Deutsche Telekom and SAP, as the top-ranked bidder, have been awarded the contract by the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization (BMDS) for the tender “Provision of PaaS services for AI applications on a high-performance, secure, and sovereign cloud platform.” With this decision, the German government is sending a strong signal that Germany is accelerating the automation of administrative processes.
“With the AI cloud, we are creating the backbone of a sovereign, digital, and AI-enabled public administration in Germany. We are implementing a strategic decision: high-performance digitalization for the federal government, states, and municipalities will run on infrastructure that we control ourselves — secure, scalable, and interoperable within Europe. Together with our partners, we are setting the benchmark by which digital sovereignty will be measured in the future. Now it is time to bring digital solutions into public administration at scale and accelerate the modernization our country urgently needs,” said Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digitalization and State Modernization.
“Anyone who wants to remain relevant in the world must lead in the race for digital sovereignty. Europe has enormous catching up to do — and we will not close that gap through discussions, but through action. Telekom and SAP are leading the way here. Together, we are ensuring that Germany and Europe take their digital future into their own hands,” added Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom.
The AI platform is designed as a central hub for the entire public administration sector: scalable, expandable, and interoperable with existing specialized procedures. What begins today as infrastructure will become tomorrow’s development environment for new AI-powered public services. Among the first applications is KIPITZ — an AI solution that supports public sector employees with intelligent document processing, knowledge management, translations, text summarization, and the acceleration of planning and approval procedures. The platform integrates AI services, development environments, and interfaces to existing specialized procedures. It will run on Telekom’s sovereign infrastructure.
Deutsche Telekom and SAP, as the top-ranked bidder, have been awarded the contract by the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization (BMDS) for the tender “Provision of PaaS services for AI applications on a high-performance, secure, and sovereign cloud platform.”
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