Atos Origin has an important role to play through the sustainability solutions it provides for its clients to aid their transformation towards sustainability. Technology is definitively a key part of the sustainability transformation.
Helping our Clients towards Sustainable Excellence
Despite the uncertain outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, it is clear that businesses and organisations will have to act now to change their operations and processes in order to reduce carbon emissions and to meet the new agreed targets.
The pressure on the IT industry to support sustainability and help future–proof organizations is likely to only increase and here technology will be key in enabling a transformation to a more sustainable operating model.
Leading-Edge Sustainable Solutions
We currently support future developments in areas such as faster processing, lower energy consumption, greater efficiency and the miniaturization of components. We also leverage scientific innovations such as Control and Command for Complex systems (Smart-Grid, energy efficient buildings, and traffic management), Alternative Delivery Models, collaboration and knowledge management, and decision support systems.
And as energy-consuming IT estates continue to are grow, IT will continue to play a key role in helping organisations understand, implement, manage and improve their sustainability programmes as well as their business efficiency.
A New Packaged Green IT offering
In early 2010, Atos Origin launched its Ambition Carbon Free solutions in order to accompany its clients on their journey toward environmental excellence. This program is designed to harness the IT transformation which consists in integrating energy efficiency best practices and minimizing carbon impact which includes offsetting alternatives. Offerings include:
- Transformation services and solutions including sustainability Maturity Assessment (sustainability roadmap), operational measurement systems (Intelligent Sustainability), Change Management Program (Sustainable Cultural Behaviours), Digital Company (Sustainable Working Environment), Business Transformation (Green Procurement, Green Supply-chain and Green Manufacturing), in order to provide the best balance between performance and Green efficiency.
- IT Green Transformation Projects include application portfolio rationalization, workplace energy efficiency, Green infrastructure transformation using the new technologies of virtualization, Green data centers where applications are hosted in an environmentally-friendly way. Through these various solutions, the IT Carbon footprint of Atos Origin clients can be dramatically abated.
We will also be providing all our Cloud solutions with zero carbon footprints as described in our new Atos Sphere microsite (http://www.atossphere.com/). The Offsetting initiative will be part of a Carbon Footprint Abatement Programs with the principal objective of shrinking the CO2 emissions.