Google LLC’s cloud business and SAP SE today announced that they’re expanding their partnership to assist enterprises with digital transformation projects in more ways. 

The new collaboration has two main components. First, the search giant will partner with SAP on Rise with SAP, a bundle of solutions provided by the latter company to help enterprises modernize their business operations. Second, SAP will make its Analytics Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud software products available on Google Cloud.

SAP makes a popular enterprise resource planning or ERP platform that numerous enterprises use to manage key business processes such as accounting. Last year, the company launched Rise with SAP, an offering designed to assist enterprises with switching from the legacy versions of its ERP to the newest cloud-friendly version.

Rise with HANA includes a mix of software products and professional services. Besides simplifying ERP upgrades, the offering also promises to help companies find ways of making their business processes more efficient. 

As part of the collaboration announced today, Google will become a strategic cloud partner for Rise with SAP. The companies will team up to help joint customers move deployments of SAP software to Google Cloud. The two tech giants will also work together on supporting enterprises’ efforts to make their business processes more efficient.

Google Cloud President Rob Enslin said in a statement that “through support for RISE with SAP and in-depth integrations between SAP and Google Cloud, this new partnership will enable customers to seamlessly bring their most critical business systems and applications to a future-proof, secure and low-latency environment and to run them sustainably, on the industry’s cleanest cloud.”

In conjunction, SAP will bring two more products from its software portfolio to Google Cloud. Both products focus on helping companies finding useful insights in their business data.

The first offering is called Analytics Cloud. It’s a business intelligence service that can turn data like quarterly revenue figures into graphs to make analysis easier. There’s also a search bar that makes it possible to uncover key details, such as what product contributed the most to quarterly revenues, using natural-language queries.

The other product SAP is bringing to Google Cloud, Data Warehouse Cloud, is aimed at more complex analytics projects. It can run queries on information from multiple cloud-based and on-premises systems at the same time. The service is built on SAP’s high-speed HANA database, which stores business records in memory rather than storage to facilitate faster processing.

Notably, both Analytics Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud also include machine learning features to ease certain data processing tasks. The former service, for instance, has an artificial intelligence tool that allows users to generate predictions such as revenue forecasts based on historical business data. 

“Offering integration between SAP solutions, SAP BTP and Google Cloud infrastructure and capabilities in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics gives customers both the choice they desire as well as the innovative portfolio they seek to transform their businesses in the cloud,” said Thomas Saueressig, a member of the SAP executive board and the company’s head of product engineering.

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