British American Tobacco (BAT) has awarded a seven-year £132m contract to Deutsche Telekom’s IT subsidiary T-System. The cloud contract will help BAT support its 200-plus brands, including Dunhill, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike.

T-Systems will incorporate BAT’s SAP business software in to a Cloud system that will be accessible from 65 global markets by 2016.

Phil Colman, BAT CIO, said: "Our IT strategy focuses on a single portfolio of connected applications running on standardised technology to drive competitive advantage across the business. The T-Systems deal will help us to deliver that strategy."