SAP has a big new customer in China that, it hopes, will also help it do business there.
Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant and cloud computing infrastructure provider, is adopting SAP’s Cloud ERP Private for its own enterprise infrastructure, and the companies plan to jointly sell their services.
Together, SAP and Alibaba will help enterprises implement SAP Integrated Business Planning and deploy SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Cloud ERP Private suites on Alibaba’s cloud infrastructure, according to an SAP spokesperson.