TECHNOLOGY - April 27, 1996

IBM Unit Wins Big Ameritech Contract: Ameritech Corp. and the systems integration unit of International Business Machines Corp. entered into a multibillion-dollar, 10-year agreement for information technology services, the companies said. The deal, involving IBM’s Integrated Systems Solutions Corp., is one of the largest ever in terms of the amount of mainframe computing capacity involved, the companies said. The exact value of the contract wasn’t disclosed. Under the agreement, Integrated Systems will manage Ameritech’s data center operations and ongoing consolidation efforts. In addition, it will provide help desk services for the data center operations and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery system.