German software giant SAP has signed a landmark deal with
the nation’s largest telco Telstra and IT services giant Accenture that will
see the pair deliver hosted SAP solutions to Australian customers from
Telstra’s on-shore datacentre infrastructure.
Telstra doesn’t just want to sell businesses and government
departments telecommunications services any more; it also wants to sell them
cloud computing and software as a service offerings which will run over the top
of those networks. Infrastructure as a Service, Microsoft Office 365, and now
SAP; pretty soon I’m sure Telstra will be able to offer a complete enterprise
IT package, with Accenture waiting in the wings to pick up the integration
scraps from Telstra’s table.
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