Hitachi Expands Relationship with SAP to offer SAP HANA
2017年4月26日 - 03:00PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced that it has concluded
an agreement with SAP to be a supplier for the SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud. This agreement builds on Hitachi's long-standing strategic
alliance with SAP. Under the terms of the agreement, Hitachi and
oXya, a Hitachi Group company and a leading SAP-certified provider
of cloud services, will deliver their support services to customers
via SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. The agreement will leverage Hitachi
and oXya's unique delivery model, offering an assigned support team
located on-shore or near-shore and personally familiar with their
customer systems, to deliver excellent quality of service based on
highly reliable integrated infrastructure with Hitachi storage.
The agreement is a global one, recognizing Hitachi as one of the
select partners delivering SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud around the
world. Hitachi will deliver the service in Japan. oXya will
initially deliver the service in the U.S., Canada and France, and
expand delivery over time to other regions.
Hitachi and its subsidiaries, including Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
and Hitachi Consulting, have had a strategic relationship with SAP
since 1994, including the sales, integration and implementation of
SAP solutions. Through its Global Technology Partnership with SAP,
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for SAP HANA has been certified by
SAP as a highly reliable solution. Hitachi's platform has a proven
track record, providing customers around the world with
industry-leading availability, scalability and performance for
their business-critical data systems.
For nearly 20 years, oXya has been providing high quality managed
services all over the world to hundreds of SAP enterprise customers
running SAP software. Known for providing some of the best customer
service in the SAP ecosystem, oXya delivers an efficient and secure
support to SAP customers, helping them make a fast and smooth
transition to SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA, leveraging oXya's expertise
and experience.
"Hitachi and SAP have a long history of collaboration and with this
agreement, we are pleased to take our partnership to the next
level," said Toshio Nakano, President of IT Platform Products
Management Division, Hitachi, Ltd. "Hitachi and oXya will offer
customers on SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud the same unique delivery
model that we have been providing for many years -
customer-assigned support teams that are located on-shore or
near-shore. Each team builds a close relationship and intimate
knowledge of its customer, which enables the team to provide the
highest quality of service to our customer. This unique delivery
model has gained trust from hundreds of enterprise customers
worldwide, and earned us an industry-leading customer satisfaction
rate of nearly 100 percent(1). As customers explore the strategic
challenges they are facing, including digital transformation, big
data, and IoT, Hitachi and SAP bring a strong alliance that helps
ensure a secure and efficient deployment and a highest level of
performance and quality to all these crucial topics".
"We look forward to expanding our long relationship spanning more
than 20 years with Hitachi and to broadening our relationship with
oXya," said Stephen Spears, senior vice president, SAP HANA
Enterprise Cloud, SAP SE. "We see great demand from existing and
new customers for SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA. The cloud approach is a
faster and easier way for most customers to implement our
innovative technologies. To expedite their digital transformation,
customers will be able to leverage SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud,
delivered with Hitachi and oXya services."
(1) Based on a survey done in summer of 2016, among oXya customers
around the world, 98% of oXya customers are completely satisfied
with oXya services. The survey was done by People Vox, a French
research firm which specializes in conducting internal surveys in
companies and public institutions, marketing studies, and opinion
polls.
About oXya
oXya, a Hitachi Group Company, is a leader in technical services,
managed services, and cloud solutions for SAP clients. oXya helps
global enterprises and midsize organizations increase the
efficiency and flexibility of their mission-critical SAP
infrastructure and support operations, through a dedicated team of
SAP experts organized around the customer's business. With 700
full-time technical SAP experts and IT specialists in North
America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and data centers around
the world, oXya provides managed cloud services for SAP software to
350 enterprise customers worldwide, and technical services for SAP
software to over 1,000 enterprise customers. oXya customers enjoy a
unique support model, with a specific on-shore or near-shore team
assigned to each customer. This unique feature leads to 98% of oXya
customers being fully satisfied with oXya services. For more
information, visit us at www.oXya.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, delivers
innovations that answer society's challenges with our talented team
and proven experience in global markets. The company's consolidated
revenues for fiscal 2014 (ended March 31, 2015) totaled 9,761
billion yen ($81.3 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on
the Social Innovation Business, which includes power &
infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication
systems, construction machinery, high functional materials &
components, automotive systems, healthcare and others. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
www.hitachi.com.
Source: Hitachi, Ltd.
Contact:
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