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.