NEWS
Getronics wins
major global
contract with
Intersnack
Orange Belgium comes out
on top for mobile capabilities
in Belgium
G
lobal ICT services provider, Getronics,
has won a major seven-year contract
with Germany-headquartered savoury snack
leader, Intersnack, the holding company
behind more than 20 well-known brands,
including Hula Hoops, funny-frisch, Chio,
McCoys, POM-BÄR, KP nuts, Estrella, Vico,
and ültje.
Getronics will deliver and manage end-to-
end global IT infrastructure, including Service
Integration and Management (SIAM),
end-user computing services, networking,
hardware and software, security and
service desk. This infrastructure will provide
the essential foundation on which Infor,
Intersnack’s chosen provider to deliver its
ERP cloud applications migration project, will
provide a business process solution.
Intersnack has grown both organically
as well as through several acquisitions,
bringing a variety of economies of
scale to local, country-based businesses.
Each acquisition includes additional IT
infrastructure and services, which has led
Intersnack to the point where a single
platform and environment is now
required, onto which it can migrate all
existing systems and build future ones.
This will ensure that the economies of
scale Intersnack brings following an
acquisition, can extend quickly and
seamlessly to day-to-day IT and business
process applications.
Henrik Bauwens, Chief Executive Officer
at Intersnack, said: “While centralising our
IT operations is a vital step in our growth
strategy, within the last nine months we
have taken decisions that hand over the
majority of responsibility for our country-
based IT to a small group of global partners.
“Outsourcing our infrastructure to this
degree is a very clear expression of our
confidence in Getronics’ capability to
deliver and manage the foundations,
platform and infrastructure we need, on a
global scale, so we can continue to grow
Intersnack’s brand portfolio and overall
business even more successfully.”
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INTELLIGENTCIO
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CC’s latest independent performance
benchmark in Belgium confirms
Orange Belgium’s networks are
outstanding for voice and data services.
Orange Belgium was even awarded an
official certificate for its mobile voice and
mobile web browsing networks as well
as the most reliable file transfer in both
metropolitan and rural areas of Belgium.
LCC International provides technical
services, including consulting, design,
deployment, performance and
operations, and maintenance services
for the largest mobile network operators
worldwide. More specifically, it also issues
independent mobile network benchmarks
to measure the performance against
major competitors in Belgium. An official
LCC Certificate is declared if the results
on the specific measured KPIs are better
than the competition.
In December 2018, LCC’s European
branch conducted an independent
performance benchmark measurement,
commissioned by Orange, in 22
metropolitan areas of Belgium: Antwerp,
Brussels, Charleroi, Ghent, Liege,
Aalst, Bruges, Genk, Hasselt, Kortrijk,
La Louviere, Leuven, Mechelen, Mons,
Mouscron, Namur, Ostend, Roeselare,
St-Niklaas, Tournai, Turnhout, Verviers
and on the surrounding areas and roads
as well as in the metro of Antwerp
and Brussels. The experts at LCC
International measured the three main
voice service operators over 2G and 3G
technologies and tested data services
on smartphone devices in 2G, 3G, 4G
and 4G+.
The results confirm that Orange
Belgium provides the best mobile voice
experience (94.5% compared to 93.3%
and 81.8%), mobile web browsing
(87.2% compared to 85.6% and 85%)
and most reliable file transfer (up to
99.7% success rate compared to 98.7%
and 97.9%) in Belgium. n
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