Atos opens Technology Operations Center for Rio 2016 Games

Breakthrough moment as major IT milestone successfully delivered and IOC Project Review confirms IT readiness of the Rio 2016 Games

Rio de Janeiro, 26 November 2015 - Atos, an international leader in digital services, and Rio 2016 officially opens the Technology Operations Centre for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The official opening comes during the 15^th project review by the International Olympic Committee when the TOC is visited as part of the IT readiness review.

The Technology Operations Center is the Control and Command Center for Technology that supervises all 144 Olympic competition and non-competition venues.  During Games time, this 800 m2 facility will monitor and control the IT systems that support the running of the Games and deliver the results from all the Olympic and Paralympic sports competitions to the world's media in real time.

Rio 2016 is an important milestone in the digital transformation of the Olympic Games being the first time at a Summer Games that cloud will be used for key applications including the volunteer portal and the accreditation system. It is also the first time that the TOC in the host city will be supported remotely by a new permanent Technical Technology Operations Center (TTOC) in Spain. This will be the operating model for the future Games that will be delivered fully in SaaS and over the Cloud.

The role of the TTOC for the Rio Games and going forward is to centralise support of the critical Games IT systems in one location. The TTOC will then be reused for future Games and so improve efficiency and reduce costs. For the Rio Games, a team of 150 business technologists will provide support from Spain.

Since the start of the test events which started on 15 July this year, the Rio 2016 TOC has been operational with a core team. From 25^th July 2016 the TOC will operate at full capacity with 500 business technologists covering 187 positions to manage and monitor 24/7 the technology infrastructure and systems. These include IT security, telecommunications, power and the results systems. It will be staffed by a combined team comprising the Rio 2016 Technology team and Atos, who are operating it jointly and the other technology partners.