Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and SAP AG announced an expansion of its worldwide alliance by extending a global original equipment manufacturer (global OEM) agreement that includes SAP HANA solutions delivered by HDS.
“This announcement represents a new level of collaboration with Hitachi and HDS, underscoring our commitment to ongoing innovation with our partners for the benefit of our customers,” said President, SAP Platform Solutions, Steve Lucas.
This is the first-ever global OEM agreement for SAP NetWeaver on the SAP HANA platform. It delivers a more complete enterprise data center solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) on SAP HANA and provides tight integration with converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, software and managed services from HDS.
The result is a platform for SAP that scales without impact on performance and avoids needless complexity, he said.
The collaboration focuses on providing future technology innovation and combined sales and marketing activities to customers worldwide, and extends integration with the SAP real-time data platform and high-performance enterprise computing.
The global collaboration is designed to provide SAP, Hitachi and HDS customers a more cohesive solution that includes SAP HANA, storage virtualization, cloud computing choices, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and information life-cycle management (ILM).