At the SAP SAPphire Now conference last week, the German software maker with a goal of reaching $28 billion in revenue by 2015 announced that customers will be able to run its BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment offerings on Amazon’s cloud. The company also announced 3^rd party providers will start offering deployment, migration and other services to SAP customers, and IT consultancy firm Capgemini is one of them.

“Consultancy Capgemini’s North American business will offer support to enterprises that want to run SAP applications in Amazon Web Services’ cloud, the company said in a joint statement with Amazon on Thursday.”

Capgemini will offer Rapid Cloud Workshop among other things, which lets users test SAP applications before launching them on Amazon’s cloud.

This good news for SAP, which has a lot to prove to its investors looking for evidence it will be able to more than double its revenue in the next few years. Thilo Mueller, a portfolio manager at MB Fund Advisory GmbH was among the ones who spoke at SAP investor gathering held yesterday in Germany.

At its annual SAP SAPhire conference held last week, SAP announced several major pushes in mobile and big data analytics. These included the launch of a new product called NetWaver, designed to let uers access SAP application from their mobile devices. Further, SAP also teamed-up with HP to introduce a few data analytics solutions leveraging HANA.

Capgemini’s announcement is also a positive development for Amazon, which is making efforts to o attract more enterprise customers, according to David Bradshaw European SaaS and Cloud Services research manager at IDC. Bradshaw also commented Amazon should lower its rates In some areas for it to “make sense to enterprises.”

Nevertheless, despite of some criticism, Amazon yesterday launched the fruit of a major partnership with Oracle. The Relational Database Service for Oracle, arriving in a cost-effective ring-your-own-license model, is the latest addition to AWS.