Bechtle and IBM expand their cooperation in Managed Services

Neckarsulm, 13.03.2019 – Bechtle and IBM have concluded a contract regarding their partnership in Managed Services, which has been approved by the relevant Federal Cartel Office. On 1 April 2019, some 350 IBM employees will join Bechtle, thereby strengthening the long-standing partnership between the two companies. As part of the agreement, Bechtle Onsite Services will take on infrastructure services for IBM Germany.

The agreement enables some 350 IBM employees to join Bechtle Onsite Services GmbH under a partial transfer of business in accordance with Par. 613a BGB (German Civil Code). They are deployed at various customer and IBM sites in Germany, providing design, consulting, as well as application and data centre operation services. The transfer does not affect any contracts between IBM and its customers. Customers can benefit from the Bechtle Group’s extensive local network in addition to IBM’s technological and international expertise.

Many years of experience in Managed Services
Bechtle’s Managed Services division maintains over 19,000 service contracts covering more than one million IT seats across SMB, large enterprise and public-sector clients. “We are excited to be taking our very successful partnership with IBM to the next level,” says Jörg Öynhausen, Managing Director, Bechtle Onsite Services GmbH. “For our mutual customers, our enhanced partnership forms a sturdy foundation for future-oriented and secure data centre and infrastructure services they can rely on.”

Successful collaboration between IBM and Bechtle
Bechtle and IBM have maintained an excellent partnership for 34 years. Back in the 1980s, the Neckarsulm-based IT company was among IBM’s first system house partners in Germany. The agreement is the third of its kind, following a 2005 transfer to Bechtle of over 100 IBM employees in Strategic Outsourcing, and another over 50 from IBM Business Services in 2013.