Special Expertise Partnership

SQS awarded SAP Special Expertise Partner status

Cologne, 01 August 2008 – SQS is now a SAP Special Expertise Partner (SEP). Following the recent signing of a cooperation agreement, the SAP Service Partner is applying its specific know-how in SAP products in its role as a specialist for software quality management and testing. The award of SEP status is country-specific and granted exclusively to SAP partners who exhibit particular technical competence. For the defined period of time, SQS is therefore a SAP Special Expertise Partner for SAP NetWeaver testing and quality management.

Cologne, 28^th August 2008 – SQS is now a SAP Special Expertise Partner (SEP). Following the recent signing of a cooperation agreement, the SAP Service Partner is applying its specific know-how in SAP products in its role as a specialist for software quality management and testing. The award of SEP status is country-specific and granted exclusively to SAP partners who exhibit particular technical competence. For the defined period of time, SQS is therefore a SAP Special Expertise Partner for SAP NetWeaver testing and quality management.

The preconditions for the award of Special Expertise Partner status are extensive project experience, proven know-how in SAP products and the availability of a sufficient number of specially trained consultants, together with relevant customer references. The purpose behind these special partnerships is to raise the quality of partner services for all SAP and industry solutions. In return, SAP utilises its partner enterprise's sector-specific know-how to pursue continuous further development of its solution portfolio.

“By entering into the Special Expertise Partnership, SAP is acknowledging our market leadership and professional competence in the field of testing and quality management. We are very pleased to use the SEP seal of approval from SAP so as to be able to apply the experience gained by SQS to more SAP projects and thereby help make them a success”, explains Rudolf van Megen, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SQS AG. Numerous major IT projects in the SAP environment vouch for the fact that independent quality management and testing can make a crucial contribution to the success of SAP projects.

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About SQS

SQS is the global leader in independent software testing and quality management services. SQS consultants design and oversee quality management processes during software and IT systems development and test the resulting products for errors and omissions.

Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, SQS now has more than 1,400 employees across Europe, Asia and in Africa. The Group has a strong presence in Germany (Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Goerlitz and Hamburg) and in the UK (London, Woking, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast), Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, India, Egypt and South Africa. SQS also has a minor stake in an operation in Portugal and a partnership operation in Spain.

With more than 4,800 completed projects under its belt, SQS has a strong customer base including 36 FTSE-100 companies, half of the DAX 30 and nearly a third of the STOXX-50. It supports clients in a wide range of industries, including major corporations such as Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Barclays, BP, Boots, Credit Suisse, Volkswagen, and Daimler.