By Freya Purnell
Australian SAP customers can now access the SAP HANA Cloud Platform from its local data centre in Sydney.
According to SAP, the HANA Cloud Platform is purpose-built to meet the needs of modern developers from organisations of all size and industries so they can quickly extend or build cloud business applications that run in real time.
The Sydney data centre was opened in April 2014 and also houses SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud offering.
Paul Muller, general manager for platform solutions, SAP Australia and New Zealand, said that SAP’s HANA business has grown by more than 158 per cent in ANZ over the last 12 months.
“We know our customers want to quickly setup, deploy and build real-time applications that feature mobile, visualisation, big data and analytics services. Regardless of our customers’ IT environments, we’re committed to helping them continue to be innovative on the SAP HANA Cloud platform,” Muller said.
“We have a commitment to our customers to deliver tools and platforms that provide increased flexibility in the development and deployment of their IT environments as well as remove any security issue around data sovereignty. We know this still to be a concern and we will continue to invest locally when customers require locally accountable providers and control over the location of their data,” he added.
The Australia-based data centre is part of SAP’s global data centre strategy to provide full security and regional data compliance to all of its customers.
