Ear­li­er this year, SAP announced it was work­ing with third-par­ty hyper­scalers as part of RISE with SAP. This effort will bring the con­tract­ing for hyper­scaler ser­vices under the same umbrel­la as SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the SAP Busi­ness Net­work. This is just the lat­est exam­ple of the part­ner­ship SAP has cul­ti­vat­ed with Google. The two com­pa­nies have worked togeth­er for the last four years to inte­grate tech­nolo­gies and deliv­er solu­tions to joint customers.

ASUG sat down with Sne­han­shu Shah, man­ag­ing direc­tor for SAP at Google Cloud, to get an update on this part­ner­ship. He walked us through how SAP cus­tomers are using Google Cloud, how the cloud plat­form is help­ing SAP cus­tomers become intel­li­gent enter­pris­es, and what the future holds for Google Cloud and SAP. 

ASUG: You have a diverse back­ground work­ing at Ora­cle, SAP, and now Google Cloud. How have your expe­ri­ences pre­pared you for your cur­rent role? 

Sne­han­shu: I’m for­tu­nate to have had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work for Ora­cle, SAP, and Google Cloud. Ora­cle is where I learned a lot about enter­prise cus­tomers and how you help cus­tomers scale. I worked on Ora­cle Data Min­ing and the Ora­cle data­base. I was work­ing on very large enter­prise projects, many of which were relat­ed to geneal­o­gy. But one thing led to anoth­er. If you remem­ber back in those days, about 17 years ago, graph data­bas­es were real­ly big. I was doing projects for a bunch of dif­fer­ent life sci­ences com­pa­nies in Utah. What was cool was they were using these data­bas­es, as they start­ed build­ing them, for things like can­cer research. A lot of break­throughs in breast can­cer research came out of those data­bas­es fund­ed by those companies.