The ten-year growth forecast of 17 per cent in UK road traffic levels would lead to a 65 per cent increase in congestion by 2010. The cost to the country of the delays alone has been estimated at £ ...

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 ...

Hans Jacobs, responsible for Global Alliances and Supply Chain Management (SCM) within the Global Discrete Industries Market Management organization of Sjef van den Buys, explains how Atos Origin can help ensure the future success of companies through ...

In today's technology driven marketplace, CEO and board members with a deeper sense of the business impact of technology may have better insight into the future of a company than those who have known the business for a long ...

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 ...

In today's highly competitive world, telecommunication companies looking to implement CRM successfully need fully integrated information systems in order to provide a common view of the customer throughout the organization. For telcos, CRM should support effective processes, ...

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 ...

The concept of ‘Customers in Control’ – a strategic business philosophy designed to give customers more potent command of their buying relationships with product and service providers – has been gaining ground in many industries.And yet ...

The successful European chip and PIN system comes to the UK in 2005 in a bid to cut down on fraud  Craig Walker, Account Manager in the Retail and Oil & Gas sectors for Atos Consulting in ...

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 ...

Deregulation of the automotive industry in Europe in September 2002 is changing the balance of power between automotive manufacturers and independent dealers and altering the structure of the industry. Independent dealers are gaining more power as they moved from small ...

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 ...

Let’s say you run a medium-sized airline covering only the UK and Europe, but your passengers would also like to fly to the Far East or the USA. Your customers have to take your competitor’s airline ...

Cees de Jong is responsible for international Telecom business development, providing direction for Atos Origin’s global strategy for the Telecom sector. He oversees Atos Origin’s global Telecom sales and marketing operations. Out with the oldYouth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Atos Origin puts forward its vision for creating success in a tough environment Gerben Menting, responsible for Global Market Management in the Telecoms industry, explains the challenges facing the industry today and how Atos Origin's refocused solutions, ...

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 ...

Turning Strategy into ResultsMost companies are flooded with data and information. Much of it is raw data with little value. Research found that a typical executive is bombarded with five times more information per minute than the human brain ...