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News Notable names to drop completely out of the top 50 rankings from last year's study include Atos Origin and Siemens Business Services, while the 'freshman 15' new entries this year indicate further changing of the guard ahead with the likes of... [14 Jul 2006]
Shortlists for CNET tech awards unveiled
News Deptartment for Transport and Atos Origin Consortium - Transport Direct The awards, which will be handed out on 26 September in London, recognise innovative use of IT in the UK, leading providers of products and services, and a CIO of the year. [07 Jul 2006]
ING picks suppliers for €800m IT deal
News ING has signed a memorandum of understanding with preferred suppliers Accenture, Atos Origin, Getronics and KPN for the five-year deal, which is expected to be finalised by the end of 2006. Dutch banking group ING is outsourcing its European... [04 Jul 2006]
UK firms hooked on costly legacy IT
News More than three-quarters of companies say their legacy systems aren't able to keep pace with their business objectives, according to a report by outsourcer Atos Origin and the National Computer Centre. [12 May 2006]
IT services giants face slowing growth
News Atos-Origin SA - France The largest IT services vendors are growing below the overall market rate - with a few exceptions, most notably the India-headquartered players. Research out today from Datamonitor puts the combined revenue growth rate for... [02 May 2006]
Dell loses $700m PC services deal with Philips
News Dell was the prime contractor on a deal which also included Atos Origin and Getronics to standardise the Philips desktop environment on OptiPlex desktops, Latitude laptops and Precision workstations. Electronics company Philips has ended a global... [21 Feb 2006]
2008 Olympics plans open source migration
News The open source move will be recommended by the International Olympic Committee's technology partner Atos Origin on the back of guidance from its suppliers HP and IBM. Claude Philipps, programme director at Atos Origin for the 2006 Turin Winter... [02 Dec 2005]
The 11 companies that run 80 per cent of government IT
News Atos also has a £46m contract with the Ministry of Defence to support the Defence Logisitics Organisation in achieving savings from procurement of goods and services. According to the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) those 11 companies are... [27 Oct 2005]
ID card spending reaches £20.6m
News Atos Origin picked up just over £1m for establishing and running the UKPS biometric trial and research work into preventing duplicate enrolment. The government has revealed fresh details of the levels of spending on its controversial identity cards... [11 Oct 2005]
Met Police hands £350m IT deal to Capgemini
News These include a £125m desktop and network support services deal signed in 1999 with Sema (now Atos Origin), a £75m Damovo telephony contract and a £60m eight-year deal signed in 2000 with EDS to run the force's crime reporting system. [05 Oct 2005]
Open source gets thumbs-up from business
News Atos Consulting, which sponsored the survey, said companies that prepare their open source adoption roadmap thoroughly can realise tangible cost-benefits in a very short time. UK companies are increasingly convinced that open source technologies... [15 Aug 2005]
Philips flogs €550m stake in Atos Origin
News Dutch electronics and healthcare company Philips has sold its remaining stake in French IT services and outsourcing firm Atos Origin for €550m. Before the transaction, Philips, which made €30.3bn in sales last year, owned 15.4 per cent of Atos, or... [15 Jul 2005]
2012 London Olympics: 2,000 IT volunteers needed
News As part of its newly renewed outsourcing deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Atos Origin will now be responsible for all the IT systems and support in London after the city came from behind to defeat the favourite Paris in a... [06 Jul 2005]
Atos awarded 2012 Olympics
News Atos Origin has extended its IT services agreement with the International Olympic Committee through to 2012. At a signing ceremony last week, the IT services provider and the IOC have extended an existing technology partnership where Atos Origin... [05 Jul 2005]
ID cards: Biometrics work... sort of
News The trial used a "one-off" system developed by Atos Origin using the latest technologies available at the beginning of the trial. The results of a government identity card trial have revealed that while the public is confident with the process of... [26 May 2005]
