SAP join hands with Microsoft to extend HANA support to Azure!

While the core SAP business applications are being certified on Amazon's cloud since the year 2011. Last night that partnership was expanded with the deployment of more SAP software on top of AWS, including SAP BusinessObjects. But that is not what turned the things interesting! Microsoft and SAP unleashed a new support and partnership of distribution with SAP putting HANA in Microsoft Azure in their latest distribution play. The companies had started certifying SAP HANA in-memory databases to facilitate the development, testing and production workloads on Microsoft's Azure public cloud which includes SAP’s S/4HANA.

To be more specific on this fact, various companies across the globe had started certifying the SAP's HANA in-memory database system with the integration of SAP's Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass, and SuccessFactors applications with Microsoft's Office 365 services. Experts had started to study this SAP HANA development and keen to make the most out of it. The obvious reasons could be the enhancement of the usability and enable streamlined tasks that make it so employees don't always need to traverse from one piece of software to another. For example, Ariba teams are now capable of collaborating Word and Excel to their platform and enable communication with each other using Skype voice calls. Elevating the experience to next level, things like flight, hotel, and transportation recommendations will be correlated with work-related travel plans found in Outlook. The up-gradation also lets Fieldglass tie up will allow admins to approve work items right from Outlook via an Office add-in. The companies also announced plans to bolster management and security capabilities for SAP Fiori mobile apps using Microsoft Intune. Fiori is SAP's user interface to unify its various applications and deliver a consumer-like experience. The Fiori and Intune integration, as well as the Office 365 integrations with SAP apps, are slated for availability in the third quarter of this year, according to a statement.

The German enterprise software giant, SAP had started integrating several of its features and capabilities with Microsoft and MS SQL Server for several years. For instance, before two years, SAP and Microsoft declared another round of core app integrations, including support for the developer edition of the SAP HANA platform on Azure. But with today's announcement, customers are getting access to a few more Azure features, such as its improved security and management capabilities.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that "We are the platform provider so others can make things happen and build things. That is what comes naturally for us." "Data is becoming the biggest commodity out there for businesses, and these two companies are married together with data," Krzanich said. "I can't imagine two companies that would be better suited to partner to bring these solutions to market." McDermott echoed the admiration, adding that it "speaks volumes for SAP's relevance to have a company like Intel as a partner." Similarly, Apple did club hands with SAP to link iOS with SAP HANA Cloud Platform.