- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) continues to obtain its central computing and infrastructure services from T-Systems
- SBB is standardising the duration of its contracts
- T-Systems has been an ICT partner of SBB for more than 15 years
SBB has standardised its agreements with T-Systems Switzerland for the operation and service of its central IT services. The Telekom subsidiary will be operating the SBB's core IT until 2018, which will exhaust the maximum duration of the sourcing agreement concluded in 2006. The two companies are now connected by cooperation based on trust which goes back more than 15 years. They have agreed to maintain silence on the contract volume. "The extension of the S06 agreement with T-Systems further confirms our strategic partnership and our consistently pursued outsourcing strategy. The basis for the extension is the high quality status that has been achieved in the last few years. We appreciate the constructive cooperation across all levels in the past years and are convinced that in T-Systems we have a good and reliable partner for the implementation of SBB's challenging objectives", commented Dr Jochen Decker , Head of IT Operations at SBB. In 2010 Swiss Federal Railways had already confirmed the agreements with T-Systems on computing centre and infrastructure services that had been in existence since 2006, and prematurely extended these to 2015. Some of the services were even contractually extended to 2018. Pierre Klatt, Managing Director of T-Systems Switzerland, adds: "We are proud to be moving SBB forward on its route into the increasingly networked and digital future with our technologies and services. Our major customers value our highly available secure services and our universal responsibility for the IT processes."
About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with 133 million mobile customers, 32 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of March 31, 2013). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has 230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 58.2 billion in the 2012 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2012). About T-Systems Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's some 52,700 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 10 billion in the 2012 financial year. About SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, or Swiss Federal Railways, (SBB) operates a rail network of 3,000 kilometres in length with over 800 stations. With its 28,000 employees, SBB transports just under a million passengers and 175,000 tons of goods every day. The SBB IT Department controls and develops SBB's group-wide IT landscape and with 850 employees is one of the largest IT employers in Switzerland.