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title: "SAP Fosters Open Ecosystem for Driving Customer Innovation"
date: "2014-06-04"
categories: 
  - "press-releases"
  - "blogs"
tags: 
  - "sap"
---

ORLANDO — Working closely with an active open ecosystem, SAP AG empowers customers, partners, startups and developers worldwide to innovate easily on top of the SAP HANA platform. By fostering strategic collaborations with partners, including Red Hat, IBM, HP and VMware, as well as startups, SAP plans to offer customers broader choice, ease of deployment and simplified IT environments, empowering them to transform their businesses by leveraging the advanced capabilities of SAP HANA. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE NOW, being held June 3-5, 2014, in Orlando, Florida.