Atos origin expanding e-ticketing business

Atos Origin is gearing up for its growth and expansion through its UK card payments and e-ticketing businesses. The company’s UK office has reported sales of £376m in the first half of 2008, which is a 12 per cent increase over last year. The profit margin has also increased by six per cent in comparison to the corresponding period last year.

Keith Wilman, the UK CEO of Atos, said that the performance was a result of transformation programme designed to focus a few main verticals, like government homeland security and environment; fast-moving-consumer-goods enterprise outsourcing; health business process outsourcing; rail and road transport; and mutual financial services pensions and insurance systems.

He also felt that one of the biggest areas of operations is payments in the transport vertical. They process roughly around £5bn per year in rail tickets payments. Thus the next step is to sell tickets. The company is also looking at deploying near-field-communication technology in the field of payments and ticketing. They also intend to grow in their payment and loyalty card transactions business.

They derive about £10m every year in revenues via their loyalty and payments cards operations but the company believes it has a potential to earn far higher revenue.

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