Atos looks beyond the Covid-19 crisis to help businesses prepare for the future

Paris, May 14, 2020

Atos, a international leader in electronic transformation, anticipates what the globe will appear like just after the Covid-19 crisis in a report published by authorities from the Atos Scientific Community, a international community built up of one hundred sixty of the best scientists, engineers and forward thinkers from across the Group, who have been active on the subject matter due to the fact the commencing of the crisis. Their predictions not only depth probable implications and possibilities for unique industries they also check out the ‘transversal’ implications of technologies that have the opportunity to completely transform equally companies and societies.

A new regular with ample home for possibility and change

The pandemic has brought some profound variations. We get the job done in another way, shop in another way, and interact with pals and loved ones in another way. At the similar time, it is presently having deep financial repercussions for people today, companies and nations. Irrespective of a escalating consensus all around a coming recession, the study by the Atos Scientific Community serves as a reminder that the upcoming opportunity for companies and societies can nonetheless be positively affected.

“The recent virus outbreak is possible to be the to start with of quite a few waves. Thus, irrespective of the remarkable financial and fiscal steps declared, we do not assume the recent decrease to be followed by a rapid and sustained restoration. We assume a “new normal”, not a “going back to normal”, but it is 1 with ample home for possibility and change”, make clear the authors of the report, José Esteban-Lauzán and John Corridor, members of the Atos Scientific Community, and Hubert Tardieu, Atos CEO advisor.

From quick to transformational steps

The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown steps have paved the way for the acceleration of electronic transformation as companies shift functions to cope with office environment closures, limited movement and source interruption. Atos’ authorities alert that our collective reaction must not concentrate exclusively on quick steps but on transformational types as perfectly. The report supplies some hints on what this new ‘normal’ may well appear like.

The crisis has built clear that digitalization or small business continuity have been not experienced plenty of in a lot of companies. Even so, the point of view of a prolonged-phrase financial paralysis will travel companies to prioritize investments in prolonged-phrase resilience in excess of everyday operational wants. Witnessing car or vacuum cleaner factories manufacture ventilators also highlighted the great importance of adaptability and small business continuity to identify a given organization’s route out of the crisis. In the electronic period, these features derive from facts-centricity, lighter processes and high levels of automation based on equipment-finding out and synthetic intelligence, not just robotics. The press for better adaptability will also accelerate Cloud efforts, toward a flexible hybrid Cloud.

Some tidal waves, like distant get the job done, will not recede. Considerations and issues of security and basic safety will develop into much more urgent than ever, with impacts on the source chain, toward much more built-by-style and design traceability, on sustainability, decarbonization and, of class, on cybersecurity. To conclude, the Covid-19 pandemic is our now, not our upcoming. Companies have the possibility to forge the upcoming, rethinking their goal and tactic to concentrate on efficacy as significantly as efficiency.

To study the complete ‘What the globe will appear like just after the COVID-19 crisis’ report: https://atos.web/articles/2020/atos-report-what-the-globe-will-appear-like-just after-the-covid-19-crisis.pdf

 

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 About Atos

Atos is a international leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 personnel in seventy three countries and once-a-year revenue of € twelve billion. European range 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Functionality Computing, the Group supplies stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Information, Company Apps and Electronic Place of work alternatives. The Group is the Worldwide Details Technologies Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates less than the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The goal of Atos is to support style and design the upcoming of the info room. Its knowledge and expert services assistance the enhancement of expertise, instruction and analysis in a multicultural approach and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Group enables its consumers and personnel, and members of societies at massive to are living, get the job done and acquire sustainably, in a safe and secure info room.

 

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