As more businesses look to the cloud for increased scalability and reduced costs, enterprise application software providerSAP AG recently unveiled its SAP (News - Alert) HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which is designed to provide organizations with a new deployment option to buy the service.
Moving forward, running SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and applications powered by SAP HANA will be possible as a managed cloud service with elastic petabyte scale. SAP aims to help organizations achieve faster “time-to-value” coupled with lower total cost of ownership, as well as gain flexibility and reliability.
SAP is known around the world for delivering “unsurpassed industry domain expertise” to its customers, which has been built up over 40 years of enterprise application experience, according to Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEOs of SAP AG.
“Now we are offering that extensive knowledge in the cloud,” the co-CEOs said in a statement. “Our message to customers is simple: You can have your cloud, your way in real time, with a beautiful user experience, from the trusted leader in enterprise business solutions. With the new SAP HANA Cloud Platform as the foundation for all of our offerings, we are proud to be the trusted innovator to accelerate business value in the cloud.”
SAP has not yet published pricing information, which IDC (News - Alert) Analyst David Bradshaw recently pointed out in an interview with V3’s Rosalie Marshall. In fact, SAP has never published pricing info on HANA, except to confirm that it won’t negotiate on HANA pricing.
This isn’t the first time SAP has made HANA available in the cloud. Last fall, SAP released HANA on Amazon’s cloud for just 99 cents per hour, plus a few other fees. But, the Amazon version of Hana was a smaller, slower version than the full-strength database appliance, according to Business Insider.
Edited by Jamie Epstein