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Siemens IT Solutions and Services Operates IT for Evonik Industries in the US

Posted on: Monday, 29 October 2007, 12:00 CDT

NORWALK, CONN., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective immediately, Siemens IT Solutions and Services will operate large parts of the local IT and telecommunications infrastructure for the industrial company Evonik at all its sites in the US. The corresponding outsourcing contract will run for four years and is worth around $42 million USD.

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Evonik Industries is an international industrial company with the business areas of chemicals, energy and real estate. The contract just signed is part of a global framework agreement for IT services with Evonik Industries and governs the long-term collaboration between the two companies. The Siemens subsidiary Services for Business IT Ruhr GmbH (SBI Ruhr) played a significant role in the contract negotiations with Evonik Industries. Under this contract, Siemens IT Solutions and Services will operate large parts of the IT and telecommunications infrastructure for Evonik Degussa Corp., the US subsidiary of Evonik, at all of its US sites. This includes two computer centers, servers, telephone systems and all PCs. In addition, Siemens IT Solutions and Services will support employees with a service desk that they can call to get quick help for problems with their PCs. Through this arrangement, Evonik Industries hopes to achieve the same high service quality, but with lower IT costs.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is thus successfully continuing its strategy of cooperating more closely with the other Siemens Groups and expanding its business in those areas in which, for example, the industrial sectors are strong.

About Siemens IT Solutions and Services

Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. is one of Siemens operating companies in the United States. Siemens IT Solutions and Services is an internationally leading provider of IT solutions and services. With its comprehensive know-how and specific sector knowledge, this division of Siemens offers solutions and services from a single source - from consulting to systems integration to software development and management of IT infrastructures. Siemens IT Solutions and Services has 43,000 employees and posts annual worldwide sales of more than $6.4 billion USD. For more information, please visit http://www.usa.siemens.com/it-solutions.

About Siemens AG

Siemens AG is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $107.4 billion in fiscal 2006. Founded 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $21.4 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 480,000 people in 190 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: http://www.usa.siemens.com/.

SIEMENS is a registered trademark of Siemens AG. All other company, brand, product, and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc.

CONTACT: Marla Davids of Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc.,+1-678-256-5760, marla.davids@siemens.com

Web site: http://www.usa.siemens.com/http://www.usa.siemens.com/it-solutions

Source: PRNewswire

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