainable goals. The green data center utilizes eco-efficient cooling provided by Helsingin Energia, and the extra heat created by its servers will be transferred to the district heating network to provide heat and warm water for 4,500 new 80 m2 apartments in the city. Atos has a total of 13 Global Data Centers and 50 Local Data Centers.
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Paris, 8 December 2011, Atos receives four prestigious awards from SAP
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During SAPPHIRE NOW that took place in Madrid last month, Atos received the ‘SAP Mobility Showcase Award for SAP Partners’ for its iPad app based on SAP’s premium solution for Environment, Health & Safety. The company also took home the Gold SAP Quality Award at an EMEA level with its customer Sabena Technics « Implementation of new applications».
iPad app
The award was presented to Atos in recognition and to acknowledge its enterprise mobility applications that demonstrate ‘the art of the possible’ in mobilizing business processes and the mobile experience. Atos demonstrated, rapid time to value and the ability to effectively address the requirements of the business while minimizing complexity. Atos built the iPad app for Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S), a domain in which Atos is a recognized global leader. The app provides security officers a very user-friendly access to critical data and procedures in case a calamity strike their plant. Information on the quantity and location of hazardous goods are displayed on the iPad. The app gets all of its information in several languages from SAP via Sybase.
Pegasus project from Sabena
The awards recognizes the breadth of Atos SAP expertise combined with its knowledge of the business and industrial customers. It recognizes the company’s ability to deliver on time and on budget projects for business transformation and technology providing high value added our customers.
Sabena technics, a French group of aircraft maintenance, which employs over 3,000 employees across 17 sites, was recognized for its innovative project 'Pegasus' on the convergence of major business functions of the group (equipment repair, logistics, and integrated services preventive maintenance). The project deployed on the sites of Bordeaux, Brussels and Miami, has been implemented jointly by J & M Consulting, SOA People, Atos and SAP France. Atos has been involved in the technical realization of very specific business functions, including the management of repair of landing gear as well as preventive maintenance of equipment and interface with EDI SPEC2000.
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November 29th, 2011, Atos wins the Computer Weekly best CIO blog award
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Atos has won the prestigious "Best CIO blog" award at the 2011 Computer Weekly Social Media Awards in London.
The award, which recognizes the best blogs written by and for CIOs and IT directors, and concerning the latest insights from senior management across the industry, was won against some very stiff competition. This is a great result, especially after being the runner-up in last year’s awards.
According to Computer Weekly, “In just two years, the Atos CIO Blog has grown to provide a voice for 100 people in a CIO focused Consulting team. In the last year, the original UK based Atos Origin CIO blog has expanded to become the rebranded, global blogging platform for the Atos 75,000 people strong business, supporting four sub-blogs for CIOs - UK, NL, US and Scientific Community”.
For more information visit blog.Atos.net or see the full results here.
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October 2011, Atos receives “Best Business Collaboration” award from Huawei
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Atos has been delivering Managed services to Huawei - who has a contract with KPN International for installation and management of a MVNE platform – since end 2010. Huawei has a reputation of being a very customer focused company, a culture that fits well with Atos. High standard criteria on tooling processes and solutions needed to be met, to become a registered supplier of Huawei. After meeting their strict criteria and executing to the full satisfaction of Huawei, Atos was selected and has collaborated on a number of bids. End February 2012 the two parties formed a partnership in order to address the growing global telecom market and targeting telecom operators that operate on a worldwide level. Huawei offers solutions - software and hardware – and in particular Next Generation BSS.
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September 20th 2011, Atos receives 2011 ICT Quality Award
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Atos has received the 2011 ICT Quality Award for Best Practices in the provision of ICT services, which is awarded annually by the Spanish Quality Association (AEC). The Award, which was presented today during the 2011 CSTIC Conference, is considered to be the most prestigious prize in Spain in the area of quality in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.
With this award, the AEC singled out the “Kanban Software” project implemented by Atos. Kanban Software was set up two years ago, as one of Atos initiatives focused on promoting continuous improvement in the delivery processes of the integration systems service line. The project was aimed at the study and application of agile-Lean practices in software life cycle processes, and it currently forms part of the Consulting Portfolio in the IT Delivery COE, managed globally from Atos Spain.
The AEC’s ICT Quality Award seeks to publically recognise those companies or institutions which have successfully used a quality strategy in ICT, or have decisively contributed to the creation or implementation of good practices in the field of ICT, in order to improve competitiveness.
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Utrecht, 15 June 2011 - Atos Origin named best IT company in the Netherlands
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Leading Dutch management magazine, Management Team, named Atos Origin the best IT company in the Netherlands for the fourth consecutive year following the results of its annual survey, in which senior executives in the Netherlands are asked to rate the quality of their IT service providers.
“Atos Origin was ranked in the top 10 in 8 of the 10 categories for outsourcing, security, web, consultancy, custom software, professional services, workplace solutions and management & maintenance. Which is why it is ranked number one IT services provider for the fourth consecutive year. Atos Origin provides end-to-end IT services from consulting through to systems integration, hi-tech transactional services and managed services and scored high in all these areas. Sustainability is at the core of their corporate strategy and 659 executives recognize Atos Origin as a world leader in providing innovative IT solutions to help clients become more sustainable,” said Management Team.
"It's a great compliment to all our employees for us to be named the best IT services provider in the Netherlands for the fourth consecutive year especially in this highly competitive market and in difficult economic circumstances,” said Rob Pols, CEO of Atos Origin Netherlands. “There is a growing need for IT services providers to differentiate themselves through sustainable enterprise. Atos Origin provides services that help customers grow responsibly, now and in the future. "
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Brussels, 9 June 2011 - Atos Origin wins prestigious SAP award for its innovative iPad app.
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Following a competition organized by SAP Belgium during its World Tour, IT services companies were competing in the world of mobile innovation combined with SAP software. Atos Origin won the first price with an iPad app based on SAP’s premium solution for Environment, Health & Safety. The contest was named ‘Rapid ROI and increased productivity with mobile applications’.
A jury of senior SAP officials and customers awarded the first price to the Atos Origin team for its app that provides security officers a very user-friendly overview of what needs to be done should a calamity strike their plant. Immediately, information on the quantity and location of hazardous goods are displayed on the iPad.
Henk Vandendooren, country manager of Atos Origin in Belgium reacts enthusiastically : ‘This app was launched simultaneously during Sapphire in Orlando USA, providing a global stage to our local development team. Atos Origin did indeed create and build this app with own staff from different technological disciplines from its Brussels offices, but it is available to our clients worldwide”.
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Utrecht, 14 April 2011 – Atos Origin first Dutch SAP Special Expertise Partner for Sustainability
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It’s the first time SAP Netherlands awarded an IT services company for its knowledge and expertise of SAP solutions for sustainable business. Atos Origin is a leader in developing specific solutions in this area. Under the name SAP for Sustainability the company introduced the Sustainability Dashboard and the Product Compliance Pack.
"Atos Origin is an SAP partner with a clear vision and approach in introducing sustainable business with its customers and has a proven track record in successfully implementing SAP Sustainability solutions."said Erast Root, Head or Alliance of SAP Netherlands.
"The award is a recognition of our knowledge and expertise in the field of SAP Sustainability and the added value of specific solutions we have developed. Atos Origin solutions help clients manage their sustainability in a more mature level to obtain and comply with international environmental law ", said Marianne Hewlett of Atos Origin in the Netherlands, responsible for strategy in the field of corporate responsibility.
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January 26th 2011, SAP presents Atos Origin with ‘Most Innovative Partner’ Award
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Software developer SAP has presented Atos Origin with the Award for Most Innovative Partner during the annual SAP Partner Awards 2010. Atos Origin won the award for the development of the Sustainability Performance Management Dashboard for the manufacturing, retail and telecoms markets. The dashboard was developed for Akzo Nobel, amongst others and is used by Atos Origin itself.
The innovative Sustainability Performance Management Dashboard, developed using SAP, states the position of a business in making their processes sustainable in a concise manner. It also clarifies which measures and processes support the objectives for sustainable growth and to what extent they do so. The relationship between these measures is also highlighted by the dashboard.
Enthusiastic reception
“A good sustainable strategy is based on measurement, improvement and reporting.
The dashboard supports all three actions andit will soon be difficult to imagine managing a business without this key tool,” said:. Marianne Hewlett, member of the Board of Directors of Atos Origin Netherlands responsible for responsible enterprise strategy.
Marcel Groenenboom, Director of Ecosystem & Channels at SAP Netherlands said:. “With its dashboard Atos Origin has shown that they have applied our software in an innovative way in the Large Enterprise sector.”
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