SAP and Google Cloud Introduce Comprehensive Open Data Offering

SAP and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership and introduced a comprehensive open data offering.

With this new offering, SAP software data and non-SAP data can be combined on Google Cloud, allowing organizations to use all their data to speed up their digital transformation, the companies said in a Thursday (May 11) press release.

“SAP and Google Cloud share a commitment to open data, and our extended partnership will help break down barriers between data stored in disparate systems, databases and environments,” Christian Klein, CEO and member of the executive board of SAP SE, said in the release. “Our customers not only benefit from the business AI [artificial intelligence] already built into our systems, but also from a unified data foundation.”

Customers will be able to use the new open data offering to access business-critical data in real time, simplify data landscapes and gain greater visibility by eliminating common data silos, use Google’s AI and machine learning (ML) services to create insights, and perform advanced analysis by using the SAP Analytics Cloud in Google Cloud, according to the press release.

Other capabilities that are now being developed by SAP and Google Cloud will allow customers use environmental, social and governance (ESG) data sets to gain actionable insights into sustainability and use the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) on Google Cloud globally, the release said.

“Few resources are as important to digital transformation as data,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said in the release. “By deeply integrating SAP software data and systems with our data cloud, customers will be able to utilize our analytics capabilities as well as advanced AI tools and large language models to find new insights from their data.”

The cloud operations of companies like Google and Apple have seen “hyper-growth” due to the digital shift.

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in July 2022 that corporates and agencies are embracing the cloud because “we unify data lakes, data warehouses, data governance and advanced machine learning into a single platform that can analyze data across any cloud,” which in turn helps the clients optimize their operations.