Atos opens New Global Delivery Center in Cairo
Press Release
Atos
opens New Global Delivery
Center in Cairo
Prime Minister along with the Minister of
Communications & IT witness signing agreement between Atos and
Egypt’s ITIDA to expand Atos’ operations in Egypt
The new GDC provides cutting-edge, best-in-class
digital services to clients across the globe
Cairo, Egypt -
December 5, 2022
- Atos today announces the opening of its new
Global Delivery Center (GDC) facility in Cairo, Egypt concluded in
a formal signing ceremony together with the Egyptian Prime
Minister, Mr. Mostafa Kamal Madbouly, and Egypt’s Minister of
Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Amr Talaat.
With this new GDC, Atos reinforces its presence
in the Middle East and Africa and its commitment to both regional
and global clients. This new GDC will boost its offshore delivery
capability in addition to enabling it to explore business prospects
from the wider region.
Egypt produces 100,000 IT graduates each year,
with a diverse, gender-balanced workforce. Over 80% of its young
working population are fluent in languages such as Arabic, English,
French and German. Egypt was also ranked the 4th most
pandemic-resilient country, solidifying its position as one of the
world’s best delivery locations1.
Leveraging Egypt’s diverse and skilled workforce
and strong support from the Ministry of Communications and IT, Atos
aims to provide cutting-edge, best-in-class digital services to its
clients across the globe. It offers a full range of services,
including digital workplace, application development, automated
testing, project management, analytics and database, mainframe,
server and infrastructure support to its clients with competitive
pricing.
Dr. Amr Talaat,
Egypt’s Minister of Communications and
Information Technology endorsed the
agreement inked with Atos which comes amongst several
agreements with 29 multinational companies, creating over 34
thousand jobs directed towards exports through 35 global
delivery centers with export value worth USD 1 billion
annually. “These agreements reflect Egypt’s conducive
business environment and multinationals’ confidence in our
qualified local talent,” Talaat commented.
H.E. Talaat
underlined Egypt’s potential to become the next big hub for digital
and high-end services, thanks to the constant efforts made to boost
Egypt’s competitiveness in the offshoring industry. “With its
unique central location at the crossroads between 3 continents,
Egypt delivers a resilient high-quality digital infrastructure, and
provides a supportive legislative framework catching up with the
global rapid growth,” he continued. “Our plentiful supply of tech
talent is all set and ready at a competitive cost, with proven
experience in business services delivery for global firms to more
than 100 countries with 20 different languages,” Talaat
affirmed.
Amr Mahfouz, CEO of ITIDA,
said: “We're thrilled to reach an agreement with Atos, helping
ITIDA achieve its strategic goals of the ambitious Digital Egypt
strategy for the offshoring industry (2022-2026), that aims at
multiplying the exports revenues from the offshoring sector, while
creating more domestic jobs for our skilled pool of talent.”
“ITIDA is working diligently to leverage the
current geopolitical situation that led to major challenges across
key delivery locations, while simultaneously monitoring the global
shortage of talents. We invest heavily in building the digital and
soft skills of our large talent pool, with a strategic focus on
developing the country’s capabilities in the high-value services,
including engineering, research & development (ER&D),
embedded software, and electronic design,” Mahfouz added.
The diversity of the IT and business services
provided in Egypt, along with its cost competitiveness, and
government support, encourage global enterprises to launch and
expand their global operations reinforcing the country’s reputation
as a favorable, reliable IT offshoring destination and business
services hub.
Sven
Hesterman, Head of Global Delivery Centers
Atos, said “We are proud and
excited to open a new Global Delivery Centre in Egypt, adding our
network of award-winning centres around the world. The
talented and diverse workforce in
Egypt is an
excellent addition to the thousands of dedicated colleagues we have
in our centres around the world, serving our customers on a daily
basis.”
Bérénice
Chassagne, Head of Growing Markets at Atos, said “Egypt is
an excellent location for a new Atos GDC, not only because of its
strategic geographic location and good infrastructure, but also its
robust language capabilities and diverse culture. It is
strategically located to provide our customers with all the
benefits of scale and flexibility. The decision to open a new
Global Delivery Center in the city of Cairo reinforces our
commitment to growing markets as one of our key elements in
ensuring optimized and high-quality delivery to our
clients”.
Now with 350 IT professionals, Atos in Egypt
plans to hire another 1,000 employees over the next 12 months with
an emphasis on local talent. Atos will continue its investment in
premise extension, training and skill set development and
recruitment of local resources.
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital
transformation with 112,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 11
billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high
performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end
solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in
decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a
secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is a SE
(Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future
of the information space. Its expertise and services support the
development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural
approach and contribute to the development of scientific and
technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its
customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live,
work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information
space.
Press contact
Laura Fau | laura.fau@atos.net | +33 6 73 64 04
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