Hitachi and SAP sign OEM agreement for HANA

NEW DELHI: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, and SAP AG have 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.

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. “Today’s 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 Steve Lucas, president, SAP Platform Solutions.

Through our expanded collaboration, customers will more easily be able to gain significant advantage with SAP HANA, which will provide them tightly integrated, innovative solutions and reduced time to market, while minimizing migration costs.”

SAP is also in the process of certifying Hitachi Virtualization Manager as a supported technology for SAP HANA.

"While we are most certainly thrilled with today's announcement, it's our joint customers who have the most to gain as a result," said Brian Householder, chief operating officer, Hitachi Data Systems. "HDS is now able to offer a tightly integrated Enterprise Data Center solution that delivers a 5X performance increase for SAP HANA over competitive offerings. This increased collaboration with SAP also results in greater OPEX and CAPEX efficiencies for customers, and sets the stage for future joint innovation between our two companies."