Microsoft announces new advancements for their SAP HANA customers’ workloads

The best public cloud for SAP workloads gets more powerful

Microsoft has announced new advancements for SAP HANA workloads to ensure that Azure remains the best public cloud for its customers. Azure provides the most powerful and scalable infrastructure of any public cloud provider for HANA. Azure offers customers the ability to extract more intelligence from their SAP solution environments with AI and analytics, and Microsoft’s longstanding partnership with SAP includes integrations with Office 365 to help customer enhance productivity, too.

The new advancements that are announced are-

• Support for running some of the largest public cloud estates of SAP HANA, across both virtual machines and Large Instance offerings
• SAP Cloud Platform: SAP’s platform-as-a-service offering is now available as a public preview hosted on Microsoft Azure
• SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud: In cooperation with SAP, Microsoft is working to make Azure available as a deployment option for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, SAP’s secure managed cloud offering
• SAP and Azure Active Directory Single-Sign-On: SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication Services are now integrated with Azure Active Directory