| Attachment 1 "The combination of NTT Com, IBM and Tivoli presents a world class partnership to maximise customers business opportunities” stated Masanobu Suzuki President and CEO of NTT Communications. “NTT Com through its outsourcing services will help our customers manage their total network and IT environments, and enable our customers to exploit new markets coming through E-Commerce.” “Outsourced services is one of the key market opportunity areas for service providers. Tivoli has a proven track record leveraging our technology management experience to support the management requirements of these services," stated Jan Lindelow, Tivoli chairman and CEO. "Japan and the rest of Asia Pacific is one of Tivoli’s fastest growing regions. Teaming with NTT Com creates the opportunity to combine the capabilities of both companies and bring to our customers world-class enterprise management services as part of a total solution." “Tivoli’s recently-announced Service Provider Business Unit (SPBU), represented in countries across Asia Pacific, is providing technology management solutions and expertise to support NTT Com’s E-Business Outsourcing services. We have proven success with other service providers around the world,” said Rob Coulter, Asia Pacific Vice President, Tivoli Systems. “Tivoli’s resources of our technology, knowledge, people and training are enabling NTT Com to quickly move into this new business area, and provide increasing levels of value to their customers .” “I am very pleased with today’s announcement which defines a strategic partnership among the three companies. We are very supportive of NTT Com’s Outsourcing initiatives for the E-Business market. The combined strength of this partnership will help address our customers’ broad and varied needs,” said Takuma Otoshi, President of IBM Japan. |
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