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Intervate, a T-Systems company, relaunches with visionary new brand identity and solution offering as part of renewed innovation focus


Johannesburg, 16 Oct 2017

* Intervate, a T-Systems company, relaunches with visionary new brand identity and enhanced solution offering.
* Intervate introduces Design Thinking Labs to assist organisations with digital transformation initiatives.
* Intervate and T-Systems enhance partnership with Microsoft to strengthen both organisation's offering to market.

Craig Michelmore. Intervate North.
Craig Michelmore. Intervate North.

Intervate, a T-Systems company specialising in digital transformation solutions centred around user productivity, user experience, business process automation and enterprise content management solutions, recently unveiled its new brand identity. The new brand aims to reaffirm Intervate's philosophy of 'anything's possible' while aligning the brand more closely with that of parent company, T-Systems South Africa.

Says Craig Mitchelmore, Head of Intervate (North), "We have been successfully delivering cutting-edge solutions for over 17 years, and in that time we have established ourselves as the leading South African Microsoft partner for information, worker and collaboration solutions. Becoming a part of the global T-Systems organisation has created opportunities for us to expand our horizons, tap into new growth opportunities and develop new competencies and solution offerings that are assisting organisations to engage their digital transformation strategies. Our new brand stands to reaffirm our commitment to innovation, while underscoring our cohesive ties with T-Systems."

Intervate's brand relaunch follows hot on the heels of T-Systems' announcement to partner closely with Microsoft, to assist organisations in taking full advantage of Microsoft's Azure Cloud computing service. Microsoft recently announced plans to deploy local Azure datacentres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

"The combined relationships that both Intervate and T-Systems have with Microsoft will enable us to leverage Azure as our hyperscale public cloud platform of choice. This will strengthen and extend our Microsoft offering while T-Systems' customers can tap into Intervate's user centric, innovation driven portfolio of offerings. The synergies are extensive and create a perfect triangulation," adds Mitchelmore.

Mpumi Nhlapo.
Mpumi Nhlapo.

"The market is changing rapidly and we need to assist our customers to engage the digital era effectively," says Mpumi Nhlapo, Head of Marketing and Communications at T-Systems South Africa. "We have been working towards aligning the T-Systems and Intervate teams more closely to bridge our core value propositions and build synergies between the two organisations, delivering greater value to our customers."

One such example is the recently announced Design Thinking Labs, a consulting service that marries creative technology concepts together with design thinking principles, and applies them to solve business problems. The new offering will not only help Intervate to co-create solutions to resolve burning business problems with their customers, but will also be used to drive a new form of engagement with customers within T-Systems as well.

Nhlapo adds, "Furthermore, customers are looking for unique and consumer-led solutions. The Intervate brand coupled with a reaffirmed collaboration with the broader T-Systems, is aimed at strengthening our ability to deliver exactly that, while remaining a step ahead of the curve."

Intervate will retain its autonomy as a separate business within T-Systems and the team will continue, as a group of agile, innovative creative strategists, to introduce innovative solutions for enterprises to be able to engage their customers as well as their internal communities in rapidly evolving digital world.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of 31 December 2014). The group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228 000 employees worldwide. The group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year - more than 60% of it outside Germany.

T-Systems

Deutsche Telekom considers the European business customer segment a strategic growth area.

Deutsche Telekom offers small, medium-sized and multinational companies ICT solutions for an increasingly complex digital world. In addition to services from the cloud, the range of services is centred around M2M and security solutions, complementary mobile communications and fixed network products, and solutions for virtual collaboration and IT platforms, all of which forms the basis for its customers' digital business models.

With approximately 47 800 employees worldwide, T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 8,6 billion in the 2014 financial year.

Since the inception of T-Systems in South Africa in 1997, the company has cemented its position as one of the most successful T-Systems companies outside of Europe. A leading ICT outsourcing service provider locally, T-Systems offers end-to-end ICT solutions in both the ICT Operations and Systems Integration markets. Its extensive portfolio of services covers the vertical, horizontal, IT and TC space. T-Systems South Africa's head office is located in Midrand with another major office in Cape Town, and 20 further representative offices in locations throughout southern Africa.

Intervate

Intervate, a T-Systems company in South Africa, is an enabler of digital transformation, delivering digital workplace solutions and customer experiences that drive business value and improve productivity.

It has over 17 years' experience in delivering innovative solutions that enable digital transformation including enterprise mobility, enterprise information management, customer and data insights, business process solutions, cloud solutions and enterprise application integration. Its technical expertise is supported by an understanding of the strategic drivers and challenges that enable it to provide its customers with professional guidance regarding the best practices proven to deliver successful projects and business benefits.

Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.

Read more at https://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/#ZLHb8Dt1ecXhiCFt.99

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