Information Systems
Definition
Altran’s historical activity is IT systems. As a company initially specialised in the engineering sector, Altran currently offers a unique positioning underpinned by its transnational experience and expertise.
IT systems consist of a structured set of technical solutions, methods and processes enabling us to map out and optimise corporate performances and areas of improvement.
Our customers' needs
While companies tend to concentrate on growth they are still relatively vigilant when it comes to costs. Companies need to enhance the strategic importance of IT by applying new technologies and practices in ways that liberate resources to deliver greater innovation and value. Our customers are therefore looking for solutions that:
- drive business,
- use IT and non-IT resources
- are end-to-end,
- and combine services and logistics.
Major application trends
Information management
- Increased real-time consumer information exchange.
- Consolidation of user-generated data.
- Increased interlacing between IT systems (ERP, ECM, etc), modern web technologies and data flood generation.
- Use of corporate social platforms vs. public social media.
- Growing need for social analytical tools to collect and report on social signals generated by enterprise social software
Global enterprise efficiency
- Monitor risks to master increasing quantities of end-to-end data flows
- Manage risks of new critical innovative projects
- IT-Business Bridges becoming more numerous and agile
- Increased dematerialisation and automation of business processes
- Rapid processes adapting to required business changes and leveraging maturity in best practices such as COBIT, CMMI, ITIL
- Adoption of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing
- Mitigate amplified exposure to fraud and IS misuse
