IHS Signs Joint Marketing Agreement With SAP America

ENGLEWOOD, CO—(MARKET WIRE)—February 12, 2007—IHS (NYSE: IHS) (http://www.ihs.com), a leading global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools and related services, today announced it has finalized a Go To Market (GTM) agreement with SAP America, Inc. The GTM agreement is a business development partnership that allows IHS and SAP to jointly market the value proposition of their solutions for asset data management. 

“Clean structured data is critical to the effectiveness of enterprise software,” said Paul Evenson, senior vice president, Parts Management, IHS. “For years, IHS and SAP have been working together to enable customers to fully unlock the potential of their SAP® business applications. This agreement acknowledges and promotes this marriage of critical content with quality enterprise software.”

The Go To Market agreement takes effect immediately in the United States, and may be expanded worldwide. The agreement includes many facets of joint marketing, including communications, cross-training, sales enablement programs, and partnership performance management.

IHS, through its IHS Intermat Solutions suite, offers software and services to create standardized descriptions for industrial MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) items such as pipes, valves, bearings, associated plant equipment, and general supply items. These standardized MRO item descriptions can be passed directly to SAP applications using the IHS Struxure® catalog management software (see February 12, 2007 press release: IHS Struxure 5 Earns SAP Certified Integration).

“Our customers are the true beneficiaries of this agreement, by allowing them to more quickly recognize the value of their enterprise software investment,” said Bert Turner, vice president, Intermat, IHS. “We are extremely excited to have a partner the caliber of SAP to help deliver immediate value to our customers.”