Managed Services Supports SAP Solutions Advance Application Availability
Wayne, Pa., June 29, 2009 — SunGard Availability Services has been certified by SAP AG to provide hosting services for SAP applications and is now an SAP hosting partner in the U.S. The certification was awarded following an assessment of SunGard’s infrastructure, procedures and technical staff by SAP. As an SAP hosting partner and an SAP-certified provider of hosting services, SunGard’s services are in line with SAP’s requirements for quality, availability and security.
SunGard’s managed application services provide customers with a comprehensive set of IT services for their critical SAP applications – including infrastructure design, deployment and migration, management, administration, monitoring, reporting and ongoing support. These services help organizations minimize day-to-day administration tasks, while helping ensure SAP applications run at a higher level of efficiency and availability. Customers also gain access to SunGard’s secure facilities and specialists who understand their application environments.
“SunGard’s status as an SAP hosting partner in the U.S. with hosting services certified by SAP is an important progression in our successful relationship,” said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO solution delivery and partner enablement at SAP. “Through this partnership, SAP customers will benefit from comprehensive hosted applications from SunGard, allowing them to focus their resources on meeting core business challenges.”
“SunGard’s managed services offerings are designed as availability-centric solutions,” said Dave Colesante, senior vice president and general manager, managed services at SunGard Availability Services. “SunGard supports the entire environment, bridging the gap between production systems and traditional recovery. By helping customers run applications at a higher level of productivity and availability, SunGard helps them maximize application investments and more effectively manage internal resources and priorities. This partnership is a natural extension of SunGard’s commitment to provide customers highly available and productive SAP solution-based environments.”
To learn more about SunGard’s hosting services certified by SAP, visit http://www.sungardservices.com/SG15 or call (888) 810-4498.
About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe. With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call 1-800-468-7483.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including the world’s 25 largest financial services companies.
SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.
With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses.
Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.
*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker http://www.datamonitor.com
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