SAP AG, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, has enhanced its SAP PartnerEdge for Application Development program, enabling partners to capitalize on the opportunity of building and commercializing standard software applications on top of SAP platforms. Partners can now also develop applications powered by SAP HANA in the cloud.
SAP has created a simple, quick, and cost-effective way for partners to develop applications that leverage the power of Big Data technology from SAP without the need to set up and operate infrastructure. Applications developed in the cloud can be deployed and run on both the SAP HANA Cloud Platform and on premises at a customer’s site.
To develop and test the back-end integration capabilities of applications more easily and rapidly, partners can also leverage pre-configured ERP systems from SAP in the cloud, which can be ordered via the SAP Store. These enhancements were designed to enable even more business opportunities for partners by simplifying the development stage and shortening time to value.
Further extensions help to unlock more business by offering additional functional as well as go-to-market options:
- Adding the SAP InfiniteInsight†solution to the program’s innovation pack for business intelligence (BI) offers partners additional capabilities to develop predictive analytics applications and tap into the growing customer demand for these types of solutions.
- An extension to the innovation pack for application integration, allows partners experienced in Microsoft technologies to be able to also access SAP ERP via Microsoft Office or other .NET applications and address additional types of business users.
- Partners can now embed SAP technology into their solutions seamlessly under their own brand. This further supports go-to-market and enables partners to provide a complete solution fully self-sufficiently. This option is available for all SAP databases and (BI) solutions, with more solutions planned to be added over time.
“More than 600 partners have added more than 200 applications to the portfolio listed in SAP Store on the SAP HANA Marketplace. These partners continue to give us great feedback on the value of SAP PartnerEdge for Application Development, which helps them maintain a high rate of innovation and their competitive edge,” says Bernd-Uwe Pagel, senior vice president, Platform Ecosystem & eChannels, SAP. “With these program enhancements, we support our ecosystem’s move to the cloud powered by SAP HANA and increase our partners’ choices to grow their business by innovating on top of our platform. Together with our partners, we are thus capable to better serve our customers rapidly evolving needs.”
To learn more, visit the SAP Application Development Partner Center. For more information, visit the SAP News Center.†
