Atos Origin acquires a leading SAP national implementation partnerin China

Shanghai Covics is a pure Chinese SAP player with over 100 staff

 

Atos Origin, an international IT services company, announced it has acquired Shanghai Covics Business Solution Ltd. (Shanghai Covics), a leading Chinese SAP consultancy and SAP system integration services provider. It's the first acquisition carried out by Atos Origin in China and in the Asia-Pacific region as well.

 

Through the acquisition, Atos Origin, the company that has successfully delivered the IT systems for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, will reinforce its capability all through the full SAP cycle of consulting, implementation, maintenance and hosting in China, notably Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In addition, it will be able to double the number of its local experienced SAP consultants.

 

Shanghai Covics is a pure Chinese SAP player with over 100 staff led by a strong management team. It has an excellent team of qualified SAP consultants and a number of outstanding projects delivered to date. It is also one of the most successful All-in-One SAP project integrators in the China market.

 

Herbert Leung, CEO Atos Origin in Asia Pacific, said: "The acquisition is no doubt a strategic move to sharpen our competitiveness of delivering SAP implementations complying with the highest SAP quality standards in China. This is also in line with our aim to use our China SAP operations as a major SAP Competency Center across the Asia-Pacific region."

 

Source: Webwire