SAP Joins Telstra, PricewaterhouseCoopers ASP Alliance

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Telstra has formed an agreement
with SAP, allowing it to provide SAP’s
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) services in Australia and New
Zealand. The agreement follows the formalization of Telstra’s
non-exclusive Application Service Provider (ASP) alliance with global
strategic business managment consultancy
PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Telstra emerging business executive director, Gerry Sutton, believed
“the formalization of the ASP alliance is a key milestone in Telstra’s
endeavors to market high pedigree ASP solutions.”

“SAP has recognized the compelling value proposition that Telstra and
PricewaterhouseCoopers present to the market and its involvement is
evidence of that.”

David Bostock of PricewaterhouseCoopers claimed that the alliance would
add legitimacy to the ASP market, which is yet to really take off in
Australia. “The ability of Telstra and PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide tailored ASP
solutions to meet specific client needs for ERP/CRM (Customer
Relationship Management) will be hard to match,” he said.

The alliance will utilize Telstra’s data centers and communications
infrastructure combined with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ consultancy and integration
services.