REDMOND, WA: Microsoft builds on the longstanding partnership with SAP to empower digital transformation across every aspect of business. SAP’s innovative human capital management solution has been combined with Microsoft’s intelligent cloud to help companies maximize the potential and skills of their employees.

The programme aims to provide public cloud services for the SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite by making SAP’s cloud-based human capital management solutions available on Microsoft Azure. The solution will help drive companies’ human resources transformation to improve business outcomes.

The partnership will provide SAP with added capacity of running operational workloads of SAP SuccessFactors solutions on Azure with its enterprise-grade security, an open developer platform and advanced data services.

 “SAP SuccessFactors is the fastest growing core HR solution, and offers an unmatched depth and breadth across the entire HCM suite, of any vendor in the industry,” said Mike Ettling, president of SAP SuccessFactors. “We’ve seen exponential growth in the past two years, with 42 million users now benefiting from our market-leading solutions. In selecting Azure, we will be able to expand our reach even further, with the reliability that is required of these mission-critical applications, and continue to innovate and enhance services to meet client needs across additional environments.”