<p>Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has agreed a five-year contract with Atos to overhaul its enterprise content management system.</p><p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the Airbus investment was said to be 'significant'.</p><p>For Airbus, the aircraft design and manufacture process requires several years of collaboration between members of the firm's 59,000 strong workforce and number of suppliers and customers. In order to support the collaborative process, large volumes of documents need to be stored, accessed and shared between a number of different companies operating in a variety of different geographical locations.</p><p>Under the new contract Atos will 'develop, maintain and transform' its existing enterprise content management applications, aiming to reduce the cost of running the platforms by rationalising the underlying infrastructure.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3471246/airbus-looks-atos-for-enterprise-content-management-system-overhaul/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.consultant-news.com/article_display.aspx?p=adp&id=9735">Atos wins a major new contract with Airbus to develop its engineering assets</a> (Consultant News)</p><p><a href="http://www.telecompaper.com/news/airbus-awards-five-year-ecm-contract-to-atos--970255">Airbus awards five-year ECM contract to Atos</a> (Telecompaper (subscription))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dXaQ2dJFHGBfiAMEGnwVLbtMLpm6M&ned=us">5 additional articles.</a></p>