Datamatics Global Technologies, Devoteam Danet Collaborate to Bring to Market Cutting-edge Business Support Solutions

16 October 2009, Mumbai: Datamatics Global Technologies GmbH, global provider of intelligent, value-driven technology and business solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Devoteam Danet GmbH, a leading independent IT consulting company to bring to market cutting-edge business support system (BSS) solutions.

The collaboration will leverage each organization's services portfolio and strengthen their market position in that domain. The new offerings as a result of the collaboration will focus on the entire spectrum of business processes – from order entry to payment collection.

A major benefit of the partnership for the target market of telecommunications and utilities organizations is that they will now enjoy the benefits of enhancing customer experience, higher efficiency and productivity. The cutting-edge technology and wider solution spectrum will allow an end-to-end integration of business processes. Currently, the industry is facing the challenges of disparate systems being in islands with limited or no interoperability.

Devoteam Danet brings a number of independent business solutions – “Accelerators for BSS” into the business partnership. These support and automate the individual business processes from order to cash for telecommunications operators and utility organizations such as integrated service delivery, billing and settlement, mediation, and output management.

Datamatics Global Technologies shall contribute its full design and development capabilities, as also support and maintenance of the business support and other IT systems deployed in Telecoms operations. Furthermore, Datamatics Global Technologies brings in its expertise in document management solutions for the settlement of the business process “Procure to Pay".

Datamatics Global Technologies will bring the BSS product development ahead while Devoteam Danet will be providing consultancy to the clients on site, integrating the systems and offering the relevant professional services. Thus, the two business partners will be in a position to fully concentrate on their core businesses, and to jointly extend the BSS solutions into new markets. In addition to the telecommunications and utilities business segments, industry-specific solutions are being developed for segments like the financial services, media or any organization where billing and payment reconciliation occurs in high volumes.

Through the partnership, the BSS solutions will be marketed globally.

“Datamatics Global has been investing in the development of intelligent, innovative and cutting-edge solutions for a range of industries. With the latest Business Support Systems solutions, we are strengthening our product and solutions business substantially,” said Rahul Kanodia, Vice Chairman, Datamatics Global. "The Devoteam and Datamatics teams are an ideal fit and complement each other perfectly. This will be a successful business cooperation between equal partners.“

“We are looking forward and will be happy to cooperate with Datamatics. In combining our expertise we can sustainably protect our customers' investments in modern business support systems, while jointly introducing enhanced solutions to the market,” explains Jürgen Hatzipantelis, Managing Director at Devoteam Danet. He adds, “The potential synergies arising form our “Order-to-Cash” offering and from Datamatics’ “Procure-to-Pay” offering are of particular interest to us.”

About Devoteam

Devoteam Danet is a leading independent IT consulting and service company. Combining consulting services and technical solutions enables Devoteam Danet to offer its customers independent advice and effective solutions. The service offerings include the business fields Consulting, IT Solutions and IT Services, primarily for the automotive, financial services, telecommunications & media industries, as well as for the transport & logistics sector.

Devoteam Danet is the German part of the Devoteam Group, a leading consultancy and IT company in Europe which is headquartered in Levallois-Perret (Paris, France). In 2008, Devoteam achieved a turnover of 460M€, up 24%, and an operating margin of 8.8%.  The Group counts 4,500 employees in 25 countries across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Devoteam is listed on the Euronext in Paris (ISIN: FR 0000073793) / Part of the indexes CAC MID & SMALL 190 und SBF 250.

About Datamatics Global Technologies:

Datamatics Global Technologies GmbH is a global provider of intelligent, value-driven technology and business solutions. These solutions span IT consulting, business process transformation, off-the-shelf technology solutions and customized software services. They leverage our proven expertise in developing technology to drive business efficiency and productivity. The company’s international clients have included top 25 Fortune 500 companies. Datamatics is certified for ISO 9001-2000, ISO 27001 and SAS 70, and has been assessed at SEI CMMi – Level 5 (QAI), P-CMM – Level 5 (QAI). Datamatics is the First & Only Indian Services Company to win the International Asia Pacific Quality Award.

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