BANGALORE: SAP SE is committed to an open platform for customers and partners to run their businesses in real time in the cloud. SAP announced that it has become a sponsor of two key open source communities: Cloud Foundry, the industry-leading open platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and the Open Stack foundation, delivering the industry-leading open infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS).

In addition, SAP announced new cloud-based developer tools SAP HANA Answers and SAP River Rapid Development Environment. The announcements were made at the O'Reilly OSCON Open Source Convention, held July 20-24 in Portland, Oregon.

“The developer and open source community are key to breakthrough technology innovation,” said Bjoern Goerke, executive vice president, Products and Innovation Technology, SAP SE.

“Through the Cloud Foundry and Open Stack initiatives, as well as new developer tools, SAP deepens its commitment to the developer community and enables them to innovate and code in the cloud.”

Fostering Innovation with CloudFoundry

CloudFoundry is the industry-leading open PaaS fostering innovation in the industry. As an announced Platinum Member of Cloud Foundry, SAP is actively collaborating with other the founding members to create a foundation that enables the development of next-generation cloud applications.

As initial steps of the Cloud Foundry collaboration, in recent months SAP announced the code contribution and availability of a Cloud Foundry service broker for SAP HANA.

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