SAP Certifies SunGard Availability Services Hosting Services; SunGard Now an SAP...

SAP Certifies SunGard Availability Services Hosting Services; SunGard Now an
SAP Hosting Partner in U.S.

Managed Services Supports SAP Solutions Advance Application Availability

WAYNE, Pa., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- SunGard Availability Services has been
certified by SAP AG to provide hosting services for SAP applications and is
now an SAP hosting partner in the U.S. The certification was awarded
following an assessment of SunGard's infrastructure, procedures and technical
staff by SAP. As an SAP hosting partner and an SAP-certified provider of
hosting services, SunGard's services are in line with SAP's requirements for
quality, availability and security.

SunGard's managed application services provide customers with a comprehensive
set of IT services for their critical SAP applications -- including
infrastructure design, deployment and migration, management, administration,
monitoring, reporting and ongoing support. These services help organizations
minimize day-to-day administration tasks, while helping ensure SAP
applications run at a higher level of efficiency and availability. Customers
also gain access to SunGard's secure facilities and specialists who understand
their application environments.

"SunGard's status as an SAP hosting partner in the U.S. with hosting services
certified by SAP is an important progression in our successful relationship,"
said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO solution delivery and partner
enablement at SAP. "Through this partnership, SAP customers will benefit from
comprehensive hosted applications from SunGard, allowing them to focus their
resources on meeting core business challenges."

"SunGard's managed services offerings are designed as availability-centric
solutions," said Dave Colesante, senior vice president and general manager,
managed services at SunGard Availability Services. "SunGard supports the
entire environment, bridging the gap between production systems and
traditional recovery. By helping customers run applications at a higher level
of productivity and availability, SunGard helps them maximize application
investments and more effectively manage internal resources and priorities.
This partnership is a natural extension of SunGard's commitment to provide
customers highly available and productive SAP solution-based environments."

To learn more about SunGard's hosting services certified by SAP, visit
http://www.sungardservices.com/SG15 or call (888) 810-4498.

About SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services provides disaster recovery services, managed IT
services, information availability consulting services and business continuity
management software to more than 10,000 customers in North America and Europe.
With five million square feet of datacenter and operations space, SunGard
assists IT organizations across virtually all industry and government sectors
prepare for and recover from emergencies by helping them minimize their
computer downtime and optimize their uptime. Through direct sales and channel
partners, we help organizations ensure their people and customers have
uninterrupted access to the information systems they need in order to do
business. To learn more, visit www.availability.sungard.com or call
1-800-468-7483.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world's leading software and IT services companies.
SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including
the world's 25 largest financial services companies.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services,
higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster
recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting
services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune
500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company
on the Forbes list of private businesses.

Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest
provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity,
Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an
unprecedented six times. For more information, please visit SunGard at
www.sungard.com.

*January 2009 Technology Vendors Financial Database Tracker
http://www.datamonitor.com

Trademark Information: SunGard and the SunGard logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the
U.S. and other countries. SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. All other
trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders.

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SOURCE SunGard Availability Services

Valeria Maltoni, Director, Marketing Communications, SunGard Availability
Services, +1-484-582-2441, valeria.maltoni@sungard.com