(click) >> Hey, welcome everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. Well, it is an excited day and we're really happy to be covering big announcements coming out of Google Next today. And we wanted to get right down here to SAP Silicon Valley Headquarters and talk to Sam Yen and get his take on what's happening up in San Francisco today. So, first off, Sam great to see ya. >> Yeah, great to see you as well. >> So, Sam you are the Managing Director of SAP Silicon Valley. Obviously, you guys have a big presence in Philly, and a big presence here in Paulo Alto. And also the Chief Design Officer. So, let's just jump into it. So, Bernd Leukert was onstage with Diane Green this morning kicking off the Google Next Conference and talking about this new relationship between SAP and Google. >> I think, first of all, it's the trend in what the industry's happening right now. If you look at companies, companies are more and more willing to go to the public cloud in terms of helping them with their infrastructure needs. The market is actually really going to double between now and 2020. So, with that we have three major announcements that we announced today. The first one was SAP's flagship products running on GCP, Google's Cloud Platform. The first one is HANA. If you know anything about SAP, HANA's been our data processing engine, memory processing engine for the last number of years. It's our flagship product that we've been talking about. And that's now certified for GCP. The second thing is really more for the, it's still part of the first announcement, but for the development community bringing HANA Express which is a downloadable version of HANA that you can put on your laptop and really get to know what HANA's all about and see how easy it is to develop on top of HANA. So, that's now available on Google Cloud Launcher. Also, SAP's cloud platform is also going to be, we're working very closely together to co-innovate together with Google. The second part of the second announcement, is taking infrastructure as a service to the next level. SAP has always had a multi-cloud strategy offering customers choice in where they want to deploy on public cloud. And Google is now available from that perspective. But beyond just infrastructure to service, we want to partner with Google to take things like data privacy and protection to the next level by offering transparency over how customers monitor and understand what's going on from the governance, risk and compliance perspective on their information. The last thing, which is really exciting as well, is bringing together productivity tools together with SAP. Google's G Suite, things like Mail and Sheets and Hangouts and things like that, and making that integrate seamlessly into the SAP backend system. >> So, so many layers to these announcements. And thank you for laying it all down. The first one, just at a high level, is clearly enterprises are comfortable with public cloud. There's now more enterprisy software firm out there than SAP. And for you guys to really get together with Google and Google Cloud, that really shows that the conversation is no longer about, "Should I go to the cloud?" or "Is the cloud safe?" or "Is it appropriate for enterprise?" But enterprises are fully all in. >> That's definitely the trend. Customers are different in their journey but more and more we're seeing that. And the numbers that I talked about in terms of the investment and spend for public cloud is growing through the roof. At the end of the day, SAP from an SAP perspective, and also from a Google perspective, we want to provide as many options for customers as we can. And we think that by doing this we're providing the best potential solutions for where a customer thinks they need to be today and tomorrow. >> Right, and it's really about workloads, right? It's not even specifically about customers. 'Cause you guys still have Google Cloud, or excuse me, SAP Cloud, recently the HANA Cloud platform recently renamed. So, you still have your own cloud if they want their own kind of enterprise cloud that you're going to run for them. Obviously, they can run SAP on their own internal cloud now you're saying they can run SAP on Google's cloud. But it's really more workload and application and use case specific as opposed to a company. >> Yeah, and I think ultimately options for the customer in terms of their particular situation. Yes, SAP will continue to have our own hosting, our own cloud as well. But you also mentioned SAP Cloud Platform. So, there's many, many different ways from a platform as a service perspective, enterprise services that we provide from a SAP perspective running on Google's infrastructure. And also leveraging the Google services that they provide on their Cloud Platform as well. >> Right, another piece that you said kind of towards the end of many, many announcements happening today, is really the developer angle. Every show, we cover a hundred shows a year, and every one is fighting for the attention of the developer, and really trying to cater to the developer. 'Cause that's where the power is. And you want a robust developer ecosystem because that's what moves things forward. So, this is a pretty interesting announcement now that developers can basically download a version of HANA onto their laptop to have an appeal to help them develop more stuff for you. >> Yeah, and I think the broader statement here is we're combining the power of the SAP development ecosystem with the millions and millions of people also in the Google development ecosystem to build solutions for customers. At the end of the day, the power of your offering is really the power of your ecosystem. And it's kind of interesting, being here in a German company actually in Silicon Valley from an SAP perspective, enterprise seems to be the new black right now. There are more consumer brands that are looking at going into the enterprise. And SAP's starting to become more and more an on-ramp into the enterprise for these companies. >> And it's interesting because public clouds, traditionally, years ago weren't really thought of as a true enterprise solution or maybe test but you'd never run your production workloads. But clearly now that's going away. That said, there's a lot of very specific issues that you have to deal with with the enterprise security, compliance, the rules around the world that are different for data sovereignty, etc. So, you guys bring a real depth of experience in those areas to this new announcement. >> Yeah, I think that's the power of the partnership if you think about Google and the public cloud, the scalability, the availability, the reach of the Google public cloud and their expertise in terms of the infrastructure and the operations. And then you combine that with SAP's experience in terms of what works from a governance, risk and compliance perspective. We have an understanding both with customers and their needs. And also working with local governments and the policies that need to be in place. So, I think it's a beautiful combination of the two companies. >> Now, the next kind of big trend that cloud is helping even accelerate more is A.I. and machine learning and you know, we're kind of going to Phase Two of what was formerly known as Big Data and Hadoop and now were moving to a much more sophisticated version of that enabled by cloud. Obviously, Google's got a ton of expertise in machine learning and A.I. You guys have been doing it on the enterprise side. Again, coming together, one plus one makes three? >> Absolutely, this is one of the exciting things that we're also, we've also talked about and announced, that we are partnering with Google to really take machine learning to the enterprise use cases. There's so much information that's going through enterprise systems. More and more information as things like Big Data, and Internet of Things, and social things are bringing information in. This is really, really fruitful area where think there's a lot of collaboration. Also, from a design perspective, once you have this information, how do you expose this stuff to the users that makes sense and really amplify human capabilities when we're talking about all this technology. >> Right, so you're sitting 6,000 miles from Waldorf, 3,000 miles from Philadelphia. How does this change things for you? You said you've been at SAP for a number of years now. You're sitting in the heart of Silicon Valley. What does this mean to you, kind of personally, and to SAP's presence in Silicon Valley to do this partnership with Google who's just right down the road and clearly one of the main powers. >> Yeah, I think it really talks about the importance of SAP's presence here in Silicon Valley. Again, as an on-ramp into the enterprise. There's lots and lots of partners that want to expand their business and figure out how they can bring their services also to the enterprise. It's almost like consumerization of IT if you will. And really, that's SAP's purpose and reason for being here. >> All right, well Sam I'll give you the last word. Great event today. Really exciting but before we know it SAP Sapphire will be upon us. I presume you guys will keep working tomorrow and have something new and special for us in Sapphire. >> Yeah, Google and SAP, we're in it for the long term. This is just the beginning. And look out for exciting announcements coming in Sapphire as well. >> All right, super. He's Sam Yen, I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. Thanks for watching. (energetic, techno music)