Hitachi and oXya’s delivery model offers an assigned support team located on-shore and near-shore and familiar with their customer systems to deliver services based on integrated infrastructure with Hitachi storage. Hitachi will deliver the service in Japan, while oXya will offer the service in the US, Canada and France, expanding to other regions over time.

Hitachi and its subsidiaries have had a strategic relationship with SAP since 1994.

“Hitachi and SAP have a long history of collaboration and with this agreement, we are pleased to take our partnership to the next level,” said Toshio Nakano, president of IT platform products management division, Hitachi Ltd.

“Hitachi and oXya will offer customers on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud the same unique delivery model that we have been providing for many years – customer-assigned support teams that are located on-shore or near-shore. Each team builds a close relationship and intimate knowledge of its customer, which enables the team to provide the highest quality of service to our customer. This unique delivery model has gained trust from hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide, and earned us an industry-leading customer satisfaction rate of nearly 100 per cent,” said Nakano.

“As customers explore the strategic challenges they are facing, including digital transformation, big data and IoT, Hitachi and SAP bring a strong alliance that helps ensure a secure and efficient deployment and a highest level of performance and quality to all these crucial topics.”

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According to the vendor, this new option will help manufacturers embrace Industry 4.0 automation by integrating business and manufacturing processes. By running on the HEC, the solution can combine the analytical and transactional processing power of SAP HANA with the ability to connect manufacturing processes with Internet of Things (IoT) data for better visibility into shop floor operations and optimised assets utilisation and productivity.

“Companies of all sizes need to be more responsive to the variability in market demand and customer-specific product requirements,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president of extended supply chain and IoT, SAP.

“The solution delivered through SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud give manufacturing companies the speed in production to meet these dynamic needs in a cost-effective manner.”

SAP Manufacturing Execution was originally launched in December 2014.

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With this new offering, customers can run any SAP HANA workload, including the S/4HANA suite, with all-inclusive subscription-based pricing for SAP software and infrastructure.

With SAP now partnering with a increased number of global premium supplier in Southeast Asia, the HANA Enterprise Cloud offering is now available across Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

“Through these partnerships, we are able to deliver a service that helps companies move away from operating software. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is an integral and core component of the SAP digital strategy, which aims to help businesses run simpler,” said Christopher Bousigues, head, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.

“Built with the end in mind, it allows our customers to run simple with SAP, with the ability to use their SAP applications in an OPEX model without having to worry about ongoing operations. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud retains the best of on-premise advantages, such as control of the IT lifecycle, and best of cloud, with its low capital expenditure requirements and flexibility.”

SAP has said that it will provide additional offerings for its private cloud in the next 18-24 months, including new features in cloud for analytics, capabilities that can help SAP HANA scale as a cloud platform, and SAP S/4HANA cloud for development.

“The business environment in Southeast Asia is changing quickly. Customers are looking for the best means to grow in the digital economy and are demanding faster time to business value and the ability to harness the power of the cloud for innovation,” said Scott Russell, president and managing director, SAP Southeast Asia.

“We look forward to helping our customers transform by running simple and extending a low-risk deployment option for our customers. This will enable them to respond faster to the business’ need to innovate, change and deploy new systems with the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud,” he said.

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SAP will use the CtrlS-powered Cloud4C to extend the availability of SAP’s private, secure managed cloud service throughout the Asia-Pacific region, will plans to expand this later to other global markets.

The focus for the partnership will initially be India and Thailand, and will later expand across Southeast Asia, followed by Australia and New Zealand.

The agreement sees CtrlS become one of the few partners delivering cloud infrastructure for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.

“We are delighted to partner with SAP,” said Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and CEO, CtrlS. “We believe this partnership is a perfect fit for customers seeking a comprehensive, robust and secure solution to host SAP HANA. As the world leader in enterprise software domain, SAP is absolutely the right partner to help transform the way businesses adopt SAP HEC and experience the potential business benefits.”

CtrlS currently operates two facilities in Hyderabad and Mumbai, and plans to launch new operations in New Delhi and Bangalore.

“CtrlS has been a crucial long-term partner to SAP,” said Peter Amor, SAP head of HANA Enterprise Cloud and managed services sales for North Asia and India. “They enabled the establishment of a strong SAP cloud capability in India. Due to the commitment of CtrlS, SAP currently has 11 productive customers on HANA Enterprise Cloud in the Indian subcontinent. CtrlS’s continued expansion as a HANA Enterprise Cloud Premium Supplier for data centre capacity and cloud services provides an excellent opportunity for SAP to broaden our cloud offerings across the region.”

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The focus of co-innovation efforts will be on solutions that “increase customer value through cognitive extensions, enhanced customer and user experience, and industry-specific functionality”.

This will include the creation of industry-specific cloud solutions, expanded SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to include ongoing application maintenance and support services, and the development of cognitive solutions for SAP S/4 HANA and line-of-business solutions utilising IBM’s cognitive APIs.

From a user experience perspective, IBM Interactive Experience digital agency, SAP Global Design, and the SAP Customer Engagement and Commerce team will together to create predesigned experiences that can be customised for clients’ customers and employees.

SAP and IBM will enable client engagements for hybrid and on-premise offerings with SAP HANA on IBM Power systems, supported through the new IBM Power Systems Center of Excellence for SAP HANA, while the two organisations will also co-create digital transformation road maps by industry and by C-suite role.

“Today’s announcement builds on SAP’s commitment to enable strong, growing businesses that can seize the amazing opportunities of the digital economy,” said Rob Enslin, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and president of Global Customer Operations, SAP.

“SAP S/4HANA is the reimagined suite of core business applications that has once again set the standard for the industry. I’m delighted that IBM and SAP will collaborate closely to give customers a clear road map to innovating new business models and outcomes that were never before possible.”

“The future of business strategy and business value will proceed from the foundational elements of this announcement – cognitive, cloud and the design of consumer-quality experiences in every industry,” said Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president, IBM Global Business Services. “We’re formalising a complementary set of capabilities to simplify and speed outcomes for clients evolving to become cognitive enterprises.”

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By offering the SAP HANA Menu option on Enterprise Cloud, NTT Com plans to deliver Global Management One, the cloud platform and management service for SAP HANA, uniformly, ensuring global governance and reducing IT operations and maintenance costs.

The scalable cloud-based service, which is currently available in Japan, will be available globally by the end of 2016.

Fees for the new service are calculated according to usage, providing customers with affordable access to the SAP HANA environment when they need it without needing to purchase the full SAP HANA appliance.

NTT Com is delivering the service as a SAP HANA set based on tailored data centre integration to supply SAP HANA-verified hardware such as storage, network components and servers. According to NTT Com, this reduces implementation time as well as providing fast and stable access to the systems as a development, verification and production environment.

The SAP HANA Set 256GB plan with a starting price of JPY 276,800 per month comprises the bare-metal server, file storage service and SAP HANA Menu solution package. A 512GB plan is expected to be available starting in May.

NTT Com launched a greatly strengthened Enterprise Cloud in Japan on March 1 and in the UK on March 22, and shortly intends to launch the expanded service in Singapore and the US, with more countries to follow. SAP HANA Set is scheduled to be rolled out along with the expanded Enterprise Cloud service in those areas.

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