German regional airline Eurowings has selected Lufthansa Systems to provide data centre operations and SAP application management and hosting. The operation of the data centre comprises around ten applications that are vital to its flight operations and includes a virtualization degree of a 100%. Both companies recently signed an outsourcing contract for five years. The migration from the Eurowings data centre will be completed within an exceptionally short period of five months.

"We are proud that Eurowings has entrusted Lufthansa Systems with the operation of their core IT systems", says Martin Rüschen, Senior Vice President Key Account Management Lufthansa Group Airlines at Lufthansa Systems. "By getting critical applications and having them operated in the data center by the same provider Eurowings achieves sizable technical and administrative synergies." Lufthansa Systems has extensive experience in IT outsourcing for airlines as well as an increasing number of customers from a wide variety of industries, who as well benefit from the high standards of quality, availability and data security which are essential for the airline industry. Lufthansa Systems manages and maintains the systems of its customers at its own data centers in Germany, Great Britain, the U.S. and Singapore. The largest of them is the data centre at the company's headquarters in Kelsterbach (pictured), which is among the most powerful and modern in Europe.

Source: Lufthansa Systems