Two IT giants team up on the Danish market

Steria and Siemens launches Unified Communications offensive. How Steria through a number of years has been one of Denmark's leading systems integrators, Siemens is known for its strong technological capabilities in areas such Unified Communications. This strong combination and mass of experience are now being used to deliver state-of-the-art solutions for Danish business and public sector organizations to prepare the best possible in the ongoing crisis with process and business optimization and efficiency and savings.

Everyone talks about it. Siemens has for many years done something about it. Unified Communications’ solutions bring together all communication on one platform and simplify the information flow and the knowledge sharing. It does require a competent and experienced systems integrator, which - with the introduction of the technology – even can teach businesses to work smarter and more efficiently, so the investment is justified and the benefits are read directly on the bottom line. Such is the system integrator Steria.
Therefore Steria and Siemens in cooperation now offer mobile employees, transparent business processes, and free and easy access to knowledge of Unified Communications’ solutions for all types of businesses across all types of networks, devices and IT infrastructure.
"It's a powerful combination. A strong and robust strategic partnership that is now put into play and utilized in a more targeted effort. The whole foundation of savings is put into technology, and now it is up to us as a systems integrator to make it and bring benefits to Danish companies and organizations, says CEO Peter N. Østerby, Steria.
The goal is to transform the Unified Communications from a sounding buzz word and one of today's hot topics – to a tool that brings real efficiency and savings:
"In alliance with Steria we are undoubtedly standing with one of the market's strongest cards in our hands. Together, we differ from most other suppliers know that we have matured as the Unified Communications concept development: Many IT players come from the data world and have therefore not reached so much yet, but our approach is derived from the voice side, and is therefore based on a much more complex technology understanding. So, where a number of other suppliers are running with their first product version, Siemens is already working today with a Unified Communications solution in version 3x and can produce a wide range of reference customers and installations, "says sales manager Palle Almar Knudsen, Siemens Enterprise Communications.

Both parties agree that the fundament for a good functioning cooperation is made:

"One of the main parameters of a partnership is that you 'want one another'. We want Steria because they have skills. And because they have proven - in the Danish and the international scene - they are absolutely ‘best in class’. At the same time, they have an approach to the market and their product portfolio and performance palette that fits extremely well with our "explains Palle Almar Knudsen, Siemens Enterprise Communications.

"There is no doubt that our ability to help companies to bring here and now-efficiency and high savings in the game, as Siemens' Unified Communications technology solutions can provide, is a unique match. We complement each other, and that gives the alliance between our two companies a solid foundation in relation to delivering the right solutions for the Danish market, "concludes CEO Peter N. Østerby, Steria.

An example of the new partnership is already visible in the current month, where Steria and Siemens appear together for Computer Worlds Breakfast Club meeting about Unified Communications. The meeting will take place in Ballerup, 25 March and has NKT Cables' IT director Lars Northeved as a reference customer and guest speaker.

Source: Siemens