 "HP Signs $675 Mn Outsourcing Contract With Unilever")
HP and Unilever has announced an extension of their relationship with the signing of a seven-year outsourcing contract for the management of Unilever’s technology infrastructure in America, Asia, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.
HP will provide an infrastructure designed to adapt to the changing needs of Unilever’s business by standardising, virtualising and optimising Unilever’s enterprise computing environment in the regions above as well as its client services environment in Asia Pacific, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.
HP will work with Unilever’s strategic partners, including SAP, Microsoft and BT, to help reduce costs and ease the integration of new applications. HP also will manage the third-party contracts within Unilever’s technology environment in America, Asia Pacific, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.
Through this agreement, HP will provide management of Unilever’s IT processes and services, including: corporate data centres, messaging and directory services, Internet and intranet systems hosting, disaster recovery services, and the outsourcing of 4,500 multi-vendor UNIX and Windows servers and storage environments.
As part of this agreement, approximately 250 Unilever employees will transfer to HP.
According to Neil Cameron, chief information officer, Unilever, “This agreement is a natural extension of our current relationship. The intention between both parties is to leverage HP’s scale, expertise and industry leadership to ensure Unilever has access to world-class technology at substantially lower costs.”
“We look forward to helping Unilever further transform its technology environment to better align with the business. This will improve performance and lower operational costs,” said Pablo Sanchez-Lozano, senior vice president and general manager, HP Services – EMEA.