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Adaptive Supply Chain Solutions for CPG/Retail
Bringing customers and suppliers closer together In recent years, the CPG/Retail supply chain has changed shape significantly. Retailers and global players have reduced the number of direct suppliers, while at the same time, national and international ...
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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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Business Drivers for Smart Metering across the Electricty 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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Compliance: Creating Business Value
The repercussions of recent major corporate frauds such as the Enron and WorldCom scandals have given rise to an increasing number of new governance laws and regulations. These include Sarbannes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, Data ...
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Consulting IT governance July 2007
It is almost an understatement to say that we live in an era of radical change, characterized by the rise of abundant information and widespread echnologies. Changes can be found in the products and services we buy, in ...
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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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Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business philosophy which provides a vision for the way your company wants to deal with your customers. To deliver that vision, you need a CRM strategy which gives shape to your ...
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Data Center Consolidation
Wave after wave of innovation, acquisitions, mergers and de-mergers in the telecommunications industry during the last fifteen years have left service providers with a complex array of systems and technologies that are expensive to run and difficult to ...
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Data Centres in the Early 21st Century
This whitepaper has been written for people who are finding that they need to know a lot more about data centres, how they work and what they do, than they previously expected. It has been produced using the ...
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Demand Supply Management in Outsourcing
For decades outsourcing has been growing with double-digit percentages. Different types of outsourcing have emerged, including Business Process Outsourcing and Global Sourcing, and the focus of IT outsourcing partnerships is slowly shifting from efficiency to innovation. ...
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eGovernment
The Transformation of the DecadeGovernment agencies around the world have been automating its processes progressively over the last 10-20 years. However, there are governments who have gone way beyond sheer automation and into dramatic transformation and reinvention through ...
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Enterprise Application Integration for the Telecom Industry
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a natural next step in corporate information technology (IT) development. Companies have over a number of years created a complex web of interconnected applications each with its own means of communicating ...
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Getting Value Out of Payment Infrastructures: Leveraging SEPA
Informatica and Atos Origin 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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Improving IT Services and Increasing User Uptime with Intel® vPro™ Technology
As a world leader in integrated information technology (IT) outsourcing, Atos Origin provides their customers with best-of-breed services for PCs. Atos Origin expects to further improve those offerings through the use of new, remote- ...
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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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Innovation and Business Transformation
It doesn't matter which came first, it matters that companies work hard and smart at both. Survival in challenging timesLike the chicken and the egg conundrum, business transformation and innovation are just as essential to one another, ...
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IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): A Panacea for the Future or One Step Forward in Network Infrastructure?
The European telecommunications landscape is undergoing a revolution that is transforming the industry. End User (both consumer and corporate) needs are driving this revolution as they look for the services they use on their PCs at home to ...
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Living Our Values Making a Difference
CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY WITHIN ATOS ORIGIN Everyone at Atos Origin understands the importance of working in harmony with our environmentin today’s world. As a leading IT services company, we are aware that our activities, and ITservices in general, ...
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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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Managing a Software Factory
Today’s enterprises know that continuous improvement of quality and productivity is a prerequisite for survival. Ever-changing market circumstances place a strong demand on agility and flexibility.Information technology plays a supporting and sometimes even a trend-setting role. ...
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Meeting the Billing Challenge
Telco billing systems must constantly adapt to deal with the impact of technological advances in telecommunication services, new approaches to marketing and changes to the way the industry operates. Yet the economic downturn of the last few years has ...
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MiFID, Boom not Doom?
As the deadline for the Market in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) approaches, the firms in pole position will be those that have clear client and market strategies allied to an understanding of the changes to their operating model. ...
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Mobile TV: The latest “Big Thing”!
The latest challenge in convergence is the broadcasting of TV content to mobile phones. Now though, through cellular networks (UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rate for Global Evolution) Network ( ...
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MVNO Goldrush: Sustainable Businesses or the Next Telecom Collapse?
Eight years after the launch of the world’s first Mobile Virtual Network Operator, MVNO is once again a buzz word within the telecom industry. Attracted by lower barriers to entry, potentially high returns on investment and strategic ...