Global Crossing Certified as SAP Hosting Partner
 

Global Crossing, an IP solutions provider, today announced that it is now a certified SAP hosting partner in Colombia and Brazil. The company says that it has received this certification from SAP AG, the provider of business software, for its ability to deliver quality hosting services from its data center operations. This brings the number of countries in Latin America, where Global Crossing is a certified SAP hosting partner, to four. It adds that it has been certified by SAP in Argentina and Chile since 2005.

The company states that SAP granted the accreditation to them after the company successfully met a rigorous review process that assessed the company's infrastructure, processes and technical staff.  By becoming a certified SAP hosting partner, it is fully compliant with SAP's requirements for quality, availability and security, adds the company.

It addition the company explains that the accreditation it received in Colombia and Brazil applies to its application and implementation hosting services.  Application hosting includes the operation and maintenance of an application in a data center, as well as the complete hosting services portfolio for the SAP Business Suite, which includes infrastructure, implementation, operations and support. Further implementation hosting covers the implementation of SAP solutions, ranging from complete solution implementation to incorporation of new functionality for a solution that is already installed.

"This certification underscores Global Crossing's commitment to providing world-class communications and IT services to our customers, based on the industry's best practices," said Gabriel del Campo, Global Crossing's vice president of data center services EMEA and global product manager. "We are now able to manage, host and implement SAP applications for our customers in strategic markets in Latin America."

"With this certification we are  enhancing the value-added ICT solutions we offer to the corporate market," added Gabriel del Campo.  "Global Crossing's solutions integrate a global network, world-class data center infrastructure and managed services."