Banco Sabadell, eine der größten Bankengruppen in Spanien, hat mit IBM einen IT-Dienstleistungsvertrag in Höhe von 107 Millionen Euro abgeschlossen. Über eine Laufzeit von zehn Jahren wird IBM den Betrieb der zentralen IT-Infrastruktur der Bank übernehmen. Dazu gehören das Management der Mainframe Umgebung und des Datenverarbeitungszentrums sowie Sicherheitsleistungen. Durch den Vertrag soll Banco Sabadell etwa 42 Millionen Euro einsparen, verbunden mit höherer Flexibilität und variabler Kostenstruktur.

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Banco Sabadell Signs 107 Million Euro Services Contract With IBM

Sabadell, Spain: 12 September 2005. Banco Sabadell, one of Spain’s biggest banking groups, and IBM today announced a 10-year agreement for IBM to manage the bank’s central information technology infrastructure. The contract is expected to save the bank about 42 million euros.

The agreement includes management of Banco Sabadell's mainframe environment, data processing center and security and recovery of its entire infrastructure, protecting the bank’s business from possible interruptions.

Banco Sabadell will have greater flexibility to respond quickly to business needs and a variable cost structure will enable the bank to scale its services up or down according to demand. In this way, Banco Sabadell will be able to focus on high-priority areas, providing greater value to customers with increased efficiency.

'This agreement reinforces Banco Sabadell’s capacity to face growth challenges and is an important step to achieving the efficiency goals established in our three-year strategy plan, 'Value and Growth,' says Miguel Montes, Deputy General Manager IT and Operations, Banco Sabadell.

'Banco Sabadell is known for being at the forefront of innovation in the banking industry,' says Juan A Zufiria, IBM Global Services General Manager, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Greece and Turkey. 'This agreement demonstrates our responsiveness to customer requirements, tailoring our on-demand solutions to provide a flexible IT infrastructure to support Banco Sabadell’s current and future business needs.'

About Banco Sabadell
Banco Sabadell is listed on the IBEX 35 stock exchange and is the fourth largest Spanish banking group, made up of different companies, branches and participating businesses, such as Sabadell Banca Privada, Ibersecurities or Landscape, and commercial brands such as SabadellAtlántico, Banco Herrero, Solbank and ActivoBank.

With total assets exceeding 48 billion euros and stock-exchange capitalization above 6.5 billion euros, Banco Sabadell employs approximately 9,500 people focused mainly on small and medium business financial needs; medium and high income private customers and professionals, by offering broad multibrand and multichannel products and services that, historically, have always been outstanding for their capacity to innovate and their intensive use of information technologies.