Green Cargo enters into NOK 140 million agreement with EDB
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - (Oslo, 8 February 2010) Green Cargo has entered into an agreement with EDB forthe delivery of services for business operations and applications management.The agreement runs to 2014 and represents an expansion of the existing closecollaboration between the two companies that started in 2009 when Green Cargoselected EDB as its long-term IT partner.The agreement represents total contract value of NOK 140 million, and is anaddition to the existing contractual agreement.The agreement provides for EDB to support Green Cargo's IT strategy to introducean integrated and consolidated systems environment in order to improveuser-friendliness for its customers and meet new requirements for itsinternational traffic. The new systems environment will be based on SAP and asmall number of strategic platforms for planning. The new contract will reduceGreen Cargo's operating costs and release resources that the company can use tostrengthen its core business activities."This agreement shows how EDB can help customers to achieve their objectivesthrough a broadly-based partnership and close collaboration. Green Cargo willnow be using all the services EDB offers, covering the range from routineoperating services through to development and applications management. Theexpanded agreement with Green Cargo confirms that, with our broad range ofsolutions and services, EDB is a successful and competitive player in themarket", comments Thomas Parmb?, Managing Director of EDB Business PartnerSweden.This agreement represents a further step by Green Cargo to intensify work onrealising its development strategy and vision for the company to have a fullyintegrated IT environment from 2014 that fully complies with the EU's statutorystandards for railway traffic. EDB will take over around 20 IT employees fromGreen Cargo, and will accordingly become Green Cargo's total supplier of IToutsourcing."This agreement is our final step on the road to freeing up resources that wecan use to develop our core business activities. It gives us better control overIT costs, while at the same time making our use of IT more effective and bettertargeted. It is very important for us to have a flexible partner for this taskwith a long-term perspective, and these are precisely the qualities that we havefound in our collaboration with EDB. In addition, those of my colleagues whowill now transfer to work for EDB will have a new employer that has IT as itscore business. This means that they will have even better opportunities forpersonal development and career progression as employees of one of Sweden'sleading IT companies", explains Bj?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 forapplications management and development. EDB has a number of major operatingservices customers in the transport and logistics sector. This new agreementwith Green Cargo demonstrates and documents EDB's expertise and capacity as acomplete outsourcing partner for the operation of extremely criticalapplications in the field of railway freight.For further information, please contact:Thomas Parmb?, Managing director, EDB Business Partner Sweden. Tel: +46 70854 67 85Bj?Rosell, CIO, Green Cargo. Tel: +46 70 253 09 64Torgeir Kristiansen, Information Director, Corporate Communications EDB. Tel:+47 901 27 909About EDBEDB Business Partner is one of the leading vendors of IT services in the Nordicregion, withalmost 6,000 employees and annual turnover of around NOK 7.5 billionin 2009. The company has almost 50 years' successful experience of deliveringbusiness-critical solutions to customers in both the private sector and thepublic sector. EDB aims to be a close and attentive partner that leverages itsdeep industry knowledge and international capabilities to help its customersrealise the full potential of IT.EDB Business Partner ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with the tickercode EDBASA. Seewww.edb.com
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