Atos Origin Recognized as Database Partner of the Year 2010 at the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) France Partner Specialization Awards

Oracle Exadata solution combined with Atos Origin’s expertise forms a winning combination for low cost consolidation of data centers
Paris, December 9, 2010 -
Atos Origin, an international IT services provider, won the Database Partner of the Year award at the 2010 OPN France Partner Specialization Awards. This prize recognises Atos Origin’s ability to provide its customers with innovative services and solutions based on Oracle software and hardware. Building on the success of several projects in France, the Netherlands and Germany, in 2010 Atos Origin was recognized by Oracle France, in particular, for assisting clients with Oracle Exadata implementations. Atos Origin has also acquired an Oracle Exadata Database Machine in order to help clients evaluate its extreme performance capabilities in real time.

“We awarded Database Partner of the Year 2010 to Atos Origin for its in-depth expertise in the field of databases and ability to assist customers from beginning to end - consulting, integration, hosting in cloud computing or dedicated mode,” says Richard Frajnd, VP Sales Technology at Oracle France. “Oracle believes in integrating software and hardware to help clients accomplish their best achievements. We are delighted that Atos Origin, an OPN Specialized partner, is also convinced of the power of this infrastructure and is helping to deliver Oracle Exadata to the market. Atos Origin has its own Oracle Exadata demonstration and prototyping system available for all of its EMEA clients so that they are able to familiarise themselves with the excellent performance achievements of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.”

“This Database Partner of the Year Award is a fantastic boost for our collaboration with Oracle, and Atos Origin has the ambition to become a leading provider for Oracle Exadata in Europe,” says Francis Meston, Executive Vice President of Global System Integration at Atos Origin. “It illustrates that we can work with Oracle to offer strategic infrastructure and integration solutions. Atos Origin is one of the first major IT players to have expressed its confidence to its clients in Oracle Exadata’s ability to consolidate and simplify database landscapes as well as data warehouses with real time insight, which is particularly useful in Business Intelligence. Atos Origin is able to help customers in implementing and hosting their projects either on a traditional infrastructure or onto Cloud-oriented environments, so they can benefit from Oracle Exadata’s extreme performance, low overall costs and environmental friendliness.”

About Atos Origin
Atos Origin is a leading international information technology (IT) services company, providing hi-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed operations to deliver business outcomes globally. The company’s annual revenues are EUR 5.1 billion and it employs 49,000 people. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.

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