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

Paris, May fourteen, 2020

Atos, a worldwide leader in electronic transformation, anticipates what the earth will seem like following the Covid-19 crisis in a report revealed by gurus from the Atos Scientific Group, a worldwide network designed up of 160 of the best scientists, engineers and forward thinkers from throughout the Team, who have been active on the subject matter considering that the commencing of the crisis. Their predictions not only detail feasible implications and chances for person industries they also examine the ‘transversal’ implications of systems that have the potential to completely transform the two organizations and societies.

A new normal with ample area for option and transform

The pandemic has introduced some profound changes. We do the job in different ways, shop in different ways, and interact with friends and spouse and children in different ways. At the exact time, it is previously owning deep economic repercussions for people, organizations and nations. Inspite of a growing consensus around a coming economic downturn, the review by the Atos Scientific Group serves as a reminder that the potential potential for organizations and societies can nonetheless be positively influenced.

“The current virus outbreak is probably to be the very first of many waves. For that reason, inspite of the incredible financial and fiscal actions declared, we do not count on the current decrease to be followed by a speedy and sustained restoration. We count on a “new normal”, not a “going back to normal”, but it is one particular with ample area for option and transform”, demonstrate the authors of the report, José Esteban-Lauzán and John Corridor, members of the Atos Scientific Group, and Hubert Tardieu, Atos CEO advisor.

From speedy to transformational steps

The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown actions have paved the way for the acceleration of electronic transformation as organizations change functions to cope with business office closures, limited motion and source interruption. Atos’ gurus alert that our collective response will have to not aim solely on speedy steps but on transformational types as well. The report offers some hints on what this new ‘normal’ may well seem like.

The crisis has designed apparent that digitalization or organization continuity have been not mature adequate in a lot of corporations. However, the viewpoint of a extensive-term economic paralysis will push corporations to prioritize investments in extensive-term resilience over day by day operational demands. Witnessing motor vehicle or vacuum cleaner factories manufacture ventilators also highlighted the great importance of adaptability and organization continuity to figure out a specified organization’s path out of the crisis. In the electronic period, these aspects derive from facts-centricity, lighter processes and high degrees of automation based on device-finding out and synthetic intelligence, not just robotics. The thrust for increased adaptability will also accelerate Cloud endeavours, towards a versatile hybrid Cloud.

Some tidal waves, like remote do the job, will not recede. Worries and troubles of stability and security will develop into far more pressing than at any time, with impacts on the source chain, toward far more developed-by-layout traceability, on sustainability, decarbonization and, of system, on cybersecurity. To conclude, the Covid-19 pandemic is our now, not our potential. Corporations have the option to forge the potential, rethinking their intent and tactic to aim on efficacy as significantly as effectiveness.

To examine the entire ‘What the earth will seem like following the COVID-19 crisis’ report: https://atos.net/content/2020/atos-report-what-the-earth-will-seem-like-following-the-covid-19-crisis.pdf

 

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Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and ten,000 employees in seventy three nations around the world and once-a-year income of € twelve billion. European selection one particular in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Overall performance Computing, the Team offers close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Major Knowledge, Business enterprise Programs and Electronic Workplace answers. The Team is the Throughout the world Facts Technological know-how Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates less than the makes Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The intent of Atos is to assist layout the potential of the details space. Its skills and companies guidance the progress of knowledge, instruction and study in a multicultural method and contribute to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Team permits its consumers and employees, and members of societies at large to reside, do the job and build sustainably, in a safe and sound and secure details space.

 

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