olympic athens 2004

• Atos SE is a French

multinational IT

services corporation

that also does IT

consulting and

receives contracts for

outsourced public

services from some

governments.

• Atos is headquartered

in Bezons, France.

A. Could the 2004 Athens Olympics have been a success without all of the

networks and backup technologies?

NO, it couldn’t be possible because,

B. The 2004 Olympics is a global business. Can a business today succeed without

information technology? Why or why not?

REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF RISK

IMPROVE THE MEANS OF

COMMUNICATION

ENSURES CONNECTIVITY

C. Claude Philipp's said dealing with “crazy scenarios of what might happen in

every area: a network problem, staff stopped in a traffic jam, a security attack .

. . everything that might happen,” was the reason for so much testing. Can you

think of other businesses that would require “crazy scenario” testing? Explain.

Business dealing with “crazy scenarios” includes the following:

•Security system for the armed forces of the country.

•Security from terrorist attack also home guard.

•Bank money security from robbery.

•Care centres(hospital or clinics)that need to have both life support and medical

system online all the time.

Claude Philips, program director of major

events at Atos Origin, the lead IT

contractor for the Olympic Games of 2004.

YAN NOBLOT was information security

manager at ATOS ORIGIN.

Team spend a full week stimulating the

busiest day of the game.

Expected problems were:

1. Security attack.

2. Network problem.

3. Staff stopped in a traffic jam.

Two major components were:

1. GMS (GAME

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM).

2. IDS (INFORMATION

DIFFUSION SYSTEM).