CenturyLink announced Thursday that it has signed a global supplier partnership agreement with SAP to offer supplier services for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.  

CenturyLink says its infrastructure and IT services will help expand the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offering and help customers achieve faster time to market for their transformation projects based on the SAP HANA platform.

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a private, secure cloud fully managed by SAP and supported by global partners, and is offered for companies that run mission-critical applications in the cloud.

CenturyLink offers differentiated services through its ability to support cloud-based development/test environments, manage large-scale production workloads and provide metro-specific disaster recovery services. 

“SAP HANA enables companies to make real-time, informed decisions about their business,” said Gary Gauba, president of CenturyLink Cognilytics. “With the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, we further help businesses move their enterprise applications to the cloud and innovate using the latest-generation applications based on SAP HANA.”

CenturyLink’s Global IT Services group provides a broad range of technology-enabled business solutions, including cloud enablement, big data-as-a-service, advanced decision sciences, digital commerce, managed security application development and modernization, quality assurance and testing, and disaster recovery services. 

In addition, Global IT Services offers a suite of analytical solutions built on its Model Controller platform designed to operationalize predictive models.