Through the program, SAP will help Chinese startup companies scale their business through the adoption and development of new applications on the SAP HANA platform.

SAP also announced that it is actively building out its customer and partner ecosystem, with an agreement establishing Huawei Technologies, an information and communication solutions supplier, as the first Chinese SAP global technology partner.

Through this partnership, SAP and Huawei will deepen technical integration and support, build an interoperability competency center and carry out joint sales and marketing activities worldwide.

In total, SAP has extended its number of local partners in China to 120 and its trained consultants to nearly 10,000.

Additionally, SAP announced the expansion of its cooperation with China Telecom (CHA). The cooperation aims to promote platforms for mobile development and mobile device management, and extend SAP and China Telecom's partnership on cloud-based enterprise-class products and services.