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

Paris – July 7, 2020

Atos, a international chief in digital transformation, today launches “Scaler, the Atos Accelerator”, its new startup and SME plan with a special concentration on industries, safety and decarbonization. It provides collectively Atos’ technological know-how teams with picked startups to co-make impressive digital answers for clients in specific industries – answering tested business use scenarios and benefiting from a joint and accelerated go-to-market place. Atos Scaler also supports Atos’ safety and decarbonization strategies, earning them critical focuses in its strategy.

Every year, about 15 startups or SMEs will be picked to establish their projects in accordance to specific shopper passions. These projects will contribute to enriching Atos’ present offerings. Each individual startup or SME comes with a exact use-situation, specific business-concentration and skills, in line with Atos’ most recent strategic strategy (“SPRING”) with an business-led customer concentration.

This plan is a additional phase in Atos’ fruitful collaboration with startups and SMEs, which has by now resulted in various successful projects.

“Atos Scaler is fully commited to unleash the value of collaboration, by facilitating open up innovation and giving birth to quite concrete industrial applications, with accelerated time-to-market place.” states Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Our new accelerator will be a critical asset for Atos, enriching our portfolio to far better help our shopper innovation journey, and supporting Atos’ method when supporting the users of Atos Scaler. Marketplace concentration, Protection and Decarbonization have been critical areas in the choice of successful startups and will develop into even additional important standards for our future target associates.”

The fourteen startups pointed out beneath and thorough in this article are the happy winners picked for the launch of Atos Scaler:

* Startups with which Atos is operating on decarbonization projects

Marketplace-by-design and style

 The companies picked by Atos have by now confirmed a initially desire from the market place. Most of them have by now labored with Atos at the time and Atos Scaler will empower them to gain from Atos international footprint. They are bringing to Atos business know-how and business use scenarios, incorporating speedy value to Atos’ shopper journey with a “ready to sell” strategy.

Escalating the startup business

Atos is fully commited to giving startups access to its customers and to assistance them indication new business, translating open up innovation into concrete business realization. All picked startups will be built-in in international Atos’ things to do globally. This incorporates the development of demos which will be out there in Atos’ business technological know-how facilities (BTICs) and, for shopper innovation, joint innovation workshops or strategic hackathons.

Scaler will allow startups to accelerate their progress in just eighteen months, by accessing Atos’ clients and associates and benefitting from Atos’ international brand name and visibility.

As section of the plan, the picked startups will get access to critical Atos’ resources these as intercontinental business progress professionals that will assistance them grow further than their present market place coaching information in shopper innovation knowledge hosting answers ideation & DevSecOps platform (Atos Studio) Google Cloud platform and HPC-as-a-Support. They will gain from privileged help during their Scaler journey.

Improving Digital Protection

Atos has designed a special innovation observe report in buy to protect end-customers, IoT and knowledge, to detect and respond to threats. Atos serves the connected entire world (wise metropolitan areas, OT in transport and Marketplace 4.), develops Mission Critical Units and addresses financial safety with answers these as sovereign cloud, knowledge portability and blockchain traceability.

The Team is #three in cybersecurity expert services around the globe and enhances its systems by partnering with international leaders, as nicely as picking to get the job done with startups with strong business use scenarios these as United Biometrics (solid biometric authentication) and Claroty (IT/OT safety).

In the direction of decarbonization

Atos’ ambition to decarbonization was once more highlighted by its modern commitment to internet-zero carbon emissions by 2035, setting the best decarbonization criteria for its business. Developing on this quite solid position and skillset, Atos has released Decarbonization as a Support: Decarbonization for its customers. Scaler supports Atos’ commitment to management in decarbonized digital transformation. One of the choice standards for the candidates was how they help Atos’ customers in their journey to a decarbonized digital entire world. Together with Scaler startups, Atos develops new answers that make decarbonization a competitive advantage.

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About Atos

Atos is a international chief in digital transformation with about a hundred and ten,000 employees in 73 international locations and once-a-year revenue of about € eleven billion. European quantity just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Large-Performance Computing, the Team offers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Massive Details, Small business Applications and Digital Office answers. The team is the Globally Facts Technological innovation Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates less than the models Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to assistance design and style the foreseeable future of the info technological know-how space. Its know-how and expert services help the progress of know-how, education as nicely as multicultural and pluralistic ways to exploration that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the team permits its customers, employees and collaborators, and users of societies at substantial to reside, get the job done and establish sustainably and confidently in the info technological know-how space.

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