Cloud Foundry, an open platform-as-a-service, and the OpenStack Foundation, delivering open infrastructure-as-a-service, have been sponsored by SAP, with the vendor also announcing new cloud-based developer tools SAP HANA Answers, a knowledge hub for developers, and the beta release of SAP River Rapid Development Environment.
These tools aim to enable developers to easily build applications on top of the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
“The developer and open source community are key to breakthrough technology innovation,” said Bjoern Goerke, executive vice president, products and innovation technology, SAP SE. “Through the CloudFoundry and OpenStack initiatives, as well as new developer tools, SAP deepens its commitment to the developer community and enables them to innovate and code in the cloud.”
As a Platinum member of Cloud Foundry, SAP is collaborating with other founding members to create a foundation that enables the development of next-generation cloud applications. It has already announced the code contribution and availability of a Cloud Foundry service broker for SAP HANA, which allows any Cloud Foundry application to connect to and leverage the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA.
SAP also plans to act as an active consumer in the OpenStack community by making contributions to the open source code base, as well as bringing its significant expertise in managing enterprise clouds to OpenStack.
According to SAP, the new open source partnerships are a significant step in its strategy to provide an open technology platform and deepen its commitment to the developer community.
