Partner news SAP Gold Channel partner NTT DATA Business Solutions announced the acquisition of business analytics and SAP HANA consulting firm, Innogence, in December last year. Innogence has been integrated into NTT DATA’s Australian state-based delivery model under the newly formed Enterprise Information Division, to be headed by Phil Cameron, former CEO of Innogence. Now the largest SAP business analytics and SAP database and technology practice in the Asia-Pacific, the company is ready to take on tier one integrators. SAP has partnered with Samsung in a bid to make mobile devices running the Android operating system more secure for enterprise use. The two companies will collaborate to produce SAP KNOX, an end-to-end secure solution that provides security hardening from hardware through to the application layer. The solution will build on the foundation of the SAFE Certification and provide users enhanced security at all levels of the Android platform. IBM and SAP have partnered to launch a global service for cloud and ‘big data’ called IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+, which will allow enterprises to access, run and store all their SAP applications in the cloud from data centres across the globe. SCE+ is intended to go beyond public IaaS clouds by offering high service-level agreements, security and reliability along with elasticity and subscription-based pricing. The service enables enterprises’ access from the cloud to core applications such as ERP, CRM, analytics, social business and mobile computing and will support SAP applications include BusinessObjects and Business Suite software.
NTT DATA Corporation has cracked $1 billion in SAP software-related services globally at the completion of its fiscal third quarter. The IT services provider attributes its ‘cohesive Global ONE strategy’ - that aligns capabilities and client services in support of SAP solutions – for the double-digit growth it has experienced in mature markets across North America, Europe and emerging Asian markets.