News: Capgemini secures Virgin Trains deal
Virgin Trains has renewed its mainframe-to-desktop IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini UK plc in a multi-million pound contract for the three-year period to 2013.
Capgemini will manage the entire IT infrastructure that supports core business-critical systems at Virgin Trains, including financial and key operational systems such as train and crew scheduling and rostering, and the catering management system. The systems are based on over 100 Virgin Trains network servers that are now located in two Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham.
The contract also includes desktop and laptop management and support services for approximately 1,000 Virgin Trains staff at 42 locations across the UK, based on a dedicated team at a Capgemini service centre in Inverness.
Francis Jellings, Head of IT at Virgin Trains, said: "We continue to be impressed by the quality of the Capgemini people working with us and by their ability to work in full collaboration with our own teams. They have an excellent appreciation of our business and IT needs and I am pleased that we are to work with them for a further three years."
David Corr, Account Director for Virgin Trains at Capgemini UK, said: "We have constantly applied a policy of continuous improvement to all aspects of our work for Virgin Trains, with advances in technology and service levels, and we are naturally delighted that our efforts have been rewarded with a further contract period."
Capgemini website
Rotherham
Capgemini will manage the entire IT infrastructure that supports core business-critical systems at Virgin Trains, including financial and key operational systems such as train and crew scheduling and rostering, and the catering management system. The systems are based on over 100 Virgin Trains network servers that are now located in two Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham.
The contract also includes desktop and laptop management and support services for approximately 1,000 Virgin Trains staff at 42 locations across the UK, based on a dedicated team at a Capgemini service centre in Inverness.
Francis Jellings, Head of IT at Virgin Trains, said: "We continue to be impressed by the quality of the Capgemini people working with us and by their ability to work in full collaboration with our own teams. They have an excellent appreciation of our business and IT needs and I am pleased that we are to work with them for a further three years."
David Corr, Account Director for Virgin Trains at Capgemini UK, said: "We have constantly applied a policy of continuous improvement to all aspects of our work for Virgin Trains, with advances in technology and service levels, and we are naturally delighted that our efforts have been rewarded with a further contract period."
Capgemini website
Rotherham
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