| Plano 02 March 2009
EDS, an HP company, and Aviva have signed a 10-year, GBP 700 million data centre services contract to reduce Aviva's operational costs, improve information access and increase flexibility. Under the terms of the agreement, which was signed in February 2009, EDS will transform and manage two data centres for Aviva, the world's fifth largest insurer. The data centres, located in Norwich, England, serve Aviva's businesses in the United Kingdom, India, France and Ireland.
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"Partnering with EDS for data centre services, in our view, supports Aviva's goals to improve flexibility, increase operational efficiency and lower costs", stated Igal Mayer, UK general insurance Chief Executive Officer at Aviva. "After a thorough evaluation, we chose EDS over other global service providers because of its collaborative approach as well as its unmatched reliability, security and value."
EDS will provide Aviva with data centre modernization services as well as management for the insurance firm's mainframe, midrange and Windows servers. Approximately 300 Aviva employees will transfer to EDS to deliver these services.
"The data centre transformation will help Aviva increase efficiency, lower risk and reduce costs", stated Bill Thomas, senior vice president for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region at EDS, an HP company. "As a trusted business ally, EDS will draw on its years of experience to help Aviva evolve its technology environment to drive better business outcomes."
HP and Cisco will provide select tools, technologies and resources to EDS in support of Aviva. As an expert of technology services for the financial services industry, EDS provides a wide range of outsourced and consulting services - from payments and securities processing to applications development, as well as network, customer relationship management and help desk services - to all sectors of the industry.
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