SAP won a Dutch military cloud deal of up to ten years. The ministry says it does not end its SAP dependence.
It will build and run a sovereign cloud for the Dutch Ministry of Defence, SAP said.
SAP will handle maintenance and updates, along with key parts of operations. It is due to go live on 1 January 2028.
The ministry's decision memo, published by the Dutch parliament, says the contract was signed on 21 September, directly with SAP Nederland under defence procurement rules. It runs five years, with an option to extend by up to five more.
The same memo says, in our translation from Dutch, that "choosing a sovereign cloud does not remove the dependence on SAP as an international technology supplier". The ministry says it manages that dependence through contract terms covering continuity and exit, including a controlled end to the service.
SAP Benelux chief Bart Van der Biest says decisions on who runs the cloud "must remain in the hands of the Ministry of Defense".
The published memo blacks out the contract value and does not disclose what an exit would cost. After go-live the existing SAP environment will be migrated in phases, and the HR domain will also move into the service.
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