EMC, SAP to deliver "enterprise service ready offerings”

MUMBAI: EMC Corporation and SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of SAP AG, has announced an expansion of their alliance to help companies deploy information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy, as part of the Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA) blueprint.

EMC and SAP will deliver a portfolio of service offerings, branded as "Enterprise Services Ready," that is expected to help SAP customers manage corporate-wide information and standardize the behavior of business processes deployed as enterprise services across the IT landscape. The announcement was made at the SAP Summit '05 in Mumbai, India, June 7-9 2005.

The first service offerings will be generally available later in 2005 and will focus on upgrades and archiving, according to a press release. Future offerings that combine EMC and SAP solutions and services will focus on reducing the risk of non-compliance regulatory issues in the life sciences and consumer products industries, the release said.

"The development of a portfolio of ILM offerings, which are 'Enterprise Services Ready,' will allow our mutual customers to strengthen control over critical information assets, while at the same time, increasing operational efficiency, reducing costs and minimizing risks, as they deploy innovative business processes," said Peter Graf, executive vice president of Solution Marketing, SAP AG.

EMC and SAP will jointly market a series of assessment and implementation service offerings that will educate customers on how to manage and leverage mission-critical information as they migrate to and expand their utilization of SAP and other ISV solutions. This portfolio will provide customers with best practices and services for every stage of the information lifecycle-from analysis and design to ongoing information management in protecting and optimizing SAP solutions.

"One of the main benefits of EMC and SAP's new ILM services for SAP solutions is the flexibility and TCO improvements that these service offerings will deliver to customers," said Howard Elias, Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology, EMC.