Friday, May 12, 2023

SAP and Google Cloud expand Open Data alliance

SAP and Google Cloud will offer enterprise customers that ability to integrate the SAP Datasphere solution with Google's data cloud. The joint offering can unify data from SAP software systems, such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA Cloud, providing organizations with a comprehensive view of their most important data on Google's data cloud. Customers can federate queries across SAP Datasphere and Google's BigQuery to blend data from SAP and non-SAP software. The companies also plan to partner on joint go-to-market initiatives for enterprises' largest data projects, enabling customers to adopt data products from both SAP and Google Cloud. 

"Bringing together SAP systems and data with Google's data cloud introduces entirely new opportunities for enterprises to derive more value from their full data footprints," said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. "SAP and Google Cloud share a commitment to open data and our extended partnership will help break down barriers between data stored in disparate systems, databases, and environments. Our customers not only benefit from the business AI already built into our systems, but also from a unified data foundation."

"SAP and Google Cloud now offer an incredibly comprehensive and open data cloud, providing a foundation for the future of enterprise AI," said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. "Few resources are as important to digital transformation as data. By deeply integrating SAP data and systems with our data cloud, customers will be able to utilize our analytics capabilities, as well as advanced AI tools and large language models to find new insights from their data."