INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moving data to the cloud may be about to get a lot easier after SAP and Microsoft have struck a new three-year partnership.The deal,
disclosed in SAP's recent third quarter financial update, will see Microsoft contributing 18 percentage points to a 39 percent
year-over-year growth for its cloud bookings.The partnership aims to solve one of SAP customers most common pain points, that it is
challenging to move from SAP's on-premise model to remote servers.In a call with investors, SAP co-CEO Jennifer Morgan explained how the
and SAP work together to help businesses move their data to the cloud, it is not exclusive
prevail as we recognize that many of our customers also run SAP on AWS and GCP, for example
year, the two companies together with Adobe announced a partnership to take the massive amount of data generated by their customers and
bring it together into one package running on Azure
The three companies also worked together on last year's Open Data Initiative
Additionally, back in 2016, the SAP and Microsoft reached a deal to integrate software and bring SAP business databases to Azure.SAP's new
partnership with Microsoft comes at an important time for the company after a major leadership change which saw CEO Bill McDermott step down
and he was replaced by co-CEO Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein.Via GeekWire
