WALLDORF, Germany and
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Alibaba Group
Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) and SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced
plans to offer SAP S/4HANA® Cloud and SAP®
Cloud Platform on Alibaba Cloud's
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in China to help customers transition to the
cloud and build intelligent enterprises. Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang and SAP CEO Bill McDermott outlined the expanded
relationship today at the Computing Conference 2018 of Alibaba
Group being held in Hangzhou,
China.
Alibaba and SAP joined forces two years ago to deliver
enterprise cloud solutions in China through Alibaba
Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, to help
customers adapt to fast-changing market demands. Beginning today,
the two companies will collaborate, co-innovate and jointly go to
market to offer SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the digital cloud suite of
choice to run a successful business in the cloud. Alibaba Cloud's customers will also be able to
deploy SAP Cloud Platform to extend their current business
solutions, build new applications and integrate third-party
technologies.
"China has been SAP's second
home for more than two decades," said SAP Chief Executive Officer
Bill McDermott. "Alibaba and SAP's
growing partnership expands our ability to empower digital
China by building intelligent
enterprises. SAP embraces the China Dream as we prepare for
substantial expansion here in the years ahead."
"We are pleased our partnership with SAP reached new heights
today," said Daniel Zhang, Chief
Executive Officer, Alibaba Group.
"The availability of SAP's globally renowned ERP system S/4HANA
Cloud on Alibaba Cloud is yet
another milestone in our globalisation strategy, and exemplary of
our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere. We have formed
a close collaboration with SAP in the past, and it is exciting for
us to expand our partnership."
"The entrepreneurs who believe and embrace the future; and who
can leverage new thinking, new concepts and new technologies will
be future winners," said Jack Ma,
Executive Chairman, Alibaba
Group.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud brings intelligence to the enterprise with its
AI-powered automation and predictive analytics, hands-free
conversational UX and next-generation business processes. With SAP
S/4HANA Cloud, companies can migrate core business processes at a
lower cost, experience faster deployment and innovation cycles and
see shortened time to value. A growing number of businesses in
China are adopting SAP S/4HANA
Cloud.
SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that
provides a unique in-memory database and a set of technology and
business services for building, extending and connecting enterprise
applications. As an open and agile application and integration
platform, SAP Cloud Platform enables customers to transform and
rapidly develop new applications and cutting-edge technologies as
well as personalize and customize existing ones.
Established in 2009, Alibaba
Cloud is China's largest
provider of public cloud services and according to Gartner Inc.,
the company is also among the world's top three IaaS providers. The
partnership extends the global reach of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP
Cloud Platform to all top public clouds.
As part of the agreement, SAP will continue to employ
Alibaba Cloud's technology, and
Alibaba will adopt SAP S/4HANA software to drive its own innovation
and new business model.
Alibaba and SAP will explore further collaboration in areas
around artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, New Retail
and New Manufacturing, all of which are new initiatives by Alibaba
Group. The collaboration is expected to offer solutions that
will drive further development in the area of digital
transformation and maximize value to customers.
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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 more than 404,000 business and public sector customers to
operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For
more information, visit www.sap.com/china.
About Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group's mission is to make it easy to do business
anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of
commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live
at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102
years.
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