Delivering on our mission-critical role for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Delivering Excellence is a defining factor in Atos Origin’s role at the Olympic Games. By bringing people, processes and technology together to produce a mission-critical and innovative service, we deliver results for our clients and enable them and their suppliers to work more efficiently and effectively.
While top-class athletes from around the world broke 43 world records and 132 Olympic records during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, behind the scenes the IT team led by Atos Origin smashed records of its own.
Our continuous improvement of our processes and practices meant that for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games our IT team:
- provided the IT systems and software that processed and activated 70 percent more accreditations – more than 340,000 in total
- securely processed more than 80 percent more competition data for media and news agencies worldwide – totaling 1.5 million messages
- enabled almost 50 percent more stories to be published each day in English by the Olympic News Service – totaling an average of 500 stories a day
- added 40 percent more sports disciplines (eight in total) to the Commentator Information System to provide broadcasters with more detailed, real-time information
- supported around 30 percent more hits on INFO2008, the intranet for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, averaging around 1.2 million hits each day
- collected and filtered more than 12 million IT security events each day to detect any potential security risk for the Olympic Games IT systems. From these, less than 100 were identified as real issues. All were resolved, with no impact at all on the Olympic Games.
Ensuring access to accurate, real-time results
Atos Origin introduced the Remote Commentator Information System for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This new service enabled commentators to access competition results from the studios in their home countries in a fraction of a second via touch screen PCs. It also provided background information on the athletes and sports to help them add color to their commentaries.
Protecting and securing the IT infrastructure behind the Olympic Games is the area where Atos Origin innovates and invests the most. For the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we implemented the latest security monitoring solution to filter and prioritize potential IT security risks so the team was immediately notified and could react quickly to any unusual or unexpected activity. Our IT Security methodology and solutions ensured that there was not a single incident that impacted the Olympic Games.