Sanoma Uitgevers, the biggest magazine publisher in the Netherlands, and Atos Origin have renewed their contract for outsourcing IT management until the end of 2013. Atos Origin will be responsible for managing the whole IT infrastructure. With this move, Sanoma Uitgevers has consciously opted for single sourcing so that services previously provided by a number of third parties--like security, data centre hosting and the management of multifunctional peripherals such as printers--will now be looked after by Atos Origin.
The new contract underlines the strong relationship between the two parties which started in 2004. The contract sets out the terms and conditions for providing an extremely innovative service while keeping costs to a minimum.
“This contract marks the strengthening of the long-term relationship between Sanoma Uitgevers and Atos Origin. Because centralization and standardization are the mainstays of our IT strategy, we have made a conscious decision to outsource IT management to a single supplier," says Hubert Grim, Manager IO&P at Sanoma Uitgevers. “The advantage of single sourcing is that--unlike multisourcing where IT activities are split between various suppliers--the supplier is closely involved with our business processes. This means that the risk of integration problems arising is very small. In addition, we can achieve shorter turnaround times. Atos Origin is our partner of choice as it has the specific knowledge and expertise which we need to be able to further strengthen our market position.”
