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Advanced Configuration and Asset Management
Configuration and Asset Management is not a subject to attract immediate enthusiasm from executives. Why is this? Probably because they have other business critical issues on their agenda. Or is it because – plainly stated – ...
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Advancing Your Card Payment Systems
A recently published report by the Boston Consulting Group emphasises that banks must take action to protect their payments businesses or risk a further reduction in profits as the current economic crisis continues.Indeed, a complex combination of circumstances has ...
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Beyond IT Outsourcing
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Business Drivers for Smart Metering across the Electricity Value Chain
Smart Metering will change the way we produce, deliver and consume our energy. It is a major building block towards the implementation of the Smart Grid for which Utilities are preparing.It is therefore important that Smart Metering systems ...
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Centralised Desktops – where, why and how
This latest white paper looks at why centralised desktops could well be one of the next big things in IT.It dispels the often repeated myth that centralised desktops can save a lot of money and instead explores the wider benefits ...
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Cloud and Sustainability - An Actionable Approach
This short paper aims to help bring sustainability into the foreground in a way which makes it easier for us all to make it part of our day-to-day thinking. It refers specifically to the cloud, as this ...
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Cloud Orchestration – A Real Business Need
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Cloud: Its potential for businesses
Cloud is the latest symptom of a general trend towards more open, collaborative ways of working, in which companies become much less self-sufficient “islands” of activities than they were in the past. Indeed, it ...
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Command and Control for Data Centers
An industrial approach to Data Center management This whitepaper from Atos’ Scientific Community describes the current Data Center norm, presents existing and upcoming monitoring tools, and describes how Command & Control solutions, from the industrial world, ...
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Computational Finance
Business opportunities afforded by progress in financial modeling and advanced technological solutions The use of Computational Finance, i.e. algorithmic trading and high frequency trading (HFT), on the financial markets is becoming predominant. The gains ...
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Consumerization technology is it really good for business?
Consumerization in the enterprise is one of the most hotly debated points today. To take advantage of consumerization, CIOs must ask two questions “why shouldn’t we?” and “why do employees have access to better, ...
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Creating an Adaptive Workplace
Today, people’s needs and expectations of the workplace are significantly different, when compared to just a few years ago. Over time, end-users have seen the digital workplace evolve from being simply a modernized typewriter into ...
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Electricity Smart Metering Business Drivers
Smart Metering will change the way we produce, deliver and consume our energy. It is a major building block towards the implementation of the Smart Grid for which Utilities are preparing.It is therefore important that Smart Metering systems ...
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Emerging Networking Technologies to deal with the challenges of Cloud
Many of today’s dedicated and costly infrastructure solutions will be replaced by cost effective cloud services that are expected to deliver increased agility, scalability and uptime. However, private and public clouds increasingly rely on multi-tenanted architectures ...
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Expecting the Unexpected – Business Pattern Management
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Getting Value Out of Payment Infrastructures: Leveraging SEPA
Informatica and Atos sponsored research indicates that innovation is key to off-setting compliance costs.An IDC report into SEPA compliance efforts across Europe has found that ‘SEPA fatigue’ is starting to emerge across the financial services community, ...
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Incident Management in a Shared Supplier Environment
Many organisations depending heavily upon their IT have successfully formulated a service management strategy that defines the quality of IT support and service for the business. Over time, this can lead to various IT service contracts being supplied ...
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Internet of Things
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M2M state of the art
Helene Schricke and François Gatineau explain Atos Origin's Machine-To-Machine (M2M) communication process for connecting smart metering and which allows the exchange of information without any human intervention. Machine-To-Machine communication process allows exchange of ...
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Mobile Augmented Reality – One Step Beyond
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Open-Source Solutions for Big Data Management
Understanding the capabilities and limits of NoSQL and distributed-computing technologiesUntil the end of the 1990s, computer performance increased rapidly enough to meet growing data storage and processing needs. Since then, several major changes in the IT world ...
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Secure Government Collaboration from the Cloud
This whitepaper from Atos Consulting looks at how collaboration as a service is emerging as a transformational model for business IT. Government departments and institutions need to collaborate to increase their productivity and more easily meet targets.Well-designed collaboration ...
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Serious Gaming Demystified
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Smart Metering
A powerful driving force behind the transformation of Europe's energy market The smart meter makes it possible to track energy consumption remotely from the point of delivery and, in certain instances, to remotely control distribution to customers. ...
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The Effects of solvency II
What effect is the quintessentially European Solvency II initiative having when examined from the multiple perspectives of the organisations it is impacting across Europe? Will it increase the opportunities for regulatory arbitrage rather than decrease them as originally intended? ...