olympic it systems
Atos Origin Delivers World Class IT and Helpdesk Support for the Olympic Games With Hornbill Systems
White Paper After the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, the Atos Origin Operations Manager set about researching an alternative product. To help the IT systems run as efficiently as possible at the Salt Lake City Games a problem management system was used. [14 Mar 2006]
Leader: Do UK IT staff have the Olympic spirit?
Leader It seems 2,000 IT volunteers - admittedly mainly at a low level - will help make the Games happen because they buy in to that great Olympic ideal of volunteerism. So let's hope a decision about London - an issue for the International Olympic... [20 May 2004]
Beijing 2008 Olympics IT testing underway
News Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begins this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August 2008. To minimise this risk all the Olympic volunteers - IT and non-IT - go through rigorous police background... [01 Aug 2007]
2012 London Olympics IT partners shortlisted
News Accenture, BT Global Services, IBM and LogicaCMG have all been shortlisted for a contract to provide IT systems for the London Organising Committee (Locog) for the 2012 Olympic Games. The contract covers the internal back-office technology systems... [27 Sep 2006]
Accenture wins London Olympic tech race
News These IT systems are provided by Atos Origin, the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for London 2012. The organiser of the 2012 Olympic Games in London has picked Accenture to run the event's back-office systems. [01 Nov 2006]
2012 Olympics IT supplier sought
News The government has kicked off the hunt for a supplier to provide IT systems to support an Olympic Games in London - should its bid for the 2012 games be successful. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is seeking expressions of... [16 Jun 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]
Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze
News Atos Origin is the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games, overseeing the infrastructure which features 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers and 5,000 results systems terminals, as well as a suite of applications for managing the games and publishing the... [13 May 2008]
Beijing Olympics IT infrastructure races on
News Hore said the biggest challenge the company faced was an "absolutely unmovable deadline" to roll out the Olympic systems which meant there was only one chance to get the IT infrastructure right. Next on the IT agenda is a system testing phase... [16 Jul 2007]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment Yet two major tasks remain to be completed, says Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, in his exclusive silicon.com diary. It is essential that everybody understands and adheres to the processes we have agreed... [21 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Serious games
Comment The only way to find out is tough testing, says Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, in his exclusive silicon.com diary. This final technical rehearsal took place for 35 Olympic sports across 39 venues. [23 Jun 2008]
The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics
News Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint. But each Olympic Games has its own requirements, explained Patrick Adiba, Atos Origin executive vice president of... [08 May 2008]
Olympics diary: Ready, set... all systems go
Comment A dedicated team within the TOC is responsible for security monitoring - ensuring that nobody is trying to access the Athens 2004 Olympic IT network illegally. This helps us check all the result systems against what is actually happening at the... [18 Aug 2004]
Olympics diary: Stressed to the limits
Comment Unlike the other sport events, the IT information systems for the journalists and broadcasters are not installed in the actual venue, but at the National Olympic Academy - so as to preserve this ancient historical site. [25 Aug 2004]
Olympics diary: Super Saturday and the wrap-up
Comment Today is the final day of the 2004 Olympic Games and I am going to be spending most of it at the TOC. For us, the Athens 2004 Olympic Games will end with the final curtain of the Closing Ceremony. By 8am tomorrow, we have to supply the Athens... [01 Sep 2004]
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