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SAP commits to Cloud Foundry and OpenStack

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PORTLAND, USA: SAP SE is committed to an open platform for customers and partners to run their businesses in real time in the cloud. SAP today announced that it has become a sponsor of two key open source communities: Cloud Foundry, the open platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and the OpenStack foundation, delivering the open infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).

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In addition, SAP announced new cloud-based developer tools SAP HANA Answers and SAP River Rapid Development Environment.

"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."

Fostering Innovation with Cloud Foundry

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Cloud Foundry is the industry-leading open PaaS fostering innovation in the industry. As an announced Platinum Member of Cloud Foundry, SAP is actively collaborating with other the founding members to create a foundation that enables the development of next-generation cloud applications.

As initial steps of the Cloud Foundry collaboration, in recent months SAP announced the code contribution and availability of a Cloud Foundry service broker for SAP HANA. Developed in close association with Pivotal and available as open source on GitHub, the service broker will allow any Cloud Foundry application to connect to and leverage the in-memory capabilities of SAP HANA.

SAP Sponsors the OpenStack Foundation

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SAP is committed to an open cloud platform that will meet the needs of its customers and partners. To this end, SAP will act as an active consumer in the OpenStack community and make contributions to the open source code base.

New Cloud-Based Developer Tools

SAP announced new cloud-based developer tools aiming to enable developers to easily start building applications on top of SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the in-memory PaaS offering from SAP, enabling customers and developers to build, extend and run applications on SAP HANA in the cloud.

SAP HANA Answers is a single point of entry for developers to find documentation, implement or troubleshoot all things SAP HANA. As part of creating a rich developer experience, in June the company announced the beta release of SAP River RDE as part of SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Developers can get started easily with free trial versions for the SAP HANA Cloud Platform here.

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