AstraZeneca is moving to SAP's cloud after a 20-year relationship, SAP said. No price or finish date was disclosed.
SAP's release is headlined as AstraZeneca adopting its business AI. The text says the drug maker is "exploring" the AI assistant Joule and uses for AI agents in finance, supply chain and manufacturing.
What the release does state is the move. AstraZeneca is leaving ECC, the older SAP system that companies run in their own data centres, for SAP Cloud ERP Private, a newer version hosted for a single customer. SAP said it covers all of AstraZeneca's SAP systems.
"SAP has been a key part of how we run our operations for more than two decades," chief information officer Chris Taylor said. AstraZeneca runs the move under a programme it calls Axial.
SAP described AstraZeneca's use of its software as one of the largest in life sciences. It gave no count of systems or users, no contract value and no completion date.
Other large companies still on ECC would look for those three figures in a reference customer.
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