- Digital transformation leader Atos announced it has acquired Miner & Kasch — which is an artificial intelligence and data science consulting firm based in Elkridge, Maryland
Digital transformation leader Atos announced it has acquired Miner & Kasch — which is an artificial intelligence and data science consulting firm based in Elkridge, Maryland that focuses on building end-to-end data-driven solutions. And Atos is known as a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of €12 billion.
Through the acquisition, Atos is going to enhance its big data and artificial intelligence consulting practice of zData experts to accelerate its Data Science-as-a-Service offering and to deploy edge and next-generation data science platforms for industry solutions at a global scale.
A couple of years ago, Atos expanded data engineering capabilities with the acquisition of zData, a leader in big data platform solutions. The combined expertise of zData and Miner & Kasch brings over 100 AI consultants into the Atos portfolio and delivers added value in business acceleration for the customer’s increasingly real-time, data-reliant economy.
Atos’ next-generation data platforms for digitally transforming the enterprise have key capabilities in predictive maintenance to reduce costs and create uptime, video analytics for securing spaces, personal medicine to provide better diagnosis, and more – all designed to manage IoT ingest and compute securely on-premise at the edge. Launched in 2015, Miner & Kasch employs talented consultants to implement advanced artificial intelligence solutions using cutting edge machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and statistics. And Miner & Kasch provides autonomous solutions for established Fortune 500 enterprises and startup customers across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, energy, manufacturing, construction and engineering.
Key Quotes:
“The acquisition of Miner & Kasch strengthens our digital portfolio to better serve our customers’ evolving needs. Atos’ data science expertise with deep vertical know-how benefits the customer with added technical skills and appropriate digital resources to rapidly develop use cases and to deploy and support data science applications on any environment of their choice.”
-Jerome Sandrini, Head of Big Data and Security, Atos in North America
“Together, Miner & Kasch and Atos will bring next-level AI and data science proficiencies that fast track company’s innovation strategies for their local and global ambitions. We continue to aid customers in the journey to becoming self-sufficient in their data practice, helping them create real-world solutions to efficiently execute business goals.”
-Miner & Kasch founders Donald Miner and Niels Kasch
