SAP and Google Cloud partner oXya, an independent cloud services provider, was one of the partners recognized for demonstrating success across multiple industries in the Partner Specialization category in the recently announced Google Cloud Partner Awards 2020.
oXya, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group Company and an SAP cloud solutions specialist, was awarded the 2020 Google Cloud Global SAP Specialization Partner of the Year for leading successful migration of its customers’ mission-critical SAP systems to Google Cloud. oXya is a member of Google Cloud’s partner program, Partner Advantage, which helps partners sell, service, and build new solutions for their respective customers.
“We are extremely proud and humbled to win this prestigious award from a global technology leader such as Google Cloud”, says Geert Vandendorpe, oXya CEO. “We began partnering with Google Cloud a few years ago to enable our customers to migrate their mission-critical SAP systems to the public cloud. Since then, we have migrated multiple customers’ SAP systems to Google Cloud, from industries such as manufacturing, retail, oil & gas, media & entertainment, and more. Our customers love the agility and flexibility that Google Cloud enables”.
Vandendorpe emphasized that oxYa’s SAP customers have achieved their business goals leveraging Google Cloud’s high-speed and resilient network that brought significant improvements to long-distance connections for multinational SAP systems. He detailed:
“Google Cloud offers innovative IaaS and PaaS solutions that are based on Google’s own infrastructure and on many years of IT management experience. By integrating its big data and machine-learning modules (BigQuery and AutoML) with SAP systems, Google Cloud provides significant value for oXya’s SAP customers, leveraging the capabilities of HANA to analyze and predict business needs.”
A Trusted SAP and Google Cloud Partner
oXya has been strengthening its position in the Google Cloud ecosystem since 2021 opened. Earlier this year, the company achieved back-to-back certifications from Google Cloud– a global certification as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) in January and a certification as a Google Cloud SAP Specialization Partner in February– expanding the company’s market footprint to a global scale as an SAP migration and Google Cloud specialist. oXya has been a long-standing partner of SAP, providing a range of SAP technical services, managed services, and cloud solutions to over 1,000 enterprise customers worldwide. As of June 2020, a quarter of oXya customers are running on SAP S/4HANA.
Sharing about oXya’s strategic alliance with Google Cloud, Snehanshu Shah, Managing Director for SAP at Google Cloud said:
“oXya is one of our leading partners in the SAP ecosystem and we’ve been collaborating since 2018 when oXya migrated one of its customers to Google Cloud. Tory Burch, was our first SAP S/4HANA system on Google Cloud.”
“We have since expanded our relationship with oXya. Many oXya customers are currently running their SAP workloads on Google Cloud, enjoying our services and products. Last year was incredible for our partnership, with oXya migrating multiple SAP customers to Google Cloud, such as Rémy Cointreau. We appreciate the commitment and investment that oXya has been putting into partnering with Google Cloud, which is why we chose oXya for the prestigious global “Partner of the Year” award in the SAP Specialization category. We look forward to many more joint customers with oXya,” Shah highlighted.
The Partner of the Year for SAP Specialization award recognized oXya’s remarkable success in the Google Cloud ecosystem, ensuring seamless migration of customers’ SAP systems to Google Cloud to achieve agility, flexibility, access to innovative technologies, and a reduction in TCO.
Other SAP partners recognized in the Google Cloud Partner Awards 2020 were Tata Consultancy Service- Breakthrough Partner of the Year, Wipro-Specialization Partner of the Year for Application Development, Deloitte-Services Partner of the Year and Public Sector Partner of the Year, Capgemini- Industry Solutions Partner of the Year, and Accenture- Services Partner of the Year in EMEA.
