IBM and SAP on Thursday announced a hybrid cloud partnership. The businesses want to enterprise customers move their enterprise resource planning (ERP) operations to the cloud. SAP has designated IBM a “premium supplier” of its RISE with SAP service.
IBM’s offering aims to help SAP’s customers move to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Cloud. SAP S/4HANA is the company’s ERP service for large enterprises. RISE with SAP is SAP’s self-described “concierge service” for enterprise cloud transition.
The news makes IBM the first cloud provider to offer infrastructure, business transformation and application management services as part of RISE with SAP, it claimed.
