DGAP-News: QSC AG / Key word(s): Contract QSC AG: apt Hiller Group lifts its ICT landscape to QSC's Pure Enterprise Cloud 02.08.2016 / 10:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt Hiller Group lifts its ICT landscape to QSC's Pure Enterprise Cloud Cologne, 2 August 2016 - apt Hiller GmbH, a Monheim-based metal processing company, will be relying with immediate effect on ICT services from the Pure Enterprise Cloud offered by QSC AG. The aim is to gradually and permanently standardise and centrally manage the Group's previously highly heterogeneous ICT landscape across all of its locations. To this end, all of the Group's 400 workplaces at its national and international locations will be equipped with "Enterprise Workplace Services", a full-range workplace environment including all desired desktop and collaboration applications, as well as help desk functions. Further add-ons, such as Business Intelligence or ERP services from the Pure Enterprise Cloud, are possible at any time and are also planned. The service package will be rounded off by an MPLS-based corporate network based on QSC's proprietary network infrastructure. Rapid implementation and full-range cloud portfolio The first employees of the apt Hiller Group will be equipped with standard, full-range workplace environments from the Pure Enterprise Cloud from October already. Key factors motivating the decision in favour of QSC and its Pure Enterprise Cloud services are the one-stop service portfolio, ranging from Enterprise Workplaces via app operations through to proprietary infrastructure services, and their modular structure and scalability. "In QSC, we have found a service provider that we as a medium-sized company can communicate with both uncomplicatedly and on an equal footing. Not only that, apt Hiller has grown rapidly in the past and will be expanding further in future. We need a solution that will grow with us, and that without any problems. For this, the Pure Enterprise Cloud, which will substantially boost our speed and flexibility, is the ideal platform", comments Klaus Mazurek, CIO at apt Hiller. The core business of apt Hiller GmbH, which was founded in 1972, involves manufacturing sophisticated aluminium profiles, further processing these and performing finishing and assembly services. The company has shown consistently strong growth and plans to achieve above-average growth in future as well. "With apt Hiller, we have gained a particularly successful medium-sized company as our customer. This shows that - with its Pure Enterprise Cloud - QSC understands the needs of SME players in particular and is seen as a genuine partner when it comes to digitisation", comments Udo Faulhaber, Chief Sales and Consulting Officer at QSC AG. About QSC AG QSC AG is digitising the German SME sector. With decades of experience and expertise in the areas of Cloud, Internet of Things, Consulting and Telecommunications, QSC accompanies its customers securely into the digital age. Today already, cloud-based procurement models offer increased speed, flexibility, and full service availability. The Company's TÜV and ISO- certified data centres in Germany and its nationwide All-IP network form the basis for maximum end-to-end quality and security. QSC's customers benefit from one-stop innovative products and services that are marketed both directly and via partners. Further information is available from QSC AG Arne Thull Head of Investor Relations T +49 221 669 8724 F +49 221 669 8009 [email protected] www.qsc.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02.08.2016 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: QSC AG Mathias-Brüggen-Straße 55 50829 Köln Germany Phone: +49-221-6698-724 Fax: +49-221-6698-009 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.qsc.de ISIN: DE0005137004 WKN: 513700 Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 488405 02.08.2016