Waldorf, Germany and Sunnyvale, California — Today, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and Google Cloud announced a broad expansion of their partnership to introduce comprehensive open data services designed to simplify the data landscape and unlock the power of business data. .
- New service brings together data and analytics technologies from SAP and Google Cloud to make enterprise data more open and valuable and accelerate enterprise AI development
The service enables customers to build an end-to-end data cloud that ingests data from across the enterprise using the SAP Datasphere solution together with Google’s data cloud, giving enterprises a real-time view of their entire data estate and the value from Google. can be maximized. Investment in cloud and SAP software.
Data is the foundation of digital transformation and AI development. Before organizations realize value from their data investments, they expend significant resources building complex data integrations, custom analytics engines, generative AI and natural language processing (NLP) models. Data coming from SAP systems in particular is one of the most valuable assets for an organization and can contain important information about supply he chain, financial forecasts, personnel records, omnichannel retail, etc. SAP Datasphere combines this mission-critical data with data across the enterprise, regardless of its origin. The ability to combine SAP software data with non-SAP data from virtually any data source on Google Cloud empowers organizations to digitally transform with a fully defined data foundation that retains full business context. This means that it can be dramatically accelerated.
“Integrating SAP systems and data with Google’s data cloud opens up entirely new opportunities for companies to extract more value from their complete data footprint,” said Christian, SAP SE CEO and Executive Officer. says Klein. “SAP and Google Cloud share a commitment to open data and our expanded partnership will help break down barriers between data stored in different systems, databases and environments. We are benefiting not only from the business AI already built into our system, but also from our integrated data foundation.”
“SAP and Google Cloud today offer the most comprehensive and open data cloud, providing the foundation for the future of enterprise AI,” said Thomas Kuran, CEO of Google Cloud. “Few resources are as important to digital transformation as data. By deeply integrating SAP software data and systems with our data cloud, customers can access our analytics capabilities, as well as advanced AI tools and large-scale language models. will enable us to find new insights in our data.”
New open data services from SAP and Google Cloud will complement the RISE with SAP solution, enabling customers to:
- Real-time access to business-critical data: The integration of SAP Datasphere and Google Cloud BigQuery gives customers real-time access to their most important data without data duplication. This joint service will integrate data from SAP software systems such as SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA Cloud, giving organizations a comprehensive view of their most important data on the Google data cloud.
- Simplify your data landscape. SAP and Google Cloud co-engineered powerful data replication and federation technology. It enables enterprises to integrate their SAP software data into their BigQuery environment and take advantage of the leading data analytics capabilities of SAP and Google Cloud. Customers can now federate queries across SAP Datasphere and BigQuery to blend data from SAP and non-SAP software. This eliminates common data silos from sources across marketing, sales, finance, supply chain, and more. For example, a customer using a wholesale business distribution model will have full visibility of the product as it moves through the sales pipeline and reaches the customer.
- Create trusted insights using advanced AI and machine learning (ML) models from Google Cloud. Enterprises will be able to use Google’s AI and ML services to train models with data from SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Perform advanced analytics. Organizations can take advantage of the analytics capabilities of the SAP Analytics Cloud solution on Google Cloud to improve model accuracy while analyzing financial and business outcomes. By easily integrating his BigQuery data with SAP Datasphere, customers can plan their business in a single comprehensive view.
- Leverage joint solutions for sustainability: SAP and Google Cloud are exploring ways to combine SAP Datasphere with broader ESG datasets and insights powered by Google Cloud to accelerate sustainability efforts through actionable insights.
- Globally use SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) on Google Cloud. SAP advances multi-cloud offerings by expanding regional support for SAP BTP and SAP HANA Cloud on Google Cloud, including support for SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere. SAP and Google Cloud are launching SAP BTP in five new regions this year, with plans to support a total of eight regions by 2025.
The companies will also partner on a joint go-to-market initiative for the company’s largest data project, enabling customers to adopt data products from both SAP and Google Cloud. Visitors to the SAP Sapphire conference can see a demo of joint AI and data solutions at the Google Cloud booth. This includes how businesses can apply generative AI to common workflows and applications, such as using chatbots to find, create, and edit purchase requests. The SAP Sapphire Conference will be held May 16-17 in Orlando, Florida.
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