Deutsche Telekom said it has signed a seven-year partnership agreement with Microsoft to support digital operations for business customers. They will combine Microsoft’s cloud and AI capabilities with Telekom’s Cloud Migration Framework and telecommunications services, enabling customers to increase productivity, build agile and resilient operations and deliver new cloud offerings to the market quickly.
Telekom plans to migrate the majority of its internal IT workloads to the public cloud by 2025 and Azure is a central part of that strategy. The company will offer its customers direct access to the Microsoft cloud through Azure ExpressRoute.
Moreover, Telekom will move SAP environments to Azure. SAP services on Azure offer security for businesses, business continuity, and reduce costs for hardware. Telekom will also offer Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams.
The companies have started a project to allow German schools to use remote learning through cloud-based IT infrastructure, modern devices, and applications for collaboration as part of Microsoft 365. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has migrated applications to the Azure cloud. This Cloud Migration Framework combines automated assessment, cloud migration and services management to help accelerate customers' cloud projects. The companies will also exchange know-how to support their own efforts towards digitalisation and network build-out.
