Delivering increasing value for less budget year after year
Today’s businesses are confronted with a dilemma: how to deliver better and faster customer service at lower business costs? In short: doing more with less.
But cost control and cost reductions can only take you so far. Doing “more with less” may require business changes to help you achieve shorter process cycles and lower process costs. For example, by automating routine tasks, mobilizing business processes, applying self-service, and out-tasking or outsourcing non-core activities.
The financial constraints on the Olympic Games, for which Atos Origin delivers the IT solution, are extremely stringent. Not only must the deadline be met, but the budget cannot overrun. It is Atos Origin’s responsibility to ensure that this happens, whilst at the same time ensuring real operational excellence and the effective delivery of a complex solution.
We have learned that having effective tools, global processes and methods are critical to success, whether the work is done onsite, onshore, nearshore or offshore. This allows you to put your mind and money where it should be – growing your business!
Testing is one of they key success factors for the Olympic Games IT project. Here we put our systems through exhaustive testing of over 100,000 hours. Not only testing our infrastructure and systems, but also testing and training our people, processes and procedures.
And the secret to success is testing throughout a project's lifecycle, rather than leaving it as an extra step at the end. If you think you're saving money today by cutting out testing, you’re wrong! It's only going to wind up costing you more when you realize it needs to be fixed when you're in production.
This comprehensive approach enables our team to execute perfectly, on time and within budget.
“Today people expect more content and more detail about events as they happen. Through the IT infrastructure that Atos Origin has designed, built and operated during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the competition results have been viewed and read by more people and on more channels than ever before. Atos Origin, our long-term partner, is the brains behind the IT operations for the Olympic Games, consistently delivering on schedule and within budget.”
Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee