Zipper, a Semcon subsidiary, signs framework agreement with SCA

Zipper, a Semcon subsidiary, signs framework agreement with SCA Zipper will provide its FastTrack 3.0 concept to SCA through a newly signed framework agreement. The framework agreement will run for five years and will cover all of SCA's activities throughout the world. Zipper has previously supplied solutions to SCA covering several areas. The framework agreement paves the way for broader cooperation with more of SCA's operational areas. The agreement will run for five years with the option of extending it. Zipper's FastTrack concept, for handling standard platforms, will help SCA introduce a standard client platform based on FastTrack and Microsoft products. This will provide SCA with a flexible and cost-effective means of handling 25,000 clients around the world. FastTrack helps customers to automate development, operation, management and roll-out of large PC platforms, leading to reduced costs and a simpler way of updating to the latest technology. FastTrack's delegable administration interface handles machines, users and applications from one location. FastTrack is currently used by 60 or so of Sweden's biggest companies and has been installed at around 250,000 users in Sweden and around the world. "It is a huge challenge to work with SCA. They chose Zipper because of our extensive experience of implementing standard platforms. We consider that being a supplier to a global company with such a strong brand is an excellent advert for Zipper," says Johan de Verdier, CEO at Zipper. "We have worked for a long time together and SCA is one of Zipper's most important customers," says Jerker Lund, customer liaison officer at SCA. "The framework agreement simplifies our partnership and also provides the opportunity to strengthen our relationship with Zipper, which we are greatly looking forward to." For more information, please contact: Johan de Verdier, CEO Zipper AB Telephone: +46 706-02 16 80 Email: mailto:johan.deverdier@zipper.se About Zipper Zipper AB was established in the summer of 2000. The company's business concept is to supply a cost-effective IT infrastructure through well-defined concepts to companies, directly or via international partners. Zipper's customers include Akzo Nobel, Samhall, Sydkraft, SVT, SonyEricsson, Länsförsäkringar, Stena Line, Stena Metall, Vin&Sprit, Mölnlycke HealthCare, SCA, Securitas etc. Today Zipper employs around 90 people and has offices in Stockholm and Göteborg. For more information about Zipper go to: www.zipper.se Semcon is one of the leading design and development companies in the Nordic region, with around 1,500 employees and sales in 2003 of SEK 1.2 billion. Semcon's consultants develop products, processes and people at the leading industrial businesses in the Nordic region. The combination of good growth over 20 years and well-established relationships with leading industrial groups provides a strong base for continued success. Semcon AB (publ) is listed on the O-list of Stockholmsbörsen and is currently active in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK and Malaysia, and, via partners, in Spain and China. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/08/26/20040826BIT20960/wkr0001.pdf