As an authorized provider of the SAP Hosting Service, we have been supplying and managing IT systems to meet a wide variety of specific needs since as far back as 1982. Based on our certified and standardized data center environment, and as an SAP Global Hosting Partner, we are able to provide extensive references relating to the operation, management and setup of SAP systems of various sizes. One of our core competencies is the professional management of complex architectures incorporating numerous interfaces to other IT systems.

By using our PAISY® Payroll Accounting Service, you can avoid incurring investment costs for software, hardware, administration and maintenance, because we will manage all the technical operations involved in application of the market-leading PAISY® payroll system. Utilize the know-how of our highly qualified PAISY® experts to switch over your systems and implement the new application. Our PAISY® solution incorporates payroll accounting, electronic archiving of payroll data, report generation, as well as printing, franking and mailing of pay-slips through our in-house mailing system. For electronic archiving of PAISY® output and personnel files you can use the PAISY® archive (ADP archive). All automated communications procedures with banks, health insurance funds and tax authorities are handled and monitored by sds.

The in-house printing lines at our data center enable us to provide you with a complete DC Output Management service for IT systems run by us. We can print, envelope and dispatch all your high-volume print runs: pay-slips, invoices, payment reminders or credit notes. With our support, you can distribute documents in large quantities professionally and cost-effectively, at easily calculable rates, without having to invest in your own resources. The entire process is handled and managed by us, including the facility to respond flexibly to changed print requirements. With regard to mailing, you can profit from our postage discounts, delivering additional cost savings to you.

Our E-Banking Portal Service manages the digital authorization of payments to all major banks. It offers you cost advantages based on secure use of the Portal linking your IT systems with the sds data center. By authorizing your outgoing payments based on a digital signature via a Web interface and a USB key, you can make all your payments - both nationally and internationally - in a convenient, user-friendly way. Your payments from the systems are registered, approved and either manually or automatically imported. You can track the status of your payments at any time, as well as managing account details. Our service incorporates accounting and payroll administrative functions as well as providing the required software and infrastructure. The benefit to you is that you do not have to invest in your own infrastructure and licenses, and you incur no maintenance costs.

As one of a small number of SAP providers, we operate the ASP outsourcing model, involving the payment of a monthly fee for the provision of licenses for SAP modules (including FI/CO and HCM). This service is linked to use of our ISO 27001 certified sds data center and the systems it runs. The benefit to you is calculable cost, including the database license and maintenance, with no additional outlay. The service can be used by companies whose annual sales are within predetermined SME limits.

sds is one of the few independent providers of IBM mainframe related services. Based on our expertise gained from over 30 years' experience in mainframe services, we offer outstanding know-how in the flexible implementation of customers' requirements. Tailoring our solutions closely to your specific business processes, we will manage your applications landscape using standardized technologies round the clock, seven days a week. Our strength lies in running custom software within a mainframe infrastructure. Transaction-dependent special applications have been used for decades by sds customers - in some cases developed jointly with the customer.

Utilize the facility for centralized, multi-platform archiving of documents of all kinds, providing online access to all archived company data. We will configure the archive's infrastructure optimally in line with your needs and manage it on your behalf. We can provide lots of archive solutions, including SAP, e-mail and file archiving, and Web-based access to archived HR documents in PAISY®. We can also offer you tailored solutions featuring Web-based access by way of Web applications developed by us, or by integrating archive processes with an interface-based search facility.