Steria and Kabira sign a European Partnership Agreement
Steria brings systems integration expertise to the deployment of Kabira's industry-specific transaction processing solutions for the European telecom market
San Mateo, CA – December 12, 2006 – Kabira Technologies Inc., a leader in high performance transaction processing software for global enterprises, and Steria, a leading end-to-end European IT services provider, today announced the signing of a systems integration partnership agreement. With this agreement, Steria joins the Kabira European Alliance Program as a Gold Partner and Kabira becomes a Steria Preferred Partner. The companies have already successfully collaborated on opportunities in high-performance environments. The alliance is expected to enable both companies to deliver innovative high performance Transaction Processing and Operational Support Systems in Europe.
“We see this alliance with Kabira as a strategic decision to provide our clients with world class solutions in service activation, provisioning, and service delivery platform.” says Gilles Graziani, Director of the Steria Telecom and Media Business Unit in France. “Together, we will enable our telecommunications provider clients to optimize network performance, response time, and throughput, reduce cost through single provisioning process for 3G voice and data services, and shorten time-to-revenue by rapid deployment of third-party content providers. This partnership brings real value in our Operational Support Systems set of solutions and we are excited to work with Kabira across Europe.”
Philippe Lavigne, Director of Kabira Alliances for Europe, said, “When we introduced our Alliance Program last June, we stressed our commitment to working with partners that will bring our industry-specific transaction processing solutions to market. We are delighted Steria shares this commitment and has joined our Alliance Program as a Gold Partner and we look forward to working closely with them to achieve incremental business.” Lavigne continued, “We believe that Steria has the core competencies and the delivery capability to address, with excellence, the demanding requirements of our target customers with a Kabira-based transaction processing solutions.”
About Steria
Extensive expertise in its three core businesses of consulting, systems integration and managed services has made Steria a leading end-to-end IT services provider for companies and public authorities throughout Europe.With a revenue of €1.2 billion and 9,300 employees, Steria is one of the top ten European IT services companies. Understanding the challenges facing its customers enables Steria to design business-specific solutions with high added value in all of its fields of expertise – the public sector, healthcare, banking/insurance, telecommunications and utilities/transport/manufacturing – as well as innovative technological solutions. Based on over 35 years of experience in managing large-scale projects, an exceptional ability to respond and an industrial approach to business, Steria has developed a result-based culture with a commitment to service quality and customer satisfaction. Steria's employees, who hold 24% of the Group’s capital, draw on its core values of simplicity, creativity, independence, respect and openness to transform the latest technology into added-value services, enabling Steria to help its customers achieve and maintain competitive advantage. Steria is listed on Euronext Paris, Eurolist (Compartment B). Visit Steria at www.steria.com.
