By Andy McCue, 1 July 2005 13:35
NEWS IBM has won a €1.8bn deal to take over the running of car manufacturer Fiat's IT and business process transformation projects.
The nine-year contract is worth almost €200m per year and will see IBM assume full control of the Global Value joint venture founded by Fiat and IBM in 2001.
Hardware consolidation, standardisation and the implementation of IBM's 'on-demand' architecture are key to the increased flexibility, efficiency and cost reductions Fiat claims the deal will lead to.
In a separate announcement, IBM and BT have also won a €400m seven-year IT and communications outsourcing deal with InBev, the Belgian brewer of brands such as Becks and Stella Artois.
IBM will handle InBev's four global data centres and IT services and support, while BT will take over the brewer's existing voice and data networks and handle the migration to a new IP platform. BT's share of the contract is estimated at around €175m.
The deal covers 640 sites and 24,000 users across 25 countries and 166 InBev employees will transfer across to IBM and BT.
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