Friday, February 22, 2008

EDS signs Global IT Services contract with Swiss-based SR Technics

By Pegasus News wire

PLANO — EDS today announced a six-year, information technology (IT) services agreement with SR Technics, one of the world's leading independent providers of technical services for the civil aviation sector. Financial terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.

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Part of the deal including sending a couple of these bad boys to undisclosed addresses in West Plano

Under this agreement, EDS will provide service desk support, workplace management, hosting, storage, backup and archiving, as well as network services for major locations of SR Technics in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ireland and Bahrain, with a total of more than 4,000 users.

As part of the agreement, EDS and SR Technics renewed an applications services agreement, which was first signed in 2001. Under this renewal, EDS will host SR Technics SAP, SAS and Maintenance and Engineering Document Systems.

"Through this agreement that builds on many years of an excellent relationship, SR Technics will achieve further operational improvements and enhance the delivery of services to our customers," said Koni Iten, CIO of SR Technics. "This agreement is aligned to our IT roadmap and consistent with the intent of our IT outsourcing strategy to work jointly with EDS to modernize, improve and expand the IT functionalities supporting the core business of SR Technics."

"The contract with SR Technics is an important milestone for EDS' EMEA Transportation Hub in Zurich as we continue to grow our Transportation industry business," said Pierre Klatt, country manager, EDS Switzerland, and vice president EDS EMEA Transportation Industry Group. "EDS is excited for the opportunity to continue our work with SR Technics to help them reach their goal of improving their core business, and I look forward to further strengthening our long-standing relationship."

Source: EDS

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