Atos, Siemens extend alliance

• Strategic alliance marks fifth anniversary
• Joint order intake of over €1.7 billion since 2011 achieved for joint customers
• Funding for joint innovation investment programme increased to €230 million
• Ambition to further accelerate joint business until 2020

Siemens and Atos have further strengthened their strategic alliance with an agreement to further increase the funding of their joint innovation investment programme by an additional €80 million, to €230 million.

The Atos-Siemens alliance is one of the largest strategic relationships ever between a global engineering company and a global IT provider. The collaboration covers key themes in the Siemens digitalisation strategy. Since 2011, Siemens and Atos have achieved a joint order intake of more than €1.7 billion.

Leveraging on the increased funding the two companies have the ambition to further accelerate their joint business until 2020. The new funding will be focused to explore further opportunities for joint collaborations in the fields of industrial security, industrial data analytics, machine intelligence, service enhancing technologies and web of systems.

“The strategic alliance between Atos and Siemens that we decided to create five years ago is unprecedented. In those five years, we have built a unique partnership, a joint vision and extensive business and technology collaboration that are benefiting both customers of our two groups. Through our joint investment fund, we have enhanced our R&D programmes in areas such as business analytics, cyber security, the Internet of Things and digitalisation services worldwide. We are now entering the next level of our digital cooperation, and I am convinced that our customers will even more benefit from our strategic alliance in the years to come," said Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO of Atos SE.

“We are very happy with the development of the Alliance over the past five years,” said Roland Busch, who is a member of both the Managing Board of Siemens AG and of the Board of Atos SE. “The Alliance has driven additional joint order intake for both companies, it has sparked many new innovations and it has contributed to improved shareholder returns. I am also pleased that Atos is a key ecosystem partner for our MindSphere industrial cloud platform.”

Source: Atos. Representatives of Atos and Siemens pose for a picture.