This whitepaper from Atos Consulting looks at how collaboration as a service is emerging as a transformational model for business IT. Government departments and institutions need to collaborate to increase their productivity and more easily meet targets.Well-designed collaboration ...

Smart Metering will change the way we produce, deliver and consume our energy. It is a major building block towards the implementation of the Smart Grid for which Utilities are preparing.It is therefore important that Smart Metering systems ...

The Wholesale payments sector is currently under severe pressure from the credit crunch. The outcome of the economic crisis is impossible to predict, but there are signs at the horizon that give direction to the expected future market dynamics. ...

Today, people’s needs and expectations of the workplace are significantly different, when compared to just a few years ago. Over time, end-users have seen the digital workplace evolve from being simply a modernized typewriter into ...

It doesn't matter which came first, it matters that companies work hard and smart at both. Survival in challenging timesLike the chicken and the egg conundrum, business transformation and innovation are just as essential to one another, ...

What is innovation? It is a word that you hear with increasing frequency within client organisations. Yet all too frequently, innovation is just a word, a promise that is never fulfilled: “we must be more ...

A recently published report by the Boston Consulting Group emphasises that banks must take action to protect their payments businesses or risk a further reduction in profits as the current economic crisis continues.Indeed, a complex combination of circumstances has ...

Helene Schricke and François Gatineau explain Atos Origin's Machine-To-Machine (M2M) communication process for connecting smart metering and which allows the exchange of information without any human intervention. Machine-To-Machine communication process allows exchange of ...

The prime objective of this whitepaper is to demonstrate the level of integration and benefits achievable, between SAP MII, Wonderware and plant level systems found in a Food & Beverage Factory, using a proof of concept approach ...

Organisations continuously seek ways of reducing their IT infrastructure spend while maximising return on investment in current assets.  Virtualisation technologies are a key enabler for shared services that can fundamentally change the way IT services are delivered whether in- ...

Configuration and Asset Management is not a subject to attract immediate enthusiasm from executives. Why is this? Probably because they have other business critical issues on their agenda. Or is it because – plainly stated – ...

In what are now some of the toughest market conditions in over 20 years, organisations are under increasing pressure to cut costs and to run leaner and more efficient operations. This challenging economic climate can provide exactly the right ...

IT based services are intrinsic to every aspect of daily life and we take them for granted – so much so that when they don’t work it is a big issue for the service provider. Service providers have ...

Many organisations depending heavily upon their IT have successfully formulated a service management strategy that defines the quality of IT support and service for the business.  Over time, this can lead to various IT service contracts being supplied ...

Today’s enterprises know that continuous improvement of quality and productivity is a prerequisite for survival. Ever-changing market circumstances place a strong demand on agility and flexibility.Information technology plays a supporting and sometimes even a trend-setting role. ...

Informatica and Atos Origin sponsored research indicates that innovation is key to off-setting compliance costs.An IDC report into SEPA compliance efforts across Europe has found that ‘SEPA fatigue’ is starting to emerge across the financial services community, ...

This whitepaper has been written for people who are finding that they need to know a lot more about data centres, how they work and what they do, than they previously expected. It has been produced using the ...

Liquidity crises are a recurring feature of every financial market and in 2007 it was the turn of the credit markets.The 'Credit Crunch', also known as the sub-prime mortgage crisis, banking crisis or liquidity crisis, ...

CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN ATOS ORIGIN Everyone at Atos Origin understands the importance of working in harmony with our environmentin today’s world. As a leading IT services company, we are aware that our activities, and ITservices in general, ...

This White Paper from IDC gives an independent analyst’s view about the most recent updates concerning RFID, not only related to the technological side, but most of all on the added value that such a technology can bring ...

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) sets the stage to make Europe a more attractive market for investors. Even though half of Europe is late in amending national laws to incorporate MiFID, change is already underway. ...

It is almost an understatement to say that we live in an era of radical change, characterized by the rise of abundant information and widespread echnologies. Changes can be found in the products and services we buy, in ...

Lack of business objectives tops list of CIO challenges according to our recent survey.3/4 of CIOs do not view themselves as strategic, according to an Atos Origin survey.Nearly two thirds of UK CIOs have reported they do ...

From compliance to business benefitThe objective of SEPA, as stated by the European Commission, is to “facilitate the exchange of cross-border flows” and "reduce the processing costs of European operators, largely processing (and ...

Eight years after the launch of the world’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator, MVNO is once again a buzz word within the telecom industry. Attracted by lower barriers to entry, potentially high returns on investment and strategic ...