IBM announced that Suzlon Energy Limited, the world?s third largest wind turbine generator (WTG) manufacturer, has chosen IBM as a strategic partner for the company?s business transformation initiative.
In this 5-year engagement, IBM will provide business consulting services to Suzlon and will also manage its application development and maintenance requirements. This partnership is expected to help Suzlon expand its presence globally by bringing more efficiency to its worldwide operations and enhancing productivity of IT applications.
An existing user of IBM?s Power Systems, System x and Storage to run their mission critical applications, Suzlon also recently upgraded its storage infrastructure with IBM?s next generation, high end open disk storage system, XIV.
With presence in over 25 countries in four continents, Suzlon has component-specific and integrated manufacturing units across the world and research and development (R&D) centres in India, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands.
IBM will help Suzlon optimize its costs and resources and enable the company?s IT team to focus more on the transformational capabilities of IT and move beyond everyday transaction management. IBM will also help Suzlon streamline its IT operations and improve the levels of serviceability to business. During this engagement, IBM will provide Suzlon with full-scope application management service, along with seamless IT support for its operations globally.
Shirish Godbole, President — Information Technology, Suzlon Energy Limited said, ?Suzlon is a fast growing enterprise and requires an agile technology set-up to support its growth and make the company future-ready. IBM?s strong value proposition enables us to meet the complex business requirements of our rapid global expansion plans?.