Vendor Analysis
published on Jun 26, 2013
Report Overview:
Atos is a major IT services organization with FY 2012 revenues of €8,844m across 42 countries. Atos has over 74k employees, with recent expansion gained from the acquisition of 'Siemens IT Solutions & Services' (SIS) in July 2011. SIS had FY 2010 revenues (for the year ending September 30, 2010) of €4.2bn, of which ~€1.6bn from data center-related services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's Data Center Outsourcing Vendor Assessment for Atos is a comprehensive assessment of the vendor's data center outsourcing offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of data center outsourcing services and identifying their suitability for RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the support services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Atos' data center outsourcing offering, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Identification of the company's strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the company's strengths, weaknesses and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company's customer base, including the company's targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company's offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company's delivery organization, including the geography of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Data center outsourcing is a key component of Atos' Managed Services (MS), which more than doubled its revenues in 2011 with the addition of Siemens IT Solutions & Services' (SIS) in July 2011 (2011 pro forma revenues of €3,952m, compared with €1.85bn in 2010). SIS significantly increased Atos' data center business, turning it into a top-tier IT infrastructure management provider in Europe by:
- Doubling its main datacenters (to 30, and >80 in total)
- Expanding its reach in the Nordics, central Europe, and also in the U.S.
- Improving Atos' capabilities for larger multinational opportunities.
Atos aims to continue to build on its MS capabilities to handle the major market trends, which include cloud, sustainability, big data and consumerization of IT. In particular, it is looking to expand its data center business by providing more private clouds. In addition it is looking to grow its business through additional offerings for service integration, orchestration, security and reliability in hybrid cloud and on-premise environments.