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Atos in 2016 [G4-9]

Trusted partner for your Digital Journey

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Equens group, a prominent European payment services provider,

headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, building an industrial

during the summer, Worldline announced the completion of the

transaction that was presented on November 3, 2015 with

On

September 30

, after the successful completion of the

regulatory approval processes in the Netherlands and in Belgium

revenue size by c.+65% in Financial Processing and by c.+25%

in Commercial Acquiring.

Through the transaction, Worldline benefits from a highly

comprehensive Pan-European footprint and has increased its

the banking and merchant communities and is fully in line with

the strategy to consolidate the European payment market.

Worldline was a major development for Atos to better serve both

Pan-European champion in payment services. The successful

completion of the merger of Equens and Paysquare within

October

Governance and Administration. It becomes the Atos solution for

the Identity and Access Governance Market. Designed for

On

October 5

, Atos unveiled its new product Evidian Identity

identity, rights and processes monitoring.

users and managers are empowered with a richer interface,

having access from a central cockpit to all the actions related to

processes, as well as Risk and Governance tools to reduce

operational risks and adhere to compliance requirements. End

medium and large organizations, the solution offers customers

worldwide modern User and Rights lifecycle management

first nine months of the year, revenue growth reached +1.7%

organically and +13.8% at constant exchange rates.

at constant exchange rates. Order entry was € 2,845 million

leading to a record book to bill ratio for a Q3 at 102%. Over the

particular with strong momentum in defense and security.

Revenue was € 2,777 million, up +1.8% organically and +6.3%

as in Continental Europe. Atos continued to experience dynamic

commercial activity delivering a high level of new bookings, in

performance in the UK post Brexit and in North America, as well

of 2016. During the third quarter, the Group continued to grow

organically in all of its businesses with in particular a solid

Atos announced on

October 20

its revenue for the third quarter

November

ecosystem. The Group already has 15 R&D centres and has

as of now, algorithms and software for future quantum

computers. Atos Quantum fits into Atos’ rich technological

mathematicians. Atos Quantum targets notably the development

of a quantum simulation platform to enable researchers to test,

new technologies. The program was reviewed and launched in

the presence of world-renowned quantum physicists and

computing solutions that offer unprecedented computing power,

while enhancing its cyber security products to face with these

Atos launched on

November 6

, “Atos Quantum”, an ambitious

quantum computing industry program to develop quantum

explosion of data generated by the Big Data and the Internet of

Things revolution. It should also generate significant advances in

computation is expected in the next decades to confront the

launched in April 2016, and its program to achieve exaflop

performance - 1 billion billion operations per second. Quantum

simulate quantum computing, Atos Quantum can already rely on

the computing power of the Bull sequana supercomputer,

Quantum also benefits from the dynamics of the Group in

supercomputing, numerical simulation and cyber security. To

created a new quantum research and development laboratory in

France, near Paris, with a dedicated quantum team. Atos

with research centers and universities worldwide.

deep learning and artificial intelligence. To move forward on

these critical issues, Atos intends to set up several partnerships

growth for the next 3 years.

on the Group’s unique offers in Big data, Cybersecurity,

payments and Business & Platform Solutions, to support a solid

leadership in Infrastructure & Data Management and capitalize

plan aims at accompanying the Group’s customers in their digital

transformation within a secured cyberspace, to consolidate Atos’

(France) on

November 8

, Atos presented to the financial

community its new 3-year plan “2019 Ambition”. This Strategic

During the Investor Day held in its Headquarters in Bezons

increased funding the two companies have the ambition to

further accelerate their joint business until 2020. The new

performance of the business collaboration, which continues

over-achieving the expectations by far. Leveraging on the

the Alliance Board expressed their satisfaction about the

program by an additional € 80 million to € 230 million. On the

fifth anniversary of the Atos-Siemens Alliance in late October,

to further strengthen their strategic alliance. The companies will

further increase the funding of their joint innovation investment

Atos and Siemens announced on

November 17

, having decided

Analytics, Machine Intelligence, Service Enhancing Technologies

and Internet of Things.

funding will be focused to explore further opportunities for joint

collaborations in the fields of Industrial Security, Industrial Data

December

certified platform over 8TB.

scalable server that can handle up to 16TB of memory. Today

Atos is one of the only two players worldwide delivering a

business productivity and IT efficiency. Clients can easily upscale

and personalize their in-memory needs over time with this

HANA® platform up to 16 TeraBytes (TB). The modular and

ultra-flexible architecture helps simplify operations and improve

enterprise x86 server, is now certified for operating the SAP

Atos announced on

December 7

, that bullion, its high-end