Google LLC is expanding a two-year-old partnership with German enterprise software company SAP SE with a deal to offer SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud on its cloud as a fully managed service.

The tech giant is also publishing a series of “market approved journeys” tied to reference architectures to help customers get set up with Sap’s S/4Hana service.

Google began working more closely with SAP in early 2017 when it made some of that company’s most important products, including its HANA data processing engine, available on Google Cloud Platform. The partnership effectively married SAP’s enterprise software to Google’s expertise at scale and infrastructure, enabling companies running SAP HANA workloads to tap into the array of cloud services offered by Google.

The partnership has been a solid success, Google said. “More and more customers are running mission-critical SAP applications on Google Cloud, including ATB Financial, Carrefour and MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group, and we are continuing to see growth with long-time customers including Tory Burch and The Home Depot, who is now running SAP CAR, EWM and BW in production on Google Cloud,” said Snehanshu Shah, managing director for SAP at Google Cloud.

Now, the companies want to build on that success, and one way of doing that is by making it easier for customers to migrate their SAP applications to Google Cloud. To that end, Google is offering what it calls “market journeys” based on reference architectures that define best practices for setting up SAP apps on its infrastructure.

“These solutions will help customers modernize and create experiences using 100% VM-based, highly secure and highly available Google Cloud infrastructure as well as the latest advances in the areas of big data, analytics and machine learning,” Shah said.

Meanwhile, the HANA Enterprise Cloud managed service removes much of the heavy lifting involved with day-to-day operations. “HEC will be offered as a fully managed service on GCP, delivering a flexible operating model to help customers reduce operational complexity,” Shah added.

In addition, Google is offering what it calls SAP C/4HANA extensions on its cloud that allow SAP users to customize and extend their business apps. Google is also throwing in a little sweetener to try and temp new customers to take up SAP on Google Cloud. It’s offering $1,000 in GCP credits for up to 100 SAP C/4HANA customers in order to give them a “jump start,” Shah said.

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