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At CeBIT, the two companies officially sealed their long-term cooperation with a new service partnership.

^{Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-CEO SAP, Reinhard Clemens, Deutsche Telekom Management Board Member and T-Systems CEO, Bill McDurmott, Co-CEO SAP, Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, T-Systems Management Board Member and head of Systems Integration (from left to right).}

Deutsche Telekom board member and T-Systems CEO Reinhard Clemens signed the contract with the two SAPSAP

SAP AG is a leading global provider of business software.

board of management co-speakers Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover.

A focal point of the contract is for T-Systems to develop solutions for using SAP applications on smartphones. "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", said S. Singh Mecker, senior vice president and head, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group at SAP.

"SAP services are among our most important areas of growth, which makes the global partnership especially important to our Company," emphasizes Reinhard Clemens. "Many global ITIT (= Information Technology)

Information Technology (IT) is a collective term for information and data processing and the hardware and software used for this purpose. 

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 global service partnership also plays a major role for systems integration," says Ferri Abolhassan, T-Systems Management Board Member and head of Systems Integration. "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 Abolhassan.