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January 28, 2009
International News
Tata Consultancy Services has signed a $100 million agreement to provide a full range of managed IT services to 4UGroup, the holding company of Phones 4U and other organizations in the UK telecommunication and financial services marketplaces. Under the agreement, TCS will provide a full range of IT and business change services to 4U Group including: service management; application support, maintenance, management and development; data centre and desktop services; helpdesk; networks and communications; business support; and management of all third party contracts for the organization’s retail operations. This will enable the group to improve IT service, increase capacity, boost skills, create a more flexible IT model and ultimately enhance the business to meet current and future demands.
Grupo Nacional Provincial (GNP), one of the largest insurance companies in Mexico, has signed a five-year contract with IBM, with two optional extension years, for infrastructure and application outsourcing services. For application outsourcing, IBM will consolidate more than 700 applications and will be the only point of contact, allowing GNP to focus on its core business and the strategic impact of IT.
Outokumpu, an international stainless steel company, has awarded Accenture a five-year application outsourcing contract to provide Outokumpu with application development and application management services for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system on a global basis. The agreement extends a contract signed in 2005 under which Outokumpu outsourced to Accenture the management and development of its finance, human resources and logistics applications on its SAP-based ERP system. The new agreement extends the scope of the work to include .NET applications for sales order management.
Posted by jbowles at January 28, 2009 06:42 PM