Thought Leadership

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 ...

The increased competitive nature of the IT outsourcing market in the current economic climate combined with the emergence of cloud services will sooner or later present a real threat to traditional outsourcing models. Atos is recognized as one of the ...

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 ...

This latest white paper looks at why centralised desktops could well be one of the next big things in IT.It dispels the often repeated myth that centralised desktops can save a lot of money and instead explores the wider benefits ...

This short paper aims to help bring sustainability into the foreground in a way which makes it easier for us all to make it part of our day-to-day thinking. It refers specifically to the cloud, as this ...

Cloud Computing does not scale well. Such a bold statement may seem incorrect given that according to accepted wisdom, scalability is one of the essential properties that make Cloud Computing so attractive to businesses. Scalability as used here ...

Cloud is the latest symptom of a general trend towards more open, collaborative ways of working, in which companies become much less self-sufficient “islands” of activities than they were in the past. Indeed, it ...

An industrial approach to Data Center management This whitepaper from Atos’ Scientific Community describes the current Data Center norm, presents existing and upcoming monitoring tools, and describes how Command & Control solutions, from the industrial world, ...

Business opportunities afforded by progress in financial modeling and advanced technological solutions The use of Computational Finance, i.e. algorithmic trading and high frequency trading (HFT), on the financial markets is becoming predominant. The gains ...

Consumerization in the enterprise is one of the most hotly debated points today. To take advantage of consumerization, CIOs must ask two questions “why shouldn’t we?” and “why do employees have access to better, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of today’s dedicated and costly infrastructure solutions will be replaced by cost effective cloud services that are expected to deliver increased agility, scalability and uptime. However, private and public clouds increasingly rely on multi-tenanted architectures ...

Informatica and Atos 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the capabilities and limits of NoSQL and distributed-computing technologiesUntil the end of the 1990s, computer performance increased rapidly enough to meet growing data storage and processing needs. Since then, several major changes in the IT world ...

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 ...

A powerful driving force behind the transformation of Europe's energy market  The smart meter makes it possible to track energy consumption remotely from the point of delivery and, in certain instances, to remotely control distribution to customers. ...

What effect is the quintessentially European Solvency II initiative having when examined from the multiple perspectives of the organisations it is impacting across Europe?  Will it increase the opportunities for regulatory arbitrage rather than decrease them as originally intended? ...