France’s Atos Origin takes over from SchlumbergerSema to become the new Information Technology partner for the Athens 2004, Turin 2006 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
According to the agreement Atos is to provide consulting, systems integration, operations management, information security services and software applications for the three Olympic Games.
Jean Chevallier, executive vice president, Olympics, Atos Origin, formally vice president of SchlumbergerSema said, “from the upcoming technical rehearsals in Athens to the closing ceremonies in Beijing, we will continue to make the IT services in each Games better than the last and exhibit the extraordinary result that our clients expect and demand”.
During the Athens Games a team of almost 2000 IT professionals and volunteers will manage all IT systems and services in the Technology Operations Centre or “nerve centre” for the Games, primary and secondary data centres, and 60 competition and non-competition venues.
During the next four months the company will focus its energy on live technical rehearsals, which will end in mid June.
