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Market trends
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Digital transformationmomentum is real
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“pivotal time” with new digital services and smart products
representing a high and fast growing market.
trillion of worldwide spending on digital transformation
initiatives. 2016-2017 is perceived by industry analysts as a
now forecasting that this trend will intensify over the next three
years, now reaching B2B companies with a prediction of $US2.2
enterprises especially B2C players will incorporate a digital
transformation project in their corporate strategy by 2017, are
continues to drive fundamental business and organizational
changes. Analysts who were forecasted last year that 2,000
In line with previous Atos analysis, the digital transformation
highly depend on their capacity to create digitalized products,
services and experiences.
fortune 500 will engage in deep digital transformations, and by
2020 the business success of 50% of the fortune 2,000 will
through cloud orchestration, to autonomics and cognitive
solutions. Atos expects that at the end of 2017, over 70% of the
With Digital transformation, clients will move from legacy,
competition, and not enough collaboration with few solutions
binding everything together as a single, user experience. But
had been somewhat slowed until now, by a high level of
The expected revolution brought by the Internet of Things (IoT)
and resulting interconnectedness of smart home technology etc.
information is not consumed faster than the ability to recognize
it as outdated, irrelevant or inaccurate.
co-ordinate the system but also require ability to audit the
collection, distribution, and vetting of data. Therefore that
Improved digital capabilities open up new windows of
opportunity, which in turn increase the need to maintain and
now that tier one global players are getting heavily involved, the
Group expects major advancements in 2017 and beyond.
workplace, Cognitive analytics, security, and data privacy.
collaboration. To adapt the demand, the market in which Atos is
shaping will focus on Cloudification, ERP transformation, Digital
accompany them in the digital transformation, providing greater
security, compute speed, application transformation, and
As a consequence, enterprises are looking for strong partners, to
The ever increasing demand for Cloudification
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expected to grow at 30% per year, in each of its IaaS
(Infrastructure as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service),
Cloud is at the heart of the third digital revolution, and is
brokers, a domain in which Atos is ideally positioned.
according to IDC predictions, over 70% of cloud services
providers’ revenue will be mediated by channel partners and
spending will be on cloud-based offerings. By which time,
2015, and is expected to reach $US236 billion by 2020. Also by
2020 two thirds of all enterprise IT infrastructure and software
primarily due to the success of public cloud. The global public
cloud market will reach $US146 billion in 2017, doubling from
PaaS (Platform as a Service) components, compared to the 3 to
5% growth of the overall IT market. This significant growth is
of the overall IT environment. Cloud mutualized infrastructure
and automation are bringing enterprises cost reductions that
invested hundreds of millions, and that they cannot just replace
in a few months. This requires hybridization, and orchestration
infrastructure. But, in a coordinated manner, that ensures they
will still get value from their legacy environment in which they
benefits of the cloud by modernizing both applications and
elements of the enterprise IT landscape cannot be moved to the
cloud. As a consequence large enterprises are willing to get the
the underlying flexibility required to get the business agility
necessary to survive in the digital world. However some key
current value of USD 33 billion at a CAGR of 23% for the period
2016-2021, which is much faster than the overall IT market.
they can reinvest in new digital solutions. The hybrid cloud
market is projected to reach USD 92 billion in 2021 from the
Companies have understood that moving to cloud will give them