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”.

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.

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.

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”.

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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.

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.

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. "

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”.

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.

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.”

Atos Origin has been granted the Award “Best Health Ideas in 2010” by the Health newspaper Diario Médico for the Athene@ Plan, which aims the complete computerisation of all Health centres in Madrid.

Atos Origin received the ‘Mare Nostrum’ National Computing Award, awarded by the Spanish Society of Computer Science (SCIE), which honours “the most distinguished private activity in favour of computer engineering throughout the year”. The award, which takes its name from the supercomputer located in Barcelona, is the most important award presented in Spain in the area of R&D in the Information and Communication Technologies sector, and rewards aspects such as a significant investment in R&D in computing, the use of advanced ICT technologies, the promotion and dissemination of computing, and the creation of quality employment in the sector, amongst other aspects. The award was presented to Patrick Adiba, CEO Atos Origin Iberia - Olympics & Major Events, by José Carlos Rubio, Secretary General of the Spanish Department of Science and Innovation, during a professional luncheon organised by the SCIE in Madrid.

Atos Origin won the Database Partner of the Year award at the 2010 OPN France Partner Specialization Awards. This prize recognises Atos Origin's ability to provide its customers with innovative services and solutions based on Oracle software and hardware. Building on the success of several projects in France, the Netherlands and Germany, in 2010 Atos Origin was recognized by Oracle France, in particular, for assisting clients with Oracle Exadata implementations. Atos Origin has also acquired an Oracle Exadata Database Machine in order to help clients evaluate its extreme performance capabilities in real time.

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The Spanish Royal Family presented the award to Jose Maria Cavanillas, Atos Research & Innovation Director at the fifth annual award ceremony.

Atos Origin was selected due to its collaboration with Spanish universities and the company’s contribution to their international projects. The company is currently managing 96 EU projects together with Spanish universities, which is helping to promote their image abroad.

The Award also recognises Atos Origin’s strong commitment to R&D. Since 1987, the company has managed more than 300 EU projects.

At the recent Paris Motor Show, Renault presented its Supplier Quality Awards to eleven parts and service suppliers in recognition of their outstanding quality and logistics performance in 2009.

Atos Origin won the Global Award for Facilities and Services (software applications) being described as giving “a shining performance in terms of quality-cost-delivery. It is a best-in-class supplier for Renault.” The awards were presented by Jean-Pierre Vallaude, Senior Vice President Quality, and Christian Vandenhende, Senior Vice President Purchasing, and Managing Director of the Renault-Nissan Purchasing Organization.

The awards were launched five years ago to distinguish suppliers whose performance and dedication have contributed significantly to the quality advances at Renault. They are given in recognition of superior quality in products and services, regardless of the supplier’s country, size or sector of activity.

At the recent Home Office Supplier Value and Innovation awards ceremony, Atos Origin was awarded the Best Example of Collaborative Working, jointly with Fujitsu following their collaboration on the Extend and Blend (E&B) project.

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At the annual Network Rail Partnership Awards ceremony, Rory Bremner and Catherine Doran, Network Rail Transformational Director, presented Atos Origin with the award for information technology partnership. It recognises the excellent work of the Atos Origin team in delivering the External Services Gateway (ESG) earlier this year.

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Atos Origin has published its first Corporate Responsibility report in line with the guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - the international standard for sustainability reporting. The GRI has rated the Atos Origin 2009 report Level B+.

Furthermore, Atos Origin has developed its scientific and technological expertise to improve the sustainability of its operations, and through its Sustainability Solutions and IT services, to help its clients to improve their own sustainability.

“I am pleased to announce the publication of our first sustainability report demonstrating our commitment to reporting our economic, environmental and social performance. It is an important way for us to manage our impact on sustainable development and to further improve our performance in the coming years. The report shows how we are implementing sustainable best practices throughout our organisation and how we are working with our clients to help them be more sustainable”, said Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin.

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Atos Worldline has been granted the red dot award for product design in the category “architecture and interior design: shop equipment”. It received the award for YOMANI, the new multi-lane payment terminal launched by Atos Worldline in November 2009. The international “red dot award: product design” is awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany, and ranks among the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world. With the YOMANI payment terminal, Atos Worldline introduces a unique design in the payment area. The terminal incorporates three payment interfaces – magnetic-stripe, chip and contactless – and a large full-colour display, all in a small footprint. The display and illuminated card slots guide cardholders through the payment process. The striking shape of the YOMANI provides an integrated protection for PIN entry, while guaranteeing an optimal access to the card readers and to the display.
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An innovative and fully secured solution for micro-payment
At the Pay Forum 2010, Atos Worldline has won in partnership with its French client BMS-Moneo, the Innovative Payment Award for its online payment solution e-Moneo. Developed by Atos Worldline, the solution enables online merchants to equip their online shops with Moneo micro-payment solution. The solution is easy to install, full secured and without any risks for the customer who does not have to communicate its banking data.

Atos Origin, the Worldwide Information Technology (IT) Partner for the Olympic Games and the holder of the largest sports-related IT contract in the world, has been awarded a Sustainability Star by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for its sustainable solutions and in recognition for its commitment to contributing to greener Olympic Games and helping the organising committee achieving its goals to make the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games as environmentally responsible as possible.
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Atos Worldline, which brings together Atos Origin expertise in high-tech transactional services, is pleased with the election of POWEO customer service as "Customer Service of the Year 2010" in the category gas and electricity provider, by BVA and Viséo Conseil French Customer services Observatory. Atos Worldline is in charge of running POWEO’s multi-channel customer relations (phone, SMS, fax, correspondence, e-mail), thereby enabling it to manage all its incoming and outgoing contacts efficiently, rapidly and securely, while enhancing its relations with its customers by offering them reliable and innovative information and with a high quality of service.

Atos Consulting has won gold for Best Public Sector Project for NHS South Central, which also won gold in the Operational Peformance in the Public Sector category at the 2009 MCA Awards. We were also finalist for National Express East Coast in the Technology Category and for DFID Nigeria in the International Category. 

 

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Atos Origin has won the prestigious Novell award “Best EMEA Partner of 2008 for Identity & Security Management (ISM)”. The award was won based on Atos Origin’s consistent quality delivery across the region, proactive support with customer wins and effective implementation of Novell’s Identity & Security Management technology with customers across all market sectors in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). As one of the key strategic offerings of the group, Identity and Security Management (ISM), leverages Atos Origin's unique mix of consulting, system integration and management operations to deliver pragmatic and efficient answers to its customers' security and compliance challenges.

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Premier Inn, a major client for Atos Origin in the UK, competed against brands such as American Express and KDS, to win Best Business Expense Management process 2009 at the annual Business Travel World awards. The award is for Premier Inn’s Business Account Card Scheme - designed, built and run by Atos Worldline - a subsidiary of Atos Origin and major European IT player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions .

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Atos Worldline, a subsidiary of Atos Origin and a major European IT player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions, received the ‘Walter Möller insignia’ Award in recognition of its long term support to the Monikahaus orphanage in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. For over nine years staff from Atos Worldline have supported the Monikahaus, orphanage which looks after over 60 children and teenagers from disadvantaged families.

The award is presented every two years to organizations and local groups which have provided outstanding services to the public well being of the City of Frankfurt.

Atos Origin won HP’s ‘Application Quality Management, European Partner of the Year, Special Award’ for its outstanding results in Application Quality Management. The global application quality management offering combines software testing and acceptance management with a move to operations and is already generating new significant business. In France, Auchan and Carrefour, France Telecom, Banque Postale  and a department in the Ministry of Economics, have all recently signed contracts for this new offering which addresses test and acceptance processes as well as the process of preparing for the software to move to operations.

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At the 2008 Sesames Awards, the “Fast Booking on an ATM” solution from Atos Worldline, a subsidiary of Atos Origin and a major European IT player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions, was named best application in the e-transactions category.

“Fast Booking on an ATM” is an innovative solution that uses Web 2.0 technologies to enable users to book and purchase event tickets at an ATM 24/7. It also gives banks a quick and simple way to turn their ATMs into a key sales channel. Winning this Award for the second consecutive year highlights the expertise of Atos Worldline in developing innovative solutions and demonstrates the Company’s commitment to continuous innovation.

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Atos Worldline, a subsidiary of Atos Origin and a major European IT player in the processing of high-volume electronic transactions, won, in partnership with Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS), the largest phone operator in Russia and the CIS, the prestigious Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award for innovation in international mobile services.

The award recognises the innovative Atos Worldline Global Recharge Service that offers MTS customers innovative mobile services on the move through simplified mobile roaming top-up and cross boarder mobile payments services. This solution helps mobile phone operators to achieve long-term customer relationships through new innovative services available for use throughout the world.

Atos Worldline has won the 2008 Innovation Award for its innovative paperless tickets solution delivered via mobile phone and developed for Air France KLM. This new mobile boarding pass solution offers Air France KLM an innovative alternative to hard tickets for its customers on the move. To access the service, passengers need simply to log onto Air France KLM Internet mobile websites, from which they have the possibility to check in, receive a boarding pass and access the full range of services via mobile phone. They can get real-time information on their flights, flight schedules and their Flying Blue account.

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Atos Consulting, a business division of Atos Origin, is delighted to announce that its client, the MOD Afloat Support Directorate incorporating Royal Fleet Auxiliary Support and Commercial Ship Maintenance Category Management Team won the award for Best public procurement project at the CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) Supply Management Awards 2008.

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At its annual partner event 2008, phion, a leading European supplier of corporate security solutions, named Atos Origin “Best Managed Security Service Provider”. Atos Origin is hosting phion firewalls for its German customers.

Atos Origin has won an SAP® Global Pinnacle Award in the area of Outsourcing Hosting in recognition of its contribution to the SAP ecosystem. Atos Origin has teamed with SAP to help customers address critical issues by accelerating innovation and improving return on investment. Winners were selected based on nominations received.

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Atos Consulting has won won four awards at the Management Consulting Association (MCA) 2008 Awards. Winner of the Best Public Sector Project for Reducing Poverty in Leningrad Oblast, a £5-million programme for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to reduce poverty in Leningrad Oblast. We were finalists in three other categories Change Management Category: VOSA (Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Human Resources Category: Resolution, International Category: DFID.

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