CTB Flex Signed 3-Year Agreement With Proact

CTB Flex, a part of CTB Holding BV and an ICT service provider to the flexible work industry, has signed
a 3-year agreement with Proact It Group AB for a hosted and managed server and storage infrastructure environment.

CTB Flex provides a solution for temping agencies which supports their and
intermediaries’ business processes. In order to ensure that
flexible and temporary workers have constant access to internet portals, the
underlying databases and applications, CTB decided to invest in optimising its
storage infrastructure. In addition, this new environment ensures secure
storage of all data entered.

According to Ronald Buitenhuis, operations
& product management manager at CTB Flex, the image of the suppliers they
approached during the selection process was more important than their actual
specifications: "We wanted to
completely outsource the management of our storage infrastructure. In a managed
services structure, it is especially important that you can rely on your IT
partner. We therefore made extensive enquiries with a peer group, consisting of
customers of the suppliers selected. We enquired, among other things, into what
the suppliers provided, how quickly they can deliver and how much value we
would be getting for our money."

In the end, CTB Flex opted for Proact. Not
only because of its references, but because Proact is the
thinking supplier.

Kees Blokker, infrastructure architect at CTB, says: "Where other suppliers said they would go along with our needs, Proact was
the only one that really challenged us. They looked critically at our
architecture and demands and recommended a better solution for us. Proact will
be responsible for the entire management of the IT environment and we will be
responsible for application management."

Lucas
den Os, MD Proact Benelux, says: "Our
‘Infrastructure as a Service’ provision seamlessly fits the needs of the
temping industry. Flexibility, cost, security and speed of application rollout
are important factors here. It is not an impossible dream any more to size down
infrastructure against SLAs in as straightforward a fashion as pouring water
from a tap. We look forward to a successful cooperation with CTB Flex."