| Reduce your carbon emissions – with the Volvo Group’s personal CO2-counter Commute Greener. Commute Greener is accessed through a mobile phone or a web site on the internet, enabling the user quickly to see by how much carbon dioxide emissions are reduced or increased using different means of transportations, for example bus, car, car pooling or bike. Volvo´s home town, the City of Göteborg in Sweden, is the first city in the world to order the service for its employees. |
| At the fair Volvo IT will present their concept around Cloud Computing, with standardized, scalable services giving the customer a possibility to choose the services that suit their needs at a controlled, forseeable cost. |
| Volvo IT is the number-one choice among IT consulting companies in the industrial sector when IT professionals working in Sweden rank their favourite workplaces. This is the result of Karriärbarometern (Career Barometer), a survey that is conducted every year by the research and consulting company Universum Communications. |
| Today, 24 September, Volvo IT is inaugurating its new, global command centre in India. In less than a year, Volvo IT has transferred the task of monitoring computer systems from seventeen locations in different countries to Bangalore. |
| The Volvo Group has developed a computer game to teach the principles of lean production, a concept designed to increase the efficiency of working processes. In this game, the players can see how different changes impact efficiency and profitability. The results indicate that what is known as serious gaming is an excellent complement to training at work. |
| Volvo IT has signed a three year agreement with the City of Göteborg in Sweden, worth SEK 20 million. The deal was completed as a result of Volvo IT’s capacity to run low-cost mainframe environments. |
| A group of employees from the Volvo Group in Göteborg, Sweden, have been taking part in a project in which a personal CO2 “pedometer” has kept a check on what their commuting to work costs in the form of carbon emissions. Their journeys were registered using software in their mobile phones and a concept developed by Volvo IT. By changing their behaviour, the group succeeded in reducing their carbon footprint by more than 30%. |
| Volvo IT hereby invites the mass media to a press conference on Wednesday, May 27, to present the results of the “Green Commuting” project. The objective of the project, which was implemented in cooperation with the City of Göteborg, was to measure time, efficiency and environmental impact relating to commuting. A group of employees within the Volvo Group in Gothenburg participated in the project. With the help of a device fitted to their mobile phones, they were successful in changing their modes of commuting to and from work and considerably reduced their CO2 emissions. |
| Volvo IT has secured a five-year contract with the City of Stockholm, Sweden. It involves IT operations, workplace systems and a service desk and is one of the largest public-sector IT negotiations in Sweden, as well as being Volvo IT’s largest ever deal. |
| The procurement process involving SPV’s IT operations has now been completed and Volvo IT will be responsible for running SPV’s mainframe computer system. Strålfors and Atea are also included in this procurement agreement, which is worth a total of SEK 70 million. |