Atos reportedly trying to dump on-prem consulting business

Just months after it was considering buying DXC Technology, Atos is reportedly looking to sell some of its legacy business operations, including its data-center and communications businesses. If true, it’s a further sign that the on-prem consulting business is falling out of favor. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Atos is exploring a sale of its legacy information technology business, including some outsourcing operations. One day later, Atos CEO Elie Girard said during its earnings call with analysts that the company is definitely looking to make some kind of changes to its businesses. Girard noted that in the first half of 2021, the Resources and Services group faced severe headwinds on two legacy activities, classic data centers and classic unified communications, where the drops were, “respectively, higher than what we experienced in the last years and larger than what we expected.”