Telstra Adds SAP to Its Cloud

SYDNEY -- Telstra and SAP today announced the expansion of their partnership by formalising an alliance to deliver with Accenture, a suite of hosted solutions to enterprise and government customers across Australia.

As part of the agreement, Telstra will provide SAP licensing, network, compute and storage infrastructure, while Accenture will manage system integration, migration, SAP application maintenance and help desk services.

The three companies have developed and optimised a range of locally hosted SAP solutions that can be delivered to Telstra customers out of it’s cloud infrastructure. The alliance will allow customers access to expanded capability, deployed more rapidly and delivered through a single, integrated, end-to-end service model from a secure and scalable cloud environment.

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