T-SYSTEMS SEES CONSISTENT REVENUE GROWTH IN ASIA PACIFIC MARKETS.(Company overview)

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 Asia Pulse - T-Systems, the enterprise customer unit of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, sees its business in the Asia Pacific growing between 30-50 per cent despite the challenging economic environment.

Its Singapore and Malaysia chief executive officer, Thomas Jakob said the Asia Pacific markets would shield the company's operations from a slowdown as companies globally were looking at opportunities for cost structure by venturing into lower cost destinations in Asia.

"At the moment, if you look at opportunities for growth globally, it is actually in the Asia Pacific," he told Bernama at the recent launch of the new Deutsche Telekom Centre in Singapore.

He said T-Systems had also seen a growing demand for international telecommunication services from multinational corporations as they expanded into new regions.

As the Malaysian market was growing faster that others in the region, Jakob said it would be the focus of the company's expansion in the Asia Pacific.

The company is looking for suitable buildings in Malaysia to facilitate its operations.

It is understood T-Systems requires bigger facilities over the next 12-18 months to manage the infrastructure and information technology (IT) for Shell's global data centres.

Earlier this year, T-Systems took over the three of Shell's data centres in the Netherlands with one each in Malaysia and the United States.

T-Systems intends to make Malaysia a centre for service management and turn the local data centre into its operational hub for the Asia Pacific region.

"Five hundred employees from Shell have joined us and they will be based in Malaysia. The next focus is to leverage on these assets and expand the scope of operations over the next six months," Jakob explained.

He said T-Systems was also working on external market opportunities in Malaysia, adding the company, had a couple of contracts now.

"We are already servicing the local clients and intend to expand the business significantly over the next year," he added.

As part of its commitment to Malaysia, T-Systems acquired MSC Malaysia status in January.

In the Asia-Pacific, T-Systems provides information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to multinational customers including Airbus, Allianz, Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Mitsubishi Motors and Volkswagen.

Moving forward, Jakob said T-Systems's strategy in the Asia Pacific was to focus on expanding its partnership with global customers even more while building stronger ties with selected local leaders in the automotive,manufacturing, services and finance sectors.

According to Jakob,the difficult economic climate at present, actually translated into opportunities for T-Systems as customers were looking at ways to become efficient by focusing on their core business.

"The outsourcing model in general is becoming more prevalent at this time and is a positive driver for our business growth. We believe that we will double our revenue over the next two to three years in the Asia Pacific," he said.

T-Systems posted a revenue of 12 billion euros last year and was a leading provider for the automotive and telecommunications industries as well as the public sector.

It offers network-centric ICT services ranging from data centre operations and global services based on the Internet Protocol (IP) to the development and management of applications.

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