CIBER Receives Global Certification by SAP for Application Management Services
Includes Implementation, Hosting and Application Support
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. – Nov. 10, 2008 –CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR), an SAP® services partner, announced today that its global application management services have been certified by SAP AG to deliver high-quality service operations based on SAP technology. This will expand CIBER’s worldwide capabilities in implementation, hosting and support of SAP applications to offer a true full-solution lifecycle in support of SAP solutions. CIBER is one of only five companies that have received global certification from SAP of their application management services.
“CIBER has been successfully certified as a global provider of application management services,” said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO Solution Delivery and Partner Enablement at SAP. “This SAP certification confirms CIBER’s capabilities to provide professional application management services to SAP customers worldwide, through which customers can benefit from comprehensive service offerings from CIBER. This partnership is an important extension of the SAP application management provider ecosystem.”
CIBER provides clients with single-source support for the entire solution lifecycle – from enterprise architecture through application development, implementation and integration, to application management and infrastructure support. CIBER develops, enhances, and manages business applications using a global distributed delivery model that focuses on building long-term relationships with its clients.
“This is an important step forward for CIBER that enhances our ability to market support services for SAP applications to our customers and prospects. It signifies that SAP has verified our ability to provide operational support for customers anywhere in the world,” said Chuck Miller, Director of Application Management Outsourcing with CIBER’s Global SAP practice.
CIBER consultants have been involved in implementations of SAP solutions around the world for almost 20 years, offering comprehensive solutions to support SAP applications, including implementations and upgrades, extensions, integrations and customizations. CIBER is an SAP services partner, an SAP channel partner authorized to resell the SAP Business All-in-One solution, certified SAP hosting partner for the Americas, and now a global SAP-certified provider of application management services.
“This certification, which makes us only one of five global firms to have achieved this level of service from SAP, further demonstrates CIBER’s commitment to deliver the full complement of outsourcing services for SAP solutions to customers worldwide. We want our message to be very clear – that CIBER will continue to focus on providing a world-class solution for the delivery of end-to-end SAP services,” said Mark Perlstein, President of CIBER IT Outsourcing.
CIBER was rated the 10th best global IT outsourcing vendor worldwide, and was listed among the top 50 best-managed global outsourcing vendors, according to a September 2008 Brown-Wilson Group survey. The Brown-Wilson Group publishes The Black Book of Outsourcing and conducts annual surveys of CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and other business decision-makers at Fortune 2000 organizations to understand users’ evaluations of global outsourcing service providers.
About CIBER, Inc.
CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) is a pure-play international system integration consultancy with superior value-priced services and reliable delivery for both private and government sector clients. CIBER’s services are offered globally on a project- or strategic-staffing basis, in both custom and enterprise resource planning (ERP) package environments, and across all technology platforms, operating systems and infrastructures. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., CIBER now serves client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 25 European offices and seven offices in Asia/Pacific. Operating in 18 countries, with more than 8,500 employees and annual revenue of approximately $1.2 billion, CIBER and its IT specialists continuously build and upgrade clients’ systems to “competitive advantage status.” CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, the Reliable Global IT Services Partner. www.ciber.com.
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