The SAP and Google strategic co-innovation partnership announced in March now includes additional certification of SAP technology and applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The partnership also aims to make SAP Cloud Platform on GCP available globally, as well as future collaboration and integrations in machine learning, the IoT, data transparency and custodian services, and workplace productivity. 

SAP and Google have now certified the SAP NetWeaver technology platform on GCP, enabling organisations to run SAP S/4HANA and the SAP Business Warehouse application on GCP. Additionally, the companies announced general availability and certification of the SAP HANA database on GCP for larger instances and scale-out and a data connector for the SAP Analytics Cloud solution for Google Big Query. German software company sovanta is an early adopter to showcase how SAP technology and applications, including SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA, run on GCP 

Google and SAP plan to accelerate customers’ digital business transformation through intelligent applications such as conversational apps that guide users through complex workflows and transactions and answer questions around their enterprise. To achieve this, the companies plan to combine SAP’s business process expertise with Google’s machine learning services, such as the Translate and Speech APIs, and the open source library for machine learning, TensorFlow. 

Google and SAP announced the Intelligent App Challenge. The competition challenges Google and SAP partner ecosystems to build intelligent applications using SAP HANA, express edition, on GCP.