Huntsman outsources global infrastructure to Atos Origin
3rd April 2006 Huntsman Corporation, the American chemical manufacturer has signed a multi-year contract with Atos Origin, the IT services company, to outsource its IT infrastructure services. Sarbanes Oxley compliance and cost reduction are the key themes of the new contract, which leverages Atos Origin's Global Sourcing model to provide a variety of services, such as support for SAP platforms, from offshore solution centers integrally linked with the global operation service desk, in Belgium .
Under the terms of the outsourcing contract, Atos Origin will provide worldwide infrastructure services to Huntsman for its global SAP platforms, workplace, Lotus Notes, eCommerce and data warehouse environments running on a wide range of platforms including Wintel, Unix, Linux and a Citrix-based thin-client office environment.
