Bringing customers and suppliers closer together In recent years, the CPG/Retail supply chain has changed shape significantly. Retailers and global players have reduced the number of direct suppliers, while at the same time, national and international ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 repercussions of recent major corporate frauds such as the Enron and WorldCom scandals have given rise to an increasing number of new governance laws and regulations. These include Sarbannes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, Data ...

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 ...

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 ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business philosophy which provides a vision for the way your company wants to deal with your customers. To deliver that vision, you need a CRM strategy which gives shape to your ...

Wave after wave of innovation, acquisitions, mergers and de-mergers in the telecommunications industry during the last fifteen years have left service providers with a complex array of systems and technologies that are expensive to run and difficult to ...

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 ...

For decades outsourcing has been growing with double-digit percentages. Different types of outsourcing have emerged, including Business Process Outsourcing and Global Sourcing, and the focus of IT outsourcing partnerships is slowly shifting from efficiency to innovation.  ...

The Transformation of the DecadeGovernment agencies around the world have been automating its processes progressively over the last 10-20 years. However, there are governments who have gone way beyond sheer automation and into dramatic transformation and reinvention through ...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a natural next step in corporate information technology (IT) development. Companies have over a number of years created a complex web of interconnected applications each with its own means of communicating ...

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, ...

As a world leader in integrated information technology (IT) outsourcing, Atos Origin provides their customers with best-of-breed services for PCs. Atos Origin expects to further improve those offerings through the use of new, remote- ...

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 ...

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, ...

The European telecommunications landscape is undergoing a revolution that is transforming the industry. End User (both consumer and corporate) needs are driving this revolution as they look for the services they use on their PCs at home to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Telco billing systems must constantly adapt to deal with the impact of technological advances in telecommunication services, new approaches to marketing and changes to the way the industry operates. Yet the economic downturn of the last few years has ...

As the deadline for the Market in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) approaches, the firms in pole position will be those that have clear client and market strategies allied to an understanding of the changes to their operating model. ...

The latest challenge in convergence is the broadcasting of TV content to mobile phones. Now though, through cellular networks (UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution) Network ( ...

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 ...