Atos to create center of excellence to accelerate digital transformation in the financial services industry

Collaboration to help shoppers speed modernization with IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services

Paris and Armonk, New York, fourteen September 2021

Atos and IBM (NYSE: IBM) these days announced programs to even further grow their world-wide romance to help financial institutions and insurance plan corporations address their enhanced stability and regulatory compliance demands when moving their workloads and applications to the cloud. With the goal of serving to corporations modernize to meet up with client demand from customers, Atos and IBM intend to assist fiscal companies shoppers by way of the creation of a new Atos Cloud Center of Excellence.

As fiscal companies establishments stability the need to have to generate innovation by offering large-price companies although addressing strict stability and compliance necessities, hybrid cloud environments have turn out to be ever more significant. To help go the fiscal companies sector forward, Atos intends to migrate and modernize customer mission-important workloads to the IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services utilizing the platform’s designed-in stability and compliance protocols created to help shoppers cut down their hazard and regulatory limitations that impede transformation and innovation. The IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services features stability abilities including private computing engineering and ‘Keep Your Very own Key’ encryption backed by the best degree of stability commercially offered[1] to help fiscal establishments retain management of their knowledge.

The Atos Cloud Center of Excellence intends to provide engineering and fiscal companies skills for shoppers backed by focused Atos experts experienced on IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services, IBM Cloud Paks and Pink Hat OpenShift, furnishing regional language aid. Atos’ planned perform to assist the IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services by way of the new Atos Center of Excellence reinforces the company’s mission to provide software modernization and hybrid cloud transformation at scale, which is enabled by Atos OneCloud – an revolutionary initiative from Atos to pro-actively accelerate its clients’ migration to the Cloud by way of a one particular-end shop supplying sector specific go-to-sector and firm. Atos also gives automation companies including Robotic Approach Automation, AI-driven smart workflows and business enterprise procedures reengineering accelerated by IBM Cloud Pak for Info and IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

Adrian Gregory, SEVP, World Head of Fiscal Services & Insurance, Atos, reported: “Banking companies and insurance plan corporations are moving their applications to the Cloud at speed – with the pandemic furnishing sharp target to digitalize organizations in reaction to shifting customer and sector tendencies – this feeling of urgency must be matched with resolve to pick the suitable spouse to unlock lengthy-term chances. By combining the ability of Atos OneCloud with the IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services, jointly we can engage in a pivotal purpose in supporting fiscal companies organisations on their transformations, serving to them to address their stability, compliance and resiliency troubles.”

Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform, reported: “As fiscal establishments seek to modernize and harness the ability of hybrid cloud and AI, the need to have for stability and compliance throughout all platforms is paramount. IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services aims to address the risks the sector is struggling with with designed-in controls concentrated on the regulatory limitations that have historically impeded electronic transformation. The new Atos Cloud Center of Excellence will combine IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI answers with Atos’ sector experts experienced and licensed for those answers, as nicely as automation abilities to accelerate innovation all over the sector without the need of sacrificing stability.”

Atos and IBM announced the expansion of their world-wide romance in January 2021 with the intent to help shoppers accelerate their electronic transformation endeavours with hybrid cloud and sector-specific automation answers created to enhance productiveness and cut down charges.

Atos OneCloud brings together a exclusive set of ten offerings to help shoppers accelerate migration to the Cloud. It also contains a selection of companies in collaboration with a entire world class spouse ecosystem including IBM and RedHat, which encompasses cloud advisory consulting, software transformation skills and prebuilt cloud accelerators underpinned by Atos’ primary cybersecurity offerings.

Statements concerning IBM’s long term path and intent are subject to improve or withdrawal without the need of discover and depict targets and goals only.

For additional information on IBM Cloud for Fiscal Services, go to www.ibm.com/cloud/fiscal-companies.

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About Atos

Atos is a world-wide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 workforce and once-a-year revenue of above € eleven billion. European range one particular in cybersecurity, cloud and large efficiency computing, the Group provides customized stop-to-stop answers for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and items, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its shoppers. Atos operates less than the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to help style and design the long term of the information place. Its skills and companies assist the growth of expertise, instruction and research in a multicultural approach and lead to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Group allows its buyers and workforce, and customers of societies at huge to live, perform and acquire sustainably, in a safe and sound and secure information place. www.atos.web

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[1]^{Dependent on IBM Hyper Secure Crypto Services, the only provider in the sector designed on FIPS 140-two Degree four-licensed components. FIPS 140-two Stability Degree four provides the best degree of stability described in this regular.}