Ameritech announces technology agreement with IBM subsidiary.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1996--Ameritech (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AIT) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) subsidiary Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation (ISSC ISSC International Ship Security Certificate ISSC Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference ISSC International Social Sciences Council ISSC Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation ISSC Information Systems Steering Committee ISSC Information Systems Sub-Committee ) today announced that they have signed a multi-billion dollar, 10-year agreement for information technology services. The deal is one of the largest ever in terms of the amount of mainframe computing capacity involved. Under the agreement, ISSC will manage Ameritech's data center operations and ongoing consolidation efforts. Additionally, ISSC will provide help desk services for the data center operations, as well as implement a comprehensive disaster recovery system capability. "With ISSC managing our data center operations, Ameritech can focus on customer service and software development which are the core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"We are pleased to support Ameritech by managing its information technology infrastructure in a manner that will help the company more effectively concentrate on its core businesses and reach its growth objectives," said Pete Wilzbach, ISSC vice president of communications and media industries. Last December Ameritech and IBM announced an alliance to provide business customers a single source for voice, data and video needs. Ameritech, one of the largest communications companies, helps more than 13 million customers keep in touch. The company provides a wide array of local phone, data and video services in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Ameritech is developing dozens of new information, entertainment and interactive services for homes, businesses and governments around the world. One of the world's leading cellular companies, Ameritech serves more than 2 million cellular and almost 850,000 paging customers and has cellular interests in telephone companies in Norway, China, and Poland. Ameritech owns interests in telephone companies in Belgium, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Hungary and in business directories in Germany and other countries. Nearly one million investors hold Ameritech (NYSE:AIT) shares. Ameritech can be reached at www.ameritech.com. ISSC, part of IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , provides business and information systems consulting, outsourcing, systems integration, client/server technology, application development and maintenance, distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. management, network design and management, and business recovery services. ISSC is headquartered in Somers, N.Y. Visit the ISSC home page at www.issc.ibm.com. Contact: Ameritech Frank Mitchell This page is about the English cricketer. See also Frank Mitchell (disambiguation) Frank Mitchell (born 13 August 1872 in Market Weighton, Yorkshire, England; died 11 October 1935 in Blackheath, London, England) was a cricketer. , 847/248-6155 frank.v.mitchell@ameritech.com or ISSC Ken Neal, 914/766-4494 kneal@vnet.ibm.com |
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