Steel maker Corushas extended its IT
contract withCapgeminiin a £26m deal.
Corus has used Capgemini for the last ten years, and the
five-year contract extension runs until 2013.
Under the deal, Capgemini will continue to manage the mainframe
computers that support the core production, supply chain, stock
holding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing activities at the
main Corus UK
manufacturing sites, including Llanwern, Motherwell, Port Talbot,
Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Teesside.
Capgemini will deploy its
Rightshore
strategy, which makes its global resources available to UK
customers. Capgemini teams in the UK, Poland and India will work to
enhance service levels for the 10,000 Corus UK employees who rely
on the mainframe systems in their daily work.
The new contracts involve the transition of existing IBM and
ICL (Fujitsu) mainframe services from Corus sites to Capgemini
secure data centres in Bristol and Rotherham, and a technical
refresh of the infrastructure.
Capgemini will provide overall service management from the UK,
with operational management provided from its infrastructure
management command centre in Krakow, Poland and additional
technical support from a Capgemini centre in Mumbai, India.
Bruno Laquet, chief information officer at Corus, said, "The
quality and efficiency of our mainframe systems is of key
importance to our customers and employees, in ensuring that we
manufacture and deliver the right products with the right quality
at the right time.
By introducing techniques such as
utility computing, virtualisation and adaptive storage,
Capgemini said it aims to significantly cut mainframe running
costs, and deliver enhanced service levels.