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German giant and China Telecom will offer web-distributed business software nationwideSAP, the world’s largest supplier of business management software, plans to ramp up the adoption of cloud-computing services by local and multinational companies on the mainland, following the launch yesterday of an expanded co-operation agreement with China Telecom.儲存倉A joint venture between SAP and China Communications Services (CCS), a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China Telecom, will now include delivery of cloud offerings nationwide, starting with advanced human capital management (HCM) solutions from SAP unit SuccessFactors.German firm SAP said it was the first international software supplier to bring an integrated HCM offering – which companies use to automate employee recruitment and administration processes – under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform hosted in a mainland data centre. Telecommunications services firm CCS has signed up to be the first customer and is expected to have 12,000 users.The ambitious initiative was part of SAP’s ongoing five-year, US$2 billion investment programme in the world’s second-largest economy, the company announced at an event in Beijing yesterday.“This is a significant milestone in … our long-term commitment to the Chinese market,” SAP迷你倉最平co-chief executive Bill McDermott said. “We will continue to expand our ecosystem and will bring even more innovative cloud solutions to China.”Cloud computing enables enterprises to buy, lease, sell or distribute software and other digital resources over the internet as an on-demand service, similar to the way electricity is drawn from a power grid. Resources are hosted in data centres.The SAP initiative follows rival Oracle’s own SaaS programme, which was introduced earlier this year on the mainland with partners Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. Local software suppliers also compete in growing SaaS market.Alex Atzberger, SAP’s head of fast-growth markets and China growth-plan operations, said the joint venture, China Datacom, had secured the licences that would allow the German company to provide domestic SaaS services. The venture is majority controlled by CCS.China Telecom president Yang Jie said: “I believe the co-operation will speed up Chinese enterprises’ cloud implementation process.”Research firm CCID Consulting has forecast mainland sales of cloud-based applications will exceed 80 billion yuan (HK$101 billion) this year.SAP, which started doing business on the mainland in 1980, claims to have the world’s biggest cloud user base at about 33 million.迷你倉