Vienna/Innsbruck, February 11, 2015 – More than 3,000 injured or sick patients are flown home each year by Tyrol Air Ambulance. There, they can receive the best possible medical care and the support of their relatives. Kapsch BusinessCom provides this service with a powerful IT solution in the background. In less than six months, the entire IT operations of Tyrol Air Ambulance were outsourced to Kapsch. Since the end of November, the new, modernized infrastructure is running in a certified data center operated by Kapsch.
At the outset of 2014, Tyrol Air Ambulance was faced with the decision whether to expand its internal IT resources or outsource the activity to a service provider in the position to render highly specialized data center services at top quality. To prepare and carry out patient transports, the medical staff needs access to very sensitive data. Kapsch convinced the air ambulance operator with its professional expertise and personnel, as well as its high-security earthDATAsafe data center. In the middle of last year, the contract was awarded, and in July the transition began. Since November, the new solution has been up and running. All of the migration activities were completed without the employees noticing it and without any impact on operations. “For many years now, we have been implementing IT and network solutions for companies of virtually every size and in every sector. We were able to use our experience in planning this outsourcing project,” says Günter Rauter, Branch Manager for Tyrol at Kapsch BusinessCom.
All of the individual IT solutions were integrated in a holistic concept as part of the joint planning efforts. This includes the entire desktop environment, which now runs for approximately 90 employees as part of Kapsch’s Managed Workspace solution, in addition to the
Tyrol Air Ambulance – In the summer of 1976, the first injured person was flown home by Tyrol Air Ambulance (at the time still Tyrolean Air Ambulance). Since then, some 3,000 patients rely on the
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Kapsch BusinessCom – a company of the Kapsch Group – is a leading ICT service partner in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe with more than 1,300 employees and annual sales exceeding 310 million euros. Embedded in the Kapsch Group, Kapsch BusinessCom is active worldwide with its own offices in Austria and subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Poland. Kapsch has positioned itself as an ICT service partner offering a complete solution portfolio covering the areas of information technology as well as telecommunications. In addition to system integration and continuous optimization measures, Kapsch BusinessCom is increasingly taking on responsibility for the entire area of operations. Kapsch BusinessCom relies on manufacturer independence and partnerships with globally leading technology providers, such as Apple, Avaya, Cisco, EMC, Google, Hitachi, HP, Microsoft or Mitel. In concert with these partners Kapsch offers its services as a consultant, system supplier and service provider, but above all as a reliable, dependable,