SAP and NTT Enhance Global Partnership
September 15 2016 - 5:09AM
Business Wire
IoT Solution development to support safety
operation of transportation industry
SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
(NTT) (NYSE:NTT) announced today its partnership enhancement in
‘Co-Innovation’, ‘Cross-Selling of Solutions’ and ‘Global
Reference’.
SAP and NTT are collaborating by integrating cutting-edge
technologies. As the first project of this initiative, to support
safety operation of the transportation industry, the two companies
have developed a solution combining SAP’s Connected Transportation
Safety (CTS) solutions, which collects and analyzes vehicle related
data, with NTT’s hitoe®, sensing fabric jointly developed with
Toray Industries, and NTT IoT analytics platform, which provides
driver’s biological data including heart rate and mental fatigue
estimate, the project aims to provide more accurate and real-time
information about vehicle and driver’s condition.
In cooperation with Keifuku Bus Co., Ltd (Fukui, Japan), SAP and
NTT Group will conduct a field trial from October 2016, targeting
to provide service from January 2017. The companies are planning to
rollout this solution in the United States and Europe as well.
“We are honored to partner with NTT group who runs the world’s
biggest data centers,” said Rob Enslin, member of the
Executive Board of SAP SE and president of Global Customer
Operations, SAP. “This partnership brings significant impact on SAP
to broaden customers’ choice upon facilitating digital
transformation. The integration of NTT’s cutting-edge technologies
and SAP’s revolutionary solutions will generate momentum to elevate
the overall market to the next level. By closely collaborating on a
global scale, NTT and SAP will continuously strengthen ties to
drive the three key initiatives including Co-innovation, Global
Partnership, and SAP Solution Reference Customer in a long term
perspective.”
“NTT aims to contribute to business transformation of its
enterprise clients by providing high value-added services with
partners.” said Jun Sawada, Senior Executive Vice President of NTT,
“Global partnership with SAP is a significant step for
strengthening our competitiveness in the rapidly changing ICT
market. Through this partnership, along with SAP’s expertise and
experiences, NTT can enhance its capabilities to support our global
clients, and can accelerate digital transformation of
industries.”
This co-innovation effort started in Palo Alto, California and
has been led by NTT Labs and SAP Labs China. SAP and NTT Group
intend to continue co-innovations in various areas with new
technologies and expand its partnership through marketing promotion
globally.
SAP and NTT Group have agreed to advance their digital practice
collaboration and have formatted a new partner for Industrial
Revolution. Primary target for 2016 is to move customers to the
cloud for IoT and Industry 4.0.
While the partnership is not limited to Industrial Revolution,
both companies are also accelerating their collaboration around
private managed cloud solutions such as SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
leveraging NTT’s world class data center network around the globe.
NTT is also a S/4 HANA Adoption Pinnacle Award Winner 2016.
In addition, NTT and SAP will create a global reference which
could become a universal model. NTT has been working on
establishing business platform as well as IT infrastructure to
create synergy within the group. To accelerate the process, NTT is
going to utilize the latest SAP solutions.
About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE:
SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From
back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to
mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work
together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively
to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services
enable more than 320,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt
continuously, and grow sustainably. The company is traded under the
‘SAP’ brand on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the New York Stock
Exchange and other major global bourses. For more information,
visit www.sap.com.
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About Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation (NTT)
NTT Group delivers advanced technology and innovative solutions
in networking, software communications, and cloud computing that
help transform businesses, governments and societies around the
world.NTT Group will deliver convenient, enriched and reliable
services to support customers as a ‘Value Partner’ that its
customers will continue to select. Today, 85% of Fortune Global 100
companies rely on NTT Group as their business partner. NTT Group
generates over $95 billion in annual revenues, has over 240 data
centers and employs more than 241,000 professionals working in 87
countries. For more information, visit www.ntt-global.com.
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