Norwegian Air Shuttle signs software development partnership with Scandinavian House

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA has announced the signing of a 5-year partnership with Scandinavian House AS. To ensure a high quality travel experience combined with low fares, Norwegian continues its cost cutting program. Scandinavian House will supplement Norwegian's internal software development resources, and the partnership will help ensure that Norwegian's software solutions continue to meet goals of quality, customer and business needs for lower cost.

- Robust and modern IT solutions are essential for Norwegians smart and cost effective business model. We have investigated various alternative solutions and models of how this can be done in several countries and continents. The choice fell on Scandinavian House in Kiev, Ukraine, which we consider to be a professional supplier with high IT expertise level, at the right cost. In addition, there are few cultural and linguistic differences, no time zone challenges and short traveling distance. And it is especially easy to travel to Kiev when Norwegian starts direct flights in June 2012, says Hans-Petter Aanby, Director of Business Development and IT at Norwegian, and continues: Norwegian is a progressive company and we are already underway to develop next-generation IT solutions associated with our new and modern wifi aircrafts. In addition, we develop IT solutions tailored for smart phones, pads, and other types of new terminals and solutions that are moving into the community, says Aanby.

Scandinavian House AS is an offshore outsourcing company, providing competitively priced IT and software development resources to its Scandinavian and Western European clients. They specialize in complex systems analysis, design, architecture, application development, software maintenance and testing and strategic consulting with particular experience of implementation of high transactional and large data allocation systems. Scandinavian House has its development centers in Kiev, Simferopol and Sevastopol, Ukraine and the Norwegian offices in Oslo and Moss.

Per Ivar Gjørvad, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Head Of IT administration, Office Manager and Purchasing Office and Ulf Carlzon, Scandinavian House AS, CEO are both happy with the new partnership.

Oslo, 26.01.2012