A couple of weeks ago, Atos invited a handful of IT analysts to join a briefing about its financial services unit. Being keen to get an update, I took my chance and joined the meeting. Some background facts on Atos in Financial Services In 2012, Atos generated 20% of its total revenue with clients from the financial services segment, making [...]

L’université de Chicago vient de publier une étude sur le comportement des acheteurs menée par des psychologues. Celle-ci, également reprise par la Harvard Business Review (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_presentation_mistake_you_d.html), montre qu’il existe un paradoxe du marketing lorsque l’on parle de perception de valeur, de packaging d’offres et de gestion de portefeuille. En effet, l’étude montre que pour un produit et un package donné [...]

En Avril de cette année, un groupe de recherche soutenu par la commission Européenne a lancé le projet « E-Highway 2050 ». Ce projet vise à concevoir un plan de développement et une méthodologie appropriée pour développer un réseau de distribution d’électricité modulable et pan-européen à l’horizon 2020-2050. Les parties prenantes sont autant les opérateurs de réseaux, des associations, des [...]

Très populaire en France et dans le monde, Trace One, l’éditeur de solutions collaboratives en ligne a su se créer une position de niche privilégiée grâce à des solutions permettant d’optimiser le travail entre les industriels et les distributeurs. Ces solutions facilitent le sourcing, les appels d’offres et le développement des produits (notamment pour les marques de distributeurs), tout en [...]

Accenture has yesterday announced the acquisition of London-based digital marketing and customer experience consultancy Fjord. The acquisition comes roughly half a year after Accenture announced the purchase of digital marketing services provider avVenta Worldwide, indicating Accenture’s strategic push into the digital marketing services space. Fjord specializes in customer experience and user design providing customer engagement services across new digital consumption [...]

Even as some of the larger Indian ITES companies, notably Infosys and Wipro, have been passing through a very tough period, the performance of some of the Tier II companies has been surprisingly strong and their forecasts for the next year is even better. Companies like NIIT Technologies MindTree, KPIT Communis and Infotech have given upbeat forecasts for the next [...]

A few days ago, we had the pleasure to spend the morning with Gilles Grapinet and Charles Dehelly, Senior Executive Vice Presidents leading Atos alongside Thierry Breton.

Recently Tech Mahindra opened an office in Istanbul to cater not only to the rapidly growing ITES market in Turkey, but also in the neighbouring South Eastern Europe and Balkan nations. The company intends to use Turkey as its hub for the region, where it had bagged a contract to implement a billing solution for a large telecom operator. As [...]

Software AG announced yesterday it has acquired native PaaS vendor LongJump for an undisclosed sum. LongJump is one of the ‘oldest’ PaaS vendors, being on the market since 2003. The company has only 19 employees, yet it boasts a significant list of enterprise clients such as Cisco, AT&T, Nielsen, Deloitte or US Data Corp. LongJump’s cloud application development platform can [...]

EMC and VMware have yesterday launched officially Pivotal, their spin-off dedicated to Enterprise PaaS and Cloud-based Data Management. It is supposed to take a radical new approach to application middleware services, inspired from Cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services and Google. However, Pivotal is no start-up and from its creation, it was designed to take on the emerging PaaS [...]