Atos acquires zData, a premier consulting firm with unparalleled expertise in Big Data solutions
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
* zData is the largest PIVOTAL services partner in the US, the leading Big
Data solution suite
* Atos expands and strengthens its delivery capabilities with a highly
specialized and focused team of experts in Big Data Architecture and Data
Science
* Atos is accelerating its Atos Codex offering, notably in North America
Paris, New York, February 17, 2017 - Atos, a global leader in digital services,
expands its expertise in Big Data services with the acquisition of zData, a
leader in Big Data consulting and solutions for both commercial and enterprise
corporations. Atos has signed a share purchase agreement with zData, bringing a
unique team of software engineers and data scientists to support its customers'
digital transformation journey within all sectors.
This strategic acquisition brings a new level of scalability, reliability and
performance giving enterprises all the benefits of open-source software
framework Hadoop through the world's most advanced turnkey Hadoop solution for
critical production workloads. The company is working with the industries best
software providers for on-site and off-site consulting - from Greenplum to
Hadoop and PIVOTAL HDB (HAWQ) expertise.
"We are pleased to welcome zData to the Atos team and look forward to offering
our customers the right blueprint in their cloud application development needs
leveraging zData's PIVOTAL Cloud Foundry experience", said Jerome Sandrini, Atos
Vice President and Head of Big Data, North American Operations. "zData's Hadoop
experts and Data scientists combined with Atos' cognitive solutions will enable
Atos to accelerate the deployment of its Big Data and Atos Codex solutions in
North America, further strengthening its ability to guide customers through
their digital transformation journey".
zData's team of experts and innovative capabilities fully aligns to its Big Data
and Atos Codex expansion strategy notably in the U.S. Atos Codex offers
organizations fast and cost efficient means to exploit the value of their
existing data combined with external data.
In this new landscape, the ability to derive insight from massive volumes of
structured and unstructured data will be made possible by systems which are able
to learn as they perform.
Atos Codex gives customers the techniques, tools and processes they need to make
this business-changing step from Business Intelligence to agile analytics.
Contacts
Atos
Investor Relations:
Gilles Arditti | +33 1 73 26 00 66 | gilles.arditti(at)atos.net
Benoit d'Amécourt | +33 1 73 26 02 27 | benoit.damecourt(at)atos.net
Press:
US
Kim Marie Testa | +1 214 223 5343 | kim.testa(at)atos.net
Europe
Terence Zakka | + 33 1 73 26 40 76 | terence.zakka(at)atos.net
zData
Press:
Katie Mooney | +1 415 890 5746 | kmooney(at)zdatainc.com
About Atos
Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital transformation with circa
100,000 employees in 72 countries and pro forma annual revenue of circa ? 12
billion. Serving a global client base, the Group is the European leader in Big
Data, Cybersecurity, Digital Workplace and provides Cloud services,
Infrastructure & Data Management, Business & Platform solutions, as well as
transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payment
industry. With its cutting edge technologies, digital expertise and industry
knowledge, the Group supports the digital transformation of its clients across
different business sectors: Defense, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing,
Media, Utilities, Public sector, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation.
The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic &
Paralympic Games and is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under
the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and
Worldline.
For more information, visit: atos.net
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