AP Unveils Live Business, Expands Google Partnership and Bolsters SAP® Cloud Platform at SAPPHIRE NOW®

SAP Unveils Live Business, Expands Google Partnership and
Bolsters SAP® Cloud Platform at SAPPHIRE NOW®

 

Hong Kong — May 17, 2017 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) said
today it has harnessed its digital core, bold technologies of the future and
its expertise in ERP to help customers make everything digital, programmable,
smarter. SAP’s commitment to an open ecosystem and strong partnerships will be
key for the cloud-based intelligent enterprise, seen as a cornerstone for the
new global economy. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW being held in
Orlando, Florida, May 16-18, 2017.

SAP also reiterated its pledge to listen to its
customers and act on their biggest concerns with two new initiatives. The SAP® Cloud Trust Center and a new
digital tool called the SAP Transformation Navigator were rolled out
to deliver greater transparency and clearer product guidance for customers.

Expanded
SAP Leonardo: Digital Innovation System

Becoming a digital
business requires business model and business process changes that no single
technology can deliver. The expanded SAP Leonardo brings together differentiating software
capabilities in machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data,
analytics and blockchain on SAP Cloud Platform together with SAP
experience, deep process and industry knowledge, and advanced design thinking
methodology. With dozens of industry awards and recognitions, each of these
areas of SAP’s portfolio can add tremendous value for our customers on their
digital journey — but the real power is when they all work together.

This comprehensive digital innovation system will
offer customers either an industry-focused approach called industry
accelerators, aligned to specific use cases, with fixed prices and timelines,
or a flexible approach that allows customers to build what they require for any
industry or business need. SAP also is
integrating SAP Leonardo capabilities with its existing applications to make
them more powerful and intelligent, and will offer services for developers and
partners to build their own custom applications supported by a network of
SAP Leonardo Centers with initial locations in New York, Paris, São Leopoldo
and Bangalore.

New developments across the SAP Leonardo innovation portfolio include the SAP Leonardo Machine
Learning Foundation; a set of new machine learning–enabled applications for
corporate functions ranging from invoicing to customer service and retention;
and an SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service for building application extensions and
new solutions using distributed ledger technology.

SAP also launched its new digital twin
solution and new services
as part of its push to optimize asset management with the IoT. To build the
ecosystem for SAP Leonardo, SAP also announced a new collaboration with
Deloitte to deliver
offerings that can accelerate innovation, bolster the core and unlock
exponential value. Offerings will include digital and intelligent solutions for
finance, supply chain and software-as-a-service for industry.

Blog by
Mala Anand, EVP, President – Leonardo | Data & Insights, SAP

Blog by
Dr. Juergen Mueller, Chief Innovation Officer, SAP

Blog by
Dr. Tanja Rueckert, EVP, President – IoT and Digital Supply Chain, SAP

Blog by
Raimund Gross, Blockchain Innovation Manager, SAP

For more information
on SAP’s collaboration with Deloitte, click here.

SAP,
Google Expand Partnership

The SAP and Google
strategic co-innovation partnership announced in March now includes additional certification of
SAP technology and applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The partnership
also aims to make SAP Cloud Platform on GCP available globally, as well as
future collaboration and integrations in machine learning, the IoT, data
transparency and custodian services, and workplace productivity.

SAP and Google have
now certified the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform on GCP, enabling
organizations to run SAP S/4HANA® and the SAP Business Warehouse application on
GCP. Additionally, the companies announced general availability and
certification of the SAP HANA® database on GCP for larger instances and
scale-out and a data connector for the SAP Analytics Cloud solution for Google
Big Query. German software company sovanta is an early adopter to showcase how SAP
technology and applications, including SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA, run on
GCP.

Google and SAP
plan to accelerate customers’ digital business transformation through
intelligent applications such as conversational apps that guide users through
complex workflows and transactions and answer questions around their
enterprise. To achieve this, the
companies plan to combine SAP’s business process expertise with Google’s
machine learning services, such as the Translate and Speech APIs, and
the open source library for machine learning, TensorFlow.

Google and SAP announced
the Intelligent App Challenge. The competition challenges Google and SAP
partner ecosystems to build intelligent applications using SAP HANA, express
edition, on GCP. 

Blog by Bernd Leukert, Executive Board Member and Head of Products &
Innovation, SAP

SAP
Cloud Platform Accelerates Adoption, Improves Choice and Advances Consumption
for Customers

SAP Cloud Platform now offers an agile multicloud
environment, enabling customers to develop and run apps utilizing their choice
of infrastructure providers, including full multicloud support through SAP,
Amazon Web Services (general availability), Microsoft Azure (public preview),
and Google Cloud Platform (demo showcase) — all managed in the new SAP Cloud
Platform cockpit. Cloud Foundry–based SAP Cloud Platform includes multilanguage
runtime environments, including Java, Node.js and SAP HANA extended application
services, advanced model.

Also new on SAP Cloud
Platform is the optimized way customers can discover, try, buy and
deploy APIs, SAP partner apps and other digital business services. The SAP
API Business Hub has added hundreds of new APIs for SAP S/4HANA, SAP Hybris®
solutions, and SAP Ariba® solutions, as well as new integration flows and
microservices for customers to test and deploy. SAP App Center now offers online discovery so users can
easily try, purchase and use partner apps directly from the center.
Enhancements to SAP App Center and SAP API Business Hub provide seamless
digital downloads and app lifecycle management.

New value-added
services for SAP Cloud Platform include the IoT service general availability
and Big Data services to support apps powered by SAP Leonardo, as well as new
mobile services and SAP Fiori® Cloud app development and deployment services to
provide customers a digital edge.

For a blog by Bjoern
Goerke, chief technology officer, SAP, on SAP Cloud Platform enhancements,
click here.

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 350,000 business and public sector
customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information,
visit www.sap.com.