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Worldline
2016 Registration Document
be presented and the set, or selected, amount can be
made.
donations made by all the other donors, a digital screen
shows the real-time total as it increases with each donation
transferred to the recipient’s organization. To give donors a
better idea of the real impact of their donation and the
Donation Box. This time, the connected object takes the
form of a box (instead of a piggy bank) which can promptly
our customers led us to shift the PayGgy box concept
towards another vertical market, for another use: as a
As one solution leads to another, our ongoing dialog with
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accept users’ individual donations simply and securely. As
easily as a coin or a note can be placed in a box, a card can
HighProcessing andVolumes
algorithms, in order to enable “device-to-cloud” application
processing and off-loading. The primary areas of focus include
development include:
and support for emerging business activities. Key innovations
that have come out of this process or that are currently in
high-performance computing, liquid computing solutions, cloud
and context services, artificial intelligence and machine learning
This area focuses on innovative solutions for processing high
volumes of data, proposing new generations of tools for
equipment and infrastructure architecture, as well as in terms of
components best suited to handling them;
application. The application aims to efficiently allocate
software processes in real time to the available hardware
“intelligent” IT implementation that will analyze and adapt to
the available hardware to execute a cloud-hosted
Liquid IT. Worldline is currently developing Liquid IT, an
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Intelligence for Data Analytics), a three year research
program with four different European universities;
best-in-class data analytics services, whether structured,
contextual or real-time. Worldline is now preparing the next
Analytics are now required by almost all of its services,
Worldline decided to embed all of the resources to provide
Industrial Data Analytics Platform: as Prescriptive Data
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generation of software to benefit fully from such an
infrastructure, in the form of the AïDA program (Artificial
expected of them. This work is vital for all real-time
information processing services. Fraud detection in
learn for themselves, to create reasoning or rules by which
to analyze information in order to take the decisions
working on “Machine Intelligence” and “Deep Learning”. This
work is very important because it enables our computers to
To supplement its data analytics work, Worldline is also
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payments is an excellent example.
providing real business opportunities to test algorithm models,
and innovation for Worldline, by orienting research to critical
academic worlds promote both university research, by
advantage for meeting Worldline’s international growth goals.
provide a great opportunity for Worldline to implement a
worldwide technology watch, which is a key competitive
business needs that require advanced expertise on fraud,
encryption, security and data analytics. The partnerships also
Worldline has close links and has established long-term
future technological challenges on an international scale. These
close, long-term relationships between the business and
researchers and students to find increasingly innovative
solutions, pooling their knowledge and expertise to identify
Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium). Worldline’s
international research and development teams are working with
partnerships with leading European universities on data
analytics and encryption (University of Passau in Germany,
Worldline’s innovative approach
[WL2]
initiatives. Worldline’s Research and Development department is
a key enabler of Worldline’s capacity for innovation and
designed to spur its employees to greater creativity and to
encourage the design and the implementation of value creating
improvement of its products and solutions, a critical strength in
an industry that is constantly evolving.
Worldline actively seeks to promote a culture of innovation
dedicated to disruptive innovation. Worldline’s dedicated
research and development team supports a more extensive
innovation, while other research and development engineers
are focused on longer-term research and development projects
operational teams and focus primarily on incremental
operational team of more than 6,000 digital specialists who
work with clients in the field to deliver the Company’s solutions.
Company is present. Many of Worldline’s research and
development engineers are closely integrated within Worldline’s
Worldline’s research and development teams comprise over
350 engineers located in most of the countries in which the
Worldline Innovation Network (WIN) had 44 members around
the world in 2016. [WL2].
further development. Within Worldline, 45% of R&D department
employees are PhDs and PhD students [WL2]. Moreover, the
their innovative projects to their peers and to get the best
projects awarded and sponsored by the management for
projects. Bottom-up processes enable employees to present
Worldline’s staff is highly skilled and creative, as is demonstrated
every year by the WIN Awards’ (Worldline Innovation Network)