In recent days, KGS Software GmbH and NTT DATA Business Solutions, the world's leading SAP consulting firm for SMEs, have agreed on a strategic partnership. The aim of the collaboration is to expand the global presence of innovative archiving solutions and to maximize their availability.

As part of the reselling partnership, NTT DATA Business Solutions AG (formerly itelligence AG) is now offering its customers the solutions from KGS Software GmbH. The portfolio of NTT DATA Business Solutions therefore ranges from high-performance SAP archives to a holistic information lifestyle management solution (ILM) to fully automated SAP archive migration.

Jochen Heybrock. Head of Partner Sales, KGS Software GmbH: “For us, the partnership with NTT DATA Business Solutions is an important milestone. In doing so, we are driving forward our international expansion and are also increasingly being noticed outside the DACH region. Our common goal is to help companies archive their data and documents simply, securely and innovatively.” The know-how of kgs and the global network of NTT DATA Business Solutions complement each other in many ways: Through this collaboration, interested parties now have even easier access to tia®, the intelligent archiving solution from kgs.
Georg Schmidt, Partner Alliance Management Germany, NTT DATA Business Solutions AG: “By expanding our portfolio with tia® from kgs, we are significantly expanding our archiving offering for customers with and without an SAP system. ”

With tia®, all possible archiving scenarios can be covered, from application to storage. It doesn't matter whether an IT landscape is operated entirely on-premises or in the cloud, or whether hybrid systems are in use.
In the SAP environment, tia® acts like middleware between the ERP system and the hierarchical storage management (HSM) system. In this way, it enables legally secure document archiving, data archiving and archiving of print lists via SAP standard interfaces.

“We are pleased that NTT DATA Business Solutions, the No. 1 provider of services related to SAP, has included our solutions,” says Jochen Heybrock. “Our solutions are not limited to SAP, but cover a wide range of applications. Thanks to the lean architecture, implementation is easy, especially as our solutions can be deployed across various operating models — from on-premises — to the cloud. ”