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Atos SE is a European IT services corporation headquartered in Bezons, France, that provides consulting & managed services and systems integration, hi-tech transactional services, cloud and cybersecurity services. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology Services, Worldline, Atos Worldgrid and Atos Healthcare. From 2012 - 2015, ''Atos Healthcare'' was part of a serious controversy in the UK over Work Capability Assessment introduced in 2008 to determine who should receive employment and support allowance. Decisions were taken by officials at the DWP using evidence from the assessments carried out by ''Atos Healthcare''.〔(BBC. "Atos seeks early exit from fit-to-work tests contract" 21 February 2014 )〕 In August 2015, statistics from the Department of Work and Pensions revealed that 2,380 people had died between 2011 - 2014 soon after being found fit for work through disability benefit assessments.〔(The Guardian. August 27 2015. "Thousands have died after being found fit for work, DWP figures show". )〕 In September 2015, in a groundbreaking ruling, the coroner summing up the suicide of a claimant who had been assessed by Atos said the Atos healthcare professional had failed to take into account the views of any of Mr A’s doctors during a 90-minute assessment, telling him the DWP decision-maker would look at that evidence instead.〔("Coroners Ground Breaking Verdict".Disability News Service. John Pring. 18 September 2015. )〕 The DWP negotiated an early exit from the existing WCA contract with Atos in 2014 "after raising concerns about the quality of its work".〔("Disabled people's 'fit for work' assessments should be scrapped – MPs". The Guardian. 23 July 2014 )〕〔(BBC. "Atos seeks early exit from fit-to-work tests contract" 21 February 2014 )〕 ==History== The company was formed in 1997 through a merger of two French IT companies; and combined with the Dutch-based company Origin B.V. in 2000 to become Atos Origin. It subsequently acquired KPMG Consulting in 2002 and SchlumbergerSema in 2004. In 2010 Atos Origin announced the buyout of Siemens IT Solutions and Services and finalized the acquisition in July 2011. Afterwards, the company name reverted to Atos. In 1996, Origin B.V. was created after a merger of the Dutch company BSO and the Philips C&P (Communications & Processing) division, while a year later in 1997, Atos was created following a merger of the French companies Axime and Sligos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.telecompaper.com/news/axime-sligos-merger-named-atos )〕 In 2001, Atos Origin sold its Nordic operations to WM-data. In 2002, it made a major acquisition by buying KPMG Consulting in the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands. Then in 2004, it acquired SchlumbergerSema, the IT service division of Schlumberger and took over the infrastructure division of ITELLIUM, a subsidiary of KarstadtQuelle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.consultant-news.com/article_display.aspx?p=adp&id=1738 )〕 At the same time (2004), the company created a new subsidiary, Atos Worldline, and the renaming of its consulting activities as Atos Consulting. Also in 2004, Atos Origin Australia, originating from Philips, was sold to Fujitsu. In 2005, Atos Origin sold its activities in the Nordic region, which had become part of the company with the acquisition of Sema Group, to WM-data while in 2006, Atos Origin sold its operations in the Middle East to local management.〔 〕 In October 2007, Philippe Germond replaced longtime CEO Bernard Bourigeaud. Two shareholders, the hedge funds Centaurus Capital and Pardus Capital, tried to gain control over the company via the supervisory board. In November 2008, the boardroom battle came to an end when Thierry Breton replaced Philippe Germond as chairman and CEO.〔 In August 2010 Atos Origin acquired Indian payment company Venture Infotek. In December 2010 Atos Origin agreed to acquire the IT Solutions and Services subsidiary of Siemens for €850 million. As part of the transaction, Siemens agreed to take a 15% stake in the enlarged Atos, to be held for a minimum of five years.〔 The company dropped the "Origin" suffix of its name in July 2011 after completing its acquisition of the Siemens unit. In June 2012 the CEO of the UK Border Agency revealed that Atos was responsible for major disruptions in the Agency's IT systems over the prior months.〔(The Great Border Agency IT Crash: Just who was responsible? ) ''The Register''〕 In November 2011 Atos and software services provider Ufida International Holdings formed the joint venture Yunano. The two companies invested EUR 5.7million. Atos has 70 percent and UFIDA has 30 percent. The joint venture has its HQ in Bezons, France, a suburb of Paris.〔(TelecomPaper Atos, Ufida form Yunano joint venture in EMEA, China )〕 In 2012 Atos announced the creation of a new company called Canopy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= CIO.com )〕 The CEO is Jacques Pommeraud.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Industry Support for the Cloud Operations Forum )〕 In 2011 Atos introduced a Zero Email initiative, banning email as a form of internal communications, except for use with customers and prospects. As part of the intitiative, Atos acquired the French software company blueKiwi in early 2012, rolling out their ZEN social networking software across its organisation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3409636/atos-drives-for-zero-email-with-bluekiwi-zen-roll-out/ )〕 In August, 2014 Atos announced that it had acquired a controlling stake in Bull SA through a tender offer launched in May.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Atos succeeds in bid to buy Bull ) 〕 Atos announced plans in October, 2014 to buy out or squeeze out the remaining share and bondholders of Bull.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Atos to launch buyout of last 5% of Bull shares, bonds ) 〕 On December 19, 2014, Atos announced the acquisition of Xerox's IT Outsourcing business for , tripling the size of the North American business. The unit generated in Q3 2014, contains 9,800 employees and operates in 45 countries.〔 The transaction closed on June 30, 2015.〔http://atos.net/en-us/home/we-are/news/press-release/2015/pr-2015_06_30_03.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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