HP to manage technology services for SAG

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HP has signed a five-year agreement with SAG, to help the German electrical transmission and distribution networks company to manage its technology services.

SAG expects to reduce costs and scale technology services based on business needs, with the agreement. Under the contract, HP will centralise operation of SAP, email, active directory, archiving, application and file servers, web and terminal servers; decentralise operation of the infrastructure in SAG facilities throughout Germany, including databases, application and file servers, imaging and printing environment, and local area networks; and manage end-user workplace environment, including desktop management, service desk and on-site services. 

Many of the services will be provided as HP Utility Sourcing Services (HP USS), which are part of the Adaptive Infrastructure as a Service offering. HP USS are standardised service modules for the management of technology infrastructure, applications and end-user environment.

SAG will scale technology capacity and cost to meet business situations. HP USS also can be customised to the specific requirements of SAG.

Andreas Klenz, chief information officer at SAG, said: “HP’s services will enable SAG to reduce costs and increase flexibility. This also means we can maintain our focus on the core business.”

SAG will use the following modules of the HP USS portfolio, delivered from virtualised systems in redundant HP data centres in Germany: Enterprise Resource Planning (SAP hosting), Messaging, Computing, Data Management, Database, and End-User Workplace Services. For each of these services there is a specific usage-dependent billing model in place.

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