Atos

Atos, an international leader in digital services, and RSD, a pioneer in Information Governance solutions for enterprises, announced today a strategic partnership to deliver Information Governance solutions. The joint solution empowers customers to cut costs by enforcing appropriate records retention and disposal policies and preserving content that is valuable to the enterprise, moving away from the syndrome, “Keep everything, everywhere, forever.”

This partnership leverages Atos expertise in various markets to deliver specialized consulting approach for information management starting with banking, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. RSD has been successfully delivering archiving solutions to global companies for 40 years, and has built an industry-leading Information Governance solution from the ground-up to complement that business. Its solutions support millions of users worldwide.

Information Management Services from Atos now includes end-to-end solutions based on RSD GLASS© products to address the complex compliance mandates, laws and regulations imposed by regulatory bodies to companies for structured and unstructured contents, especially when they operate in multiple jurisdictions with heterogeneous technologies.

Olaf Badstübner, global head of risk & compliance for financial services at Atos said: “We’re pleased to partner with RSD to leverage our market expertise to create a cross market offering to our customers and provide them with innovative solutions to properly govern their information across their organizations. The Financial Services Sector is especially driven by increased requirements in Risk & Compliance. Our customers have to keep billions of records over years and comply with all regulations in different jurisdictions. With RSD GLASS, we provide an integrated governance solution to banks and insurance companies to reduce operating costs in the information lifecycle and to show compliance by full data traceability.”

“This partnership brings a tremendous opportunity for RSD to expand its customer reach, as well as create new sales and revenue prospects for Atos,” said Pierre Van Beneden, CEO, RSD. “Atos is a European leader in multinational IT services, and we look forward to working with its team to deliver Information Governance solutions to help customers make better business decisions and mitigate risks.”

RSD GLASS is a patent-pending platform used to power global corporate Information Governance programs for electronic and physical content. Companies can create corporate policies that are actively enforced across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries, IT systems, content repositories, cloud-based applications, and paper archives. RSD GLASS manages multi-jurisdictional policies, of governance events, and provides in-place active policy enforcement – wherever governed content resides – across the potentially decades-long lifecycle.