T-Systems, a Telekom subsidiary, today announced that it has deepened its partnership with SAP AG, a market leader in enterprise applications. The companies are planning to collaborate in the provisioning of and go-to-market-activities related to the SAP HANA platform and cloud solutions from SAP based on SAP HANA. SAP customers are expected to benefit from the competence and years of experience in cloud computing and data center infrastructures that T-Systems brings to the partnership. And T-Systems customers will be able to use its new offering "Dynamic Services for SAP HANA" which provides elasticity without investment required in IT infrastructure.
SAP HANA enables businesses to make smarter, faster decisions through real-time analysis and reporting combined with dramatically accelerated business processes. In January 2014, SAP announced the availability of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, a new option for customers using SAP Business Suite applications. SAP recently announced that it has crossed the 1,000-customer mark for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA as already become one of the fastest-growing software applications in SAP’s history. The software helps companies across all industries drive their entire enterprise in real time so they can simulate, plan, execute, analyze and predict almost instantly along business-critical end-to-end processes.
According to a current study by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), every fourth german business enterprise plans to deploy SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA over the next three years. Especially those enterprises with more than 1,000 employees are planning to adopt SAP HANA. However, the companies surveyed also indicated that the hardware investments required can be an obstacle to adoption of the solution. The deepened partnership between T-Systems and SAP will enable customers to conduct "proof-of-concept (POC) deployments" of SAP HANA to see how they can benefit from the solution before a full-scale implementation is begun. The POCs can cover an entire application landscape even for periods as short as one month.
"With us, our customers can dive easily and quickly in the new world related to SAP HANA. We provide IT departments a fast, cost-effective way to implement this technology and especially adaptable services", says Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, managing director of T-Systems. "As an SAP certified provider of Hosting Services for the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we have made major investments in the integration and operation of SAP HANA based solutions in the T-Systems Dynamic Services Cloud in recent months. Thus we can now offer benefits of SAP HANA, including real-time big data analytics in conjunction with SAP HANA performance to deliver the convenience and flexibility of the cloud for business environments - based on our high-performance and safe infrastructure."
About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 142 million mobile customers, 31 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2013). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has approximately 229,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of 60.1 billion euros in the 2013 financial year - over half of it outside Germany.
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 customers unit provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 50,000 employees at T Systems combine industry expertise with ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers unit generated revenue of around 9.5 billion euros in the 2013 financial year.