Unisys Corp’s largest Czech customer says it is not happy with the service the company is providing. Bohumil Moutelik, a member of the board of the Czech Republic’s largest bank, Ceska Sporitelna, Czech Savings Bank, told Business Central Europe, The Economist’s news-stand title in eastern Europe, Philadelphia is very far from Prague and I am not sure that the people from the US and the UK who are on our project are the best they have. It’s a daily battle with Unisys about terms, functions and costs. We are not happy customers. According to Business Central Europe, Unisys has signed contracts worth $135m with the bank since 1992, in what may be the single largest computer project undertaken in eastern Europe to date. But the scheduled completion date is understood to have slipped while costs are reported to have escalated. No-one from Unisys’ subsidiary in the Czech Republic was available for comment.
