Continental to purchase SAP services from T-Systems
ConvergenceAsia staff
08/09/2009

The Continental Automotive Group has commissioned T-Systems to merge and operate its entire SAP environment, including its operations in Singapore. T-Systems operates information and communications technology (ICT) for multinational corporations and public institutions, and currently provides ICT services to Brenntag, Shell and Continental in Singapore.

In future, the global automotive supplier will pay only for the computer and storage capacity it actually uses. In addition, the agreement does not envisage any minimum acceptance or fixed term, which will allow Continental to reduce operating costs while greatly improving the flexibility of its business model.

“We have agreed an outsourcing deal with T-Systems that will reduce costs and at the same time provide extreme flexibility,” said Dr. Ralf Brunken, CIO of Continental Automotive Group.

Throughout the world, companies are increasingly demanding flexible contracts, which provide and charge for a service depending on the course of business. “This project is taking us a step further down that road. For the first time, the duration of the project depends entirely on the quality of our services and the benefits for our customers,” said T-Systems boss Reinhard Clemens.

With more than 55,000 users worldwide, around a million units in SAP Application Performance Standard and a required storage capacity of 250 terabytes, it is one of the largest SAP projects of T-Systems to date anywhere in the world.

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