SAP has selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services for its business applications. With the partnership SAP aims to accelerate customers’ ability to run their businesses in the cloud.
The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offering is now available through the IBM cloud, allowing the company to expand into new markets, domestically and globally.
“This is a win/win/win for joint customers, SAP and IBM,” said Holger Mueller, Principal Analyst and VP at Constellation Research, Inc. “Customers get an enterprise friendly cloud infrastructure with a high number of geographical locations, SAP gets a partner in building out Infrastructure-as-a-Service and can focus more on enterprise software investments and IBM get key load for its cloud on a worldwide scale.”
Advertisement
The new partnership is positioned to help customers:
- Put data to work with SAP HANA and business applications in the IBM Cloud;
- Have access to an open-standards-basedapproach, enabling easier integration with existing technology investments;
- Apply and extend their security best practices into a cloud environment.
- Start locally and scale globally in the cloud; and
- Comply with data residency and other regulatory mandates.
“We look forward to extending one of the longest and most successful partnerships in the IT industry,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. “This global agreement with IBM heralds a new era of cloud collaboration.”
