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

Paris – July seven, 2020

Atos, a world chief in electronic transformation, these days launches “Scaler, the Atos Accelerator”, its new startup and SME software with a exceptional target on industries, safety and decarbonization. It delivers collectively Atos’ technological know-how teams with picked startups to co-produce revolutionary electronic answers for clientele in distinct industries – answering tested enterprise use instances and benefiting from a joint and accelerated go-to-current market. Atos Scaler also supports Atos’ safety and decarbonization strategies, making them essential focuses in its method.

Every 12 months, about fifteen startups or SMEs will be picked to acquire their projects according to distinct purchaser interests. These projects will contribute to enriching Atos’ present choices. Each startup or SME will come with a specific use-case, distinct industry-target and expertise, in line with Atos’ hottest strategic system (“SPRING”) with an industry-led client target.

This software is a more stage in Atos’ fruitful collaboration with startups and SMEs, which has currently resulted in quite a few successful projects.

“Atos Scaler is fully commited to unleash the benefit of collaboration, by facilitating open up innovation and offering delivery to really concrete industrial programs, with accelerated time-to-current market.” claims Elie Girard, Atos CEO. “Our new accelerator will be a essential asset for Atos, enriching our portfolio to much better assistance our purchaser innovation journey, and supporting Atos’ method when supporting the members of Atos Scaler. Industry target, Protection and Decarbonization have been essential facets in the selection of successful startups and will come to be even additional critical criteria for our upcoming target associates.”

The fourteen startups talked about down below and in-depth below are the proud winners picked for the start of Atos Scaler:

 

* Startups with which Atos is doing the job on decarbonization projects

 

Industry-by-style and design

 The corporations picked by Atos have currently confirmed a initial need from the current market. Most of them have currently labored with Atos when and Atos Scaler will allow them to gain from Atos world footprint. They are bringing to Atos industry know-how and enterprise use instances, including rapid benefit to Atos’ purchaser journey with a “ready to sell” method.

 

Escalating the startup enterprise

Atos is fully commited to offering startups accessibility to its clients and to aid them signal new enterprise, translating open up innovation into concrete enterprise realization. All picked startups will be built-in in world Atos’ pursuits globally. This contains the development of demos which will be available in Atos’ enterprise technological know-how centers (BTICs) and, for purchaser innovation, joint innovation workshops or strategic hackathons.

Scaler will let startups to accelerate their progress inside of eighteen months, by accessing Atos’ clientele and associates and benefitting from Atos’ world model and visibility.

As part of the software, the picked startups will get accessibility to essential Atos’ sources this sort of as worldwide enterprise progress authorities that will aid them expand over and above their present current market coaching tips in purchaser innovation details internet hosting answers ideation & DevSecOps system (Atos Studio) Google Cloud system and HPC-as-a-Support. They will gain from privileged assistance in the course of their Scaler journey.

 

Improving Electronic Protection

Atos has developed a exceptional innovation keep track of record in purchase to guard stop-consumers, IoT and details, to detect and respond to threats. Atos serves the linked entire world (intelligent cities, OT in transportation and Industry four.), develops Mission Vital Units and addresses economic safety with answers this sort of as sovereign cloud, details portability and blockchain traceability.

The Group is #three in cybersecurity products and services throughout the world and enhances its technologies by partnering with world leaders, as well as deciding upon to do the job with startups with powerful industry use instances this sort of as United Biometrics (powerful biometric authentication) and Claroty (IT/OT safety).

 

Toward decarbonization

Atos’ ambition in the direction of decarbonization was all over again highlighted by its the latest determination to web-zero carbon emissions by 2035, setting the best decarbonization specifications for its industry. Setting up on this really powerful position and skillset, Atos has introduced Decarbonization as a Support: Decarbonization for its clients. Scaler supports Atos’ determination to management in decarbonized electronic transformation. One of the selection criteria for the candidates was how they assistance Atos’ clients in their journey in the direction of a decarbonized electronic entire world. Collectively with Scaler startups, Atos develops new answers that make decarbonization a aggressive gain.

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About Atos

Atos is a world chief in electronic transformation with more than 110,000 personnel in seventy three international locations and once-a-year profits of more than € eleven billion. European variety one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Performance Computing, the Group provides stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Details, Business Applications and Electronic Place of work answers. The group is the Around the globe Details Technological innovation Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates less than the makes Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to aid style and design the long term of the facts technological know-how house. Its know-how and products and services assistance the progress of understanding, schooling as well as multicultural and pluralistic approaches to analysis that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the group enables its clients, personnel and collaborators, and members of societies at large to dwell, do the job and acquire sustainably and confidently in the facts technological know-how house.

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