Deloitte Consulting is ramping up its Google Cloud partnership with new solutions targeting large-scale SAP workload migrations in a global “major market thrust.”
It's part of a much more concerted SAP effort in the enterprise space under Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, now that the cloud provider has gone through multiple certification processes that allow it to scale SAP instances to market-leading sizes, according to Tom Galizia, Deloitte’s senior technology partner and lead commercial partner for its Alphabet/Google alliance.
Deloitte is a launch partner for Google Cloud’s Cloud Acceleration Program, an evolution of its Lighthouse program launched this year with systems integrators to streamline customers’ SAP data and application migrations to the cloud.
“We will jointly invest in clients in a much more material way,” Galizia told CRN yesterday in London, prior to the start of the Google Cloud Next ’19 UK conference. “Anything that might be a potential hindrance for a client considering doing it -- or if they want an articulated proof point, both technically and/or if there's a business transformation agenda -- we now collectively have created a pool of investments so we can go into that client and actually prove it out. Most clients are looking for skin in the game from the partner community and the technology partner, so…we've put our resources to bear to be able to do that for clients in a much more scaled way.”
Deloitte has launched “Reimagine Everything… Anywhere,” a portfolio of SAP cloud services enabled by Google Cloud that includes best practices to accelerate SAP S/4 transformation and an SAP-specific, application programming interface library on Apigee for SAP-to-anywhere integration. Deloitte also is embracing TensorFlow and BigQuery to provide intelligent applications powered by Google Cloud machine learning and advanced data insight.
The push will be global, according to Galizia.
“It is very targeted at specific countries with specific clients and specific SAP workloads that we want to go after together, because we feel that Google, from a technology perspective, is well-positioned to be successful there,” he said. “Now that they've got those certifications, we're really able to go into financial services, life sciences, core manufacturing in terms of heavy engineering orientation, where there's heavy reliance on your infrastructure and the analytic capabilities.”
Sourced from CRN - written by Donna Goodison