NEC and SAP open Global Competence Center in Germany
(Business News, 25 Apr 2008 )
SAP AG and its subsidiary SAP Japan and NEC Corporation (NEC) announced the opening of the “SAP Global Competence Center” in Walldorf, Germany. The NEC Global Competence Center for SAP Software will serve as the facility where SAP and NEC intend to engage in future co-innovative projects that aim to help joint customers realize the benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). With intentions to expand the relationship, the companies plan to work together so that the SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver might be delivered via NEC products, including its energy-saving server, storage, middleware and datacenter platform. The opening of the competence center builds on the growing global technology relationship between SAP and NEC, previously announced in February 2008.
At the new site, the two technology leaders intend to collaboratively test and optimize SAP® solutions to work with NEC hardware, software and its data center platform. The companies plan to deploy experienced sizing specialist experts to investigate how to configure and size NEC solutions to match SAP customers’ specific requirements. Additionally, there are plans to combine NEC’s manufacturing software and experience with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, so that joint manufacturing customers are assisted in leveraging enterprise SOA to achieve increased business agility. Moving forward, the NEC Global Competence Center for SAP Software is envisioned to serve as a hub for further expansion of NEC’s SAP-related business. Some other initial areas of future consideration will include:
· · Combining NEC energy-saving products with SAP NetWeaver – Both partners will engage with the goal of optimizing the usage of SAP NetWeaver with NEC’s green solutions, supporting NEC’s efforts to develop energy-saving products including servers, storage and middleware.
· · Optimizing NEC Data Center Solutions for use with SAP solutions – The center plans to engage in activities to enhance performance of data-rich SAP NetWeaver and SAP Business Suite solutions on the NEC data center platform, which uses the NEC integrated blade system and next-generation grid technology.
