Atos has announced the signing of an outsourcing contract with EDF subsidiary, EDF Luminus, the second largest energy company in Belgium. The contract will see Atos take over the centralisation and standardisation of EDF Luminus IT services and infrastructure, with hosting of the applications in the EDF data centres.
Atos, positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, Europe 2013”1, was chosen by EDF Luminus to rationalise, industrialise and transform its IT operations. Atos successfully offered an extremely competitive delivery model, at industrial and financial level, which takes account of the current and future requirements of EDF Luminus and its particularly stringent security demands. The Atos Tooling Framework (ATF), the methodology through which the managed infrastructure solutions will be provided, has been a determining factor in the decision by EDF Luminus.
"The ambition of Atos is to go beyond the objectives traditionally assigned to outsourcers, and to establish a long-term partnership able to deliver the highest quality services at the best cost, thus allowing economic gains in order to reinforce the ‘time to market’ of EDF Luminus in the Energy & Utilities market", said Didier Beau, Global Account Executive at Atos.
Because Atos has been a major industrial partner of EDF for thirty years, most notably with its Shared Services Division, teams are already in place to:
- Bring about the transformation of infrastructure with service levels agreements for all services
- Implement the Business Recovery Plan without failure (using redundant infrastructure between the various EDF SA data centres in France)
- Set up governance to ensure the best service levels for end users with maximum reactivity.
Outsourcing activities, for which Atos is the European leader, are managed by more than 28,000 members of staff and represent more than €4 billion in turnover. Atos ensures information management for more than 140,000 servers, of which the virtualisation rate is already almost 40%. In the growing Cloud space, Atos generates a turnover of around €200 million through its structure dedicated to Cloud activities, known as CANOPY, the Open Cloud Company.
