By Nathan Luck
HP Enterprise Services has announced it is among the first partners to become an SAP-certified global provider of cloud services for SAP solutions, following an extensive audit process that validates the operational integration of the provider’s cloud capabilities with SAP applications.
The comprehensive audit includes reviews of the service provider’s technical, physical, management and logical security processes supporting SAP applications, with the certification providing assurance to clients using SAP applications through HP’s cloud services that they can benefit from:
• Increased flexibility, which enables business process alignment to meet immediate market demands;
• Rapid provisioning, which speeds their ability to implement application and business process changes; and
• A highly reliable architecture and access to the latest cloud services with no infrastructure capital outlay required.
A range of HP solutions, including application hosting, cloud management, disaster recovery and networking, are covered by the certification, which must be renewed every two years.
“The race to the cloud is causing many cloud service providers to offer Infrastructure-as-a-Service, but leave service levels and risk management to their resource-strapped clients,” said Kathy Garcia, senior vice president, applications, HP Enterprise Services. “With this certification, HP can deliver SAP solutions via the cloud with increased flexibility and rapid provisioning, resulting in lower costs and less risk for companies to consume the full benefits of enterprise applications.”
Michael Ressemann, global head, Outsourcing Services and Solution Delivery, SAP, said the certification confirms HP’s ability to deliver high-quality cloud services for SAP users.
“Through its cloud services and Hybrid Delivery Cloud platform, in support of SAP solutions, HP gives application service providers the ability to meet their business users’ needs quickly and cost-effectively without sacrificing reliability or quality,” Resseman said.
The cloud certification further serves to reinforce the 20-year relationship between HP and SAP.
HP said, “The certification will help businesses and governments in their pursuit of an Instant-On Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.”
