MICHELIN selects the Accenture & Atos Origin consortium as global strategic partner in R&D, Manufacturing and Business Intelligence areas

Paris, July 2008 -

Accenture and Atos Origin announce that Michelin gives them the applications’ management of its core business: R&D, Manufacturing and Business Intelligence. Accenture and Atos Origin become Michelin’s partners in building, supporting, developing and implementing these strategic applications worldwide. It is a three year contract.

The goal of this new organization is to deliver to Michelin, worldwide leader on the tire market, enhanced operating efficiency and more responsive, flexible information systems. Cost and quality performance will also be improved.

“We are very proud to have been selected by Michelin as strategic partners in charge of the applicative areas of its core business. Our business skills, our innovation capabilities, our worldwide presence and our industrialized approach for the development and support of applications will help Michelin to develop worldwide and reach its objectives”, say Didier Zeitoun, CEO of Atos Origin in France and Sergio Colella, Products Lead for Accenture in Europe.