Google Cloud and SAP are strengthening their relationship to help companies tap into the cloud.
Expanding the strategic partnership first formed in 2017, the two companies will accelerate the process of migrating customers and business processes to the new technology. The partnership will help customers in several ways, such as execute business transformations, migrate critical business systems to the cloud; and augment business systems with Google Cloud capabilities in AI and machine learning.
Rob Enslin, president, Google Cloud, said:
“This new partnership will enable customers to seamlessly bring their most critical business systems and applications to a future-proof, secure, and low-latency environment and to run them sustainably, on the industry’s cleanest cloud.”
Google Cloud and SAP are also expecting customers will benefit from the planned global availability of multiple SAP products and services in the Google Cloud: including the SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solutions within SAP Business Technology Platform.
The partnership gives customers “both the choice they desire as well as the innovative portfolio they seek to transform their businesses in the cloud,” said Thomas Saueressig, a member of the SAP Executive Board.
Under the agreement, the American cloud platform becomes part of the German’s RISE with SAP program, which promises its customers a holistic transformation into an Intelligent Company.
Responsible for product engineering at SAP, Saueressig explains that RISE with SAP is already a globally recognised program adopted by customers “who want to accelerate the journey to becoming smart companies”. The expansion of the partnership with Google Cloud adds the powerful infrastructure of the American company, and IA and ML services to the portfolio for those seeking cloud services.
