Atos Expands its Operations in Gujarat; Inaugurates New Global Delivery Center in Vadodara

Atos, an international leader in digital services, announced the opening of its new office facility in Vadodara Gujarat. This is the second establishment of Atos in a Tier-II city in India, the first being in Pune, Maharashtra, which was opened in January 2012 by Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO, Atos Group. With this new office expansion Atos reinforces its Indian presence and commitment. This will boost its offshore delivery capability and explore business prospects from the region as well.

The new office was inaugurated by Peter Pluim, who is the Senior Vice President and COO Global Operations – Atos Managed Services, Atos Group. Peter has the global responsibility for the Global Delivery, Service Management and Risk- Audit & Compliancy functions at Atos.

On this occasion, Peter Pluim said: ‘With the opening of this new Global Delivery Center in the city of Vadodara, as Atos Managed Services, we re-inforce our commitment to India as one of our key elements in ensuring optimized and high quality delivery to our clients’

Announcing the opening of the office, Milind Kamat, EVP and CEO Atos in India said: “Our focus is to establish India as one of the key global delivery center for the Atos Group and its clients worldwide. We are working on growing India market. Currently 25 percent of our revenue is from the local market. We decided to come to Vadodara because of the good infrastructure, well renowned education center, rich talent pool and close proximity to key economic center and our operations in Mumbai and Pune. Vadodara offers a good ecosystem for an emerging destination for IT-BPM sector.”

The new facility, in the current phase, will house 1000 employees. “India is a prominent offshore center for Managed Services (MS) in Atos. Vadodara will add to this existing strength and establish itself as one the major complementing IT infrastructure Management Services center in India Vadodara facility will be an enabler to our current MS i.e. IT Infrastructure Management Service to meet the growing global demand from clients augmenting our present operations spread across major metro cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi-NCR”, said Surendrasinh Gohil, the SVP and Head of the managed services for IMEA.

As a phase-1 of the recruitment for the new facility in Vadodara, Atos has already hired 300 IT professional, who are getting inducted in batches. The company plans to recruit another 700 employees in the next 12 months. In the overall exercise, the focus is preferably to hire local talent from Baroda and nearby cities in Gujarat.

About Atos:

Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with 2013 pro forma annual revenue of €10 billion and 86,000 employees in 66 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group provides Consulting & Systems Integration services, Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data & Security solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, the Group works with clients across different business sectors: Defence, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media & Utilities, Public Sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation.

Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, and Worldline. For more information, visit: atos.net