Societas Europaea | |
Traded as | Euronext: ATO |
Industry | IT services, IT consulting |
Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters |
Bezons, France Munich, Germany |
Area served
|
Worldwide |
Key people
|
Thierry Breton (Chairman & CEO) |
Services | Information Technology (Consulting, Systems Integration, Managed Services), business consulting, outsourcing (such as healthcare) |
Revenue | €13.05 billion (2015) |
€440 million (2015) | |
€265 million (2015) | |
Total assets | €13.03 billion (2015) |
Total equity | €6.19 billion (2015) |
Number of employees
|
100 000 (2015) |
Website | Atos.net |
Atos is a European IT services corporation with its headquarters in Bezons and offices in France and Munich, Germany. It specialises in hi-tech transactional services, unified communications, cloud, big data and cybersecurity services. Atos operates worldwide under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Healthcare, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, Unify and Worldline.
The company was formed in 1997 through a merger of two French IT companies; and combined with the Dutch-based company Origin B.V. in 2000 to become Atos Origin. It subsequently acquired KPMG Consulting in 2002 and SchlumbergerSema in 2004.
In 2010 Atos Origin announced the buyout of Siemens IT Solutions and Services and finalized the acquisition in July 2011. Afterwards, the company name reverted to Atos.
In 1996, Origin B.V. was created after a merger of the Dutch company BSO and the Philips C&P (Communications & Processing) division, while a year later in 1997, Atos was created following a merger of the French companies Axime and Sligos. In 2001, Atos Origin sold its Nordic operations to WM-data. In 2002, it made a major acquisition by buying KPMG Consulting in the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands. Then in 2004, it acquired SchlumbergerSema, the IT service division of Schlumberger and took over the infrastructure division of ITELLIUM, a subsidiary of KarstadtQuelle.
At the same time (2004), the company created a new subsidiary, Atos Worldline, and the renaming of its consulting activities as Atos Consulting. Also in 2004, Atos Origin Australia, originating from Philips, was sold to Fujitsu. In 2005, Atos Origin sold its activities in the Nordic region, which had become part of the company with the acquisition of Sema Group, to WM-data while in 2006, Atos Origin sold its operations in the Middle East to local management.