According to foreign media reports, German enterprise software company SAP is in the process of acquiring the big data startup company Altiscale. The transaction amount is expected to exceed US$125 million.
Altiscale is a Hadoop cloud service provider. The enterprise's Hadoop cloud service solution features that customers can obtain Hadoop services without adding a large number of new servers, storage, and network infrastructure in their data centers. Nor do they need to hire Hadoop. Software personnel. Altiscale not only provides Hadoop cloud services, but also provides faster MapReduce framework-based Apache Spark cloud services than Hadoop. Altiscale's existing customers include Devicescape, Glu Mobile, MarketShare and ShareThis.
In recent years, SAP, which has suffered from a sluggish business, has always wanted to enhance its cloud software product portfolio for continuous blood production. In the past week, it not only invested in the big data company Vivanda, but also reached a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud. The two parties will jointly build in the coming months. Three SAP Cloud Products:
Cloud-based software-as-a-service customer relationship management solution: SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer
A unique solution for in-memory databases and application services for service solutions: SAP HANA Cloud Platform
A complete and integrated cloud suite for midsize companies: SAP Business ByDesign. SAP Business ByDesign
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SAP said that in order to combat the cloud service business of Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, its series of acquisitions and cooperation initiatives have a very important strategic significance for SAP.
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