Google announced onstage today at Google Cloud Next a partnership with SAP to deliver SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory database on Google Cloud Platform…
Google announced onstage today at Google Cloud Next a partnership with SAP to deliver SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory database on Google Cloud Platform.
It’s a big deal for a number of reasons. First of all, it gives Google a major enterprise customer for its cloud platform, something that it’s trying to promote in big way. Secondly, it gives them an established enterprise software partner inside large organizations, which it could potentially use to leverage other enterprise business as it tries to expand GCP’s business.
SAP is the world’s leading ERP company, which helps companies manage back-end services related to technology, human resources and finance. Traditionally, it has been delivered as on-premises software, but over the last several years it has started delivering it in the cloud for customers who don’t want to manage all of the complexity related to running software like this.
It’s important to keep in mind that SAP is so large that it also has its own cloud data centers, but this gives customers another option, and the fact that it chose GCP has to be welcome news to Google, which finds itself far behind AWS and Azure in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market.
