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Atos positioning and strategy
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services and thereby give a thoroughly integrated and aligned
cloud landscape.
offshore services. As a consequence main players should have
the size and capability to manage both proximity and offshore
developments and as a consequence more proximity services,
which naturally is progressively reducing the demand for
In Infrastructure and industrialization of the cloud, customers
and especially mid-size customers are requesting more agile
of the main system integration vendors by 2020.
a smooth implementation. Industry analysts expect this activity
to represent half of the consulting and implementation revenue
players of the market, as it demands deep understanding of the
IT landscape, including its infrastructure components, to ensure
solutions in large enterprises, still requires a strong consulting,
and service arm. Large enterprises source this out to the key
Regarding SaaS market, deploying, and integrating SaaS
enterprise”
Transforming ERP and business processes to achieve the “real time
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agility and high reactivity, this is no longer the case.
were costly and lasted two or three years without major
milestones in between; but with the increasing demand for
powered environment. In the past, traditional ERP deployments
their previous generation ERP, whilst supporting the utilization of
the Internet of Things (IoT) and the migration to an analytics
operations. Therefore they are now embarking on the
digitalization of their business processes, and the replacement of
Enterprises now consider that the benefits of real time
information can improve the management of company
disruptive challenges and opportunities across all industries.
Some of this transformation will start happening by 2017, with
management, for achieving a faster time-to-value. Technical
evolution is driving change at an incredible pace creating
implementation and roll out, and significant IT but also on the
other side business benefits of real-time in-memory database
Clients expect on one side significant acceleration of the
traditional ERP systems license based declined by more than
30 percent, to less than US$15 billion.
technology. In 2016, investment in ERP SaaS solutions were
more than double, to US$78 billion or more, while investment in
analytics to enhance internal customer experience. Atos expects
an acceleration of leading players’ adoption of the new
the inclusion of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabling capabilities
within existing ERP, and the exploitation of big data and
digital age.
aspects, understanding their clients specific situation and able to
respond accordingly, so as to pursue the path towards the new
software portfolio around HANA. SAP’s HANA in-memory
As an example of a leader in ERP, SAP has focused their strategy
on HANA and Cloud, and consequently, engineered their entire
able to build a bridge between IT, ERP and business, and be able
to balance technology with process, business and strategy
based on a “one-stop shopping” approach. Only then will they be
consulting, including business case analyses, to process and
technology analyses to implementation and go-live support,
leading “multi-service providers” will need to be able to deliver a
customized end-to-end cloudified ERP support, from strategic
processes, and an effective platform to support the progressive
introduction of IoT. With no standard initial situation, future
database and the new generation of their S/4HANA, offers an
operational framework to cloudify and digitalize business
Reinventing the workplace: towards a digital connectedworkplace
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access information, and requires the ability to communicate, and
collaborate in a very different manner than previously. Disruptive
Digital transformation has a strong impact on how workers will
are entering the workplace and are significantly changing the
nature of work, employees’ expectations, and business demands.
technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality,
machine learning, and the development of algorithms for big data,
workplace:
20-50% in different activities contained within the workplace.
Main transformation occurs in the following segments of
expensive offshore labor, and represent savings of about
and is seen as a matter of survival for many enterprises. It is
expected that RPA will cost only one-third as much as the least
(RPA) is seen as the continuum of technologies that
organizations utilize to automatize several process operations,
services driven by disruptive technology will lead the workplace
service market in the coming years. Robotic process automation
customer-centered focus, capable of delivering technology while
ensuring security and threat prevention. The inclusion of new
its business objectives. The digitalization of the workplace is a
complex endeavor that should be outsourced to providers with a
for an environment with enhanced user experience that supports
The workplace service market, valued in 2016 at $US73 billion is
expected to annually grow by 2-4% as enterprises keep looking