ORLANDO, Fla.,
May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: "MSFT") today
announced joint plans to deliver broad support for the SAP HANA®
platform deployed on Microsoft Azure, simplify work through new
integrations between Microsoft Office 365 and cloud solutions from
SAP, and provide enhanced management and security for custom SAP
Fiori® apps. This announcement was made at the 28th annual
SAPPHIRE® NOW conference.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
and SAP CEO Bill McDermott will take
the stage together at SAPPHIRE NOW today to discuss the expanded
partnership that will help organizations use the cloud to drive
innovation, agility and enable new ways to work.
"At Microsoft, we are focused on empowering organizations
to advance their digital transformations," said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. "Together with
SAP, we are bringing new levels of integrations between our
products that provide businesses with enhanced collaboration tools,
new insights from data and a hyper-scale cloud to grow and seize
new opportunities ahead."
"We believe the IT industry will be shaped by breakthrough
partnerships that unlock new productivity for customers beyond the
boundaries of traditional platforms and applications," said
McDermott. "SAP and Microsoft are working together to create an
end-user experience built on unprecedented insight, convenience and
agility. The certification of Microsoft Azure's infrastructure
services for SAP HANA along with the new integration between
Microsoft Office 365 and cloud solutions from SAP are emblematic of
this major paradigm shift for the enterprise."
New Deployment Option: SAP HANA on the Microsoft
Azure Cloud
With SAP HANA on Azure, organizations across all
industries will be able to deliver mission-critical applications
and data analytics on a global scale with enterprise-grade security
and compliance. Working together, the companies are certifying SAP
HANA to run development, test and production workloads on Microsoft
Azure, including SAP S/4HANA. These new offerings for SAP HANA are
built to handle customers' largest and most demanding production
workloads.
Early adopters of this new offering, such as Coats,
Rockwell Automation and Nortek, have already experienced the
benefits of deploying SAP HANA on Azure. According to Sujeet Chand, senior vice president and chief
technology officer from Rockwell Automation, "The Microsoft Azure
platform provides us the scalability, security and level of
services needed to confidently run our most demanding SAP HANA and
Big Data applications. We are excited to be an early adopter of
running SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure since it is an important
capability in helping us realize our vision for The Connected
Enterprise and advanced data analytics."
Cloud Services Integrations: Public Cloud Solutions
from SAP and Office 365
Every day, millions of business users work in Microsoft
and SAP® solutions, creating documents, reading e-mails, filing
expense reports, invoicing vendors and more. New integrations
between the companies will combine Office 365 communications,
collaboration, calendar, documents and other data with cloud
solutions from SAP, including Concur, SAP Fieldglass®, SAP
SuccessFactors®, and SAP Ariba® solutions — helping employees
improve their overall productivity.
At SAPPHIRE NOW, Microsoft and SAP will demonstrate
several of these integrations between Office 365 and cloud
solutions from SAP. These new capabilities will be available
starting in the third quarter of 2016, with plans to release
additional integration features in the future.
Flexibility in the Cloud: Management and Security of
Custom SAP Fiori Apps
SAP will enable its customers to build and deploy custom
mobile hybrid SAP Fiori apps on SAP HANA Cloud Platform with an
open standards plug-in framework. As part of this framework,
customers can build apps that can be managed, deployed and
protected with Microsoft Intune. Using the cloud build process as
part of SAP Fiori, cloud edition, app publishers will be able to
embed Microsoft Intune management capabilities in their apps,
leveraging the same capabilities used by Office 365 mobile apps.
The integration is expected to be available in the third quarter of
2016. At SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP will demonstrate this end-to-end
capability as part of SAP Fiori, cloud edition.
For more information, visit the SAP News
Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at
@sapnews. Follow Microsoft on Twitter at
@MSFTNews.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading
platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first
world, and its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
SAPPHIRE NOW, May 17-19, 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA
The 28th annual SAPPHIRE NOW will bring
more than 20,000 in-person and over 150,000 online participants
together to engage in dialogue with peers and thought leaders
around the globe. With nearly 1,000 C-level executives and 260
exhibitors, this real-time event connects attendees on a range of
topics: future of work, digital core, digital supply networks,
digital customer experiences, the Internet of Things. Whether on
site or online, participants can gain insight into how SAP delivers
on its strategy and helps organizations around the world Run
Simple. Follow the event on Twitter at
@SAPPHIRENOW.
About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP
(NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better.
From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to
mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work
together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively
to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services
enable approximately 310,000 business and public sector customers
to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.
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