Because the Earth is not flat!Geo-information (or geo-spatial information), geographic information systems (GISs), and location-based services (LBSs) have experienced a boom in recent years, both in people’s ...

Delivering a new perspective on the impact of relationships on your corporate performance When a company goes through an organizational change program, there is often a lack of knowledge about actual relationships within the company and about single points of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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? ...

Europe’s debt crisis is both a continuation of the global financial crisis and the result of the region’s attempts to address the issues that brought an end to a decade of prosperity and unrestricted borrowing.However, the decisions ...

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 ...

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, ...

Pursuing continuous growth in the current economic climate and anticipating the increasing competition from public clouds, many traditional software and hardware vendors are broadening their portfolio to be able to offer end-to-end infrastructure and application services known as ...

Today’s world is a challenging and fast moving business environment where it is increasingly difficult to drive profitable growth. Customers are demanding greater value from products and services, and consumer power has increased dramatically through media and Internet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Wholesale payments sector is currently under severe pressure from the credit crunch. The outcome of the economic crisis is impossible to predict, but there are signs at the horizon that give direction to the expected future market dynamics. ...