Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies will collaborate to accelerate cloud migrations and business processes migrations for clients.
In addition, Google Cloud will allow access to all SAP services and products, including SAP solutions Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solutions. These are part of the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
According to Karan Bajwa (VP, Google Cloud in the Asia Pacific), Wipro, Ocean Network Express, and Siam Cement Group, three companies are located in the APAC region.
SAP announced a 2027 end of support deadline for Business Suite 7 software. This meant that a switch from SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP S/4HANA was not a matter of "if" but "when" or "how." A recent SAPinsider poll revealed that 61% of those who arent using S/4HANA currently use ECC.
Although 2027 is still quite a way off, it is possible to switch to S/4HANA sooner than expected. This will allow your business to be more agile and innovative.
For many companies, that means looking at migrating to S/4HANA off-premises. The right partner can help you do this.
What is SAP ERP?
SAP stands for Systems, Applications, and Products (data processing). SAP is the ERP software provider of choice.
SAP ERP includes several modules that allow companies to gather, store, interpret, and maintain data in functional areas like;
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Distribution and sales
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Financial accounting
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Material and manufacturing management
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Logistics and warehouse management
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Management of the supply chain
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Business intelligence
The SAP ERP system creates a detailed process that gives you a complete view (internal and external) of your company.
These are the top benefits of SAP ERP software implementation.
Easy Scalability
You are a potential start-up business and want to grow your company to a billion dollars. To do this, you must consider all aspects of your business.
You will need to consider employee strength, equipment, and massive data when you reach this growth stage.
SAP was designed with your specific business needs in mind. You can start by implementing basic functionality and then scaling up your business to meet your specific business needs.
Increase Business Efficiency
All organizations had to do repetitive tasks every day in the past. However, the revolution in technology has allowed for better ways to perform repetitive tasks.
SAP can gather vast amounts of data efficiently and more sophisticatedly. As a result, SAP has improved the efficiency of business operations by streamlining them.
Enhanced Data Security
SAP software is known for its data security features. An ERP system can improve quality and accuracy and provide better data protection via firewalls and other security systems.
It also allows you to access data and can restrict or assign data usage for individuals or groups of people. This will enhance data security.
Customer Service
Customer service means delivering quality products at a fair price and delivering them when promised. Through improved demand forecasting and inventory management, the SAP-ERP platform can make the supply chain more flexible and responsive.
They improve customer service by increasing product quality, decreasing costs, and increasing delivery reliability.
SAP ERP systems can improve customer service in these critical areas.
What is the Google Cloud Platform?
Google Cloud platform offers over 100 services and products, including AI, computing, and ML. They are simple to use and integrate seamlessly.
Google Cloud allows you to create, host, and manage websites and apps and store and retrieve data via Googles secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure. The best features of Google Cloud include:
Google Cloud start-up program: This program offers entrepreneurs services valued at $100,000 and 24x7 support.
The basic tier will cost less, but start-ups need to pay a smaller amount. Pricing depends on how many features they use. Start-ups can decide for how long they wish to use the trial version.
Firebase: Firebase is Google Clouds mobile app development platform.
It helps companies verify app users. In addition, they can use Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications and Cloud Functions to run code and not access or manage servers.
Cloud Firestore: Cloud Firestore allows you to sync and store your data through a Google Cloud Database.
Firestore is very flexible and scalable, providing real-time updates and excessive querying. In addition, it can deploy web, mobile, and server servers from Google Cloud solutions or Firebase.
How Google Cloud Platform Can Benefit Your Business?
The GCP is a successful program that helps start-ups in four areas. Lets look at three of the most critical areas for development.
Provides Affordable Pricing Solutions
GCP is 60% less expensive than other Cloud platform providers. In addition, GCP offers different discounts for committed use of the platform in addition to its affordable pricing.
For example, GCP offers a 30% discount if you use it for a month.
You can pay per minute. However, you only pay for the time you spend on the platform for five minutes.
Open Source
GCP allows start-ups to build capabilities without vendor lock-in. Its products and services are built around open-source frameworks such as Kubernetes (GKE), which automatically upgrades its master, notes (AWs and Azure are manually done), Cloud Run (Knative), and Apache Beam.
It also allows start-ups to integrate with third-party open-source ISVs. Google first created Kubernetes several years ago, and most recently, Isto was created for service mesh.
This open-source project has also been released.
Higher Scalability
Start-ups are looking for scalability, flexibility, and the ability to switch platforms as often as they wish. GCP allows you to change from container engine to compute engines to app engine flexibility.
GCP simplifies scaling your app.
The Rise of SAP with Google Cloud
Google Cloud, a strategic partner in the Rise with SAP package, will now extend their partnership. This partnership will accelerate the cloud and business process migrations of their customers.
Google Cloud will offer various SAP products and services on its cloud infrastructure. These include SAP Analytics Cloud or SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, both from the SAP Business Technology Platform.
This partnership is focused on migrating customer information to S/4HANA. It is managed by one service level agreement.
Rise with SAP packages allows customers greater control over their implementations. Customers of SAP who move to Google Cloud will also benefit from AI and Machine Learning capabilities.
SAP and Google Cloud Executive Statements
Rob Enslin is the president of Google Cloud said:
"Google Cloud and SAP share a shared commitment to customer success and growth. We are delighted to partner with SAP to help accelerate digital transformations in businesses with SAP on Google Cloud and next-generation cloud capabilities."
This partnership, which includes support for RISE and SAP integrations, will allow customers to seamlessly bring their most critical business systems and apps to a future-proofed, secure, and low-latency environment.
It also allows them to run them sustainably on the cleanest cloud in the industry.
Thomas Saueressig (SAP Executive Board member, SAPs Head of Product Engineering) commented:
Customers looking to make their enterprise more intelligent have enthusiastically adopted "RISE with SAP." To further our customer success, we expand our partnership with Google Cloud.
Customers can integrate SAP solutions, SAP BTP, and Google Cloud infrastructure. This gives them the flexibility and the innovative portfolio that will help them transform their business in the cloud.
Some Google Cloud benefits will help you with your SAP Digital Transformation.
Innovation
Google Cloud is a strong partnership with SAP. The relationship revolves around co-innovation, co-engineering, and collaboration.
As a result, Google Cloud customers enjoy consistent cloud and technology innovation. In addition, Google Cloud has made significant advances in SAP integrations, modernization, analytics, and extensibility for application modernization.
SAP customers have reported a 65% decrease in the time it takes to deploy SAP apps to Google Cloud. This is due to their tight collaboration and dedication to innovation.
In addition, last year, SAP announced its first-ever SAP datacenter powered by Google Cloud infrastructure.
Customer-First Approach
Google Cloud is customer-centric and highly committed to customer success. As a result, Google Cloud has prioritized bringing SAP experts onboard to assist customers.
To help customers implement S/4HANA successfully, the cloud provider has recruited SAP engineers, SAP customer service, SAP business development, and SAP customer engineers worldwide.
Cost Savings
Google Cloud is a powerful tool for ensuring cost-effective and efficient infrastructure. It has a wide range of automation capabilities and deep expertise in workload optimization.
On Navisites webinar, "From ECC and S/4HANA - Top Benefits of Google Cloud For SAP", Edy Sardilli (Global Strategic Alliances and Business Development Lead at SAP Google) highlighted the low total cost ownership that SAP customers can enjoy with a move towards Google Cloud.
Based on data gleaned through customer ECC migrations and S/4HANA Greenfield or Brownfield implementations, Navisite partners can help companies achieve a 30%-40% lower TCO once they are on Google Cloud.
Proven Technology
Googles reliable and robust analytics platform has been around for over 20 years. The company is now a global leader in data and analysis.
Google Cloud has brought together the best-in-class machine learning, big data, and analytics capabilities of the company and infrastructure innovation associated with the platform to SAP workloads.
Security
Google Cloud is a secure network that boasts more than 800 security experts responsible for protecting customer data.
In addition, Google Cloud supports global VPNs, allowing customers to communicate with their internal addresses without deploying additional servers.
It automatically encrypts data in transit and at rest without the customer having to do anything. These features give companies confidence that their SAP environments will be protected entirely on Google Cloud.
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The Strategy Behind the Partnership
The partnership aims to improve products and services while making implementation more straightforward for customers.
In addition, the Rise with SAP package drives SAP customers to adopt S/4HANA products and services. SAP believes that this snowball effect will vastly increase their market share in ERP and the cloud Software-as-a-Service market.
Cross-selling is a significant motivator for both the partners and their customers. The joint offering of products and services can bring stability and compatibility.
Integration and extension will become essential as we move away from monolithic ERP implementations and upgrade to a practice that constantly tunes up existing systems.
Snehanshu Shah also stated that the partnership was "Google Cloud capabilities and Live Migration ensure that customers SAP apps remain up and running during infrastructure upgrades, which enables SAP and Google Cloud maintenance without interruption."
Chance Veasey is senior vice president of product management at Navisite, a cloud service provider that is a partner of both of these companies.
This partnership will allow customers to speed up transformation with SAP on GCP. It also positions Google to fully take advantage of large SAP customer communities that want to move to the cloud.
Google Cloud infrastructure combined with Googles enterprise focus, recent advances in SAP integrations, and application modernization make Google Cloud a compelling choice for SAP customers. Google Clouds investment into the SAP market is significant, particularly in the mid-market, where organizations are keen to innovate quickly so they can keep up with their competitors.
