The Atos IT challenge coaches will be the contestants’ advisors and counsellors during the development phase. These technical experts will help students work together efficiently as a team and provide invaluable feedback to help master the app before the final presentation. They all belong to Atos Scientific Community
 Antoine Fressancourt
R&D engineer, Atos Worldline France
"A good mobile app solves a simple problem in an original way using a very simple user interface. It is not simplistic, but it hides its internal complexity to make people’s life easier."
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 Bartjan Fit
Business Consultant Mobility, Systems Integration, Atos Netherlands
“To me a good app is simple and intuitive for the user and has a solid business case for the entrepreneur. The app uses the sensors on the phone and sensors in the world around us in a refreshing way. An example is Parkmobile that uses GPS for proximity to a parking meter and internet connectivity for membership and simplified payment. No more stress and no more parking fines!”
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 Frank Schalkwijk
IT Strategist and Enterprise Architect
Valuable apps enhance your digital presence. They smoothly integrate with your life by providing strong user experience. To me they also relieve on the most scarce resource I have: time
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 Grégoire Sénéclauze
IT challenge correspondent for Scientific community, Head of Mobile task force in Atos Worldline, France.
"A good app, is an app that can pass the ‘pocket-test’, which means that the content of the app worth taking the time to get your mobile phone from your pocket, to unlock it, to find the app and to launch it. Basically, it means that the app really offers a benefit or a satisfaction to the end user."
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 Guy Lidbetter
Chief Technology Officer, Global Managed Services, United Kingdom
"The best apps are stable, reliable and performant. They operate effectively on their target platform(s) and avoid unnecessary user activity or delay. They are intuitive and easy to use, provide functionality and/or a service that is valued by their target user community. They have a wow factor "I wish I’d thought of that”."
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 Hermann Gouverneur
Chief Technology Officer – Managed Services, Germany
"Good apps are easy and intuitive to use. They deliver value with a great user experience. Sensors and context information is used without additional user input but with user allowance to generate valuable results illustrated loosely. Key is an intuitive and basic usage, without the need to read complicated manuals."
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 Jan Krans
Executive Business Consultant Atos Consulting, the Netherlands
"A good app is sticky, intuitive, easy to use, user centric, with functional and nice looking graphics build around a creative innovative concept making people's life easier or creating instant fun."
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 Jeroen Staarink
Global Solution Architect, Global Managed Services
People spend substantial amount of time in either the physical-or so called our virtual (or digital) life. A good application connect both worlds in such manner that, to its user, switching becomes 2nd nature and ultimately (by timely exchange of right information) enrich quality of life.
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 Jerôme Brun
Head of Cloud Services – France
"More than the “ultimate” good app, we would like to build comprehensive sets of good apps, available in pay per use from the cloud, and which could be combined by our beloved customers to support their activities when they need, where they need, and for how many users they need."
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 Jordi Cuartero
Chief Technology Officer, Olympics & Major Events, Spain
"Think always on the end user when designing an app, and make sure you are making his life easier in a few clicks. My favorite apps are intuitive, fast and easy to use; context information is captured effectively: who I am, where I am, what is happening around me… Successful applications are supported by a good business case."
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 José Esteban
Head of Innovation, Spain
"A good app is when the first time you use it, somehow you already quite know how to use it. And after that, you can’t imagine life without it."
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 Korbinian Lehner
Technology Strategy Director, Germany
"The usage of an app I have to understand within the first two minutes. The interface must be clear and the user-experience must be in the center. And last but not least: the idea behind must be outstanding."
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 Michael Chicheportiche
Head of Innovation, France
"As google, think mass-market, As apple, think different, As Atos, think profitable."
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 Mike Smith
Chief Technology Officer and Head of Infrastructure Consulting and Architecture for the Atos business for UK and Ireland
"The perfect app for me is something unique, clever, easy to use and simply brilliant."
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 Minh Le
HTTS Sales and Business Development
For me, good apps deliver simplicity and the "oui j'adore" factor. They generate traffic.
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 Nicolas Roux
Head of Global Service Lines IT procurement, France
"Best apps provide good value for money. They are simple, innovative and leverage an optimal use of all the capabilities of the device (interfaces, sensors, connectivity) with specific attention to design and ergonomics."
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 Paritosh Wechalekar
Lead Architect – Application Development and Solutions
"A good app is the one which is bull’s eye when it comes to providing the ”correct functionality” which the user is looking for in the first place and at the same time easy to use and addictive."
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 Purshottam Purswani
Chief Technology Officer, System Integration, Atos India
"A good application should be intuitive, simple, intelligent and should have excellent responsiveness. It should be designed in such a way that it should be able to easily adapt to changing needs."
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 Rainer Mewaldt
Head of Application Management for PLM
Clear fetching design, consistent handling concept and most important, a clear guidance through the use case. A real helper that make fun to use.
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 Rakesh Sinha
Group Manager, India
"Good apps should provide rich functionality, should have user-friendly UI, should be stable and reliable, should be fast to load and get data and… should be intelligent."
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 Santiago Ristol Jorba
General Manager of Tempos 21 (a subsidiary company of Atos specialized in mobile solutions), and Atos Smart Mobility Iberia Offering Manager, Spain
"A good app is when users need to use it regularly for their activities. And since users have different behaviors, the more the app can adapt to each of them the better."
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 Simon Elliott
Marketing Media Architect, London, United Kingdom
"For me a good app is:
Flipboard,
Sketchbook, Tower defence, Iplayer, Acrobots, Evernote... And I hate expenses."
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 Steve Nimmons
Head of Enterprise Architecture Consulting UK
“For me, a good app is innovative, intuitive and once used is something you find it hard to have imagined life without. There are a plethora of copy-cat apps which whither and die. A good app has staying power, satisfied users and understands what it is there to deliver and why. Great apps break boundaries, challenge norms and lead markets!"
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 Suresh Dhamapurkar
GM & Head of Technology Solutions, GSI India AM
A good application to me is the one, which helps user achieving the desired outcome within the expected timeline with good quality. Application is easy to use, reliable, intuitive and gives value for money.
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 Udo Sebald
Global Solutions, Head of Technology Practice Smart Mobility
"Good applications are user centric. They help the user to efficiently perform the desired task with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and workflow. They hide unnecessary complexity from the user, give the user a sense of control over the data he is providing and behave "expectedly" in the context of the system and situation they are used in."
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