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January 30, 2008
International News
Diligenta, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services, has won a contract to deliver Business Process Outsourcing services to support Sun Life Financial of Canada UK’s (SLF UK) operations. The services, expected to commence in May 2008, are estimated to be worth £100 million (over US$200 million) over the life of the contract. Diligenta has been working with SLF UK as preferred supplier since October 2007, following a competitive tender which came towards the natural end of SLF UK’s existing outsourcing agreement. Diligenta will continue to run the operation in Basingstoke where SLF UK’s Head Office is based.
Deutsche Post World Net, the world’s leading logistics group, and HP have signed a letter of intent to transfer responsibility for parts of Deutsche Post World Net’s global IT operations to HP Services. Under the terms of the agreement, Deutsche Post World Net expects to save at least 1 billion euros over the next seven years by driving down overall IT costs and better leveraging IT resources needed to run its business and service customers. The companies expect to reach a definitive agreement by mid-2008. If an agreement is reached, HP would take over the approximately 2,500 employees who currently provide the services for Deutsche Post World Net’s data center operations -- including information & data management, infrastructure & network management, and application management.
Capgemini has signed a six year, £23m IT outsourcing contract with UK-based psychometrics company SHL. The deal is aimed at improving the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of SHL's service. The deal will see Capgemini upgrade and maintain the entire IT infrastructure at SHL, covering about 1,000 desktops across 35 locations in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Posted by jbowles at January 30, 2008 07:14 PM
