January 22, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Tuesday it is partnering with SAP America (sap.com) in a three-year marketing contract. Under the agreement terms, AT&T will serve as a primary SAP hosting partner and provide independent hosting services for business customers in North America.
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SAP America's sales and marketing team will begin referring those companies with annual revenues of more than $200 million to AT&T for hosting services. By combining AT&T's global IP network and hosting and applications services capabilities with SAP's global expertise in enterprise software, businesses will receive simplified, full-service solutions that will enable them to deliver critical applications to their end users.
"SAP and AT&T will enable enterprise customers to virtualize their enterprise applications within a network so that they can be accessed anytime, anywhere their business needs them," says Ron Spears, group president of AT&T Global Business Services. "Applying the intelligence of today's networks to applications makes it possible for businesses to operate more successfully at a greater scale and velocity."
This is the latest milestone in AT&T's strategy to provide world-class applications-management services and support to companies, building on the expertise gained when AT&T purchased application service provider USinternetworking in October 2006.
