Enterprise software giants SAP and Oracle have extended their 27-year relationship with the announcement that Oracle Database In-Memory has been certified by SAP for use with SAP solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x technology platform.
The deal will see businesses use SAP applications together with Oracle Database In-Memory to perform real-time data analytics together with real-time transaction processing on their existing applications, by adding SAP tables into the in-memory column store.
Earlier this year, SAP certified Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-2, and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X5-2 for use with SAP solutions.
Oracle Database In-Memory was released by Oracle a year ago. In its first year, Oracle claims sales have been nearly triple that of all new Oracle Database 11g options combined during their first year.
Heilet Scholtz, director for solution consulting at Oracle SA, says both companies have had an ongoing commitment to joint customers for over 27 years.
She points out the recently renewed and longstanding reseller and support agreements provide enhanced access to Oracle hardware and software technologies, as well as customer service.
"There is nothing new about the ongoing collaboration," says Scholtz. "The relationship of Oracle and SAP has been based on our long history, a rich heritage of joint developments and a bright future - for the benefit of mutual customers."
For this reason, she adds, Oracle and SAP agreed to split the certification process of Oracle Database 12c into several phases. According to Scholtz, segmenting the rollout in stages, allows for the Oracle 12c Database to be made generally available as early as possible and ensures sufficient overlap with Oracle Database 11g.
"Oracle will support SAP Business Suite and SAP BW as long as SAP will be supporting them. SAP is introducing a number of innovations to take advantage of new technical capabilities of the Oracle database platform," says Scholtz.
"The Oracle product strategy provides flexibility and choice across the IT infrastructure. A growing majority of mid-size to the largest enterprise SAP customers, in every industry, entrust their application deployments to the Oracle Database."