Microsoft, SAP to bring cloud and mobile partnership to India

NEW DELHI: Global tech giants Microsoft and SAP will bring their cloud and mobile partnership to India to help improve cloud and data interoperability and deliver new mobile and productivity to enterprises.

Under the partnership, SAP applications will be available on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

The partnership will allow Indian enterprises to leverage the flexibility and scalability of Microsoft Azure for their mission critical SAP deployments, a statement said.

The partnership is expected to deliver 200-300 per cent efficiency increase in IT infrastructure deployment and savings of 40-75 per cent on total ownership costs with Azure's 'pay per use' model.

The partnership supports SAP Business Suite software, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE) and the developer edition of the SAP HANA platform on Azure.