SAP, Google Cloud building open data and AI for enterprises
SAP and Google Cloud have announced an extensive expansion of their partnership, introducing a comprehensive open data offering designed to simplify data landscapes and unleash the power of business data.
The offering, announced at Google Cloud Next 2023, enables customers to build an end-to-end data cloud that brings data from across the enterprise landscape using the SAP Datasphere solution together with Google’s data cloud, enabling businesses to view their entire data estates in real-time and maximise value from their Google Cloud and SAP software investments.
The new solutions build on a long-term, strategic partnership between SAP and Google Cloud to help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformations and optimise value from business-critical data. Google Cloud is a strategic partner for the RISE with SAP solution and to date counts many leading enterprise companies as joint customers. By integrating generative AI into SAP software and Google Cloud’s open data cloud, customers can deploy powerful new solutions that use information from SAP Datasphere and from virtually any other data source to significantly improve business insights, analysis, and decision-making.
Data the cornerstone of digital transformation and AI development
Organisations spend significant resources building complex data integrations, custom analytics engines, and generative AI and natural language processing (NLP) models before they start to realise value from their data investments. Data originating from SAP systems, in particular, are among organisations’ most valuable assets and can contain critical information on supply chains, financial forecasting, human resources records, omnichannel retail, and more.
SAP Datasphere combines this mission-critical data with data from across the enterprise landscape, regardless of its origin. Being able to easily combine SAP software data and non-SAP data on Google Cloud, from virtually any other data source, means organisations can dramatically accelerate their digital transformation with a fully-defined data foundation that retains complete business context.
