Kemper Insurance Companies Chooses Siemens Business Services to Run Data
Center and Retain 100 IT Jobs
LONG GROVE, Ill., April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Business
Services, Inc. and Kemper Insurance Companies today announced an agreement
that creates a world-class data center for Siemens Business Services in Long
Grove, Illinois. The agreement to outsource Kemper's data center operations
retains approximately 100 technology jobs in the greater Chicago area. The
terms of the seven-year deal were not disclosed.
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The two firms announced that approximately 100 Kemper employees, who
manage the data center in Long Grove, will be offered employment with Siemens
Business Services to support Kemper as well as potential new clients of
Siemens Business Services.
"This is a client win and a strategic technology acquisition for Siemens
Business Services," said Robert Gault, Vice President, Strategic Outsourcing
for Siemens Business Services. "We are fortunate to be working with Kemper on
this program which fulfills numerous positive goals for both of our firms."
"We chose Siemens Business Services for its flexibility and reliability in
managing people, processes and technology," said Jack Scott, CIO of Kemper.
The 20,000-square-foot data center is housed in a raised-floor environment
ideal for expansion. Initially, the Siemens Business Services data center
will primarily serve Kemper. In following months, the data center will be
ready to expand to serve multiple clients. Siemens Business Services expects
operational efficiencies at the data center to increase over time and help
deliver lower costs and higher performance for its clients.
Siemens Business Services will continue to expand its presence in the
Midwest. Parent company Siemens Corporation and its U.S. subsidiaries
currently employ approximately 4,000 people in 34 locations in the Chicago
area alone. Siemens manages air traffic communications, lighting, security,
systems, fire safety, and climate controls at O'Hare International Airport.
Siemens is also a primary provider of video surveillance equipment to the city
of Chicago and the 911 center.
About Siemens Business Services
Siemens Business Services is one of Siemens' operating companies in the
United States and is one of the world's leading IT service providers. With its
comprehensive know-how and specific sector knowledge, this division of Siemens
offers solutions and services from a single source -- from consulting through
system integration and management of IT infrastructures to IT outsourcing. In
fiscal year 2003, Siemens Business Services achieved sales of $6.1 billion.
The company has more than 34,000 employees in 44 countries. For more
information, please visit Siemens Business Services on the Web at
http://www.usa.siemens.com/sbs.
About Siemens
Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is a leading global electronics and engineering
company with reported worldwide sales of $80.5 billion in fiscal 2003. With
its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales
of $16.6 billion and employs 65,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto
Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States.
With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ
417,000 people in 192 countries. For more information on Siemens in the U.S.:
http://www.usa.siemens.com.
SOURCE Siemens Business Services, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Carol Wallace of Siemens Business Services,
Inc., +1-203-642-2411, or carol.wallace@siemens.com
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