Safe Host - Accenture's Data Center Partner in Suisse Romande

Accenture is the world's leading management consulting and technology Services Company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them realize their visions and create tangible value.

With deep industry expertise, broad global resources and proven experience in consulting and outsourcing, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, alliances and technologies. With more than 75,000 people in 47 countries, Accenture works with clients in nearly every major industry worldwide. Through the integration of consulting and outsourcing, Accenture:

- Identifies critical areas with potential for maximum business impact.
- Innovates and transforms the processes in those areas. - Delivers performance improvements and lower operating costs by assuming responsibility for certain business functions or areas-and Accenture holds itself accountable for results.
- Accenture generated net revenues of $11.6 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002.

Accenture contracted Safe Host to provide a secure and resilient environment to house one of its private bank customer's main host systems. Critical issues for this private bank project were the high level of security - meeting guidelines laid down by the Swiss Federal Banking Commission - N+1 redundancy throughout and telecom operator connectivity within the data centre.

Safe Host SA provisioned a secured and resilient housing environment for the bank's production servers with service level agreements guaranteeing the availability of electrical distribution and environmental levels.

The project was delivered by Safe Host on-time and on-budget.

By subcontracting Safe Host for data centre services, Accenture has the peace of mind that the service level agreements given to their end banking customer are backed by Safe Host's data centre and operations.

Peter Hufschmid
Chief Executive Officer
Accenture Services AG