Atos Origin chair Thierry Breton says the company aims to surpass its Beijing achievements at the Vancouver Olympics next year.(ATR) Atos Origin becomes the IOC’s fourth TOP Sponsor for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Games after the technology services provider extended its Olympic partnership.
Headquartered in France and Belgium, the company now joins Panasonic and Samsung in partnering with the IOC through 2016; Coca-Cola’s deal runs through 2020. IOC members will select the 2016 host city in a vote at the Session in Copenhagen Oct. 2.
“We rely on Atos Origin’s world class expertise and experience, and I am absolutely delighted to announce that the IOC will continue its partnership with Atos Origin for a further four years through to 2016,” IOC President Jacques Rogge said in a statement.
The extension of the deal, announced Monday, was widely expected following the company’s successful IT delivery projects at the past four Winter and Summer Games. It joined the Olympic TOP Sponsor program in 2001.
Atos Origin chalked up a series of major achievements at the Beijing Olympics with an IT team and scale of IT infrastructure of similar size to that used for Athens 2004.
These included: providing the IT systems and software that processed and activated 70% more accreditations; processing over 80% more competition data for media and news agencies worldwide; and adding eight more sports disciplines to the Commentator Information System to provide broadcasters with more detailed, real-time information about more sports.
Jean-Benoît Gauthier, IOC Director of Technology, noted the significant contribution Atos Origin has made to the success of the Beijing Games.
“Atos Origin has demonstrated its ability to deliver a very complex IT system for the Olympic Games on time and to budget through several editions of the Games. In Beijing this process involved years of preparation, over 4,000 IT experts, and 200,000 hours of testing,” Gauthier said in a statement.
Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos Origin, said the company “will continue to surpass ourselves from one Olympiad to the next, and will commit to deliver high level services as part of our mission for the Olympic Games.”
In February, the company announced that it was already testing the IT system for use at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. More than 100,000 hours of systems testing aims to ensure they work smoothly at the 2010 Games.
“We will deliver the world’s highest profile IT project on time and on budget,” said Magnus Alvarsson, Atos Origin’s Chief Integrator for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. “Like the athletes, this complex network of systems must work perfectly from the first moment, in front of three billion people. There is no second chance.”
With reporting from Mark Bisson.
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