Hamburg Airport Has Entrusted arvato Systems with Operating and Supporting Its Centralized IT landscape

Company Turns to IT Outsourcing for the First Time

• arvato Systems will take over data center operations, including comprehensive system and application support, for the next eight years
• arvato Systems won the deal with Hamburg Airport following an E.U.-wide negotiation process

(arvato Systems) Gütersloh, Germany -- arvato Systems won the contract to take over Hamburg Airport’s centralized IT landscape starting on 1 June 2016. AIRSYS, Hamburg Airport’s IT service company, had invited companies to bid for control of the airport’s data center operations as well as a large portion of its system and application support for the first time, opening up an E.U.-wide negotiation process.

The IT specialists from the Bertelsmann Group stood out from the competition and won the bid for comprehensive 1st-generation IT outsourcing. The outsourcing contract was signed at the end of May and applies for the next eight years. The goal of the outsourcing project is to optimize the quality and security of the IT operations using more modern processes and standards, and to continue to develop in a forward-thinking manner.

Airport Hamburg is looking forward to this new strategic cooperation, and anticipates a successful outcome: “Since we are pursuing IT outsourcing for the first time, we wanted to work with a highly reliable IT service provider who would understand our business requirements and be able to keep our business-critical systems running smoothly,” explains Dr. Hannes Pfister, CIO of Hamburg Airport. Pfister is pleased to work with arvato Systems: “arvato Systems impressed us during the bidding process with their excellent proposal, extremely high level of expertise, the flexibility of their employees, and their deep understanding of and experience with topics related to our project objective.”

“The fact that we were able to win Hamburg Airport, one of the largest airports in Germany, as a customer serves to confirm the success of our strategic orientation,” says Matthias Moeller, CEO of the arvato Systems Group, with enthusiasm. He is certain that the outsourcing project will be a success: “Our IT outsourcing expertise and our experiences working on similar projects for companies with critical infrastructures and processes and equally stringent security requirements helped us convince AIRSYS and Hamburg Airport of our capabilities, leading them to embark on a long-term partnership with arvato Systems. The high degree of trust that our customer has placed in us motivates us to work together with them to update their IT and further digitalize the airport.”

About AIRSYS
Airport Business Information Systems GmbH (AIRSYS) is Hamburg Airport’s IT service company and operates a large portion of the airport’s IT landscape. This entails classic office communication as well as many operational systems and specialist applications, such as flight plan adjustment, display systems, and a range of communication systems.
www.airsys.aero

About Hamburg Airport
Hamburg Airport greets over 15.6 million travelers each year, making it Germany’s fifth-largest airport. Travelers pass through the airport along a broad range of routes, to 120 domestic and international destinations offered by 60 different airlines. These airlines benefit from Hamburg Airport’s large catchment area: the German regions of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein as well as parts of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, and Denmark, home to a large number of potential travelers. Hamburg Airport is equipping itself for all of the potential challenges posed by future air travel, with a modern infrastructure that can be used by all airlines in the same way and a flexible price structure that allows for differentiation. Around 15,000 employees currently work for the nearly 250 companies represented at the airport facilities – 1,864 of these employees work inside the actual airport. The airport is partially privatized: The City of Hamburg holds a share of 51 percent and AviAlliance GmbH holds a share of 49 percent.
www.hamburg-airport.de

About arvato Systems
As global next generation IT systems integrator arvato Systems focuses on "Digital Transformation Solutions". We use the technology talent and expertise of over 3,000 people at more than 25 sites throughout the world. Being a part of the arvato network and belonging to Bertelsmann, we have the unique capability to create entire value chains. Our team creates integrated, future-proof business infrastructures that help make our customers more agile and competitive, and enable them to deliver new standards of service to their customers. We create streamlined digital processes that support innovative business models. Moreover we provide operation and support services.
arvato Systems offers an exceptional combination of international IT engineering excellence, the open mindset of a global player, and the dedication of employees. We also ensure that all our customer relationships are as personally rewarding and long-lasting as they are successful.
arvato Systems GmbH
An der Autobahn 200
D-33333 Gütersloh

Marcus Metzner
Chief Marketing Officer
Phone: +49 5241 80-88242
Fax: +49 5241 80-9568
E-Mail:press@arvato-systems.de
Web: www.it.arvato.com

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