What do you get when you cross a best-of-breed in-house IT department and data centre with an IT outsourcing house? In the case of Perth-based BankWest and the WA branch of Unisys you get a multi-talented, tackle-anything IT services company called Unisys West. That's what the new general manager of the outfit Murray Rosa believes.
Rosa previously ran the Unisys office in WA. "We've had a 12-year relationship with BankWest, providing IT outsourcing. We soon realised that they were handling their data centre better than anything we'd ever seen before so it's a natural thing that we're combining with them."
He said that BankWest's data centre would be used to host applications for many other clients, offering services as varied as e-commerce hosting, network management, help desk operations, ASP and disaster recovery. Rosa said the new company would start on September 1 with around 200 employees in Perth and expected to start recruiting more immediately.
BankWest general manager Emerging Businesses and Systems, Chris Whitehead, said the joint venture would quickly develop profitable new revenue streams.
