Atos joins Catena-X: the automotive industry network to strengthen and secure data exchange & innovation across Europe

Paris, Oct 15 2021

Atos today announces that it is now a member of Catena-X, an open up, scalable European community, based mostly on the GAIA-X cloud infrastructure initiative, which aims to allow secure cross-business knowledge trade throughout the automotive sector to enhance effectiveness, speed up innovation and decarbonization, and thus reinforce the competitiveness of the European automotive sector. Atos, founding and Board member of GAIA-X, will be becoming a member of main automotive companies and suppliers, vendor associations and equipment suppliers, which include BMW AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, SAP SE, Siemens AG, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Mercedes-Benz AG and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft as component of Catena-X.

Jointly the users of Catena-X will find and put into action scalable, technique-related use cases. The described Catena-X pilot projects are targeted on five areas of software which, with the aid of this sort of a networked knowledge infrastructure, can drastically aid to boost productiveness and enhance sustainability along potential value chains. The five areas are: good quality management, logistics, servicing, supply chain management and sustainability.

“We are convinced that the automotive sector is vital for Europe in post-COVID recovery, and a rapid pivot to digital ecosystems will ensure the monetary steadiness of this sector’s total ecosystem.” stated Pierre Barnabé, Worldwide Head of Production Business at Atos. “We are energized to deliver our special worldwide knowledge and working experience to this community and to function intently with the other users to aid build the first knowledge-pushed value chain for the automotive sector. In unique, specified our knowledge in decarbonized digitaland our very own Web Zero 2028 ambition,we are incredibly eager to assistance the early use cases focusing on decarbonization.”

Atos’ special set of knowledge and working experience is composed of:

• Skills in European knowledge frameworks & platforms – Atos is just one of the users of the FIWARE foundation, a founding member of GAIA-X and the Intercontinental Knowledge Areas Affiliation (IDSA). The concepts of the latter two will offer the foundation for Catena-X in regards to knowledge safety, knowledge sovereignty and interoperability.
• End-to-conclusion portfolio of options to aid determine the optimum platform necessary for any Catena-X use circumstance – this sort of as its BullSequana Edge server and Atos Electronic Hub platform, an accelerator for setting up ecosystem platforms.
• Established knowledge in the worldwide automotive sector, possessing worked on worldwide complicated projects with a vary of automotive companies.
• European #1 in cloud, cybersecurity and superior-efficiency computingto assistance Catena-X create throughout Europe – Atos delivers its worldwide working experience and knowledge in Cloud Computing with around seven,000 Cloud experts and thirty,000 Software experts worldwide supported by Atos OneCloud, a special initiative to professional-actively speed up clients’ migration to the Cloud by way of a just one-stop shopoffering sector certain go-to-current market and business.
• Atos Scientific Local community and Skilled Local community – communities of 165 and 3,000 best scientists and experts – will assistance the eyesight and implementation of Catena-X.
• Decarbonization – a leader in decarbonized digital, and with the current acquisition of international identified climate method consulting agency EcoAct, Atos has a dedicated workforce of consultants to aid create use cases which will lower CO2 emissions throughout the total supply chain and those which will allow a transition to a circular economy and speed up sustainability, this sort of as optimizing manufacturing planning, enhancement and operations with Electronic Twin technologies.

Earlier this yr Atos joined forces with other leaders in the automotive and technologies fields to make ‘Software République’: a new open up ecosystem for smart and sustainable mobility, which aims to create and current market devices and software program to offer an enriched and sustainable mobility provide for towns, regions, enterprises and citizens. The Catena-X community could be an prospect to increase the enhancement of these goods and solutions.

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide leader in digital transformation with 105,000 staff and annual revenue of more than € 11 billion. European quantity just one in cybersecurity, cloud and superior efficiency computing, the Group provides tailored conclusion-to-conclusion options for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization solutions and goods, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos operates below the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the Subsequent 20 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to aid style and design the potential of the data space. Its knowledge and solutions assistance the enhancement of awareness, instruction and investigation in a multicultural solution and contribute to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Group enables its shoppers and staff, and users of societies at huge to are living, function and create sustainably, in a secure and secure data space. www.atos.internet

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