Skip to content
Customer Story

Delivering In-House Big Data and Analytics Courses

How Atos brought big data and analytics knowledge and skills in-house to apply in everyday consultancy situations
{body={src=https://697348.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/697348/Atos.svg}, css={}, child_css={}, id=client_logo, name=client_logo, type=image_src, order=7, smart_type=null, styles={}}

Related services
Xebia Academy

Industry
Consulting

Company
Xebia

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation with approximately 100,000 employees in 73 countries, provides an in-depth big data training program for its Dutch and Belgian employees. After a rigorous selection process, they chose to partner with Xebia to develop and deliver some of the courses.
Why
Bring in-house big data and analytics knowledge and skills to next level to apply in everyday consultancy practice.
What
Training courses on Hadoop, Machine Learning, Python, R, Spark and Text Analytics & Search with examination and certification.
How
Consultants can provide expertise on big data and analytics for their clients.

Our Approach

For the consultants at Xebia, teaching is always part of the job. Working onsite with clients often involves working with people who don’t know as much about data science and data engineering. Since the consultants often have to explain a lot, their teaching skills come in handy. It also works both ways. Because of their abilities and consultancy experience, the Xebia trainers can also teach others how to build robust and scalable data science solutions and bring them into production.
“The Xebia trainers are also consultants who work directly on projects with their clients. Since we believe in combining theoretical knowledge and practical experience, we see a great fit with Xebia.”
Atos
Paul Rakké senior consultant at Atos

Data Scientists and Data Engineers

Responding to market demand, Atos had already been working in big data and analytics for several years but wanted to develop its in-house competencies.

Hadoop Cluster, Jupyter Notebooks, and Python

The entire training program consists of approximately 60 modules and includes some general subjects, such as working agile or Scrum, and design thinking. For the more technical modules, Atos teamed up with Xebia to develop courses for Hadoop, Machine Learning, Python, R, Text Analytics & Search, and Spark.

Valuable certificates

As part of this project, Xebia was also tasked with developing exams. Atos wanted the course participants to receive a certificate that stood for more than attendance or completion.
“The exams are not easy, but that’s a good thing. We want the certificates to have value since they could be the deciding criteria for potential clients.”
Atos
Paul Rakké Senior consultant responsible for training

According to participant feedback, Xebia courses are extremely beneficial, valuable, in-depth, and demanding.

“Flexibility, agility and the ability to tailor programs to the maturity of the group are key for Atos, and so again, another reason why we found a great fit with Xebia,” said Rakké. 

“We wanted to accelerate our capabilities in this field, so we chose to be trained by the most experienced practitioners we could find; the people from Xebia. They are so much more than a courses supplier, they are teachers, in every way.”

Explore related customer stories

Questions?

Get in touch with us

Contact us