Atos looks beyond the Covid-19 crisis to help businesses prepare for the future

Paris, May fourteen, 2020

Atos, a world leader in electronic transformation, anticipates what the entire world will look like following the Covid-19 crisis in a report printed by authorities from the Atos Scientific Community, a world community produced up of 160 of the major experts, engineers and forward thinkers from throughout the Group, who have been active on the topic given that the starting of the crisis. Their predictions not only element doable implications and opportunities for specific industries they also examine the ‘transversal’ implications of technologies that have the opportunity to renovate the two businesses and societies.

A new normal with ample space for possibility and adjust

The pandemic has introduced some profound alterations. We perform differently, shop differently, and interact with close friends and family differently. At the same time, it is previously owning deep economic repercussions for people, businesses and nations. Irrespective of a rising consensus all over a coming economic downturn, the analyze by the Atos Scientific Community serves as a reminder that the long run opportunity for businesses and societies can still be positively affected.

“The current virus outbreak is probable to be the first of a number of waves. As a result, inspite of the remarkable monetary and fiscal measures announced, we do not anticipate the current decrease to be followed by a fast and sustained recovery. We anticipate a “new normal”, not a “going back again to normal”, but it is just one with ample space for possibility and adjust”, make clear the authors of the report, José Esteban-Lauzán and John Corridor, members of the Atos Scientific Community, and Hubert Tardieu, Atos CEO advisor.

From rapid to transformational steps

The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown measures have paved the way for the acceleration of electronic transformation as businesses shift operations to cope with office closures, limited motion and source interruption. Atos’ authorities alert that our collective reaction must not focus entirely on rapid steps but on transformational ones as perfectly. The report offers some hints on what this new ‘normal’ might look like.

The crisis has produced apparent that digitalization or small business continuity have been not mature enough in lots of organizations. Having said that, the viewpoint of a extensive-time period economic paralysis will generate organizations to prioritize investments in extensive-time period resilience in excess of everyday operational desires. Witnessing vehicle or vacuum cleaner factories manufacture ventilators also highlighted the importance of adaptability and small business continuity to figure out a provided organization’s path out of the crisis. In the electronic period, these aspects derive from information-centricity, lighter procedures and large amounts of automation primarily based on device-understanding and synthetic intelligence, not just robotics. The force for bigger adaptability will also accelerate Cloud initiatives, toward a adaptable hybrid Cloud.

Some tidal waves, like remote perform, will not recede. Issues and issues of protection and security will come to be more pressing than ever, with impacts on the source chain, in the direction of more built-by-design traceability, on sustainability, decarbonization and, of system, on cybersecurity. To conclude, the Covid-19 pandemic is our now, not our long run. Organizations have the possibility to forge the long run, rethinking their objective and tactic to focus on efficacy as substantially as efficiency.

To browse the whole ‘What the entire world will look like following the COVID-19 crisis’ report: https://atos.internet/content material/2020/atos-report-what-the-entire world-will-look-like-following-the-covid-19-crisis.pdf

 

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 About Atos

Atos is a world leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff members in 73 international locations and yearly profits of € 12 billion. European number just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Superior-Efficiency Computing, the Group offers close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Knowledge, Business Apps and Electronic Office alternatives. The Group is the Worldwide Data Technological innovation Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates underneath 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 enable design the long run of the facts place. Its knowledge and expert services aid the advancement of expertise, education and investigate in a multicultural approach and add to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the Group allows its buyers and staff members, and members of societies at substantial to live, perform and develop sustainably, in a risk-free and protected facts place.

 

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