More than a half of UniCredito Italiano's 3338 ATMs are NCR machines. Under the terms of the contract, NCR will provide support for both NCR and Diebold ATMs. UniCredito is currently going through a period of reorganisation, moving from a federal structure to an international multi-specialist business model. As a result, the bank has decided to reduce its number of vendors in the areas of self-service maintenance and software. Fabio Polzot, channel manager at UniCredito Italiano, explains: "We have undertaken a strategic review of our hardware, software and services with the aim of enhancing the performance and availability of our self-service channel. We made a decision to have one vendor maintain our financial self-service hardware. We chose to go with NCR on the basis of our previous experience with them and the channel management offer they proposed." This announcement follows UniCredito Italiano's decision last year to choose NCR as its single multi-vendor software supplier.