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Business Areas
Information and Communications
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Siemens Business Services (SBS)
The demand for mobility, flexibility and
security is growing. Companies must con-
tinuously integrate new technologies into
existing IT systems, accelerate their work-
flows and manage ever-larger amounts of
information. IT quality, security and per-
formance now play a major role in our
customers’ success – and will continue to
do so in the future.
Our services help private- and public-
sector customers meet today’s complex
requirements. We’re among the top ten
providers of IT outsourcing worldwide.
We operate existing IT systems and opti-
mize IT-supported business processes and
related infrastructures to improve the effi-
ciency of our customers’ workflows and
reduce their costs.
Our IT solutions are increasing the effi-
ciency of emergency call systems. Our
biometric identification procedures are
helping make national borders more se-
cure. Our new electronic ticketing system
is enabling travelers to buy bus and train
tickets and pay parking fees by mobile
phone. As one of Europe’s leading e-gov-
ernment providers, we’re facilitating com-
munication between public authorities
and the people they serve.
In January 2007, our activities will be
combined with those of four IT companies
and software houses (Program and Sys-
tem Engineering of Austria, Siemens Infor-
mation Systems Ltd. of India, Develop-
ment Innovation and Projects of Greece
and the Business Innovation Center in
Switzerland) to form one Group. Under
our new name – Siemens IT Solutions
and Services – we’ll leverage our specific
know-how to broaden offerings Company-
wide. Expanding our IT operator-related
and IT solutions businesses with external
enterprises and bundling the operation of
IT systems throughout Siemens will en-
able our customers to benefit even more
from our comprehensive expertise while
obtaining end-to-end, sector-specific IT
and software solutions at competitive
prices.
www.siemens.com/sbs
Highlights in fiscal 2006
• People in the UK will soon have faster access
to their money thanks to the new IT system
that we supplied and are maintaining for
the UK Department for Work and Pensions.
• We’re supporting the data processing cen-
ters of Finnish paper manufacturer UPM
Kymmene Oyj on a global basis and provid-
ing helpdesk services for all 30,000 UPM
employees.
• We’re supplying the entire infrastructure and
all broadcasting systems for BBC Scotland’s
digital broadcasting center in Glasgow. The
facility will be the most advanced of its kind
in the world.
SBS offers private- and pub-
lic-sector customers a full
range of multi-vendor IT
solutions and services –
ranging from consulting and
systems integration to IT
infrastructure management.
“One important consideration that
convinced us to select SBS was that
you – as part of Siemens – are a
strong long-term IT partner. Now
we’re particularly pleased to see that
your project team has acquired a
keen understanding of our internal
structures and is devising solutions
well-suited to our requirements.”
Dr. Rolf Dörendahl,
Krombacher Brauerei, Germany