What is SAP's database strategy?

SAP believes in providing healthy alternate database choices for our customers. Also SAP believes in a strong partner ecosystem. So, SAP will continue its existing multi-vendor database strategy for running SAP applications. We continue to work very closely with our partners including IBM and Microsoft and Oracle to optimize SAP applications with their database products.

Additionally, SAP will continue to invest in its own database technology. We have done this for more than 10 years with MaxDB. Our investments have resulted in a very robust and reliable technology optimized to run every single SAP application. But most importantly MaxDB is designed with one specific goal in mind - Low TCO. We have thousands of MaxDB customer installations and we will continue to deliver innovations and lower TCO to these customers.

Also, we will continue to tightly integrate our database products into some of our applications. We will do this when doing so will reduce the TCO and speed up the delivery of new innovation for our customers. As you know liveCache, which is based on the same technology as MaxDB, has been part of our APO product and has been in production with thousands of installations including many fortune 100 customers. If you look at the latest Business By Design, we have tightly integrated MaxDB and our TREX columnar technology in it.