SAP has selected Verizon to consolidate and streamline its global network infrastructure for easier and more cost-effective network management.
SAP's end objective is improved internal connectivity and collaboration, a secure stable platform to support customer-facing applications, and a better experience for employees and customers around the globe.
Historically, SAP's in-house team looked after its global IT real estate, supported by a variety of different technology companies, including Verizon. Due to the exponential growth of its cloud business, SAP decided to consolidate management of its global network environment, using next-generation network technologies, including software-defined networking, to build in resilience and scalability while freeing its own people to focus on customer-facing activities. Verizon was chosen due to the company's global reach, its expansive, secure and high capacity global network capabilities, and its technical expertise.
Moving its business to the cloud focused SAP's attention on its global network infrastructure. Critical for cloud-based applications is a high-capacity, highly-available and secure network platform essential to running a global SaaS business.
Verizon now supports SAP in two key projects. First, Verizon is developing a new global network to link SAP offices around the globe, including data and voice services. Second, Verizon is providing highly-available, scalable and secure Internet connectivity to connect SAP's customer-facing data centers around the globe - the platform that enables SAP's cloud business.
George Fischer, President, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
This was a great opportunity for us to use Verizon's innovative network solutions to build a future-ready infrastructure that can support SAP's exponential growth.
Thomas Saueressig, CIO and EVP, Global Cloud Infrastructure, SAP
As we move more of our business to the cloud, our customers' success depends on our ability to connect them to our applications, and to help ensure those applications deliver the highest standards of performance and security.
