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Information and Communications
Siemens Business Services (SBS)
SBS offers a broad portfolio of multi-vendor IT solutions and
services for the private and public sectors.
With roughly 10,000 customers, we are one of the
world’s leading providers of IT services – offering
everything from consulting and systems integration
to the management and operation of IT infrastruc-
tures and entire business processes. Our solutions
give organizations the flexibility, IT security and
around-the-clock availability they need, enabling
them to cut costs and focus more intensively on their
core activities. Leveraging our “services-on-demand”
option, our customers – who include governmental
authorities, manufacturers, banks, insurers, power
utilities, telecoms and media companies – pay only
for the time, volume and number of transactions they
actually carry out.
We implement tailored solutions based on proven
applications and systems. Our “m-parking” solution –
which enables motorists to pay for parking by mobile
phone – is just one example. This new payment sys-
tem, which is equipped with mobile radio capability,
is already in use in Berlin, Vienna and a dozen other
cities. Drivers no longer have to search for a parking
voucher machine or rummage for change, and they
can easily pay for additional parking time electron-
ically.
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