REDMOND, Wash.,
Oct. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday
announced an expanded partnership with SAP to provide public cloud
services for the SAP® SuccessFactors® HCM
Suite. SAP will make its cloud-based human capital management
solutions available on Microsoft Azure over the next five years.
This is SAP's first move to supplement its own infrastructure and
operate SAP SuccessFactors solutions in a
third-party public cloud, recognizing the experience both
companies have in supporting global enterprise clients. With the
addition of Azure, SAP has a trusted, global cloud and a powerful
data platform to help it drive companies' human resources
transformation, and the potential to dramatically improve business
outcomes.
"Microsoft and SAP share a commitment to empowering digital
transformation across every aspect of business," said Judson Althoff, executive vice president,
Worldwide Commercial Business at Microsoft. "The combination of
SAP's market-leading, innovative human capital management solutions
with Microsoft's intelligent cloud will equip companies around the
world to help maximize the potential and skills of their most
valuable asset, their people."
SAP will have significant additional capacity to run
operational workloads of SAP SuccessFactors solutions on Azure,
beginning with demo environments, to support its continuing client
user growth. Azure provides enterprise-grade security, an open
developer platform and advanced data services that organizations of
all kinds can use to innovate and grow. With nearly 90 percent of
the Fortune 500 as customers, the Microsoft Cloud is offered in
more worldwide datacenter regions than any other major cloud
provider.
"SAP SuccessFactors is the fastest growing core HR solution, and
offers an unmatched depth and breadth across the entire HCM suite,
of any vendor in the industry," said Mike
Ettling, president of SAP SuccessFactors. "We've seen
exponential growth in the past two years, with 42 million users now
benefiting from our market-leading solutions. In selecting Azure,
we will be able to expand our reach even further, with the
reliability that is required of these mission-critical
applications, and continue to innovate and enhance services to meet
client needs across additional environments."
This deal builds on the longstanding partnership between
Microsoft and SAP, including integrations between Office 365 and
SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite, as well as SAP Fieldglass®
Vendor Management System, SAP Ariba® and
Concur® solutions. The Microsoft and SAP partnership
also includes broad support for the SAP HANA® platform
on Azure to enable companies to deliver mission-critical
applications and data analytics from the cloud. Microsoft recently
announced the general availability of Azure large instances,
hardware configurations specifically designed for the largest and
most demanding SAP workloads. SAP now enables its customers to
build and deploy custom mobile hybrid SAP Fiori® apps on
SAP HANA Cloud Platform that can be managed, deployed and protected
with Microsoft Intune.
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.
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