The strategic cooperation between SAP and Alibaba reaches a new level.
Hangzhou, September 24, 2025 — At the 2025 Yunqi Conference held today, SAP announced the latest progress in its strategic cooperation with Alibaba Group. Starting from today, four of SAP's globally leading cloud solutions will be gradually launched on Alibaba Cloud to serve Chinese enterprises. This is a crucial step after the two parties deepened their global cooperation in May this year. Alibaba Cloud is also the only Chinese public cloud provider among SAP's strategic partners. The cooperation plan will be extended to regions such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa in the future.
Wu Yongming, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, said, "Relying on SAP's global leadership in enterprise applications and business AI, as well as Alibaba Cloud's outstanding strength in China's cloud computing platform and services, the cooperation between the two parties will build a reliable digital foundation for Chinese enterprises and accelerate their cloud transformation, innovation, and upgrading."
Yuan Xin, President of SAP Greater China Region, said, "The partnership between SAP and Alibaba is a powerful combination to promote the digital upgrading of Chinese enterprises. Chinese enterprises are accelerating their embrace of innovation. We need a strategic partner like Alibaba Cloud, which has a global perspective and in - depth understanding of the local market, to help enterprises flexibly cope with uncertainties and seize global opportunities. With the implementation of SAP's core solutions such as ERP Cloud and BTP on Alibaba Cloud, more Chinese enterprises will obtain ready - to - use modern management tools to enhance their agility and resilience and achieve transformation and growth."
Liu Weiguang, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group and President of the Public Cloud Business Unit, said, "The cooperation between Alibaba Cloud and SAP aims to provide a simpler and more efficient digital upgrading path for Chinese enterprises. By introducing SAP's leading solutions to Alibaba Cloud, we will help enterprises easily optimize costs, strengthen compliance, and promote innovation more quickly. This can not only break the barriers of traditional processes and achieve automation but also enable enterprises to improve their decision - making ability based on real - time data and better respond to market changes."
The four solutions that will gradually be launched on Alibaba Cloud starting from today include the already launched SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and SAP Cloud ERP (Public Cloud ERP), SAP Cloud ERP Private (Private Cloud ERP), and SAP Integrated Business Planning Cloud (IBP), which will be launched by the end of this year and next year:
- SAP Public Cloud ERP: It integrates the best practices of more than 800 industries globally, covers 34 languages and more than 60 localized versions, has scalable, secure, and compliant features, supports rapid global deployment of enterprises, and enables enterprises to continuously obtain SAP's latest innovative functions, helping enterprises achieve compliant operations, cost reduction, and efficiency improvement, accelerate digital transformation, and enhance end - to - end customer experience.
- SAP Private Cloud ERP: It provides exclusive full - module capabilities of SAP S/4HANA, meeting the requirements of multi - language, multi - currency, and multi - country fiscal and tax compliance. It supports enterprises to smoothly migrate from their original systems, protects historical investments, and significantly reduces the total cost of ownership through SAP's unified operation and maintenance. At the same time, it provides strong expansion capabilities and in - depth customization support, helping enterprises build a secure, controllable, flexible, and innovative operation system.
- SAP BTP: As the cornerstone of SAP's One Platform strategy implementation, it integrates extended development and automation, enterprise integration, data analysis, and AI into a unified cloud platform, leveraging the advantages of "ERP - native, business - first, open and unified, and ready - to - use" and becoming the essential digital foundation for enterprises to achieve cloud - based digital transformation.
- SAP IBP: It breaks down departmental barriers and integrates finance, demand, inventory, supply, and production planning on a unified platform. Relying on real - time data analysis and AI algorithms, it provides accurate forecasts, multi - scenario simulations, and intelligent risk warnings, helping enterprises improve planning accuracy, optimize inventory turnover, strengthen cross - departmental collaboration, and achieve agile market response and scientific strategic decision - making.
This cooperation also aligns with SAP's cloud strategy — its product roadmap and all major innovations are fully centered around cloud - based versions, aiming to provide customers with a faster innovation pace and stronger business agility. With the strong partnership, customers will gain more significant business value: Relying on the local hyperscale cloud platform, enterprises can better meet compliance and regulatory requirements, reduce IT investment and operating costs, and achieve more efficient resource allocation. The flexible and scalable architecture helps enterprises quickly adapt to digital transformation and global development, while high - quality data and real - time analysis provide accurate business insights for management.
Looking forward, as long - term strategic partners, SAP and Alibaba will continue to deepen their cooperation, give full play to their respective advantages, and jointly build an open and win - win digital ecosystem. Based on this vision, SAP plans to jointly launch nearly 100 enterprise cloud - enabling activities with Alibaba Cloud starting from the second half of 2025. The two parties will always focus on customer value and continuously help Chinese enterprises enhance their resilience and competitiveness and promote more enterprises to achieve high - quality and sustainable development.