In terms of trusted hosting, the German SAP has, to date, chosen cloud technologies from Microsoft and Google – but from French joint ventures. After Bleu in March, the publisher signed a partnership with S3NS, owned by Thales and Google.
In this context, SAP Sovereign Cloud will deploy the publisher’s ERP solution (SAP RISE private Cloud Edition) on PREMI3NS, the qualified SecNumCloud offer from S3NS. Availability of the service is announced for the second half of the year.
Data hosted, processed and encrypted in France
For users of the SAP cloud edition, this hosting means data “hosted, processed and encrypted in France, under French jurisdiction.” And who says cloud means, compared to an on-premise ERP, access to the latest functionalities, notably AI.
SAP RISE private Cloud Edition has a first customer: Thales. The majority shareholder of S3NS plans “a transformation of its entire SAP ERP”. In this context, the deployment will be done in “clean core” mode.
The SAP cloud migration project aims to unify key processes, “in the finance, supply chain, production and purchasing sectors.” For the German, this contract is an opportunity to highlight the benefits of its offer for the regulated sectors in France.
Cloud ERP for sensitive customers
Thales also intends to take advantage of this agreement to attract new customers to its trusted cloud. According to him, the partnership with SAP makes it possible to remove the obstacles to the adoption of the cloud in certain sensitive industries.
Public administration, aeronautics and defense, but also operators of essential and vital services are thus targeted by the ERP offer in the SecNumCloud environment. It will of course remain to convince SAP customers to give up on-premises.
These customers will undoubtedly closely follow the outcome of the investigation opened in 2025 by the EU against the publisher. The Commission suspects SAP in particular of requiring the use of its maintenance services for its on-premise ERPs.
30 managed services available and 30 to come
As for S3NS, it has been qualified as SecNumCloud since last December. This valuable label allows it in principle to accelerate its development. The cloud provider claims to date “more than sixty customers”.
Last November, and to complete its private cloud, EDF signed with suppliers Bleu and S3NS. The energy company announced that it would equip itself with a trusted cloud for the “secure and sovereign” storage of its data.
In the race for offers, S3NS announces that it will complete its portfolio comprising 30 managed services “with 30 additional services in the next 12 months”. For this, it can count on the existing GCP. Moreover, Vertex AI services are planned among the new features to come.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
