Microsoft, SAP to offer joint Cloud solutions

San Francisco Nov 28 (IANS) Microsoft Corporation and SAP SE on Tuesday announced integrated offerings to provide enterprise customers with a clear road-map that will help them drive more business innovation in Cloud.

Deploying Cloud solutions internally the companies will co-engineer go to market together with premier solutions and provide joint support services to ensure best Cloud experience for customers.

"Building on our long-time partnership Microsoft and SAP are harnessing each other s products to not only power our own organisations but to empower our enterprise customers to run their most mission-critical applications and workloads with SAP S/4HANA on Azure " Satya Nadella India-born CEO of Microsoft said in a statement.

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.

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.

"The world s significant businesses trust Microsoft and SAP. Together we will help companies win the customer-driven growth revolution " added SAP CEO Bill McDermott.

Both companies will document the internal projects to provide customers with guidance and enterprise architecture for deployment of SAP applications on Azure.

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