SAP and Microsoft broaden cloud ERP alliance

The two tech giants rolled out a migration acceleration initiative coupled with extensive platform integrations Tuesday.

Dive Brief:

• SAP expanded its partnership with Microsoft to help drive enterprise adoption of the ERP provider’s Business Suite bundles for finance, supply chain, human resources, procurement and customer experience functions, the two companies said Tuesday.
• The joint migration acceleration initiative complements extensive platform integration plans unveiled along with the Business Suite offerings last week during SAP’s annual Sapphire conference.
• The integrations announced May 20 connect SAP’s Joule AI assistant with the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity tools, including Copilot, Teams, Outlook and Word. Microsoft also extended its Sentra, Defender and Entra security tools across SAP’s cloud ERP and aims to launch SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks on Azure analytics services later this year.