SAP to Establish Data Center in Korea

Lee Sung-yeol, CEO of SAP Korea.

[Asia Economy Reporter Buaeri] German software company SAP is establishing a data center in South Korea.

On the 4th, SAP held an online press conference marking the 10th anniversary of the big data solution 'SAP HANA' and announced this plan.

SAP stated that along with establishing the domestic data center, it plans to launch SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP HANA Cloud solutions by the second quarter of next year.

SAP has set up data centers in 41 countries worldwide, with South Korea being the 10th in Asia. It is not establishing the center on a separate site but leasing Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers.

Through this, SAP plans to meet domestic regulations such as data security and provide customized cloud solutions tailored to Korean companies.

SAP expects that this data center establishment will offer various benefits to domestic companies.

The company explained, "We can now meet the high regulatory requirements related to data security and data sovereignty in Korea and provide optimized SAP solutions for various business departments."

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, SAP HANA is a high-performance in-memory database developed with key involvement from Korean researchers. Approximately 53,000 companies worldwide use SAP HANA, and among the five major domestic conglomerates, four are using it.

Lee Sung-yeol, CEO of SAP Korea, said, "The 10th anniversary of SAP HANA's launch and the announcement of Korea's first data center will be an important milestone for SAP Korea. In the post-COVID era, we will support domestic partners and various companies to transform essential customer data into valuable assets."

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