Green Cargo has entered into an agreement with EDB for the delivery of services for business operations and applications management.
The agreement runs to 2014 and represents an expansion of the existing close collaboration between the two companies that started in 2009 when Green Cargo selected EDB as its long-term IT partner.
The agreement represents total contract value of NOK 140 million, and is an addition to the existing contractual agreement.
The agreement provides for EDB to support Green Cargo’s IT strategy to introduce an integrated and consolidated systems environment in order to improve user-friendliness for its customers and meet new requirements for its international traffic. The new systems environment will be based on SAP and a small number of strategic platforms for planning. The new contract will reduce Green Cargo’s operating costs and release resources that the company can use to strengthen its core business activities.
“This agreement shows how EDB can help customers to achieve their objectives through a broadly-based partnership and close collaboration. Green Cargo will now be using all the services EDB offers, covering the range from routine operating services through to development and applications management. The expanded agreement with Green Cargo confirms that, with our broad range of solutions and services, EDB is a successful and competitive player in the market”, comments Thomas Parmbäck, Managing Director of EDB Business Partner Sweden.
This agreement represents a further step by Green Cargo to intensify work on realising its development strategy and vision for the company to have a fully integrated IT environment from 2014 that fully complies with the EU’s statutory standards for railway traffic. EDB will take over around 20 IT employees from Green Cargo, and will accordingly become Green Cargo’s total supplier of IT outsourcing.
“This agreement is our final step on the road to freeing up resources that we can use to develop our core business activities. It gives us better control over IT costs, while at the same time making our use of IT more effective and better targeted. It is very important for us to have a flexible partner for this task with a long-term perspective, and these are precisely the qualities that we have found in our collaboration with EDB. In addition, those of my colleagues who will now transfer to work for EDB will have a new employer that has IT as its core business. This means that they will have even better opportunities for personal development and career progression as employees of one of Sweden’s leading IT companies”, explains Björn Rosell, CIO at Green Cargo.
EDB has provided IT operating services for Green Cargo for a number of years.
The new agreement expands this collaboration to include responsibility for applications management and development. EDB has a number of major operating services customers in the transport and logistics sector. This new agreement with Green Cargo demonstrates and documents EDB’s expertise and capacity as a complete outsourcing partner for the operation of extremely critical applications in the field of railway freight.
Source:http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/08/4609371.htm
