Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced an agreement to deliver integrated mobility solutions to the UK and Australian logistics and transport industries. Under the agreement, Logica will offer Sybase’s mobility applications as part of its intelligent transport systems (ITS) and supply chain execution and planning services. The partnership aims to provide transport companies with a broad set of solutions from one source and to facilitate the explosive growth of mobile devices.

Specific Sybase solutions will be jointly marketed by the two companies, including; Afaria, a mobile device management suite with security capabilities, SQL Anywhere, a mobile, rapidly deployable database, and RFID Anywhere, a flexible, SOA-based RFID platform that supports RFID handheld and mounted vehicles. Logica will also carry out ongoing strategic and developmental work around the project as part of a joint steering group. This partnership approach, based on the established and trusted relationship will also serve to address current business issues.

Many customers are already benefiting from the partnership which brings together deep domain knowledge and a flexible dependable mobile infrastructure delivering mission critical distributed solutions throughout their enterprises.

Alison Henderson, UK Operations Director, iAnywhere Solutions said, “By leveraging a deep industry-specific partnership with Logica, which combines our comprehensive portfolio of solutions and technology alongside Logica’s heritage in transport and expertise in implementation, we will deliver solutions that meet the business requirements of emerging mobility projects. In doing so, we will enable companies to increase efficiencies in the supply chain and secure mission-critical tasks performed by a mobile field force. Our partnership will also help to expand our offerings into other sectors including, energy and utilities, to offer a suite of mobility solutions and services which have increasingly become a corporate necessity due to compliance issues.”

Commenting on the partnership, Theo Quick, Intelligent Transport Systems - Practice Leader, Logica said, “Our partnership with Sybase will benefit our customers who increasingly want more business value delivered by fewer strategic partners and who can serve them in all the markets in which they do business.  By working with leading partners such as Sybase, we will combine our strengths, including our close customer relationships, our innovation capabilities globally and our blended delivery model, to ensure we, together, deliver real business value to our customers.”

Logica has worked with Sybase for over 6 years. Previous projects include RAC, SNFC, Centrica, Thomsonfly and Network Rail. Additionally in the UK, Logica was recently awarded a contract to supply half a million cards for NoWCard for the English National Scheme and the provision and a Managed Service in respect of an ITSO back office and re-imbursement system to Transport Scotland, which administers the first smartcard based National concessionary scheme in the UK and has over one million cards in operation. Logica’s extensive experience in transport includes projects including at Tube Lines, Metronet, BAA and Royal Mail.

About Logica

Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 39,000 people across 36 countries. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services.

About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase is one of the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilising information.

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