Through collaborative work with global technology partners, SAP focuses on establishing strong relationships with market leaders who set and influence the IT marketplace. SAP technology partners are leading technology companies with significant market share in their industries. Together with these leading technology innovators, we provide our customers with a wide range of products that support SAP solutions, including:

• Hardware
• Operating systems
• Networks
• Databases
• Storage technology
• Mobile devices

SAP's global partner network brings a variety of benefits to customers, including lower implementation and operational costs based on the optimization of infrastructure and software solutions. SAP has found that global partner collaboration leads to faster conflict resolution for our customers and develops strategic business development agreements to meet the needs of joint customers with our partners.

Technology partners dedicate resources and investments to the partnership – providing worldwide customers with the infrastructure they need to realize maximum value from their investment in SAP solutions.

SAP offers technology partnerships at the SAP global partner level only. The SAP executive board must approve these partnerships.