5 New Google Cloud-SAP Products Launched At Sapphire For AI, HANA And Cloud

Here are the five biggest new integrated product launches from SAP and Google Cloud unveiled at SAP Sapphire 2024 Tuesday that all partners and customers need to know about.

SAP and Google Cloud launched a slew of new innovations together at SAP Sapphire 2024 Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., including a new AI-powered offering to enable a more resilient supply chain and integrating BigQuery with SAP Datasphere on the Google Cloud Marketplace.

“The business AI innovations we’re announcing at SAP Sapphire in 2024 will redefine the way businesses run,” said SAP CEO Christian Klein at SAP Sapphire Tuesday. “Today’s AI announcements and partnerships build on our commitment to deliver revolutionary technology that drives real-world results, helping customers unleash the agility and ingenuity they need to succeed in today’s fast-moving business landscape.”

SAP and Google Cloud are doubling down on their partnership by using AI to help enterprises better predict and mitigate supply chain risks to minimize disruptions and maintain optimal inventory levels.

The two companies will integrate SAP’s generative AI product, Joule, and the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain offering with Google Cloud’s Gemini models AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework’s data foundation.

The tech giants also said that Google Cloud’s new memory-optimized X4 instances will provide the largest SAP certified compute instances in the cloud market, supporting up to 32-TB SAP HANA workloads.

SAP Sapphire 2024

SAP’s flagship Sapphire 2024 conference is being held from June 3 to June 4.

Thousands of partners, customers and employees are attending the event, which offers hands-on demos, keynotes from SAP leaders and the ability for partners to connect with SAP experts and peers to explore strategies.

CRN takes a deep technology dive into the five biggest launches from Google Cloud and SAP launched at SAP Sapphire 2024 Tuesday that partners and customers need to know about.

Google Gemini With SAP Cortex Framework

In one of the biggest product announcements at Sapphire, SAP said the company will combine its SAP Joule and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for Supply Planning with Google Cloud’s Cortex Framework and Gemini models.

By integrating Cortex Framework and Gemini models with SAP’s generative AI assistant, Joule, and IBP for Supply Planning, customers can accelerate insight from sensed events and risks and identify opportunities to enable faster and smarter supply chain responses.

With an AI-powered resilient supply chain, Google Cloud said customers can also help better predict demand and mitigate supply chain risk, with use cases that include enhanced demand forecasting that integrates diverse data sources, such as marketing campaigns.

Additional use cases include mitigation of supply chain risks with proactive disruption detection and alerts, fueled by additional data sources such as weather and event data.

Google’s X4 Machine Family Of Instances Designed For SAP HANA

Google Cloud’s memory-optimized X4 instances will now provide the largest SAP-certified compute instances in the cloud market, supporting up to 32-TB SAP HANA workloads.

Google Cloud’s X4 machine family—featuring 16-TB, 24-TB and 32-TB instances—are designed specifically for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP workloads to operate with highest performance and reliability.

The new innovation comes as the demand for more memory and compute-intensive machines to handle giant workloads keeps growing when enterprises migrate to SAP S/4HANA on the cloud.

One key is that Google’s X4 family is offering 1,920 vCPUs, more than double the number of vCPUs of other certified hyperscaler offerings, while also providing compute and Hyperdisk block storage performance—up to 10,000 MBps throughput—enabled by Google Cloud’s Titanium offload technology.

These systems benefit from Google Cloud’s infrastructure differentiators, including the largest network footprint delivering low latency for SAP workloads and robust security measures such as built-in encryption and proactive threat detection.

SAP Datasphere With BigQuery Hits The Google Cloud Marketplace

SAP launched an integrated BigQuery analytics offering with SAP Datasphere that is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.

The SAP Datasphere integration with BigQuery aims to deliver real-time access to customers’ SAP and non-SAP data, including publicly available datasets within BigQuery and other integrated data like Google Ads, accelerated via Cortex Framework.

In addition, SAP Datasphere’s Replication Flow now offers bidirectional replication and federation with BigQuery, enabling a petabyte-scale platform for analytics and data science, as well as a foundation for machine learning and GenAI using Vertex AI with Gemini.

Google said all of this is now available “out of the box” with SAP Datasphere for Google Cloud, which is available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Google’s New X4 Systems Now Supports SAP RISE

Unveiled at Sapphire Tuesday, SAP RISE will now support Google Cloud’s latest 16,- 24- and 32-TB X4 systems.

This co-engineered offering aims to deliver the reliability and performance needed for the largest and most demanding SAP workloads.

“SAP and Google Cloud have a deep co-innovation partnership, and we’re continuously launching new, differentiated solutions to benefit RISE with SAP customers,” said Lalit Patil, CTO of RISE, in a statement.

Google Cloud said its goal with its new high-performance X4 Instance family is to be the most reliable and scalable cloud provider for RISE with SAP workloads.

SAP Expands Global Access For RISE

SAP is making its RISE portfolio more generally available on a global basis.

At Sapphire, SAP unveiled the availability of EU Access for RISE on Google Cloud. The new offering addresses the regulatory and compliance requirements of both companies’ European customers.

SAP also unveiled the expansion of its SAP BTP and Datasphere footprint with new regions launching in Israel and Japan this quarter, as well as in Saudi Arabia, Australia and Brazil later this year.

Lastly, the two companies unveiled the availability of Google Gemini LLMs in SAP GenAI Hub to support embedded generative AI features alongside SAP Joule.