Logica and Celona partner to reduce business risk for clients with a new generation Application Data Migration offering

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London - UK and Orlando - US, 9th December 2009: Celona today announced a new alliance with Logica, a leading IT and business services company. The alliance combines the Celona Evolve real-time application data migration software platform with Logica’s recognised industry expertise, deep understanding of client’s business and IT environments, and proven ability to deploy complex programmes for major organisations. The combined expertise will ensure effective execution of application data migration projects for clients across all industries and enable companies to significantly reduce business risk associated with their application data migration projects.

Data migration has been a long standing problem area for enterprises spanning Telecoms, Financial Services, Utilities, Manufacturing and Public Sector, with over 60% of migrations overrunning in time and cost*, many programs of which result in failure across business sectors. The rise of business process-centric applications such as CRM and ERP and new application architectures has increased the complexity and issues of data migration. Therefore the need for both competence in the IT and business environments of the client, and specialist software tools for application data migration that can be successfully utilised at a business control level to de-risk and remove enterprise migration costs, has never been so high.

Aging tools and methods which have their roots in data warehousing are not suited to organisation critical business application migration. This has created a clear requirement for new generation software and professional services data migration offerings that can provide the technical and business level enablement to meet today’s needs for agility in the changing enterprise landscape.

The partnership follows successful cooperation on several projects in the telecom and financial services sectors.

Charles Andrews, CEO of Celona, commented, “Data migration can no longer been seen as just an IT issue. Rising enterprise data volumes, greater complexity of business applications and an increasing trend in IT/Business transformation programmes, driven by Mergers & Acquisitions, divestment and the requirement for increased business agility, makes data migration a board level business issue. We are truly excited by the benefits that this partnership with Logica will bring to clients. “

Craig Boundy, Chief Executive, Global Operations, Logica, said, “Understandably businesses want to be in control of their operations. Putting the Board back in the driving seat when it comes to the migration process, rather than having it determined by IT needs, allows this to happen. Logica’s alliance with Celona will bring significant benefits to clients, allowing them to dramatically reduce business risks and project timeframes.

* Source: Bloor Research

About Celona
Celona is the leading provider of Application Data Migration software specifically developed for organisations who are managing complex application migrations driven by transformation, or who are upgrading their legacy systems and applications to optimise efficiency, customer focus and costs. Celona Evolve is the software platform of choice for organisations who want to remove data migration from the critical path, that require a business-centric application data migration approach which delivers zero downtime, lowers risks and costs with compliance, in the shortest timeframes. Headquartered in London and with a worldwide customer base, Celona was founded in 2005 and is privately held. For more information visit www.celona.com.

About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.

For further information:
Dan Purvis / Erin Hunter
OCTOPUS
T: +44 (0) 8453 700 655
E: celona {at} octopuscomms(.)net

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