Siemens AG Siemens IT Solutions and Services SIS D PRO SI C-LAB Fuerstenallee 11 33102 Paderborn Germany	Contact person(s): Heinz-Josef Eikerling Gernot Graefe Siegfried Bublitz Marina Scheiderbauer
Type: Industry	web site: www.c-lab.de

Areas of expertise
Since its foundation in 1995 the Siemens IT service provider Siemens IT Solutions and Services has expanded to a global end-to-end provider of solutions and services in information and communications technology with more than 40.000 worldwide working employees.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is one of the leading providers of electronic and mobile business solutions and services. The company is supported by the international market presence of Siemens AG and the close relationships to other Siemens divisions operating in the energy, manufacturing and healthcare industry.

As a strategic partner, Siemens IT Solutions and Services offers its customers single-source, comprehensive solutions and services along the entire value creation chain: Consult - Design - Build – Operate – Maintain. Together with the user, Siemens IT Solutions and Services develops new IT solutions and business processes, provides the requisite technologies and infrastructures, and operates – if requested – the entire IT infrastructure, thus giving the partner company the freedom to concentrate fully on its core business.
The competitive edge gained by Siemens IT Solutions and Services is due to the combination of market, process and technological know-how, which act as a basis for the development of customer-specific solutions.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is operating in different industries world-wide. To these customers they are offering new and innovative solutions in order to strengthen their business competence.

Siemens IT Solutions and Services is offering customer-specific mobility solutions for various mobile devices. Customers wish to get a mobile communication system/ platform for their employees, providing the integration of their business travellers with different mobile devices into their business processes in real-time and from any place. In order to restrict unauthorized access, Siemens IT Solutions and Services has developed an extensive security system for mobile solutions. By enabling their employees to access all necessary company data from any place at any time, companies are able to optimize processes by reducing time and costs. With Hydra results, Siemens IT Solutions and Services plans to offer improved services and solutions. To mention two examples this includes services, which better fit to the location and context of the user as well as services, which are able to interact on different devices. Furthermore customers are addressed, which are mainly big industry branches having the problem to deal with quite a range of heterogeneous devices once they aim to integrate business travellers into company networks. Siemens IT Solutions and Services will also present and introduce Hydra into other Siemens divisions offering an added value, not only to these divisions but also to their customers.

Role in the project
SAG participates in the following work packages:
WP2 Iterative user requirements engineering
WP3 Architecture design specification
WP4 Embedded AmI architecture
WP5 Wireless networks & devices
WP9 User applications
WP10 Validation & business modeling
WP13 Dissemination and exploitation [WP Leader]