SAP and China Telecom announced a strategic partnership in cloud computing through which the SAP Cloud portfolio will be offered to small and large organisations in China by China Datacom (CDC), a joint venture between SAP and China Communication Services (CCS), a subsidiary of China Telecom Group. The cooperation marks another development in the partnership that SAP and China Telecom began in 2011 and will expand on the current work the companies have done to promote mobile development and device management. The first solutions to be made available through the partnership and hosted in a China Telecom IDC will be a suite of human capital management (HCM) services from SuccessFactors, an SAP company. CCS will be the first customer to subscribe to the SuccessFactors service hosted in a China data centre and expects to have 12,000 users.
