T-Systems and SAP Announce Global Services Partnership

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. and FRANKFURT AM MAIN, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customer unit and a leading provider of information and communications technologies (ICT), today announced a global services partnership with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP).  The corresponding contract was signed by Reinhard Clemens, Deutsche Telekom Management Board Member and T-Systems CEO, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe, and SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott, during the CeBIT 2010 trade fair, which was held in Hanover, Germany, March 2-6.

Following successful collaboration with joint customers for more than eight years, T-Systems and SAP have made the relationship official.  With its global infrastructure of computer centers and networks providing information and communications technology (ICT) solutions for multinational corporations and public institutions, T-Systems now brings its expertise and services into the SAP Global Services Partner program.

Customers stand to benefit from even stronger cooperation between the ICT service provider and the world's largest business software company. A core focus of the agreement will be on T-Systems' development of solutions to extend features of SAP applications to mobile devices.

"Having enjoyed numerous successes in our years of working with T-Systems, the time is simply right to add T-Systems to the roster of market leading consultancies in our global services partner program," said S. Singh Mecker, senior vice president and head, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP AG.  "This partnership agreement lays an important foundation for further, even closer collaboration with T-Systems to deliver the value of SAP solutions to users in the office, on the factory floor, or on the go."

"SAP services are among our most important areas of growth, which makes the global partnership especially important to our Company," emphasizes Clemens. "Many global IT bid processes include proof of close cooperation with SAP among the key requirements."  For customers, the partnership means T-Systems will provide global services to SAP applications.

The partnership also includes the joint development of applications.  Experts from both sides are already working on a solution for using SAP applications on mobile devices such as Smartphones, as well as applications for the telecommunications industry.  T-Systems provides services to deliver SAP applications to multinational companies such as Shell and Linde, a world-leading gases and engineering company, according to the amount of bandwidth, computing power and storage required.

"The global service partnership also plays a major role for systems integration," says John Fleischer, vice president of Systems Integration for T-Systems in North America.  "With our integrated Plan-Build-Run approach, we can harmonize and innovatively structure the process landscape of SAP customers around the world.  This is the motivation and goal of this strategic partnership, which allows us to go even further," says Fleischer.  

About Deutsche Telekom AG

Deutsche Telekom is one of the leading integrated telecommunications companies worldwide with more than 151 million mobile customers, more than 38 million fixed-network lines and more than 15 million broadband lines (as at: December 31, 2009). Its product brands are called T-Home (fixed-network telephony, broadband Internet), T-Mobile (mobile communication) and T-Systems (ICT solutions). As an international group of companies in around 50 countries throughout the world with almost 260,000 employees (as at: December 31, 2009), Deutsche Telekom generated more than half of its revenues of EUR 64.6 billion outside Germany in 2009.

Further information is available at www.telekom.com.

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. T-Systems provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. The company's some 45,300 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world.

T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 8.8 billion in the 2009 financial year.

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