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

Paris, May fourteen, 2020

Atos, a world wide leader in digital transformation, anticipates what the environment will appear like immediately after the Covid-19 disaster in a report printed by industry experts from the Atos Scientific Community, a world wide network made up of a hundred and sixty of the top rated researchers, engineers and ahead thinkers from throughout the Team, who have been lively on the subject matter because the commencing of the disaster. Their predictions not only depth probable implications and prospects for particular person industries they also investigate the ‘transversal’ implications of technologies that have the opportunity to renovate the two corporations and societies.

A new standard with enough space for possibility and alter

The pandemic has introduced some profound modifications. We do the job in a different way, shop in a different way, and interact with close friends and family in a different way. At the similar time, it is currently possessing deep financial repercussions for persons, corporations and nations. Irrespective of a developing consensus around a coming economic downturn, the research by the Atos Scientific Community serves as a reminder that the long run opportunity for corporations and societies can nonetheless be positively motivated.

“The latest virus outbreak is probably to be the 1st of many waves. Hence, irrespective of the remarkable monetary and fiscal actions announced, we do not expect the latest decrease to be adopted by a speedy and sustained restoration. We expect a “new normal”, not a “going back to normal”, but it is just one with enough space for possibility and alter”, clarify the authors of the report, José Esteban-Lauzán and John Corridor, customers of the Atos Scientific Community, and Hubert Tardieu, Atos CEO advisor.

From instant to transformational steps

The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown actions have paved the way for the acceleration of digital transformation as corporations shift functions to cope with office closures, restricted motion and offer interruption. Atos’ industry experts warn that our collective reaction will have to not target exclusively on instant steps but on transformational kinds as properly. The report presents some hints on what this new ‘normal’ may appear like.

The disaster has made evident that digitalization or enterprise continuity ended up not experienced sufficient in lots of businesses. Nonetheless, the standpoint of a long-time period financial paralysis will drive businesses to prioritize investments in long-time period resilience more than daily operational requirements. Witnessing car or vacuum cleaner factories manufacture ventilators also highlighted the significance of adaptability and enterprise continuity to figure out a given organization’s path out of the disaster. In the digital period, these aspects derive from info-centricity, lighter processes and substantial levels of automation dependent on device-studying and synthetic intelligence, not just robotics. The force for greater adaptability will also accelerate Cloud efforts, toward a versatile hybrid Cloud.

Some tidal waves, like remote do the job, will not recede. Problems and issues of stability and protection will turn out to be a lot more urgent than at any time, with impacts on the offer chain, in the direction of a lot more constructed-by-layout traceability, on sustainability, decarbonization and, of training course, on cybersecurity. To conclude, the Covid-19 pandemic is our now, not our long run. Firms have the possibility to forge the long run, rethinking their purpose and approach to target on efficacy as substantially as performance.

To browse the total ‘What the environment will appear like immediately after the COVID-19 crisis’ report: https://atos.web/content material/2020/atos-report-what-the-environment-will-appear-like-immediately after-the-covid-19-disaster.pdf

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Atos is a world wide leader in digital transformation with one hundred ten,000 staff members in seventy three international locations and yearly income of € twelve billion. European range just one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-General performance Computing, the Team presents stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Data, Enterprise Applications and Digital Place of work remedies. The Team is the All over the world Information Technological innovation Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

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