Company Overview

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T‑Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is a leading provider of ICT and digitalization solutions headquartered in Germany, employing over 26,000 professionals and operating in 26 countries. The company delivers digital transformation services, secure IT infrastructure operations, and large‑scale cloud migration capabilities to enterprises across regulated and complex environments.

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Strategy and Portfolio

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T‑Systems positions itself as a leading European IT services provider with a strong focus on secure cloud, AI-led digital transformation, and sovereign IT solutions. Its portfolio strategy centers on end‑to‑end digital and cloud integration, spanning multi‑cloud ecosystems, secure infrastructures, and industry‑specific offerings across sectors such as automotive, public, healthcare, and defense. The company emphasizes reliability through its Zero Outage philosophy and leverages a streamlined, vertically specialized portfolio to drive efficiency and scalable growth. T‑Systems delivers high‑availability, sovereign cloud capabilities at a global scale by leveraging its deep partnerships with AWS, Google, Microsoft, and SAP.

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AI Capabilities and Differentiators

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T‑Systems’ AI strategy is reflected in a comprehensive, sovereign ecosystem that enables regulated industries to adopt AI securely and at scale. The company offers AI Foundation Services (AIFS), providing access to 15+ open- and closed-source LLMs, unified API serving, enterprise-grade RAG, fine-tuning, and compliant AI operations built on T‑Cloud environments designed for data privacy and European regulatory requirements.
T‑Systems also provides an AI Solution Factory, which supports organizations in operationalizing AI with standardized MLOps, deep learning pipelines, and cloud‑agnostic integration for production‑ready computer vision, predictive analytics, and automation use cases.

Additionally, the portfolio includes Europe’s first Industrial AI Factory, a sovereign, full‑stack industrial AI Cloud developed with partners such as NVIDIA, SAP, Siemens, Agile Robots, and Polarise, enabling large‑scale robotics, manufacturing optimization, predictive maintenance, and advanced industrial automation. Through its Industrial AI Cloud offering, T-Systems combines innovation with compliance.

A flagship project on the Industrial AI Cloud, SOOFI (Sovereign Open-Source Foundation Models) aims to develop a sovereign open‑source European language model with ~100 billion parameters.

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