Atos Consulting helps clients navigate the various IT choices including strategy (design and integration with business strategy to ensure alignment and maximum use of information technologies), applications, networks, security and compliance, program management, as well as optimizing IT organizations, based on a global Enterprise Architecture approach. Our practice encompasses both legacy systems as well as innovative technologies.
Together with our clients, we :
- Transform client vision to gain competitive advantage into a feasible plan by applying information technology,
- Ensure the evolution and deployment of our client vision into results, through operational excellence,
- Pilot the transformation and evaluate the performance,
- Apply IT in a way that is aligned with their business objectives,
- Are innovative in the use of IT to deliver competitive business advantage,
- Have efficient, reliable, secure IT operations in place.
We have a portfolio of transformational value propositions tailored by marketplace, business sector, and clients to help CIOs address business and technical challenges. We support our clients in maximizing the benefits from their IT investments through:
- Providing advice and support in defining their Enterprise Architecture; from the IT Strategy aligned with the business, to the IT Architecture linked to the technical domains and aligned with the market trends.
- Meeting rising expectations to IT-enable businesses through gaining operational excellence that reduce costs, improve service, secure data, and deliver faster solutions to business requests in a proven Governance framework with the adequate Organisation and people management (Human Capital Management).
- Managing the complex IT programs, as well as the various dependencies, needed for business transformation.
- Meeting demands made by an increasingly complex regulatory environment, particularly Sarbanes Oaxley requirements for testing and reporting internal controls, or Security regulations (Privacy laws)
Our objective is to work with our clients to develop sustainable IT solutions that support and enhance their overall business strategy. Besides implementing IT strategies, we develop customized solutions and integrate "best of breed" technologies and packaged systems as part of an end-to-end solution offering with specific sector focus.
Our solutions include
IT Strategy
- Enterprise Architecture definition, multi/layered architecture
- Business Processes Strategy
- IT Strategy / IT-Business Alignment
- Information Strategy
- Assessment and Audit (IT, E-readiness, …)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- IT Sourcing Strategy
- IT Shared Service Centre. Feasibility Study
- M&A of IT shops. Due Diligence
- Specific Strategy Plan/Design (Contact Centre, Portal, …)
Enterprise Architecture
- Solutions:
- Architecture Design
- Master / Director Plan, Assessment, Audit, Redesign
- Specific Optimization & Reengineering
- RFI, RFP, Selection and contract management
- Applicable to some or a combination of Technical Domains:
- Information Systems,
- Networks, Telecommunications services, convergence
- Datacentres, Servers, Platforms,
- Support Infrastructures
IT Organization & Governance
- IT Governance and organization structures:
- IT Management. BI, Dashboards, Balanced Scorecard
- Knowledge Management
- IT Organization. CoE. Human Capital Management.
Operational Excellence
- IT Service & Asset Management (process & tooling)
- IT Cost Reduction
- IT Asset Management, Capacity Planning, Configuration Management, Service Desk, Document / Workflow Management and other S&NM disciplines
- IT Effectiveness:
- IT Audit and Optimization, IT Reengineering,
- IT Business Process Management,
- IT Business/Benefits Case. BPO Business Cases
- IT Service Provider Selection
- IT Outsourcing
- Contract Management (SLA’s) and Exit Str
- Services, Infrastructures, Application Maintenance
Information Security & Compliance
- Security (Assessment, Audit, Definition, Planning) :
- Planning and Architecture definition
- Management (health check) - ISO 17799
- Organization (Policies, Norms and Procedures)
- Infrastructure Definition (PKI CP, PKI CPS, PMI, Cryptography, Smart Card, Biometrics...)
- Information Risk Management.
- BCM/BR/BIA, Business Continuity, Recovery, Impact An.
- Specialised Analysis, Selection and Design (Info. Risks Mgmt., Penetration, Vulnerability , ‘log’, Identity Mgmt., fraud)
- Legal/regulatory compliance, assessment / audit:
- Sarbanes Oxley
- Privacy laws (LOPD in SP, …)
- HIPAA, Basel II, IFRS…
IT Program Management
- Project/Program/Change Management Office.
- Project assessment/runaway.
- Methodology definition (Project Mgmt., Life Cycle Mgmt., …)
- Quality Management, Assurance, Improvement (software, management, development, testing, …).
- Portfolio management, Value management. Risk Management
- Program/Project Implementation Management (including infrastructures, networks, etc.).
- Implementation planning, Architectural Migration planning Business case and benefits realisation
- Assurance (Service Transition).
Technology Trends
- Market research and IT trends scan
- Specific benchmarking studies (Contact Centers,...)
- IT Sourcing trends
- New technology introduction (incubation)
- Enabling innovation , new technologies adoption