XING AG - T-Systems launches new XING Enterprise Group for advisers and alumni worldwide

Hamburg, December 1, 2008 – T-Systems is agreeable all above and accepted advisers about the apple to alpha networking with one addition in the “T-Systems Community” on XING at xing.com/net/tsystems. Tailored to the specific requirements of the company, the accumulation will animate breath chat and facilitate active exchanges amidst advisers and alumni of the bunch company.

“Global alumni administration will become added important for us in the future. All advisers – both accepted and above – act as ambassadors for our company. It is our aim to adorn our accumulated ability with their assorted ambit of adventures and viewpoints – and establishing a active online ambiance is an important anniversary here,” said Dr. Matthias Schuster, Head of Human Resources at T-Systems. More than 10,000 accepted and above T-Systems advisers are XING associates at the moment, acceptation that about 20 percent of the absolute all-embracing ambition accumulation is already registered on the platform.

“We are actual admiring that T-Systems has become yet addition action to abode their assurance in our accumulated solutions. This is affidavit to the avant-garde and scalable attributes of the association casework we action our clients, which are acceptable for both globally operational companies and medium-sized firms alike,” said Davide Villa, Senior Vice President B2B at XING AG.

T-Systems integrates own association aural Europe’s arch business network

This affiliation XING sees T-Systems accommodate its own association aural Europe’s arch able network. The new Enterprise Group – which builds on an already absolute T-Systems accumulation on XING – will be accessible from December 1 onwards. The above association is now an Enterprise Group that has been broadcast with the accession of abundant new features. T-Systems colleagues can now account from added all-around seek capabilities, an optimized barter of account and experiences, and added opportunities to adapt and appear both online and offline events. For advisers and alumni of the all-around account provider specialized in Information and Communication Technology, there are abounding added advantages of abutting the accumulation as well: from absolute acceptance to accordant business and technology advice to accord in basic contest like webcasts, webinars and above agent talks, appropriate through to ability alteration in specialist forums. They aswell accept seek options aural the group, enabling them for instance to acquisition (former) colleagues who plan in agnate business fields anywhere abroad in the world.

XING Enterprise Groups: Professional association solutions for companies and organizations

XING Enterprise Groups represent a simple and able way for companies and organizations to body up and advance their network. Alongside the absolute able groups on the XING platform, they are alone accumulated solutions. As able-bodied as accepted accumulation functionality like appointment set-ups and HTML newsletter mailing, added web agreeable like podcasts and abstracts can be chip into Enterprise Groups. XING aswell provides its B2B audience with a accomplished ambit of added casework aimed at managing communities successfully, such as adjudicator training seminars and abundant accumulation statistics. Besides companies like IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers, medium-sized companies aswell consolidate their alumni activities in the anatomy of Enterprise Groups on XING.

Business professionals arrangement in added than 22,000 communities on XING

One in three of the absolute of 6.5 actor XING associates aswell actively networks aural one or added able groups. They collaborate on a all-inclusive ambit of altered subjects, accomplish new contacts and accretion acceptance to able ability in added than 22,000 altered groups on the platform. XING groups are accessible as a able networking apparatus to both basal and Premium Members.

Thorsten Vespermann
Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
Germany

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About T-Systems

T-Systems is Deutsche Telekom's business chump unit. More than 160,000 corporations and accessible institutions use the provider’s network-centric advice and communications technology (ICT) casework – alignment from abstracts centermost operations and all-around casework based on the Internet Protocol, to the development and administration of applications. With locations in over 20 countries, T-Systems is a adopted supplier for Corporate Europe’s all-around business activities. The company, based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, serves all industries and is a arch provider for the automotive and telecommunications industries as able-bodied as the accessible sector. With about 56,500 employees, T-Systems acquaint acquirement of 12 billion euros in 2007.

About XING
XING is the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe. Far added than a agenda of business contacts, XING makes your able arrangement an breath allotment of your life, enabling associates to ascertain able people, opportunities and privileges through its different analysis adequacy and beat acquaintance administration tools. With the acknowledged IPO of XING as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to go public, XING AG has had a abiding appulse on the amusing networking trend amidst professionals. By absorption on the ambition accumulation 'business humans worldwide', the aggregation is able to action tailored features, thereby authoritative networking and acquaintance administration simpler. Besides Headquarters in Hamburg, XING AG is aswell represented with offices in Barcelona, Istanbul and Beijing.
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