Together, the companies will commit business and technology resources to helping the country's top insurance, financial services, telecommunications and utility service providers optimize the customer experience while improving business results. As a key European market, the Netherlands represents well over USD 300 million in potential license and service revenue opportunity for the partners (source: Chordiant market feasibility study).

"We are pleased to be tackling this exciting opportunity with Chordiant," said Arco Schenkel, Partner at Atos Consulting. "We have been information-sharing with Chordiant for over a year now, at first casually, but we now both have seen the tremendous potential of a closer partnership. Chordiant offers solutions that are well positioned to help companies succeed in these trying economic times by improving customer loyalty and business performance at the same time. Atos Consulting is also dedicated to helping our clients continue to sustain competitive advantage and Chordiant's technology will give us a competitive advantage in doing that."

"We are delighted with this cooperation as it will allow us to capitalize even more effectively on the opportunities in the European market." said Lisa Caswell, vice president, worldwide alliances, Chordiant Software. "We also found that the combination of Atos Consulting and Atos Origin is a valuable one to help us get our solution to market quickly and with maximum impact."