IBM has won a £50m contract to build and run a new IT
infrastructure for roadside recovery organisation the
AA.
The five-year deal will see IBM separate the AA's systems from
those of former parent Centrica, which sold the motoring services
company to private equity firms Permira and CVC last September.
Under the terms of the contract, IBM will take on up to 60
Centrica staff.
Analyst Ovum Holway said of the deal, “It looks like this may
become something of a showcase for the way Big Blue plans gradually
to migrate some customers to its evolving "on-demand" outsourcing
model.”
IBM’s on-demand strategy follows a pay-as-you-go model, where
users invest more as they expand their hardware and systems.
