CenturyLink has signed an agreement with SAP to extend its premium supplier services for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to Asia Pacific, with data centres in both Singapore and India to assist the region’s organisations as they seek to migrate their mission-critical applications to the cloud.
Organisations in the region will benefit from the expansion of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud across the region through CenturyLink’s infrastructure and services capabilities, including the design, implementation and management of the full spectrum of SAP solutions.
The agreement builds on CenturyLink’s successful SAP project implementations for clients in the region as well as its global premium supplier partnership agreement with SAP. CenturyLink can support large-scale production workloads and provide disaster recovery services to metro-specific locations if required.
“Now more than ever, we believe that SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a ‘must consider’ choice as our customers look to run their mission-critical SAP applications in the cloud while digitally transforming their businesses,” said Peter Harkin, head, SAP HANA enterprise cloud and managed services sales, SAP APJ.
“With the announcement of CenturyLink as a premium supplier for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP further extends its capacity to provide managed private cloud services in a number of geographies across APJ,” said Harkin.
“SAP HANA enables companies to make real-time, informed decisions about their business,” said Gary Gauba, chief enterprise relationship officer and president, advanced solutions group in CenturyLink’s global IT and managed services business unit.
“By expanding our SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service offering in Asia Pacific, we continue to help businesses move their enterprise applications to the cloud and innovate using the latest-generation applications based on SAP HANA,” he said.
Services provided by CenturyLink’s Global IT and managed services group include cloud enablement, big data-as-a-service, advanced decision sciences, digital commerce, managed security application development and modernisation, quality assurance and testing, and disaster recovery services. The group also offers analytical solutions, built on its model controller platform, that operationalise predictive models.
