Exclusive Partnership for Cloud Services: T-Systems to Be the Only German Partner to Offer Microsoft Business Software for Corporate Customers Online

ROCHESTER, Mich. and FRANKFURT, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- TSystems and Microsoft have signed an agreement on joint business software provision online for companies with more than 5,000 users. TSystems is the only German sales partner for such cloud services with Microsoft products. In the future, corporate customers will be able to put together a software package tailored to their needs and use it online as and when required. This new offer is called BPOSD (Business Productivity Online Suite - dedicated)*. Instead of buying licenses, companies can now acquire individual services online for a fixed monthly fee per workstation.

"This new agreement with Microsoft reconfirms the long strategic cooperation between our two companies," said Olaf Heyden, Managing Director for the IT and network infrastructure (ICT Operations) at T-Systems. "Offering software, storage and bandwidth online and on demand is the future. We ensure the necessary security - from the networks and applications through to the data."

T-Systems has been a Large Account Reseller for Microsoft products since 2003 and a strategic partner since 2005. The ICT service provider also supported the launch of Vista, Exchange, Biz Talk, Unified Communications and Business Intelligence as a Gold Partner and was a Gold Partner for the launch of SharePoint in 2008. Numerous mobile T-Systems solutions are also based on Microsoft technology.

*BPOS-D (Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite - dedicated) contains products that are marketed to businesses and corporate customers via a Microsoft partner program. It consists of the following components

• Microsoft Exchange Online
• Microsoft SharePoint Online
• Microsoft Office Communications Online
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting
  

About T-Systems

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 46,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around EUR 9.3 billion in the 2008 financial year.

Internet: http://www.t-systemsus.com

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