01.05.2012 - Active Sourcing: review Outsourcing Experts’ Forum

The consultants of Active Sourcing are proud to remember a successful Outsourcing Experts’ Forum: Active Sourcing organised this event on the 28th of March 2012 according to a specially developed concept to ensure the exchange between user companies and vendors. The results that were generated in topical workshops are now being processed by Active Sourcing. ... (more)

26.04.2012 - The Austrian Volksbanken outsource to Kapsch

The head institute of the Austrian Volksbanken Group assigns the responsibility of its IT to the vendor Kapsch. In the forthcoming five years, Kapsch will ensure workplace, helpdesk and network services for the banking group. For this purpose, the provider will take over 25 Volksbanken employees. ... (more)

05.04.2012 - Centrum Bank cooperates with B-Source

The Liechtenstein private bank agreed with B-Source about an outsourcing of several business processes and parts of its IT. As of October 2012, Centrum Bank and its Swiss branches will work on the Avaloq platform. According to Inside IT, this means a turning away from the core banking system TCS BaNCS of Olympic. ... (more)

05.04.2012 - Bayer signs a contract with Atos

The pharmaceutical enterprise will outsource its helpdesk and pc end user support to Atos. Bayer signed a seven year contract. Apparently, the reason for this outsourcing is a capacity constraint of Bayer’s in-house provider. ... (more)

02.04.2012 - Allianz changes its provider

The insurance company is not going to renew its workplace services contract with Fujitsu. Instead of the Japanese vendor, Allianz will entrust HP with its 30’000 PCs and devices and, furthermore, with its German service desk. ... (more)

02.04.2012 - May, 22nd to 23rd 2012, Bensberg: Strategietage IT

At this year’s IT strategy days in Bensberg significant personalities such as Karl Markgraf, CIO E.ON Energy Trading, Heinz Plaga, CIO Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten, and Stefanie Kemp, Group Information Officer Vorwerk, will speak and discuss. The event focuses on prominent subjects like iPad in the company, SaaS or IT federalism. ... (more)

02.04.2012 - Active Sourcing: Karin Hodler, Healthcare Specialist

At the end of February, Karin Hodler joined the team of the Zurich consultancy Active Sourcing and is now responsible for the healthcare business. She finished her studies as an economist at the University of Zurich with excellent grades. Aside, thanks to different internships and part-time positions, she already has experience in the area of healthcare. ... (more)

29.03.2012 - Two Cantonal Banks again with Swisscom IT Services

The Cantonal Banks of St. Gallen and Thurgau renew their contract with Swisscom IT Services. For another five years, SITS will provide the operation of Avaloq and the Application Management. Inside IT puts the current contract value at 20 percent less than back in 2008, when the first contract was signed. ... (more)

29.03.2012 - JTI renews with Orange Business Services

The global tobacco company JT International with headquarters in Geneva continues with its provider: the contract with Orange Business Services will be renewed for five years. Orange provides telecommunications infrastructure and services. According to Netzwoche, the renewal is worth more than 100 million dollars. ... (more)

22.03.2012 - KPT: renewal of the Swisscom IT Services contract

The health insurance company prolongs its outsourcing contract with Swisscom IT Services. For the next five years, the contract again includes the operation of 430 IT workplaces and 208 printers. Furthermore, the provider will handle the server infrastructure and supply network and telecommunication services. ... (more)

08.02.2012 - Hotelplan gets a private cloud from HP

The Hotelplan Group consolidates its servers in a flexible and high-capacity cloud from Hewlett Packard. The travel company merges the SAP systems of all the branches and subsidiaries. HP’s solution offers the requested improvement in efficiency area-wide. ... (more)

15.02.2012 - Atos, EMC and VMware establish a cloud services alliance

EMC and VMware as software providers, together with Atos, invest in the foundation of a strategic alliance for cloud computing. In addition, Atos plans an enterprise to quickly provide cloud services based on EMC and VMware technologies. ... (more)