Atos launches open innovation accelerator program for startups and SMEs with strong industry focus

Paris – July seven, 2020

Atos, a worldwide leader in electronic transformation, currently launches “Scaler, the Atos Accelerator”, its new startup and SME system with a special emphasis on industries, stability and decarbonization. It delivers jointly Atos’ technology teams with picked startups to co-generate impressive electronic methods for purchasers in particular industries – answering verified organization use instances and benefiting from a joint and accelerated go-to-market. Atos Scaler also supports Atos’ stability and decarbonization methods, earning them key focuses in its method.

Each individual 12 months, about 15 startups or SMEs will be picked to produce their projects in accordance to particular purchaser passions. These projects will add to enriching Atos’ present-day offerings. Every single startup or SME will come with a specific use-situation, particular industry-emphasis and techniques, in line with Atos’ most recent strategic approach (“SPRING”) with an industry-led customer emphasis.

This system is a further more stage in Atos’ fruitful collaboration with startups and SMEs, which has now resulted in several profitable projects.

“Atos Scaler is fully commited to unleash the worth of collaboration, by facilitating open up innovation and providing start to very concrete industrial purposes, with accelerated time-to-market.” claims Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Our new accelerator will be a key asset for Atos, enriching our portfolio to greater assistance our purchaser innovation journey, and supporting Atos’ system although supporting the users of Atos Scaler. Field emphasis, Stability and Decarbonization have been key aspects in the choice of profitable startups and will develop into even much more significant criteria for our future goal associates.”

The fourteen startups stated below and in depth below are the very pleased winners picked for the start of Atos Scaler:

* Startups with which Atos is functioning on decarbonization projects

Field-by-structure

 The corporations picked by Atos have now verified a initially demand from customers from the market. Most of them have now labored with Atos once and Atos Scaler will empower them to profit from Atos worldwide footprint. They are bringing to Atos industry expertise and organization use instances, including quick worth to Atos’ purchaser journey with a “ready to sell” method.

Expanding the startup organization

Atos is fully commited to providing startups entry to its shoppers and to help them sign new organization, translating open up innovation into concrete organization realization. All picked startups will be integrated in worldwide Atos’ functions globally. This involves the creation of demos which will be obtainable in Atos’ organization technology facilities (BTICs) and, for purchaser innovation, joint innovation workshops or strategic hackathons.

Scaler will allow startups to speed up their improvement within just 18 months, by accessing Atos’ purchasers and associates and benefitting from Atos’ worldwide model and visibility.

As element of the system, the picked startups will get entry to key Atos’ resources this kind of as global organization improvement gurus that will help them extend over and above their present-day market coaching assistance in purchaser innovation data web hosting methods ideation & DevSecOps platform (Atos Studio) Google Cloud platform and HPC-as-a-Service. They will profit from privileged assistance all over their Scaler journey.

Maximizing Digital Stability

Atos has produced a special innovation track document in buy to defend close-users, IoT and data, to detect and respond to threats. Atos serves the related earth (intelligent cities, OT in transport and Field four.), develops Mission Important Techniques and addresses economic stability with methods this kind of as sovereign cloud, data portability and blockchain traceability.

The Team is #3 in cybersecurity companies all over the world and enhances its technologies by partnering with worldwide leaders, as effectively as deciding upon to function with startups with highly effective industry use instances this kind of as United Biometrics (robust biometric authentication) and Claroty (IT/OT stability).

Towards decarbonization

Atos’ ambition towards decarbonization was all over again highlighted by its new determination to internet-zero carbon emissions by 2035, location the greatest decarbonization criteria for its industry. Developing on this very robust position and skillset, Atos has released Decarbonization as a Service: Decarbonization for its shoppers. Scaler supports Atos’ determination to management in decarbonized electronic transformation. 1 of the choice criteria for the candidates was how they assistance Atos’ shoppers in their journey towards a decarbonized electronic earth. Collectively with Scaler startups, Atos develops new methods that make decarbonization a aggressive advantage.

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with around a hundred and ten,000 personnel in seventy three international locations and once-a-year income of around € eleven billion. European selection 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Performance Computing, the Team delivers close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Knowledge, Enterprise Apps and Digital Workplace methods. The group is the All over the world Info Technologies Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates less than the manufacturers Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to help structure the long term of the details technology place. Its expertise and companies assistance the improvement of awareness, training as effectively as multicultural and pluralistic techniques to analysis that add to scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the group enables its shoppers, personnel and collaborators, and users of societies at big to stay, function and produce sustainably and confidently in the details technology place.

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