WALLDORF, Germany, and
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP
SE (NYSE: SAP) and Microsoft Corp. announced plans to
integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP's intelligent suite of
solutions. The companies also formalized an extensive expansion of
an existing strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of SAP
S/4HANA® on Microsoft Azure. This builds on a joint commitment by
the companies to simplify and streamline customers' journeys
to the cloud.
"New ways of working, collaborating and interacting completely
transform how we operate," said Christian
Klein, SAP CEO and member of the Executive Board. "By
integrating Microsoft Teams across our solution portfolio, we will
bring collaboration to the next level, jointly determining the
future of work and enabling the frictionless enterprise. Our
trusted partnership with Microsoft is focused on continuously
advancing customer success. That's why we are also expanding
interoperability with Azure."
Much has changed in the last year as work has become more
virtual, increasing reliance on Microsoft Teams for meetings,
communication and collaboration. To facilitate these business and
societal changes, SAP and Microsoft are building new integrations
between Microsoft Teams and SAP solutions, such as SAP S/4HANA,
SAP® SuccessFactors® offerings, and SAP Customer Experience. This
can enable innovation, increase employee productivity and
engagement, deliver collaborative learning and support global
growth. These integrations are planned for delivery in
mid-2021.
"The case for digital transformation has never been more
urgent," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
said. "By bringing together the power of Azure and Teams with SAP's
solutions, we will help more organizations harness the power of the
cloud so they can more quickly adapt and innovate going
forward."
The companies also are expanding their endorsed cloud
partnership announced in 2019, to introduce new offerings
in cloud automation and integration for SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft
Azure. Together, Microsoft and SAP are expanding the ability to run
a mission-critical intelligent enterprise on Azure while helping
customers modernize their enterprise applications. SAP and
Microsoft will provide customers with:
- Simplification when moving on-premise editions of SAP
ERP to SAP S/4HANA in the cloud. In addition to the
industry-specific journey maps to the cloud and reference
architectures, SAP and Microsoft will continue to co-innovate
around SAP S/4HANA on Azure.
- Expanded joint engagements with customers and partners.
In addition to product integration work, SAP, Microsoft and system
integrator partners will continue to provide digital enterprise
road maps for customers. This includes immediate and actionable
reference architectures and technical guidance to help customers on
their journey to the cloud.
- Increased investments in platform and infrastructure.
The companies will further develop automated migrations,
improved operations, monitoring and security.
Customers broadly favor Azure when moving on-premise SAP
S/4HANA to the cloud.
"As part of our overall transformation, we transitioned to SAP
S/4HANA," said John Hill, Carhartt's
chief information officer and senior vice president of Business
Planning. "Running it on Microsoft Azure provides the velocity,
availability, scalability and elasticity we need for more
visibility and better efficiency across our business. The pandemic
struck as we were in the middle of our SAP implementation, so by
using Teams, we were able to continue to work on the project, stay
on schedule and keep everyone informed. The combination of SAP and
Microsoft was especially helpful during a challenging time."
"SAP S/4HANA has given us real-time visibility into our
inventory, which is crucial for us as a pharmacy and healthcare
retail company during the pandemic," said Francesco Tinto,
Walgreens Boots Alliance's senior vice president and global chief
information officer. "We chose to run SAP S/4HANA on Azure because
of its agility and flexibility to scale up and out quickly to meet
our business needs. Now we have access to our data in one place so
we can offer the best possible customer experience online and in
our stores. Microsoft Teams coupled with SAP solutions helped us
overcome business continuity challenges and enabled our employees
to collaborate very effectively despite the shift from office to
remote work."
"When it comes to our customers delivering personal protective
equipment, we can't be late, so we rely on SAP and Microsoft to
provide the digital backbone that's essential to keeping our supply
chain running smoothly," said Helge
Brummer, Coats' vice president of Technical Infrastructure,
Support & Operations. "The combination of Microsoft Teams with
our SAP solutions has given our employees the ability to work from
anywhere while ensuring orders are delivered on time to our
customers, supporting the people putting their lives at risk
working on the front line."
SAP's endorsement of Azure for ERP cloud migration is reflected
in positive customer feedback on the collaboration between the
companies. SAP and Microsoft will continue to make migration
simpler and increase customers' confidence in running their digital
enterprises in the cloud. At the same time, many customers
express a desire to maintain multi-cloud environments. SAP
continues with its long-standing policy of supporting choice
for those customers who request alternatives based on business
requirements.
SAP and Microsoft recently announced an
update to enable customers to design and operate
intelligent digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions in the
cloud and at the edge.
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