{"id":12783,"date":"2015-03-17T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=218731"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:46:45","slug":"deutsche-telekom-announces-flurry-of-cloud-partnerships-with-sap-salesforce-cisco-huawei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/deutsche-telekom-announces-flurry-of-cloud-partnerships-with-sap-salesforce-cisco-huawei\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom announces flurry of cloud partnerships with SAP, Salesforce, Cisco, Huawei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_214082\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214082 \" alt=\"Deutsche Telekom announced a slew of cloud partnerships this week\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2015\/02\/DT-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deutsche Telekom announced a slew of cloud partnerships this week<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Deutsche Telekom announced a number of cloud-focused partnerships with Salesforce, SAP, Huawei and Cisco at CeBIT this week.<\/p>\n<p>T-Systems, the telco\u2019s enterprise-focused subsidiary, worked with Salesforce to develop a Customer Experience platform for the automotive sector, which the companies said would connect dealers, workshops, vehicles and customers more closely via an interactive showroom on customers\u2019 mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the company said it is working closely with consulting giant Deloitte to advise European clients on how to implement the cloud-based CRM platform.<\/p>\n<p>It is also making SAP SuccessFactors available to corporate customers, and next month the company plans to implement the cloud-based human resources management platform internally to serve the company\u2019s 220,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the firm announced an update to its September 2014 deal with Cisco to become an Intercloud partner. T-Systems is currently installing Cisco\u2019s OpenStack-based infrastructure in datacentre in Biere, near Magdeburg, and said the first Software-as-a-Service product, a managed hotspot for small and medium-sized business, will be available in the second quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco is one of a number of DT\u2019s partners when it comes to cloud infrastructure. This week the German telco also signed a global framework agreement with Huawei that will see the latter provide IT infrastructure and private cloud solutions to T-Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The telco is aggressively moving forward with plans to expand its reach in the cloud sector.\u00a0Ferri Abolhassan, director of the IT division at\u00a0T-Systems, described the partnerships as \u201ca systematic step on the part of T-Systems\u00a0to consolidate its technology leadership in all matters cloud in Europe, and to expand globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom announced a number of cloud-focused partnerships with Salesforce, SAP, Huawei and Cisco at CeBIT this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,1979,1980,1981,1982,1976,308,1213,1983,1978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-deloit","category-deutsche-telekom","category-ferri-abolhassan","category-huawei","category-news-analysis","category-sap","category-successfactors","category-t-systems","category-telco-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12784,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions\/12784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}