SAP and IBM has announced that SAP has selected IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services for its business-critical applications, accelerating customers’ ability to run core business in the cloud.
The SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service is now available through IBM’s highly scalable, open and secure cloud. According to the release issued by the companies, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud will expand to major markets with the addition of the IBM cloud data centers. This is expected to enable customers to deploy their SAP software around the globe in a faster and more secure environment that is backed by IBM’s proven cloud capabilities.
With this partnership, customers will benefit from the technology and services from both companies that offer industry-specific best practices, enabling customers to transform their organisations. SAP and IBM customers of all sizes will benefit from this joint collaboration of two of the most trusted companies in the industry.
Customers can also take advantage of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud with the global footprint of IBM Cloud. This enables customers to put data to work with SAP HANA and business applications in the IBM Cloud. Further, SAP HANA will run on IBM Cloud to provide an open-standards-based approach that will help create the foundation to more easily integrate existing technology investments with new workloads.