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With careful planning, good communication and solid teamwork, the project of upgrading the Oracle database for the AT Server application was a success.

Olle Högblom, 50, has been appointed President of Volvo IT. Olle Högblom is currently Senior Vice President Infrastructure & Operations at Volvo IT in Gothenburg, Sweden. The appointment is effective immediately.

Congratulations to Volvo IT’s, Trenda Johnson, who has won the Volvo Ocean Race Facebook challenge from the Volvo IT crew in Abu Dhabi.

More than 660,000 visitors gave their opinions of the websites they visited. Volvo IT’s global website emerged as the best website of the year in its category. A happy Andrea Olsson, web master at Volvo IT, was presented with the award at a ceremony in Stockholm yesterday.

Today, the Volvo IT crew at the Volvo Ocean Race has issued a new challenge on Facebook. You have from January 12th – 16th to submit your ideas to help solve their challenge.

Volvo Trucks’ newly launched Dealer Locator smart phone app makes it easy for customers to find information about their nearest dealer or service workshop. The app is being constantly updated to incorporate Volvo Trucks’ entire global service network, which consists of more than 2,300 dealers and workshops.

Now the IT-crew has landed in the United Arab Emirates and is preparing for the third port of the race. Read the report from Dilson Coelho, who normally lives in Brazil.

The agreement with ICA AB means that Volvo IT will take over the mainframe operation of ICA’s logistics system and those parts of the ICA Bank that are run on mainframes. Operations will be transferred from ICA’s previous supplier of mainframe operations. The target is that everything will be transferred to Volvo IT during the autumn of 2012.

Last week, Volvo IT invited all its employees, for the second time, to make a Christmas donation to the World Wildlife Fund, the Red Cross, or Doctors Without Borders. What happened with last year’s gift?

“WirelessCar is redefining the telematics service provider as a global supplier of cloud services” distinguishing itself by a global reach and an open platform. An analysis that could be summed-up as: “wherever you turn, WirelessCar is there!”