Atos expands its manufacturing capabilities with the acquisition of IDEAL GRP in the Nordics

Paris (France), July 27, 2021

Atos introduced nowadays that it has completed the acquisition of Ideal GRP, a Solution Lifecycle Administration (PLM) technique integrator and platinum-amount remedy husband or wife of Siemens Electronic Industries Computer software, headquartered in Finland. Ideal GRP gives consulting, integration, application and maintenance companies for firms in the producing sector. The acquisition will increase a extremely skilled group of somewhere around a hundred experts to Atos with double platinum position.

The past several months have exposed the fragility of modern-day supply chains, primary producing corporations to speed up their electronic transformation in the look for for improved resilience and operational excellence. PLM gives a product or service facts backbone by integrating information, processes and organization units.

Building on the acquisition of PLM specialist Processia in June 2021, the procedure is aligned with Atos’ field-certain method and will reinforce its PLM and Engineering Answers franchise, when also increasing the Group’s footprint in Northern Europe. Atos will supply the sources, expertise, and assurance to enable Ideal GRP to aim completely on offering the goods and companies needed by medium sized and substantial enterprises to productively deploy transformational Market four. initiatives.

Launched in 1992, and headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Ideal GRP has a strong and longstanding partnership with Siemens, designed on close to thirty several years of cooperation. It is a primary player in the Nordics market place with places of work in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia.

“Manufacturers make unlimited portions of information at all phases of a product’s everyday living cycle, which is an priceless asset but gets a true obstacle when it will come to working with all this information to make better goods. This is exactly where PLM units arrive to the rescue and verify to be a crucial enabler for Market four..” stated Pierre Barnabé, Head of Manufacturing Market at Atos. “We glimpse forward to doing work with Ideal GRP to assistance our clients in the producing field on their journey to sustainable electronic transformation.

Over the past several years Ideal GRP clients have viewed the major change of PLM becoming additional strategic and built-in, touching the entire benefit-chain of producing. With Atos, we are now thoroughly outfitted to supply certainly worldwide and scalable companies when protecting the close marriage and regional agility with our clients in the Nordics and Baltics. We think that transformation will only speed up, and we are energized to have the option to perform with Atos to assistance our clients build a electronic benefit at the coronary heart of this dynamic evolution. The extended-lasting and strategic partnership between Atos and Siemens combined with the breadth and scale of Atos’ portfolio of offerings would make this an exciting option for Ideal GRP clients and our folks.stated Jaakko Hartikainen, CEO at Ideal GRP.

“Atos globally is a extremely valued husband or wife deploying next generation alternatives by working with the world’s primary portfolio of Siemens Electronic Industries Computer software. Alongside one another with Ideal GRP in the Nordics, their combined know-how will even further drive the electronic transformation of our clients with deep regional know-how and a certainly worldwide backbone and financial investment ability. We are certainly energized to see this happening” stated Mats Friberg, Vice President & Controlling Director, Nordic Operation at Siemens Electronic Industries Computer software.

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Atos is a worldwide leader in electronic transformation with one hundred and five,000 workers and annual profits of about € eleven billion. European range 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and substantial effectiveness computing, the Team gives customized finish-to-finish alternatives for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and goods, Atos is committed to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its clientele. Atos operates underneath the models Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

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