“Atos Germany receives prestigious Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year in Database”

Munich, 30. April 2014

Oracle awarded international IT services company Atos the 2014 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year in Database - Germany.

The award recognizes Atos for its commitment to deliver innovative, specialized solutions and services based on Oracle software and hardware.

Atos and Oracle have worked together on migration projects for 15 years. Atos experts offer deep knowledge, especially regarding solutions and services related to Oracle databases. For migration and harmonization projects the close cooperation between the two companies provides added value for customers and end users, as project risks are minimized. This also ensures the fitting use of the products and a shared approach.

“The Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year in Database - Germany honors the expertise of Atos regarding databases and the good cooperation between the migration centers of Oracle and Atos”, says Christian Werner, Senior Director Alliances & Channels Deutschland at ORACLE Deutschland B.V. and Co. KG.

“This award highlights our longtime and close cooperation with Oracle”, says Franz Trimborn, Vice President Sales Management & Support, Atos in Germany. “With our expertise in the database field, we support our customers on the path to greater economic success together with Oracle.”

In addition to migration services, Atos offers clients assistance in the implementation of modern computer architectures, such as Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year – Germany encourage innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members, who use Oracle's products and technology to create value for customers and generate new business potential. The Award highlights the importance of the globally available solution Atos Extreme Performance Computing environment (EPCe). Based on platforms such as Oracle Exadata this integrated approach consolidates and standardizes the IT of a customer and makes data processing more efficient by shortening procurement periods. Atos looks over the entire environment and allows the installation of a custom-fit technology: the IT service provider offers a service solution specially tailored and proven for Oracle Exadata whose suitability has been tested in the production environment.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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About Atos

Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is an international information technology services company with 2013 annual revenue of € 8.6 billion and 76,300 employees in 52 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers IT services in 3 domains, Consulting & Technology Services, Systems Integration and Managed Services & BPO, and transactional services through Worldline. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, it works with clients across the following market sectors: Manufacturing, Retail & Transportation; Public & Health; Financial Services; Telcos, Media & Utilities.

Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is quoted on the NYSE Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology Services, Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.