Atos Origin has an important role to play, through minimising its own operations’ impact on society and the environment, and through the sustainability solutions it provides for its clients to aid their transformation towards sustainability. Technology is a key part of the sustainability transformation.
Supporting our customers in their own Green IT and sustainable development projects
Global warming, upward trending energy prices, regulatory constraints and customer expectations are prompting businesses to find ways to reduce their environmental footprint. As an information services provider, we offer our customers solutions to shrink their own environmental footprint by reducing and optimizing their energy consumption. These include:
- Innovative consulting and technologies to reduce the amount of electricity used by data centers and servers.
- Tracking and decision-support technologies to protect the environment.
- Paperless solutions and virtualization services
The measures we test in-house are fully transposable and enhance our credibility in the marketplace. As a test lab for green operations, we have the expertise it takes to support our customers in their own Green IT and sustainable development projects.
Sustaining your future with innovative solutions
New technologies are emerging to meet the growing demand from citizens and businesses for economically sustainable and environmentally responsible development. These technologies hold the promise of lower consumption throughout their lifecycle and, as for all new projects, a reasonable return on investment.
- Deploying environmental tracking and decision-support resources
Information portals, comparison tools and permit trading and compensation platforms consolidate data produced by different environmental-impact traceability solutions. These technologies, which are useful for businesses, also target consumers. In June 2008, the UK's Royal Society of Arts, launched a pilot to enable real-time personal carbon calculation and leveraged technology already in place at Atos Origin to process BP service station loyalty cards.
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- Leveraging paperless solutions to reduce environmental impact
Paperless solutions such as videoconferencing, instant messaging and information sharing are an integral part of Atos Origin's offering. In a project for ERDF, for example, our technology will be used to deploy 35 million smart meters that can be read remotely, without a technician's visit.
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In the transportation sector, Air France-KLM passengers have been using our paperless boarding card solution since September 4, 2008.
One of Atos Origin's flagship projects in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and paperless solutions is the new distributed archiving and preservation system (SPAR) for the French National Library.
Going for Green Gold
As part of its partnership with the Olympic Games, Atos Origin helps the organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee deploy technological solutions to shrink the Games' carbon footprint, from reducing the consumption of paper to cutting down on travel. For the Beijing Games in 2008, we developed the first remote information system for sports commentators. The system allowed them to access competition results in a fraction of a second from their home country studios using touchscreen computers. This significantly reduced travel and CO2 emissions, as well as expenses. In another first, a 150-person team developed and operated a platform for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, to process more than 50,000 applications from volunteers in 100 countries, without having to travel or use any paper.