The Asia Pacific region’s demand for cloud-based services and solutions has seen significant growth in recent times. GlobalData, a trusted and gold-standard intelligence provider to the world’s largest industries, reports that the cloud market in the region is projected to grow 117{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} from USD$133 billion to $288 billion in the years between 2019 and 2024. This is supported by another report from Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III) that found that demand for cloud solutions in Asia Pacific reached a record high in the first quarter of 2020, with contract values reaching US$2 billion.

As a core technology that supports digital transformation across the globe, the business value of shifting to ‘the cloud’ has never been more apparent. Enhanced security and data protection, data modernization, reduced costs, and improved IT operations performance are just some of the benefits of cloud technology.

Considered the world’s 1st Tier-4 public cloud and managed services provider, and a global premium supplier of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Cloud4C is well-positioned in meeting the Asia Pacific region’s demand for innovative cloud services and solutions. The company offers high-availability and customized hybrid, multi-cloud management solutions and IT services through its rich and differentiated features that include:

• high-grade data centers
• expertise on hyperscalers
• support for hybrid clouds
• multi availability zones
• four-way disaster recovery architecture
• zero data loss guarantee backed by SLAs

Leveraging Alliances as Premium Supplier of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

With the launch of Cloud4C’s operations in South Korea, enterprises of all sizes in the country who are aiming to modernize their IT systems and embark on a digital transformation can now leverage the company’s strategic partnership with SAP. As one of the select few global partners delivering cloud and infrastructure operations for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Cloud4C enables a complex SAP Application transformation and migration journey in a more efficient, economical, and adaptable manner.

Country Head and Vice President for South Korea, Peter Seo, said,

“We plan to enable businesses in South Korea through our wide spectrum of services to help them address their critical business needs through differentiated offerings such as banking community cloud, SAP community cloud, cloud migration services to hyperscale cloud providers and cloud managed services. Leveraging the existing alliances as Premium Supplier of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we aim to be the number one SAP partner in the region.”

Expanding the Cloud Ecosystem in Indonesia

In Indonesia, the current cloud market size is at US$400 million and is expected to rise to US$1.2 billion by 2023. The country is considered a potentially huge market for cloud computing with several businesses in the financial, wholesale and retail sales, transport, warehouse and communications, and the creative industries as top early adopters.

Cloud4C’s recent appointment of Audy Antow as the Country Leader for Indonesia is set to enhance the company’s focus on expanding the cloud ecosystem in the country and enhancing relationships with CIOs and IT leaders in support of their organization’s digital transformation journeys.

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO of Cloud4C, said of the appointment,

“Indonesia is amongst the fastest-growing markets in ASEAN, with demand for cloud services increasing rapidly in the last 5 years. It is one of the most strategic markets for us. I extend a warm welcome to Audy as he joins Cloud4C employee family. Audy brings along a deep understanding of Indonesian market. I am confident under his leadership, we will continue to enhance our deep engagements with CIOs and IT Leaders in Indonesia to support them in their digital transformation journey.”

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The announcement of the new GCP region in Indonesia advances cloud integration for local businesses running on SAP. The launch highlights Google’s Cloud Acceleration Program, designed specifically for SAP customers wanting to streamline their cloud migration plans—whether it’s shifting SAP workloads from on-premise to Google Cloud, or extending SAP solutions with Google Cloud.

The initiative, which started in 2019, includes support from top global services partners such as Accenture, Atos, Deloitte, HCL, Capgemini, DXC Technologies, Hitachi oXya, IBM Global Business Services, Infosys, NTT, TCS, and Wipro. Participants enjoy a variety of benefits that help simplify cloud migration:

• access to expert capabilities for migration, implementation optimization from Google’s expert partner community
• upfront financial incentives to defray infrastructure costs for SAP cloud migrations
• new architecture templates and accelerators
• SAP-focused support
• partner-led assessment services
• access to centers of excellence dedicated to SAP on GCP

SAP and Google set Local Cloud Integration In Motion

Indonesia is fast emerging as a diverse digital economy, with many businesses aiming to digitalize and move core business processes to the cloud. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts IT spending in Indonesia will grow to $78 billion in 2022, which would see 61 percent of GDP being digitalized. Indeed, with the Indonesian government’s ‘Making Indonesia 4.0’ program which focuses efforts on boosting the country’s digital economy, many SMEs are fast becoming more competitive in driving and accelerating their organization’s digital transformation and cloud adoption.

SAP Indonesia has been a prominent player in helping businesses of any size and segment, from the local SMEs to regional conglomerates in the country along their digital transformation journey. For the past 20 years, SAP has allowed Indonesian enterprises realize breakthroughs locally and globally through innovation and technology. Businesses running on SAP have successfully become more transparent, efficient, and compliant thanks to innovative enterprise solutions.

In a statement, Claus Andresen, President and Managing Director for SAP Southeast Asia said,

“SAP Indonesia opened its doors to business 20 years ago, and during the two decades of being in operations, the pace of technological change continues to be incremental. Businesses and governments alike need to adapt and keep up with the demands of the digital economy. SAP has proven to be a reliable partner to see organizations in the private and public sectors through these changes and we will continue to support our customers in Indonesia move the needle in digitization.”

Through SAP’s partnership with Google Cloud, SAP customers who are are strategizing to build robust and innovative IT systems are better equipped in fast-tracking their cloud integration and digitalization.

Google Cloud Capabilities

In addition to empowering SAP Indonesia’s customers on their cloud adoption journey through the Cloud Acceleration Program, GCP Jakarta provides opportunities for SAP customers to take advantage of Google’s SAP partner ecosystem and the latest SAP-specific Google Cloud and partner capabilities. These new capabilities include fresh and updated certifications that allow customers to use Google’s VMs for more varied workloads and provides more throughput and better processing:

• updated SAP HANA certifications to improve workload performance and enable customers to ‘right-size’ their Google Cloud VMs to match their SAP HANA licenses
• the new OLAP Scale-up certification which provides increased options for running OLAP scenarios for customers running larger SAP HANA deployments 
• the new SAP NetWeaver certification, offering customers optionality and flexibility of choice for deploying SAP NetWeaver applications or SAP application servers alongside their SAP HANA deployments
• updated SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Database 16.0 which is certified on Google Cloud for customers who build applications on SAP ASE as a general-purpose database

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SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system from enterprise software solutions provider SAP. It was the first data platform to deliver real-time analytics on live transactions and provides the foundation for a data-driven enterprise to turn data into true business value. The solution is used by more than 32,000 customers. It combines a robust database with services for creating innovative applications for businesses to overcome complex data landscape and scale data management at a lower TCO (total cost of ownership).

With its advanced technological features, SAP HANA offers faster access to data in multicore CPUs through its fault-tolerant search capabilities, faster memory reads, and real-time data analytics. It can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment from several leading cloud service providers including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Huawei FusionSphere.

The new features of the database platform include hybrid extensions to the cloud, enhanced developer experience, increased scale and data reliability with tiered storage capabilities, external key server enablement, advanced data analytical processing, and improved predictive and machine learning. In addition, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 offers an extended five-year support and maintenance commitment to customers.

Customers in the Asia Pacific region who have found success with SAP HANA include:

• Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), an energy storage company in China that specializes in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, as well as battery management systems.
• Maharashtra State Power Generation Co. Ltd. (Mahagenco), the second largest power producing company in India.
• Prism Johnson Limited (Formerly Prism Cement Limited), one of India’s leading integrated Building Materials Company.

Seamless Cloud Adoption with SAP HANA

Cloud adoption has seen significant growth in recent years, with many enterprises continuing to embrace multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies in an effort to improve the scalability of their internet-based database capabilities while reducing costs and risks. According to the ninth Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report, at the top of organizations’ 2020 priority list is optimizing their existing cloud use, followed by migrating more workloads to the cloud. Further, a fresh Gartner survey on cloud adoption says that 80{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of respondents using public cloud are using more than one cloud service provider.

As the only fully-managed multi-cloud support on all leading cloud service providers, SAP HANA is well-positioned in providing crucial support to enterprises in their journey to the cloud. To support customers in getting started with transitioning to the cloud, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 adds new features that optimize data replication and distribution of processing to support hybrid scenarios between SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA on-premise.

Hybrid scenarios help businesses leverage their on-premise investment while still taking advantage of the flexibility of the cloud. Extending workloads or processes from SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA data lake as well as other cloud data storage such as AWS Athena and Google BigQuery is made easier through the SAP HANA Cloud gateway. SAP HANA further increases flexibility and cost reduction with enhanced cloud backup integration that allows the implementation of SAP HANA database backup and restoration directly from AWS S3.

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