BearingPoint to Establish SAP Center of Excellence

by Chad Morris

Walldorf-based Facility to Focus on Building Composite Applications

BearingPoint, one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced it will open a Center of Excellence at the SAP PartnerPort in Walldorf, Germany, on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. BearingPoint will mark the occasion with a formal event beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The center will serve to concentrate BearingPoint's SAP practice in Europe to work with BearingPoint's SAP(R) applications group, as well as SAP customers and partners to deliver leading BearingPoint and SAP integrated applications. The Walldorf PartnerPort is dedicated to SAP partners, and is used as a central hub for collaboration between SAP, its partners and customers.

"Establishing this center of excellence solidifies our commitment to work with SAP to develop the next generation of enterprise-level service-oriented architecture and business process platform solutions, as well as innovative, verticalized composite applications," said Kiumars Hamidian, managing director with BearingPoint's EMEA SAP Solutions group.