ROAD TO BEIJING
What is an Olympic IT Project like?
The focus is now on Beijing where the 2008 Olympic Games will take place in 7 cities including Hong Kong and Qingdao. To prepare for this, Atos Origin has had a team in Beijing since October 2004 working together with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and the various international and local technology partners.
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be the largest sporting event in the world. More than 10,000 athletes will compete in 7 Cities and across more than 60 Competition and Non-Competition Venues.
The challenge is to flawlessly capture and bring this event to billions of television and Internet customers using innovative media applications.
The company manages the essential feed to the press worldwide and, not only that, but some 21,600 journalists are also in town to capture the scoop!
IT infrastructure, integrated team
Atos Origin rolls out the entire IT infrastructure of the “company”. We manage an integrated team of more than 4,000 IT experts from the world’s leading companies, including Atos Origin Olympics experts and the best Chinese IT professionals. We help issue passport-grade badges to all 200,000 accredited “employees” and then manage the IT operations for 3 weeks.
Then when the Olympic flame is switched off, everything has to be dismantled and removed.
This is what running an Olympics Project is like!