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February 04, 2009

International News

IBM has signed a five-year outsourcing agreement with Sony Ericsson regarding the management of Application Maintenance and Development of all of Sony Ericsson's SAP applications globally. IBM will leverage their global leadership in Application Management Services for the delivery of best-in-class solutions to support Sony Ericsson's operations and business improvement initiatives in an efficient and cost effective manner.

Unisys Corporation's Germany subsidiary has won a European-wide tender to continue managing and modernizing the information technology (IT) infrastructure for the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (StMJV). The three-year outsourcing services agreement includes options for two additional yearly extensions. Unisys will replace existing PCs and printers with more powerful and state-of-the-art models and will provide services to improve the organization’s server and overall network efficiency.

Tata Consultancy Services has signed a $100 million agreement to provide a full range of managed IT services to 4uGroup, the holding company behind Phones 4u and other organisations in the UK telecommunication and financial services marketplaces. 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 organisation's retail operations.

IBM has renewed a contract for integrated maintenance services with the Korea Exchange (KRX). IBM has been providing integrated maintenance services to KRX since December 2006. IBM is offering comprehensive maintenance and contract management services to KRX, ranging from system hardware, software, middleware, network, facilities and equipment. IBM provides KRX with integrated maintenance and management for system-related services that ensures a single point of contact to users and IT support departments.

Posted by jbowles at February 4, 2009 06:18 PM