Hitachi and SAP expand relationship with new innovations and deeper strategic alignment

BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Ltd, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and SAP AG announced an expansion of their worldwide strategic alliance by signing a global original equipment manufacturer (global OEM) agreement that introduces plans to include SAP HANA delivered by Hitachi Data Systems.

This agreement will focus on providing future technology innovation and combined sales and marketing activities to customers worldwide. The companies plan to extend further integration in areas such as cloud computing, the SAP Real-Time Data Platform and high-performance enterprise computing. Hitachi and SAP plan to co-innovate around Hitachi's vision for social innovation, industries, and big data expertise with SAP HANA.

This global OEM agreement, a first for SAP, enables HDS to bundle a more complete Enterprise Data Center solution for SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (BW) on SAP HANA. The tighter integration will allow customers to make purchases that consist of a unified computing platform, software and managed services from HDS. Customers can expect to benefit from a platform that scales without affecting performance or adding needless complexity.

The global collaboration is designed to bring customers from SAP, Hitachi and HDS, a more cohesive solution with a focus on SAP HANA, storage virtualization, cloud computing, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and information life-cycle management (ILM) solutions. It is expected that customers should achieve maximum value from SAP and Hitachi solutions, including lower implementation and operational costs, high availability and enterprise-class disaster tolerance.