{"id":2493,"date":"2017-05-18T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/microsoft-sap-help-bring-retail-cg-businesses-cloud\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:35:16","slug":"microsoft-sap-help-bring-retail-cg-businesses-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/retail\/2017\/05\/18\/microsoft-sap-help-bring-retail-cg-businesses-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft + SAP help bring retail and CG businesses to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week at ASUG, the annual SAP conference known as SAPPHIRE NOW<\/a>, we are seeing a step change in SAP\u2019s strategy in transformation to the cloud. In fact, \u201ccloud\u201d is the overwhelming message at this year\u2019s event as every major SAP workload has now been cloud-enabled as they prepare for the near future.<\/p>\n

Last year, Microsoft announced a new era of partnership with SAP, enabling SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure<\/a>. Since then, we\u2019ve worked hard and invested deeply to ensure that Azure remains the best public cloud option for SAP customers, setting the highest bar for scale, performance, innovation, compliance and intelligent services\u2014all with the goal of helping enterprise customers drive their digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Just 12 months ago, though, it was still hard to imagine that we could seriously consider this option for our retail and consumer goods customers, given the size environments needed to run their businesses in the cloud.<\/p>\n

The good news is that SAP in the cloud is now officially on the table for even the largest retail and consumer goods brands with Azure.<\/p>\n

This week at SAPPHIRE, Microsoft announced several new enhancements<\/a>, extending enterprise-scale support for SAP HANA and reinforcing our commitment to offer unlimited headroom for business growth and innovation. Here are a few highlights.<\/p>\n