For more than 15 years, Microsoft and SAP have enjoyed a close partnership focused on one thing: optimizing our joint technologies to deliver high customer value. Fueled by the complementary nature of our philosophies and respective market segments, our joint efforts have resulted in exceptionally sophisticated solutions for our joint customer. Learn more.

Temenos Group AG, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a global provider of banking systems in the retail, corporate, universal, private, Islamic and microfinance and community banking markets. Temenos and Microsoft offer core banking solutions aimed at addressing current industry pressures in banking while also providing flexibility to respond to tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. Learn more .

Kronos helps organizations of all sizes unlock opportunities — hidden within their workforce processes — to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Our easy-to-own time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics solutions provide complete automation and high-quality information. Learn more.

Il s’agit du meilleur développeur et fournisseur des technologies, services et solutions d’infrastructure d’informations. EMC est particulièrement adopté pour fournir aux clients de Microsoft leurs architectures virtualisées. En savoir plus .

Hewlett-Packard (HP) est une entreprise IT leader au niveau mondial opérant dans plus de 170 pays partout dans le monde. L’objectif de la société est d’améliorer la manière dont les clients vivent et travaillent à travers les produits et les services de la technologie, aussi bien pour les consommateurs individuels que pour les plus grandes entreprises. En savoir plus .

Les serveurs fonctionnent avec la famille des processeurs Intel® Xeon® sont conçus pour fournir une performance intelligente, une efficacité d’énergie intelligente ainsi qu’ une fiabilité 24/7. En permettant à vos affaires d’être plus productives, ces processeurs fournissent une fiabilité développée pour les applications les plus exigeantes. En savoir plus .

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) est une entreprise de technologie innovante qui jouit d’une grande expérience dans la conception des plateformes pour soutenir les applications et les charges de travail les plus cruciales. AMD offre une technologie d’avant-garde pour les serveurs, les ordinateurs de bureau et portables et le graphisme pour vous aider à répondre à vos besoins pour garantir une meilleure efficacité, autonomie de batterie, sécurité, informatique en Cloud et virtualisation en plus d’un graphisme supérieur ou le retour sur investissement maximal.

NEC Corporation est un leader dans le domaine de l’intégration de l’IT et les technologies du réseau qui apportent du profit aux entreprises et aux individus partout dans le monde. En fournissant une combinaison de produits et de solutions qui utilisent conjointement l’expérience de l’entreprise et des ressources globales, les technologies de NEC développées répondent aux besoins compliqués des clients qui changent sans cesse. NEC investit plus de 100 années d’expérience dans le domaine de l’innovation technologique afin de potentialiser les gens, les entreprises et la société.

Unisys conçoit, crée et gère des environnements pour missions cruciales basés sur les solutions Microsoft consacrés aux entreprises et aux gouvernements qui n’ont pas droit à l’erreur. La profonde comprehension de l’informatique en matière du grand volume, de l’intensivité des transactions et de la securité qui caractérise Unisys permettent aux organisations partout dans le monde de réaliser des efficacités operationnelles, de réduire la complexité et de stimuler la productivité.

For more than 15 years, Microsoft and SAP have enjoyed a close partnership focused on one thing: optimizing our joint technologies to deliver maximum customer value. Fueled by the complementary nature of our philosophies and respective market segments, our joint efforts have resulted in unrivaled solutions for our joint customers. Together Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server offer an integrated software platform for SAP business solutions from a single source. Duet Enterprise, our newest jointly developed solution, blends SAP with Microsoft SharePoint and Office combining collaboration and productivity with business data and processes. Business users can benefit from a unified and simplified access to the data and actions they need that increase their personal and team productivity.

SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high-performance database engine for SAP applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability. With this compelling TCO value proposition, Microsoft Windows and SQL Server is well positioned as an enterprise ready platform for companies of all sizes running SAP solutions.

Quick Facts

• Over 65,000 SAP installations are on the Windows Server platform
• Over 25,000 SAP installations are on SQL Server
• Over 200 SAP customers have a productive database size of over 1TB and run on SQL Server
• A joint Microsoft and SAP customer has an SAP ERP production database size of over 13TB and runs on SQL Server
• A joint Microsoft and SAP customer is running SAP ERP with over 3,000 concurrent users on SQL Server
• Another component of reducing cost - server consolidation - is addressed by Microsoft’s Virtualization solution and is certified by SAP

Temenos Group AG, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a global provider of banking systems in the retail, corporate, universal, private, Islamic and microfinance and community banking markets, serving more than 700 customers in over 120 countries, supported by 50 offices worldwide. Temenos and Microsoft offer core banking solutions aimed at addressing current industry pressures in the banking market while also providing the flexibility to respond to tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. TEMENOS T24, a modular core banking system built on the Microsoft Windows platform and supporting .NET technology , helps banks achieve greater profitability, an improved customer experience and the agility to meet future market and customer demands.

Temenos' and Microsoft's specific approach to core banking helps financial institutions increase productivity and profitability through an improved total cost of ownership and uniform operational environment, which enhances the time to market and operational efficiency delivered by T24. Microsoft's connected customer experience complements T24's sophisticated single customer view, thus enabling front-line staff to provide superior customer service.

The TEMENOS T24 core banking system runs on Microsoft Windows 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008, offering customers a full front-to-back core banking solution on an all-Microsoft platform.

Insight is a browser-based business intelligence and financial performance management solution specifically designed for banks running T24 as their core banking system. Insight is fully integrated with T24 so that it operates without the need for extensive consultation, data mapping or development. It provides flexible reporting and data analysis tools to enable the bank to realize the full value of its system data whilst monitoring key performance indicators in a timely and accurate manner.

Temenos is a member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) that brings together banks, service providers, and software vendors to identify solutions to help accelerate the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking industry.

Watch the video:
- Microsoft and Temenos Prove Scale of Support for Retail Banking Operations
- Realizing Great SQL Server 2008 Results - Temenos, Intel and Microsoft

Read the white paper:
- TEMENOS T24 Core Banking Optimized on Microsoft SQL Server Database Platform
- Temenos and Microsoft Solution Brief

For over three decades, Kronos has helped customers in a wide range of industries solve complex workforce management challenges. A Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, Kronos empowers organizations to maximize workforce performance, reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide.

One area where Kronos has worked aggressively with Microsoft is to provide tools that help organizations streamline effective decision making with workforce intelligence. Because Kronos workforce tools work with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Office Business Applications it's now easier for users to tap into their reporting and analytics capabilities.

In addition to these joint efforts Microsoft and Kronos continually work to find new ways to simplify workforce management. Kronos Workforce Central suite, coupled with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software, provides employers with a complete, strategic solution that controls all aspects of workforce management. Organizations can streamline management processes with software solutions that enhance business performance – plus get the reliability and security of an underlying scalable foundation that offers a powerful database engine and fast, intuitive reporting and analysis.

To be successful in today's competitive marketplace, organizations must extend information beyond the walls of their organization and seamlessly interact with customers, partners, and suppliers in real time. With the help of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Kronos can enable organizations to transform valuable enterprise data into shared information for insightful, timely decisions at a lower total cost of ownership.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based solution that enables the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports. An integrated part of the Microsoft Business Intelligence framework, Reporting Services combines the data management capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server with familiar and powerful Microsoft Office System applications to deliver real-time information to support daily operations and drive decisions.

With the Collaboration of Microsoft SharePoint Server technologies the Workforce Central Portal™ provides an intuitive, simple and quick way to access your Workforce Central data to help manage the workforce and achieve your planned operational results. Using the Workforce Central Portal, managers can quickly accomplish the required daily workforce management tasks. The portal view delivers real time access to the information that managers need to monitor operational performance and take positive action. The Workforce Central Portal demonstrates both the power and the simplicity of Kronos industry offerings. It extends the Workforce Central suite to fit with how our customers want to work. As a result, customers derive the maximum value from the flexibility of the suite.