SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud — SAP’s private managed cloud service — on Microsoft Azure will allow customers to run SAP S/4HANA in a secure, managed cloud. With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud on Azure, customers get the best of both worlds: application management and product expertise from SAP and a global, trusted and intelligent cloud from Microsoft Azure, including the range of Microsoft cloud services.
This expanded partnership, between SAP and Microsoft, offers customers joint cloud capabilities and a trusted road map. Together, SAP and Microsoft will help companies make the most of running SAP applications in the cloud.
Additionally, Microsoft will deploy SAP S/4HANA on Azure to help run its own internal finance processes, and SAP will move its key internal business critical systems to Azure. SAP and Microsoft both will run SAP S/4HANA on Azure for their internal operations. Microsoft is transforming its internal systems — which include legacy SAP finance applications — and will implement the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution running on Azure. Microsoft also plans to connect
SAP CEO Bill McDermott (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (right) on stage at SAPPHIRE NOW in 2016
SAP S/4HANA to Azure AI and analytics services for more efficient financial reporting and more powerful decision-making. SAP is migrating more than a dozen business-critical systems to Azure for the optimal efficiencies, flexibility and innovation the platform offers. This includes the SAP S/4HANA software supporting Concur, an SAP company.
In this process, both companies will have project experiences which leads to best practices for the industries - and later it can be shared by SAP and Microsoft, to provide or help customers with guidance and enterprise architecture for deployment of SAP applications on Azure.
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