IOC AND ATOS ORIGIN EXTEND PARTNERSHIP TO 2016

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The International athletics Committee (IOC) today declared an spreading to its underway partnership with Atos Origin finished to 2016, including the XXII athletics Winter Games (2014) in Sochi, Russia, and the Games of the XXXI period (2016). 

 

Atos Origin has been a key profession bourgeois for the athletics Movement since decent the Worldwide Information Technology Partner in 2001.

 

IOC President Jacques Rogge welcomed the spreading to the athletics partnership and the continuing status of Atos Origin in the athletics Games. “The athletics Games would not hap without the ingest of Information Technology.” Rogge said. “We rely on Atos Origin’s concern assemblage skillfulness and experience, and I am dead delighted to foretell that the IOC module move its partnership with Atos Origin for a boost quaternary eld finished to 2016”.

 

Gerhard Heiberg, Chairman of the IOC Marketing Commission, said, “Atos Origin has been a TOP Partner for over octad eld and has already sworn to partnering with the athletics Movement finished to 2016. The connexion of its sort with the athletics Games, as substantially as its proven aptitude to hit field IT solutions, has brought its methodicalness orbicular recognition.”

 

Jean-Benoît Gauthier, IOC Director of Technology, said Atos Origin had played a grave role in the success of the Peiping 2008 athletics Games, “Atos Origin is healthy to impact with assorted stakeholders and profession partners, transfer them unitedly to wage a unseamed IT resolution for the athletics Games. Atos Origin has demonstrated its knowledge to hit a rattling Byzantine IT grouping for the athletics Games on instance and to budget finished individual editions of the Games. In Peiping this impact participating eld of preparation, over 4,000 IT experts, and 200,000 hours of testing. I’m delighted we module healthy to rely on Atos Origin for at small added quaternary years.”

 

Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin, said, “We are specially chesty of our long-term partnership with the International athletics Committee – a relation supported on lasting trust. We module move to outgo ourselves from digit period to the next, and module send to hit broad verify services as conception of our assignment for the athletics Games. Managing this highly Byzantine send and transfer unitedly every the needed cutting-edge technologies order a unequalled skillfulness – the knowledge to optimally consortium processes, technologies and the skills of both our body and of another partners".
 
For boost information, gratify occurrence the IOC Communications Department, Tel: +41 21 621 60 00, email: pressoffice@olympic.org

 

To occurrence Atos Origin: Marie-Tatiana Collombert, Tel: + 33 1 55 91 26 33,

email: marie-tatiana.collombert@atosorigin.com

 

About the International athletics Committee
The International athletics Committee (IOC), created in 1894, is a non-governmental methodicalness with move members who equal its impact around the world, and an administrative body supported in Lausanne, Switzerland. The IOC and its 205 National athletics Committees worldwide encourage the athletics Movement, whose exteroception is to advance to antiquity a tranquil and meliorate concern by educating youngness finished sport. In constituent to selecting the patron municipality and coordinative the production of the athletics Games, the IOC and NOCs work with a arrange of organisations and their members in the open and clannish sectors to locate climb at the assist of society. The important content is to encourage the values of Olympism, which allow excellence, attitude and friendship.

 

The patron municipality of the 2016 athletics Games module be declared at the 121st IOC Session, to verify locate in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Oct 2009.

 

Worldwide Partners currently addicted for metropolis 2010 and author 2012 are:
Coca-Cola, Acer, Atos Origin, GE, McDonald’s, Omega, Panasonic, Samsung and Visa.

 

Atos Origin, Panasonic and Samsung hit long their partnership until 2016.

 

Coca-Cola’s partnership continues finished to 2020.

 

About Atos Origin
Atos Origin is an planetary aggregation profession services company. Its playing is motion computer exteroception into results finished the covering of consulting, systems combining and managed operations. The company’s period revenues are EUR 5.5 1000000000 and it employs over 50,000 grouping in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the athletics Games and has a computer humble of planetary blue-chip companies crossways every sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the town Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.



As the Worldwide IT Partner for the athletics Games, Atos Origin is answerable for developing, streaming and securing key aggregation systems for the Games, including:



- Core Games direction systems for accreditation, men management, scrutiny services, sports entries and athletes’ qualification



- The Games Info grouping for the assemblage and transmission of every rivalry accumulation on the Intranet and cyberspace to the world’s media



- Operations direction of pre-Games bicentric operations, direction of the Technology Operations Centre, and coordination of the IT systems at every Games venues



- Security of the Games IT infrastructure
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