Novell and SAP

On May 5, 2008 Novell announced the industry's most comprehensive and integrated platform of identity and security management solutions optimized for SAP NetWeaver Platform and SAP Business Software. Targeted to address enterprise needs for end-to-end enterprise management solutions, Novell's identity and security management products augment SAP's governance, risk and compliance (GRC), human resources and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. See full press release. See Novell FAQ.

On March 17, 2008 Novell and SAP announced to broaden and deepen their strategic agreement. See full press release. See Novell and SAP Partner FAQ.

"Organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to open source solutions with Linux as their core platform, so teaming with Novell and offering our customers SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise meets a direct customer need. Our cooperation goes beyond Linux to leverage industry-leading technologies from each company to give customers high-value, low-complexity solutions to pressing challenges such as regulatory requirements and optimizing applications in virtualized environments. This relationship marks another step forward in SAP's support of open source and standards-based computing."

Léo Apotheker, deputy CEO and president of Customer Solutions and Operations, SAP