"We look forward to extending one of the longest and most successful partnerships in the IT industry,? said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. ? The demand for SAP Hana and the SAP Business Suite on SAP Hana in the cloud is tremendous and this global agreement with IBM heralds a new era of cloud collaboration." ?This announcement is a significant milestone in the deployment of enterprise cloud,? said IBM chairman, president, and CEO Ginni Rometty. ? It builds on our two companies? long history of bringing innovation to business, and extends IBM?s position as the premier global cloud platform. Our secure, open, hybrid enterprise cloud platform will enable SAP clients to support new ways to work in an era shaped by Big Data, mobile and social." Together, IBM and SAP have the expertise, solutions, and cloud infrastructure to deliver SAP business solutions on the IBM cloud.